Top 15 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Switzerland (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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SICTIC
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $222k–$11M |
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21Celsius Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, Spain | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $3.3M–$11M |
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TR Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Spain, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Apps | $350k–$3.3M |
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Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United States, France | Series B, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.8M–$25M |
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Swiss Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Singapore, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology | $210k–$5M |
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $130k–$12M |
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Century Oak Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, E-Commerce, Software | $600k–$37M |
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TK-Solutions
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Apps, Smart Cities | $27k–$75k |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $150k–$22M |
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Gentian Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $889k–$13M |
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Swiss Startup Group
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, India, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Gigahertz Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland | Seed | iOS, Retail, Android | |
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Atomico
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.3M–$150M |
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Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, Software | |
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $555k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $222k–$980k; Series A $2.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
- Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
- PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
21Celsius Ventures is an investment company based in Zug, Switzerland led by independent, lateral thinkers who aim to help their partners overcome financial and operational hurdles and grow alongside them. At 21Celsius, we operate in a straightforward, honest and laser-focused manner.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- C WIRE — C WIRE is an Advertising Platform delivering great ad formats exclusively on the best websites with a cookieless by design technology.
- POP UP SHOPS — POP UP SHOPS is an online marketplace for retailers and brands to find and rent retail space. Reinventing Retail. Set up Pop Up Shops.
Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$3.9M; Series A $5.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- INKI.TECH — Equip your business with high-end, secure IT equipment through INKI's device-as-a-service model. Reduce operational costs, increase agility, and embrace sustainability while minimizing total cost of ownership.
- CamperBoys — CamperBoys rents out fully equipped camper vans in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig-Halle & Berlin.
- Urban Connect — Urban Connect is a corporate mobility platform offering company employees access to a fleet of low-carbon, shared vehicles like e-bikes, bikes, e-scooters and e-cars. The offering is structured as a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solution. The company services large blue chip clients like Roche, Avaloq, Hilti, Sonova or Zurich Insurance. The team iscomposed of a number of people from different nationalities & backgrounds, all with the common goal of helping companies reduce their carbon and space footprints.
Private Investment Company
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Spain, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.2M; Series A $2.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CompPair — CompPair is an EPFL spin-off solving damage issues for the composite materials industry by developping smart sustainable textiles.
- Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
- Fidentity — Fidentity wants to inject trust from the real world into online interactions.
Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$16M; Series B $2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.
- ecoRobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
- AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $210k–$860k; Series A $2.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hybr1d — Hybr1d is an end-to-end workforce management system. Manage everything from onboarding, procurement, devices, and attendance to offboarding from a single platform.
- Orderli — Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.
- Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $130k–$1.8M; Series A $5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
- Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
- Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $600k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1M; Series A $5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
- SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
Business Angel Investor based in Germany near Cologne Grew up in a entrepreneur family with diverse businesses in disposal, regenerative energy, real estate and funeral services, Tobias Klein is a hands on entrepreneur and searching for Start Ups not only to invest in, rather to share the ups and downs on the way to success.Open minded we cantalk about your business idea.Thank you
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Smart Cities
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $27k–$75k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SONAH GmbH — S O NAH supports cities funneling the global megatrend of urbanization in a sustainable manner. Our ai enabled sensor technology generates a digital twin of streets and curbsides to reduce parking traffic and understand how urban space is used.
- Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
- Eldertech — ET vereinfacht familiäre Pflege von Älteren um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zuhause zu ermöglichen (B2C). Pflegende können durch Cloudbasierte Vernetzung von Hilfsmitteln und Videokommunikation aus der Ferne per App schnell & einfach Unterstützung leisten.
Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3.6M; Series A $2.1M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
- Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
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Browse database — It's Free!Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $889k–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
- Aleno — aleno is the most professional online reservations system for restaurants. Full access to all data. Your own branding and design.
- aspaara AG — Algorithmic solutions for intelligent planning. Improve profitability and enhance strategic decision-making by gaining actionable business insights in real-time.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Lyfa — Lyfa offers home delivery of about 250 different products all completely waste-free in reusable packaging and collects empty packaging from customers during a subsequent delivery.
- Pabio — Get your apartment fully furnished by a professional interior designer and rent high-quality furniture from premium brands on a monthly subscription with Pabio.
- Supersapiens — Master your metabolism. A real-time glucose monitor optimising performance, recovery, and nutrition through glucose stability.
Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond
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- Industry: iOS, Retail, Android
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$24M; Series B $7M–$100M; Series C $10M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung is a Swiss investment firm owned by the Eckenstein family. It invests money in companies such as technological startups across Switzerland. Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung has a headquarters in Basel in Switzerland.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- b-rayZ — b-rayZ is a spin-off of the University Hospital Zurich. Their team consists of professional radiologists, data scientists and physicians, with more than 15 years of work experience in medical imaging and radiology. They develop and provide predictive deep learning analytical tools and algorithms for the assessment of your personal medical images.
- NeoPrediX — NeoPrediX develops decision support tools with maternal, neonatal and perinatal screening platforms to evaluate, optimize and personalize medical strategies in pediatrics. We utilize intelligent algorithms and digital health solutions for neonatal and perinatal care based on deep medical data and science, developed by experienced scientists,pediatricians, and neonatologists. We transform medical data into intelligent predictions to support clinical decisions.
- Viebeg — A diversity of products for a diversity of health care needs.
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