Top 15 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2023

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• LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
• AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
• Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

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• Motion - Activity Goals — Use Motion to set your personal weekly activity goal and visualise progress. Create a team with friends and share your goals.
• Grabble — Discover the best new fashion and homeware with the Grabble app. Get inspired by amazing articles and edits curated by our expert stylists, and buy anything you like in one tap.
• Carv — Carv fits in any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
• Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
• Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

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• Tribboo — Project management platform for construction SMEs
• Bizzy — All up-to-date information you need for the most transparent & reliable view on your business world.
• Maison Sport — Maison Sport has been created by 3 ski instructors, Olly, Nick and Aaron - all of them share a great passion for skiing and the mountains!“At Maison Sport we are making it simple to book Ski and Snowboard instructors online. Our aim is to seamlessly connect people looking for lessons with their ideal instructor, whilst making it easy forinstructors to market themselves, so they can continue to do what they love.Currently in France, our plan is to expand across the rest of the globe, helping the best instructors impart their passion for skiing and snowboarding on likeminded customers.”

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• Adiposs — Adiposs is a Swiss biotech start-up company developing medical imaging products and technologies for early detection of cachexia.
• Snowcookie — Ski tracking sensors by bode miller for racers and coaches

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• Dahu — DAHU Sports is a Swiss company that manufactures ski boots for skiing, walking, hiking, and driving. Founded in 2011 by Nicolas Frey, DAHU Sports was officially launched in November 2013 with thousand pairs sold during the 1st season.

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• Peak — Challenge your brain with Peak, the No.1 app for your mind. Push your cognitive skills to their limits and use your time better with fun, challenging games and workouts that test your Focus, Memory, Problem Solving, Mental Agility and more.
• The Faction Collective — The Faction Collective - manufacturers of high performance freeride and freestyle skis since 2006.Skis are more than just pieces of wood, steel & fibreglass. They are tools of escape. A medium for personal expression. A way to challenge fears, push limits & share incredible experiences with friends.The Faction Collective was formedin 2006 by a group of friends with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Every year new ideas and products expand our range - but the manifesto remains the same.In 2010 we partnered with Swiss helmet manufacturer TSG to produce a new line of lightweight, high performance protection, and in 2012 we are working with acclaimed French skier Candide Thovex to create a range of revolutionary superlight park and freeride skis using recycled PET cores and minimalist graphics that support our ethos of uncompromised performance.From our bases in Verbier, Switzerland and Breckenridge, USA we still ski over 100 days a year, refining our products and keeping the stoke alive. We hope you are too.
• Plum Guide — Plum Guide handpicks the world's best vacation rentals, holiday homes, short term lets and Airbnbs from over 25 different sites

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• MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
• Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
• Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

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• Topia — The Topia Global Talent Mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, fromscenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.
• Perkbox — Harmonise your employee benefits and rewards globally. Provide benefits, support wellbeing and create a culture of recognition to boost employee engagement.
• Roam International — Sign a single lease, and you can roam among magical properties across 3 continents.

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• MSMEx — MSMEx connects micro and small Business Owners with curated Business Experts over live video, one to one video and chat interactions for business growth and hand-holding support.
• Equip Sport — Gain access to the fastest growing network of rental lockers worldwide. Equip gives you instant access to SUP and sports rental anywhere, anytime.
• Metaphysiks — Metaphysiks is a groundbreaking immersive technology company combining world leading neuroscience and robotics to create multisensory experiences.

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• Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
• 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.
• AdVentura Works — AdVentura Works is a Swiss technology company offering material handing as a service to logistics and industrial companies

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• Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
• GUURU — Convert undecided shoppers into confident buyers with instant, authentic advice from your expert community.
• Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

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• Trafi — Stay connected Be the first to hear about our product updates, city launches, and more.
• Weev — End To End EV Solution
• Perfect Ward — Unleash the power of your quality data from the frontline to CQC inspections

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• Memfault — Memfault's IoT reliability platform empowers teams to build more robust devices at scale via performance monitoring, debugging & OTA updates.
• Nomad — Nomad is providing financial services.
• Island — Island, the Enterprise Browser is the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-basedbrowser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders of the enterprise security and browser technology space and backed by leading venture funds -- Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes -- Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world.