# Top 30 Wellness Startup Investors in Switzerland in May 2026

## Ralph Gygax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

## Werner Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Professional experience:
Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations
Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management
Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force

## FortyOne Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ch'arants'avan, Kotayk', Armenia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Information Services

At Fortyone AG they hold participations in non-listed companies. They are guided by the question: "Can they make a difference?". As active investors, they make investments in which, in addition to the financial resources, they can add value to their knowledge, their experience and their relationships. In order to live up to this smartmoney approach and to be able to actively influence the corporate design, they usually require the involvement of the Board of Directors. The scope of the participation depends on the requirements.

## Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.

## Aravis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Aravis is the first independent Swiss on-shore private equity house, an established investor in the renewable energy and life science spaces. We are a "hands-on" investor taking leading positions and understanding the balance between finance, commercial assets and people. With this distinct and crafted approach, we are serving over 30leading investors including corporates, pension funds, government funds, insurance companies and family offices. Currently actively managing more than a quarter of a billion Swiss francs, we have a cumulative history of investments in over 100 companies. These have resulted in several noticeable exits including the divestment of several renewable energy companies and a number of life science reverse take-overs, listings and trade sales. Our many years of experience in the Swiss fund industry have enabled us to establish a platform with a comprehensive offering of investment, accounting, regulatory and reporting expertise. Located in Zurich, Aravis was founded in 2001.

## EquityPitcher Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

EquityPitcher is an Early-Growth Venture Capital firm that supports promising startups from the DACH region. Through close cooperation with renowned industry experts, investors and exit partners, we pave the way for entrepreneurs to attain the three decisive success factors: know-how, contacts and capital.

## Dominik A. Lysek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Dominik A. Lysek - Co-CSO @ vVardis

## Privilege Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Hardware, Software

Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.

## Serpentine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Automotive

Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.

## Zürcher Kantonal Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.

## Ertan Wittwer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Beauty, Dental

Ertan Wittwer is the Founder and Board Member bestsmile. He attended BBZ Uzwil.

## Startfeld
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Manufacturing

Startfeld is the innovation and start-up network in the St.GallenBodenseeArea. In every phase of innovation, they support both ambitious entrepreneurs and established SME, who are open to new impulses and development.

## Neworld
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care

Neworld also provide portfolio companies with our comprehensive property expertise and market access.

## Maximon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Maximon empowers entrepreneurs to build impactful, science-based and scalable companies providing healthy aging and rejuvenation solutions. "longevity"

## N&V Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

N&V Capital operates as an investment firm.

## Sony
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Video, Machine Learning

Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony is a mix of consumer electronics and various well-known brand names, such as Walkman in portable audio players, Vaio in PCs, Xperia in smartphones, Cybershot and Alpha in digital cameras, and PlayStationin video game consoles.Sony has seven main business segments, operating electronic appliances, games, devices and semiconductors, entertainment content, and financial services.

## Casdin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Casdin Capital is a fundamental research investment firm focused on the life sciences and healthcare industry. It manages a long-short equity fund and makes investments in early-stage to late-stage private investments. Casdin was launched in 2012 by founder and CIO Eli Casdin and as of October 2020 has approximately $2.2 billion in assets undermanagement.

## Nikolaus Nieder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Beauty, Dental

Nicholas Nieder is an Individual investor.

## Yann Sommer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Fitness, Internet, Wellness

Yann Sommer

## Philip Magoulas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, iOS, Apps

Co-founder and managing director Alexander Henn is mainly responsible for markets, marketing and business development. He first accessed the digital world during the stock market boom in 1999 with the Boersen-Investor.de exchange platform and founded the first German shop for vitamin products at the age of 15. He later founded other companies suchas the online shop Libute.de and Xantera AG. This young entrepreneur graduated from high school by taking evening classes in Munich and then, in addition to his professional activity, studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. During his free time, Alexander Henn devotes himself to politics and history and relaxes listening to classical or electronic music.

## SARSTEDT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sevelen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, Wellness, Health Care

Sarstedt, one of the world's leading providers of laboratory and medical equipment, develops, manufactures and sells equipment and consumables in the field of medicine and science.

## Evoleen AG
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Venture builder, healthcare

## Korify Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma

Korify Capital AG is a venture capital investment vehicle.

## Wingman Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We dedicate our know-how, experience and energy to the new generation of startup founders, helping them navigate the skies on their way to success.

## Jeffrey Wilke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Information Services

Jeff Wilke has served as Amazon’s CEO Worldwide Consumer since April 2016. He leads Amazon Stores, Prime, operations, technology, and marketing. He joined Amazon in 1999 to lead global operations. Prior to Amazon, he was vice president and general manager of pharmaceutical fine chemicals at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell). He spent the preceding sixyears in a variety of operations and general management assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. He began his working career writing code and managing software development projects at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He is a 1993 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leaders for Global Operations program, where he earned an MBA and an S.M. in chemical engineering. He also holds a BSE degree in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from Princeton University. He serves as the chairman of the governing board for MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program. Mr. Wilke was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He spent many evenings as a teenager writing code, and currently serves on the board of Code.org.

## Raiffeisen Schweiz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Raiffeisen Switzerland has a cooperatively structured group is one of Switzerland's leading retail banks.

## SICTIC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

How to Invest in Swiss Startups That Last The Investor community of the Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) helped to fund to more than 160 Swiss tech startups to date. While doing so, they learned a lot about what to watch out for and how to foster success. Read more Get your FREE angel handbook

## Bracken Darrell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, FinTech, Software

Bracken Darrell joined Logitech as president in 2012 and became chief executive officer a year later. In this role he has led a transformation of Logitech. He is a proponent of the importance of the liberal arts and design in business, especially of their role in innovating product experiences for consumers. He is an English major from HendrixCollege. Bracken brings to Logitech experience in product and brand building through design. He has worked around the world on iconic brands like Old Spice, Gillette and Braun, for which he was president. He has spent time at P&G, GE, Gillette, and Whirlpool. Since he took over five years ago, Logitech has been a top performer on the SIX Swiss stock exchange and on the NASDAQ. The company’s stock price and profits have more than quadrupled in the same period.

## Mutschler Ventures AG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baar, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Mutschler ventures has been actively investing in start-up or young internet companies in the areas of e-commerce and / or "matchmaking".

## GoBeyond
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

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