Investors in Switzerland

Pureos Bioventures is a venture capital fund, which invests exclusively in private innovative drug development companies, with a special emphasis on the next generation of biological drugs and drug formats. The fund’s portfolio companies are built on scientific excellence to develop therapies across a broad indication spectrum including oncology, immunology, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience. Pureos has built a team with deep investment, operating and clinical expertise, that strives to impact patients’ lives by advancing innovative treatments for devastating diseases.

“Zero-Knowledge (ZK)”-centric pre-seed partner to crypto/web3 founders, building a safer, cleaner, privacy-focused, programmable trustless digital future.

MTIP is a leading Swiss-based growth equity firm investing in European healthtech companies that aim to revolutionize global healthcare. We leverage our deep sector expertise to help scale up successful and sustainable healthtech businesses.

Founded in 2018, Forestay is an early-growth stage tech fund and part of B-FLEXION, an entrepreneurial private investment firm founded by Ernesto Bertarelli. We invest in visionary teams reaching growth inflection points and partner with them to create future category leaders. We support start-ups with investments between $10M and $20M in Europe, Israel and opportunistically on the East coast of the US. Forestay Capital SA is the advisor to Forestay Capital Management Ltd, based in Jersey.

Backbone Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Zurich and Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2018, we started out by investing without a fund, on a deal-by-deal basis. In four years we invested in 26 teams, mostly in Switzerland but also in Germany, the US, and Israel. Since September 2022 we have invested almost exclusively out of our Backbone Ventures 5502 Fund, a EUR 20m pre-seed fund with a strong geographical focus on Germany and Switzerland. We strive every day to justify the trust that our investors and our founders put in us and to become the trusted partner for the best founders who are still about to start their ventures.

LOREA AG is a diversified industrial holding company which invests equity capital from entrepreneurs and from family businesses that have been successfully managed for generations.

Cyverse Capital injects seed and growth capital into best-in-breed, next-gen cyber-security startups. Cyverse Capital builds on the track record of Cyverse AG, the Zug-based firm which distributes next-gen cyber-security technologies to over 100 multinational enterprises in the DACH and Scandinavia.

Aare Ventures ist der Business Angel Verein für die Berner Investoren und Startups! An unseren Veranstaltungen bringen wir Investoren und Startups zusammen und tragen dazu bei die Berner Startup Szene auf das nächste Level zu bringen.

Eclosion assists entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to bridge the gap between their laboratories and the stage where the start-up

Seed4Equity Investment fund in seed, early growth companies. targets all industries. Switzerland.

SIFEM is the Swiss Development Finance Institution (DFI). It is owned by the Swiss Government and an integral part of Switzerland's International Cooperation Strategy. SIFEM provides long-term financing through financial intermediaries to SMEs and other fast-growing companies in developing countries. It aims to reduce poverty and foster sustainable, inclusive and resilient economies by creating and securing more and better jobs, growing opportunities for the underserved and supporting projects towards a Just Transition. SIFEM aligns its investments with international environmental goals to address the global climate crisis and support emerging markets in achieving low-carbon economic growth. With its investments it contributes to closing financing gaps and mobilising additional private capital for the growth of local companies in developing countries. By the end of 2022, SIFEM's investment portfolio amounts to USD 451m, thereby financing directly and indirectly 612 companies in 80 countries. Since its inception, SIFEM made commitments of almost USD 1.3 billion.

Kickfund exclusively invests in Swiss pre-seed and seed stage technology startups that have successfully completed the Venture Kick competition. Established in Luxembourg, the fund was initiated by supporters of the Swiss startup and innovation ecosystem.