Privilège Ventures

Privilège Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Switzerland, with offices in Zurich and Lugano. Founded in 2016, it operates as the venture capital arm of Privilège Management SA and is authorized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. The firm specializes in investing in seed and early-stage startups across various sectors, including deep technology, fertility, industrial technology, medtech, software, and wearables. Privilège Ventures primarily focuses on opportunities within Switzerland and the broader European market. The firm aims to support young entrepreneurs by leveraging its extensive experience and networks, providing them with the necessary resources to succeed in building innovative businesses.

Cesare Pezzini

Investment Associate

Alessandro Ragni

Associate

14 past transactions

Wyth

Seed Round in 2022
Wyth specializes in developing technologies that foster meaningful relationships beyond digital interfaces. Its flagship product, Wyth Circle, is an all-in-one digital platform designed for large organizations to create and manage private communities, host multiple events, and facilitate collaboration. The platform addresses key challenges by offering a fully owned, private digital space that ensures data ownership and brand control. Wyth Circle's flexible architecture allows for customizable user experiences, catering to the unique needs of each organization. By streamlining operations, the platform claims to reduce running and implementation costs by approximately 80%. With a solid foundation built on data and feedback from pilot brands across Europe, Wyth has successfully engaged tens of thousands of users from over one hundred countries through various devices. The company has been funded through revenues and a pre-seed investment round, enabling it to continue refining its offerings and expanding its reach.

Smeetz

Series A in 2022
Smeetz SA is an online booking platform based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in the leisure and entertainment industry. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to streamline event organization and promotion. Its platform incorporates AI-powered tools for sales, marketing, reservation management, ticket booking, and distribution. Smeetz employs dynamic pricing strategies and data analytics to help venues optimize revenue and enhance operational efficiency. The platform also includes features such as a booking widget, cross-channel sales, access control, payment methods, and customizable ticket solutions. By unifying commerce and embedding financial tools, Smeetz aims to transform the customer experience in the leisure sector, enabling businesses to thrive in a competitive environment.

Inergio

Pre Seed Round in 2022
This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making the technology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.

Adiposs

Seed Round in 2021
Adiposs SA is a clinical-stage life science company a first-in-class disruptive imaging product for cancer patients.

Xsensio

Seed Round in 2021
Xsensio is an innovation-driven digital health company dedicated to solving one of the biggest challenges in healthcare: the lack of real-time, continuous monitoring of relevant health parameters. We take the industry from a static approach today, to a dynamic one. To achieve this vision, Xsensio is building the breakthrough Lab-on-Skin© wearable: a modular miniaturized sensing platform that will offer unique health insight through the continuous and real-time analysis of proteins and hormones at the surface of the skin during critical health events, to improve standard of care in a simple and minimally-invasive way.

Wyth

Seed Round in 2021
Wyth specializes in developing technologies that foster meaningful relationships beyond digital interfaces. Its flagship product, Wyth Circle, is an all-in-one digital platform designed for large organizations to create and manage private communities, host multiple events, and facilitate collaboration. The platform addresses key challenges by offering a fully owned, private digital space that ensures data ownership and brand control. Wyth Circle's flexible architecture allows for customizable user experiences, catering to the unique needs of each organization. By streamlining operations, the platform claims to reduce running and implementation costs by approximately 80%. With a solid foundation built on data and feedback from pilot brands across Europe, Wyth has successfully engaged tens of thousands of users from over one hundred countries through various devices. The company has been funded through revenues and a pre-seed investment round, enabling it to continue refining its offerings and expanding its reach.

IDUN Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
IDUN Technologies AG is a Swiss neurotechnology startup founded in 2017, specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced biosensors for wearable devices. The company is known for its innovative product, DRYODES, which features dry conductive electrodes suitable for electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG) applications. These electrodes enhance user convenience by providing soft, skin-conformable surfaces that eliminate the need for adhesives. IDUN Technologies aims to integrate neuroscience into everyday products through its Guardian Neuro-Intelligence Platform, a Brain-Computer Interface that captures real-time neuro markers. This platform enables the collection and analysis of brain activity data, allowing manufacturers to enhance their products by tailoring them to users' emotional and cognitive states. By employing a holistic approach that encompasses biosensor development, hardware design, data analysis, and product integration, IDUN Technologies seeks to create a more connected world where devices can respond to human emotional needs, ultimately fostering more fulfilling user experiences.

AgroSustain

Series A in 2021
AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

Biospectal

Seed Round in 2021
Biospectal is the remote patient monitoring and biosensing software company, developed the OptiBP smartphone app and data platform to empower people worldwide with a medical-grade device integrated directly into their smartphone for instantaneous blood pressure measurement and monitoring, anytime and anywhere. The app runs on a typical smartphone and uses the built-in camera to record and measure a user’s blood flow via their fingertip quickly and easily. A measurement is rendered in approximately 20 seconds — half the time of a typical blood pressure cuff. The company’s proprietary algorithms and optical signal capture methods then transform the captured data into blood pressure values. The Biospectal OptiBP for Android public beta is available now in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.

Cyltronic

Seed Round in 2021
Cytronic AG is the brand for compact and user-friendly linear drives and the market leader with the worldwide unique electric cylinder.

Cyltronic

Seed Round in 2020
Cytronic AG is the brand for compact and user-friendly linear drives and the market leader with the worldwide unique electric cylinder.

Annaida Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

Mojo

Seed Round in 2019
For everyone who wants to expand their family-building potential, Mojo offers an online fertility care platform helping humans to test, understand and improve their fertility. Unlike current fertility care systems, which are only accessible by the privileged few at high costs and inferior effectiveness, the Mojo platform is accessible to everyone and powered by AI to ensure an unmatched level of effectiveness, scientific standard, and convenience at remarkable pricing.

Picstars

Venture Round in 2019
PICSTARS was founded in 2014 and is one of the top 10 tech startups in Switzerland (Venture Leader 2016). Their mission is to digitize the sponsorship of brand ambassadors with a focus on athletes. With PICSTARS, Brands find suitable talents in Sport & Lifestyle as brand ambassadors who use their own social media channels to communicate brand photo / video and hashtag campaigns. In the PICSTARS cockpit, companies can create campaigns directly and measure success.
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