Swiss Founders Fund

Swiss Founders Fund AG is a venture capital firm specializing in direct investment and fund of fund investments. Within direct investment it invests in incubation, seed and early stage investments. Within the fund of fund investments it invests in venture capital funds and hedge funds. It invests in e-commerce software. The firm considers investments in Africa/Middle East, Asia/Pacific, Europe and United States and Canada. The firm invests between $0.02 million to $0.5 million with an enterprise value between $2 million to $20 million. It invests through personal capital of its management. Swiss Founders Fund AG was founded in 2013 and is based in St. Gallen, Switzerland with an additional office in Bangkok, Thailand.

Patrick Degen

Partner

Christian Mischler

Partner

33 past transactions

FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd. aims to reinvent the rental of residential properties for tenants and owners and become the most useful residential rental platform in South East Asia.

Orderli

Seed Round in 2023
Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.

FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd.

Seed Round in 2020
FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd. aims to reinvent the rental of residential properties for tenants and owners and become the most useful residential rental platform in South East Asia.

coachbetter

Seed Round in 2021
coachbetter ist a digital marketplace that disrupts the way of how soccer coaches learn, communicate and manage for the better. It's our aim to deliver professional coaching content and digital solutions that elevates everyone's coaching game. We offer a digital, holistic and fully integrated SaaS platform for socher coaches all around the world.

FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd. aims to reinvent the rental of residential properties for tenants and owners and become the most useful residential rental platform in South East Asia.

GuestReady

Seed Round in 2017
GuestReady was founded in late 2016 with the objective of taking the hassle out of Airbnb hosting. They aim to deliver outstanding services to both their hosts and guests in London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong. With an extensive battery of premium Airbnb management services, and a combined experience. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Trogen, Ausser-Rhoden.

Gameplan

Seed Round in 2021
Gameplan Technology Limited develops software as a service (SaaS) based workforce management software. Its platform allows businesses to manage, schedule, and communicate with workforces. Its platform connects workforces, suppliers, and leaders. In addition, it streamlines processes in areas such as assigning work to suppliers, communications, access control, real-time job information, time and attendance, forecasting and analytics. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd.

Seed Round in 2022
FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd. aims to reinvent the rental of residential properties for tenants and owners and become the most useful residential rental platform in South East Asia.

Bring!

Series A in 2018
Bring! simplifies grocery shopping for millions of people. With shared shopping lists, integrated recipes, online shopping, local offers, and loyalty cards, Bring! app covers every step along the shopping process: inspiration, planning and the final purchase. No matter whether online or offline at the market: Bring! helps users around the world save time, money and energy while organizing their grocery shopping. Bring! Labs AG was founded by Marco Cerqui and Sandro Strebel in April 2015 has 20 employees and offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Mannheim, Germany.

Caterspot

Seed Round in 2016
CaterSpot operates an online marketplace that connects companies and people with local catering options. It offers CaterSpot that enables users to order various catering menus and packs from a curated list of caterers and restaurants in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. The company serves startups, universities, law and consulting companies, banks, and Fortune 500 companies. CaterSpot was founded in 2016 and is based in Central, Hong Kong with additional offices in Singapore.

Gameplan

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gameplan Technology Limited develops software as a service (SaaS) based workforce management software. Its platform allows businesses to manage, schedule, and communicate with workforces. Its platform connects workforces, suppliers, and leaders. In addition, it streamlines processes in areas such as assigning work to suppliers, communications, access control, real-time job information, time and attendance, forecasting and analytics. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Gobee.bike

Seed Round in 2017
Gobee.bike is the leading dock-less bike sharing company outside mainland China. They aim to solve your last mile destination problems by making bicycles easily accessible and affordable in your locality. At the tap of a button, you can simply unlock one of their bright green bikes spotted near you and ride to your destination of choice and drop it off there. Convenience, fitness, and leisure can now be integrated into your daily commute. With GoBee's latest technology, cycling has once again been made fun and cool again! Gobee.bike is available in Hong Kong, France, Italy, Belgium.

Freterium

Seed Round in 2021
-Transport visibility and orchestration for shippers & 3PLs- Freterium is the first predictive supply chain platform in Africa, delivering real-time visibility and optimized orchestration for manufacturers, retailers and third-party logistics firms. We add a digital layer to an established relationship between shippers and their carriers, achieving smarter, transparent and more cost-effective movement of goods. Freterium is a simple and collaborative solution that enables our customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen end-customer relationships.

Everphone

Seed Round in 2016
everphone GmbH offers smartphones and tablets rental services for employees. It also repairs, replaces, and exchanges old and damaged tablets and mobile phones. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd.

Seed Round in 2020
FlexStay Rentals Co., Ltd. aims to reinvent the rental of residential properties for tenants and owners and become the most useful residential rental platform in South East Asia.

Bring!

Series B in 2020
Bring! simplifies grocery shopping for millions of people. With shared shopping lists, integrated recipes, online shopping, local offers, and loyalty cards, Bring! app covers every step along the shopping process: inspiration, planning and the final purchase. No matter whether online or offline at the market: Bring! helps users around the world save time, money and energy while organizing their grocery shopping. Bring! Labs AG was founded by Marco Cerqui and Sandro Strebel in April 2015 has 20 employees and offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Mannheim, Germany.

Calingo

Seed Round in 2022
Calingo is a digital insurance platform that offers personalised and optimised risk protection at the point of sale.

Stakingrewards.com

Seed Round in 2021
Staking Rewards provides a list of Proof-of-Stake and Masternode Cryptoassets. Staking are thriving to provide up-to-date information, tutorials and support on how to earn passive income with these cryptoassets. With the Reward Calculator it is possible to estimate the passive income for each asset.

Sygnum

Seed Round in 2018
Sygnum Bank AG develops an integrated solutions to securely issue, store, trade and manage digital assets. Its products include, capital issuance system that can be used to raise equity by SMEs; institutional custody solution that can be used to store digital assets; liquidity platform that can be used to access liquidity in real time; and investment management solution. The company offers solutions, such as custody, brokerage, tokenization, asset management, lending and B2B banking. Sygnum Bank AG was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

A Better Florist Pte Ltd

Seed Round in 2015
A Better Florist Pte Ltd engages in online retail of flowers. Its products include flowers, such as allison, julianne, madelene, emilia, caroline, and josephine; hampers, which includes get well soon, healthy wishes, me time, speedy recovery, ultimate spa, and feeling good; grandstands, including congratulations, radiance, special celebration, extraordinary feat, excellence and fortune, and ascending prosperity; and fruit basket, such as deluxe, gift from nature, spring harvest, and the first class. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Singapore.

Alluma

Funding Round in 2017
Alluma simple & secure place to buy, sell and trade cryptocurrency across emerging markets in Asia. The platform will initially launch in India, and the thereafter Philippines, addressing all major user pain points in the buying, selling and trading of digital currencies. Alluma was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore with offices in India.

Everphone

Seed Round in 2017
everphone GmbH offers smartphones and tablets rental services for employees. It also repairs, replaces, and exchanges old and damaged tablets and mobile phones. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Foodpanda GmbH

Series A in 2013
Foodpanda is a global online food delivery marketplace that enables users to place orders at local restaurants via its website or mobile application. Customers enter their postcodes on the site, browse for food from a list of restaurants, and place the order; foodpanda processes the order details, sends out an SMS to customers to confirm orders and their estimated delivery time, and passes the details to partner restaurants; and the restaurants deliver the food to customers. It is called foodpanda in Asia and Europe and hellofood in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Foodpanda has partnered with more than 60, 000 restaurants globally, including Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC, McDonalds, and Jollibee. Foodpanda was launched by Ralf Wenzel and Benjamin Bauer in 2012 and is operated from Berlin, Germany with presence in over 40 countries and 500 cities across 5 continents.

N-Dream AG (AirConsole)

Series A in 2019
N-Dream is the company behind AirConsole is a cloud-based multiplayer game console that uses smartphones as gamepads.They are building a next-gen online game console.

Taembe.com

Seed Round in 2015
Taembe.com is an online sale of products for babies and adapted diapers. It will be using the cash for technology, inventory, and logistics with a mobile app on the way.

GotCourts

Seed Round in 2018
GotCourts is an online booking platform for racquet sport courts. With GotCourts, you can also find playing partners and opponents and stay in touch with your tennis buddies. GotCourts aims to become the biggest tennis hub in the world, connecting all parties, providing beneficial services, simply processes, and activate the untapped potential. GotCourts was started in 2014 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

GuestReady

Pre Seed Round in 2016
GuestReady was founded in late 2016 with the objective of taking the hassle out of Airbnb hosting. They aim to deliver outstanding services to both their hosts and guests in London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong. With an extensive battery of premium Airbnb management services, and a combined experience. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Trogen, Ausser-Rhoden.

GotCourts

Seed Round in 2016
GotCourts is an online booking platform for racquet sport courts. With GotCourts, you can also find playing partners and opponents and stay in touch with your tennis buddies. GotCourts aims to become the biggest tennis hub in the world, connecting all parties, providing beneficial services, simply processes, and activate the untapped potential. GotCourts was started in 2014 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Poinz

Seed Round in 2019
Poinz stands for a simple, interactive and modern dialogue - between business and loyal customers - where the origin is a very simple and proven principle: the physical stamp card.

HotelQuickly

Seed Round in 2013
1.5 million users. More than 200,000 hotels. Destinations in every corner of the globe. Since its founding, HotelQuickly has made traveler’s lives easier by providing a simple, stress-free way to book cheap hotel rooms last minute. In December 2012, five visionaries joined forces to give birth to a new idea that would change the way you travel. Out of the minds of Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng and Raphael Cohen came mobile booking website and app HotelQuickly. The following March, we launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, we had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents. In the years since, we have expanded throughout Asia and then all across the globe, with headquarters in Hong Kong and Bangkok and offices throughout the region. In 2016, HotelQuickly acquired and fully integrated Japanese app Tonight. And that’s just the start of what’s to come. Since our founding, we’ve raised a total of $US 5.6 million in investor funding, which we’ve used to make hotel bookers’ experiences as fantastic as possible. Our innovation and rapid growth has been featured by media outlets such as TechCrunch, Forbes, CBS, NBC, TechInAsia, TheNextWeb, Yahoo, and Tnooz.