Verve Ventures is a Switzerland-based venture capital firm and digital investment platform that connects qualified private and institutional investors with startups across Europe. Founded in 2010, it operates a fully digital platform that enables investors to build diversified portfolios with investments starting at 10,000 CHF or EUR. The firm maintains a pan-European network of investors, including family offices and pension funds, and is backed by Zürcher Kantonalbank. An in-house investment team screens thousands of startups annually and selects the top 1% after rigorous due diligence. Verve Ventures sources deals, structures rounds, and facilitates investor participation while also supporting portfolio companies with hiring, client introductions, and access to an expert network. Its portfolio spans sectors such as science and technology, climate energy, robotics, industrial data analytics, advanced manufacturing, digital health, and clean energy infrastructure, and the firm operates with offices in Zurich, Lausanne, Berlin, Paris, and Cambridge as it engages across Europe.
BackBone Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Zurich, with an active footprint in Frankfurt. It invests in seed and early-stage technology companies across Israel, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with focus on information and communications technology, food technology, and disruptive technologies. The firm pursues an ecosystem-oriented approach and provides hands-on support to founders to help them reach milestones, aiming to be a trusted partner for both entrepreneurs and investors.
Founderful is a Zurich-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on Switzerland. Established in the late 2010s, the firm backs founders across sectors including business and consumer services, energy, financial services, software, and materials and resources, aiming to help portfolio companies grow and compete globally.
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, Wingman Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments within the information technology sector.
Privilège Ventures is a Swiss-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in Switzerland and Europe. Headquartered in Lugano with offices in Zurich and Boston, it pursues opportunities across HealthTech, AgrifoodTech, CleanTech, industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables, and ICT. Authorized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority as a venture capital asset manager, the firm provides capital and value-added support to startups led by ambitious founders. It operates within the Privilège group.
TA Ventures is a global, network-driven venture capital firm founded in 2010 that backs early-stage tech startups across sectors including digital health, mobility and logistics, fintech, consumer tech, software, and AI-enabled enterprise software. It typically writes initial checks of $100,000 to $250,000 for pre-seed and seed rounds and provides follow-on capital. The firm leverages its international network to connect portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors and to grant access to cost-efficient R&D talent. It emphasizes swift execution and hands-on support, aiming to help portfolio companies scale and enter new markets through strategic, cross-border collaboration.
TX Ventures is the corporate venture arm of TX Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2022, it operates as an independent fintech venture capital investor that backs fintechs democratizing access to financial products and improving financial security, efficiency and sustainability for consumers. The firm provides hands-on support in marketing, technology and IT security to its portfolio companies, helping startups scale while aligning with the group's strategic interests.
Serpentine Ventures is the venture capital arm of Swiss Ventures Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2019, it focuses on investing in information technology and SaaS companies across Europe.
Creathor Ventures is a Bad Homburg based venture capital firm with offices in Bad Homburg and Zurich that backs technology and life sciences companies across Western Europe, with a focus on Germany and Switzerland. It supports seed to growth‑stage companies in software, AI, Industry 4.0, digital health, diagnostics, devices and drug development, investing in frontier technologies within tech and healthcare. The firm often acts as lead investor and collaborates with portfolio companies to scale operations and accelerate commercialization; the team numbers around 15 professionals and provides hands‑on support and strategic guidance.
AIJ Global is an international investment group with a diversified portfolio across asset classes, including search funds (entrepreneurship through acquisition), private equity, and late-stage venture investments. The firm provides ongoing guidance to entrepreneurs and collaborates with operating partners, leveraging a global network of industry experts. It pursues long-term opportunities, seeking controlling interests through buyouts or minority positions through growth and late-stage investments, and emphasizes flexibility in capital deployment to support durable, non-cyclical ventures.
Brainforest is an impact venture studio and accelerator based in Zürich, Switzerland, founded in 2019. It supports early-stage ventures focused on forests, climate change, agriculture, biodiversity, and health by providing financial backing and strategic development to scale sustainable solutions.
Helsana HealthInvest is the corporate venture capital arm of Helsana, a Swiss health insurer based in Zurich. Founded in 2020, it seeks to invest in seed-, early-, and later-stage healthcare companies across Europe, with a preference for ventures that improve efficiency and the provision of care within health systems. By supporting startups and growth-stage companies in the European healthcare sector, Helsana HealthInvest aims to foster innovative solutions that align with Helsana's mission to enhance health coverage and care delivery for individuals and organizations.
Exelixis Capital is a venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2021, it seeks to invest in longevity, circular economy, and exponential technologies.
L1D is a venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on digital assets, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. Founded in 2018, the firm pursues opportunities in the blockchain ecosystem and utilizes a multi-strategy approach that includes event-driven, long/short, and fundamental equity strategies to assess value and manage risk.
Vine Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2019. It focuses on life sciences and seeks to identify and support ventures pursuing unique business models within the sector.
Clima Now is an impact investment firm established in 2021 and based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company focuses on investing in Climate Tech, specifically targeting early-stage founders who are advancing the green energy transition, enhancing food safety through AgTech, and developing carbon dioxide removal innovations. Clima Now aims to fund solutions that effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, capture greenhouse gases, and promote socio-political change for climate protection, thereby contributing to a sustainable future.
Affentranger Associates is a Zurich-based venture capital firm, founded in 2002, that focuses on value creation through hands-on management and active operational involvement, aiming for sustainable long-term returns by supporting technology and industrial companies in Switzerland and surrounding regions.
Müller Ventures is a family-owned venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2019. It makes early-stage investments in the food and beverage sector and related consumer-focused areas, including consumer products, consumer services, and food technology.
Planven Entrepreneur Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2018. It invests in European technology startups across artificial intelligence, big data, software-as-a-service, cybersecurity, and health technology, with a focus on fast-growing B2B markets. The firm emphasizes rigorous due diligence and proprietary deal sourcing.
Spicehaus Partners is an independent Swiss venture capital firm based in Zug that backs early-stage technology companies in Switzerland, with an emphasis on B2B technology firms; founded in 2018 and owned by its partners, the firm combines investment experience with entrepreneurial expertise and actively supports its portfolio companies to promote growth, aiming to foster long-term partnerships between entrepreneurs and investors.
VI Partners is a Swiss venture capital firm based in Altendorf that invests in high-growth healthcare, biotechnology, technology and software companies across Switzerland and Europe. Founded in 2001, it backs university spin-offs and other promising start-ups by providing capital, coaching and networks to help them develop and scale their businesses.
ACE & Company is a Geneva-based private equity and venture capital firm with offices in London, Cairo, Hong Kong, and New York. It makes global private market investments across multiple stages and strategies, including angel, early, growth, mature, buyout, special situations, and secondaries, and engages in co-investments and leading or participating roles. The firm operates on a sector-agnostic basis, targeting opportunities across technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, consumer goods, and services, and seeks to deliver long-term value by tailoring investment exposure to each company's development stage and risk profile.
Ego Death Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas. It concentrates on blockchain investments and supports the evolving bitcoin ecosystem, including layer 3 bitcoin projects.
Bloomhaus Ventures is a venture capital firm and the early-stage investment arm of a Swiss family office, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Founded in 2022, it backs pre-seed and seed-stage B2B startups across Europe, with a focus on the DACH region, in sectors including Industrytech, Deeptech (AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, cybersecurity) and CleanTech.
Alpana Ventures is a Geneva-based venture capital firm focused on digital transformation and deep-tech. Founded in 2016, it backs founder teams across Switzerland, Europe, and the United States, supporting them through seed to growth stages. The firm invests in sectors such as healthcare, information technology, software, financial services, enterprise solutions, mobility, cybersecurity, and related areas, aiming to embed portfolio companies in innovative business models that enable global market leadership. With a presence in Paris, Saratoga (California), and Sierre, Alpana Ventures applies ESG criteria to foster sustainable value creation for its portfolio and the broader technology ecosystem.
Redalpine Venture Partners is a pan-European venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in disruptive technologies, including software and health tech. It combines capital with operational expertise, coaching, and an international network to help entrepreneurs turn ambitious visions into scalable businesses. Founded in 2007, the firm has backed more than 70 portfolio companies across Europe and manages about USD 1 billion in assets, with activity across Europe from its offices in Zurich and Berlin. The firm supports portfolio companies with hands-on strategic and operational guidance and pursues a broad Europe-wide investment approach.
EquityPitcher Ventures is an early-growth venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. It backs B2B companies across the DACH region and collaborates with industry experts, investors, and exit partners to help entrepreneurs access know-how, networks, and capital needed to scale.
NGP Capital is a California-headquartered venture capital firm that backs B2B technology companies from Series A onward. It operates globally, investing in Europe, the United States and additional regions, with a focus on enterprise software, industrial technology, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2005 as Nokia Growth Partners, the firm pursues a thesis-driven investment approach and engages in direct ventures as well as co-investments. Over its history it has funded more than 100 portfolio companies, including unicorns, with multiple IPOs. The firm emphasizes strategic collaboration with management teams to accelerate growth, international expansion and product scale.
Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.
SIX FinTech Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of SIX Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland. It invests in global early-stage fintech startups from seed to Series A, focusing on wealth management, capital markets, RegTech, and token ecosystems, and leveraging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, and AR/VR. The firm targets opportunities in Switzerland, Western Europe, and opportunistically in other regions, with initial tickets typically ranging from CHF 0.2 to 3 million.
Walden International is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm that concentrates on cross-border investments between the United States and Asia, providing capital, relationships and operating expertise to help portfolio companies scale. The firm supports early and expansion-stage opportunities across sectors including information technology, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, SaaS, software, semiconductors, and related technologies, leveraging a global footprint and deep operating experience to help entrepreneurs compete in international markets.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 1911 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It backs startups across seed to growth stages, focusing on software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and healthcare technologies, and high-growth business models. The firm operates internationally, supporting portfolio companies from early product development through scale, and has backed well-known names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Wix and others. BVP emphasizes helping founders establish durable foundations and guides companies through multiple growth phases, leveraging hands-on operational support, strategic networks, and cross-border expertise. With a diversified approach that includes consumer, enterprise and deep-tech investments, the firm seeks to build lasting companies that matter across global markets.
Founded in 2000, B2Venture is a Swiss venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments across various sectors including AI/ML, automation, biotech, fintech, and more. They invest EUR 100m+ annually with ticket sizes ranging from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
GAIA Impact Fund is a venture capital firm that specializes in renewable energy and builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. It emphasizes environmental and social impact and backs businesses that enable sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions with carbon-intensive energy mixes, the firm supports technological innovations and viable business models that enable cost-efficient, large-scale diffusion of renewable energy.
QBIT Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Zurich, Switzerland. It invests in startups across multiple stages, including pre-seed, early-stage, and later-stage rounds, supporting companies from early development through growth.
Joyance Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in technology, health tech, consumer, internet, and mobile sectors across North America, Europe, and Asia. Founded in 2012, the firm seeks companies that, through science and technology, cultivate joy and improve how people live, with emphasis on health and consumer applications from pre-seed to Series A.
Vorwerk Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Vorwerk & Co. KG, based in Berlin. It invests as a minority investor in growth- and seed-stage opportunities across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United States, with a focus on consumer technology, direct-to-consumer business models, information technology, and consumer products and services. Its portfolio targets sectors such as consumer, food, health, and climate, emphasizing scalable models and potential strategic value to Vorwerk. Investments typically range from early seed to growth rounds, and the firm provides follow-on support as needed through Vorwerk's resources and network to help portfolio companies scale while aligning with Vorwerk's strategic priorities.
DN Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 that backs seed to early-stage software, fintech, and consumer internet companies in Europe and North America. It focuses on firms that plan to operate on both sides of the Atlantic and helps them build international businesses, reflecting a cross-border investment approach with activity across the UK, Northern Europe, and North America.
CommerzVentures is a Frankfurt-based venture capital firm backed by Commerzbank that invests in early- and growth-stage financial services, fintech and insurtech companies. Founded in 2014, the firm focuses on Series A and later rounds, targeting opportunities in Europe, Israel, and the United States, with initial investments typically between two and ten million euros. It supports portfolio companies by providing access to decision makers in banking and insurance, and operates as an independent investment management entity since 2019, with a geographic emphasis on Europe, Israel, and the USA in collaboration with entrepreneurs who have vision.
Qualcomm is a U.S.-based fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets wireless technologies, processors, connectivity solutions, software, and charging products. Its Snapdragon processors and related platforms serve mobile devices, automotive, and Internet of Things applications, while its technologies span 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless networks, networking, and multimedia. Qualcomm operates through three main activities: chip business providing integrated circuits and system software; licensing of intellectual property for wireless standards; and strategic initiatives investing in early-stage technologies. The company serves industries including automotive, healthcare, smart cities, wearables, and smart homes, and maintains a broad ecosystem that supports developers and partners worldwide.
High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.
Freigeist Capital is a venture capital firm based in Bonn, Germany that focuses on early-stage investments across sectors including energy, food, healthcare, manufacturing, mobility, environment, transportation, space, and digital technology. It was founded by Marc Sieberger, Frank Thelen, and Alex Koch.
Fulgur Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Wilmington, Delaware. It focuses on investing in consumer wallets and applications, gaming, media, entertainment, and financial infrastructure, providing seed checks for pre-seed startups and ongoing advisory, mentoring, and later-stage investments. The firm supports projects in the Bitcoin and decentralized finance ecosystem, including the Lightning Network, and assists portfolio companies with navigating evolving cryptocurrency regulations and best practices.
Swiss Post Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Swiss Post, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies both domestically and internationally.
DAA Capital Partners is a Swiss private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Geneva. It invests in early-stage and later-stage companies, seeking long-term value through partnerships with entrepreneurs, management teams, and investors. The firm backs a broad set of sectors, including information technology, software as a service, e-commerce, business products and services, manufacturing, the internet of things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and real estate technology, with a geographic focus on France, Germany and Switzerland, leveraging multidisciplinary expertise and a global network to support portfolio companies.
Sustainable Forward Capital is a venture capital firm based in Athens, Greece, founded in 2024. It invests in technology-focused startups with an emphasis on sustainability, supporting companies across Greece that develop innovative tech and sustainable solutions.
Yttrium is a growth capital firm based in Frankfurt, Germany. It invests in B2B technology companies across Europe and the United States, spanning seed to growth stages. The firm focuses on industrial technology and financial technology, with the aim of helping management teams scale and expand into regional and global markets.
RKKVC is a private independent venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Nicosia, Cyprus. It invests in early-stage technology startups across Europe, with a regional emphasis on Central Europe, and aims to back ventures that improve people's lives and address planetary challenges.