Swiss Founders Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Total investments

35

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

3.18

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileProperty ManagementSportsHospitalityRental Property

Summary

Swiss Founders Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Saint Gallen. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Swiss Founders Fund works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Public Transportation, E-Commerce. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bring!, HotelQuickly, GuestReady. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Switzerland.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Swiss Founders Fund, startups are often financed by Wingman Ventures, Senn, Ross Veitch. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FortyOne Group, Boon Hwee Koh, investiere | Verve Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Impulse VC, GREE, 808 Ventures.

The current fund was established by Christian Mischler, Patrick Degen. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
SeedPre-SeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
25K — 250K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
3.18
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Mobile (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Hospitality (5)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (13)
  • Singapore (6)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
  • Germany (4)
  • United Kingdom (2)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
35M
Group Appearance index
0.86

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Latest deals

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