Swisscom Ventures
Pre-Seed–Series B · 9 people tracked
Investment thesis
Invests Seed–Series C (initial checks $2–10M) in Swiss university spin‑offs and corporate venture spinouts, offering telecom‑rooted deeptech/infrastructure expertise, structured autonomy, and a 45‑exit track record.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website
Alexander Schlaepfer casts his VC as institutional-grade—75% externally funded, no-strings-attached—and champions a Swiss/European deep‑tech capital stack and IPO path, noting ETH/EPFL outpace Oxford/Cambridge and 70–80% late-stage funding is non‑European.
Pär Lange, Managing Partner after 17 years at the firm, builds an entrepreneur-pool to identify exceptional founders and leads deeptech/infrastructure investments (5G/OpenRAN, satellite), leveraging telecom expertise to navigate ecosystems.
Peter Ibbotson focuses on managing relationships with institutional investors and strategic partners, promoted from Investor Relations in a rare LP-facing path to partner at a corporate venture fund.
Stefan Kuentz blends Silicon Valley speed with Europe's detail orientation to help European deep‑tech and B2B founders internationalize, leveraging Swisscom as an early enterprise customer for operational and technical validation.
Jennifer McCloskey combines a policy‑aware lens from PPE at Oxford and Grameen Foundation work in Uganda to champion a resilience‑first approach focused on durable economics and admitting unknowns.
Klea Wenger, a materials scientist who built an inkjet‑printed chocolate line at Chocolat Frey and founded a startup, focuses on robotics and hardware deeptech with a fast, revenue-first screening approach.
Semih Kaçan combines startup founding experience with a financial‑services background in equity research, asset management and strategy consulting, joining boards to advance B2B financial infrastructure and embedded SME ecosystems.
Victoria Lietha, a GCV Rising Star 2022, draws on experience as principal at ABB Technology Ventures to invest globally in deeptech and B2B software, combining automation, robotics and energy expertise.
Anish Srivastava blends corporate-venture and independent fund experience—holding partner and managing roles, having built corporate innovation programs, and teaching founders to work with corporate VCs through speaking and events.
What they invest in
from 7 of 21 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×4Cloud Computing ×2Cybersecurity ×2Deep Tech ×2Developer Tools ×2Enterprise Software ×2SaaS ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1
HQs:United States×2Switzerland×1
Investments · 21 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathANYbotics develops autonomous robots that perform inspection and maintenance tasks in industrial facilities, particularly in energy, oil & gas, and manufacturing sectors.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechEnergyHardwareIoTRoboticsZurich, CH
Dr. Péter Fankhauser(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Fastly provides an edge cloud network that enables developers to run, secure, and deliver websites and applications with lower latency by processing content closer to end users.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Fireblocks provides infrastructure and platform services for managing digital assets and transactions, serving enterprises and startups that build and operate blockchain-based financial solutions.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Michael Shaulov(Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)Pavel Berengoltz(Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder)Idan Ofrat(Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder)
OX Security provides application security solutions that help organizations identify and prioritize exploitable, reachable, and impactful risks across the software development lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Preply is a language learning platform that serves corporate employees through its B2B offering Preply Business, enabling companies to provide language education to their workforce.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEdTechHR TechMarketplacesSaaSBrighton, US
Allen Mask(Director)Dmytro Voloshyn(Director)Charlie Wickers(Executive Officer)Dmytro Boroday(Director)Mariusz Gralewski(Director)Kyrylo Bigay(Executive Officer, Director)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Swisscom Ventures invest at?
- Swisscom Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Swisscom Ventures's typical check size?
- Swisscom Ventures typically writes checks of $270K – $2.7M.
- What sectors does Swisscom Ventures focus on?
- Swisscom Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Fintech, Hardware.
- Does Swisscom Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Swisscom Ventures leads investment rounds.
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