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Philip Kneis
InvestorInvestment Manager at redalpine · Board director at Level Zero Health
London, England, United Kingdom
About
Philip Kneis trained as a material scientist, earning a bachelor's and MSc in process engineering at ETH, where he joined a foodtech spin-off and later led ETH Juniors, a tech consultancy and startup hub. He previously worked as a process engineer at Koa Switzerland, scaling up manufacturing in Africa. As an investment manager, he focuses on frontier tech and techbio at the intersection of engineering, biology, and physics, including neuromorphic hardware and AI-enabled synthetic biology.
Contact· self-published, not guessed
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHardware
Board director at Level Zero Health
Intro paths
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In turn, Philip can intro founders to Level Zero Health's investors below.
Level Zero Health's investors · 8
Anorak VenturesLos Angeles · $25K – $400K checks · since 2024Black Jays VenturesNew York · $250K – $500K checks · since 2024Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks · since 2024redalpineZug · $108K – $2.2M checks · since 2024Samos InvestmentsLondon · since 2024SOSVNew York · $30K – $550K checks · since 2024Transpose Platform ManagementHouston · since 2024Unruly CapitalLondon · since 2024
Co-founders at Level Zero Health
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Irene JiaCTO
Experience
- RedalpineInvestment Teamcurrent2023 — presentZurich, Switzerland
- Stealth2 x Pre-Seed | Board Observercurrent2026 — present
- Flexion RoboticsSeed & Series A | Board Observercurrent2025 — present
- Level Zero HealthPre-Seed | Board Directorcurrent2025 — present
- ApohaSeed | Board Observercurrent2023 — presentGreater London
- ExpressionEditsSeed | Board Observercurrent2024 — present
- EchelonAngel Investorcurrent2022 — present
- ETH juniorsExec. Board | Partner2021 — 2022Zurich, Switzerland
- Various CompaniesEngineer & Researcher2018 — 2021
Skills & more
Languages Deutsch · Englisch · Französisch · Italienisch
From Philip's professional profile.
Colleagues at redalpine
Aleksandra Laska
Partner at redalpine
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Bettina Curtze
Partner at redalpine
Daniel Dillinger
Principal at redalpine
Daniel Graf
General Partner at redalpine
Désirée Reimann
General Partner at redalpine
Diana Cugliari
President and CEO at Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
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Dr. Florian Bieberich
Associate at redalpine
Dr. Harald Nieder
General Partner at redalpine
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Philip Kneis?
- Philip Kneis trained as a material scientist, earning a bachelor's and MSc in process engineering at ETH, where he joined a foodtech spin-off and later led ETH Juniors, a tech consultancy and startup hub. He previously worked as a process engineer at Koa Switzerland, scaling up manufacturing in Africa. As an investment manager, he focuses on frontier tech and techbio at the intersection of engineering, biology, and physics, including neuromorphic hardware and AI-enabled synthetic biology.
- Where does Philip Kneis work?
- Philip Kneis is Investment Manager at redalpine and Board director at Level Zero Health.
- What does Philip Kneis invest in?
- Philip Kneis invests in AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Deep Tech, Hardware.
- Where did Philip Kneis go to school?
- Philip Kneis studied at ETH Zürich (Bachelor & Master of Science); University of Oxford (GLC Leader); INSEAD (Executive Program).
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