| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.02.2024 | Swiss VC fund Founderful nears 70 per cent capacity with $85M raised | Founderful, a Swiss VC fund formerly known as Wingman Ventures, has announced that its newest fund, targeted at $120 million has reached 70 per cent capacity at $85 million.
Now five years in vintage, Wingman Ventures is the brainchild of S... |
| 12.09.2023 | Ascento raises $4.3M to launch Ascento Guard, an autonomous security robot | Swiss robotics startup Ascento has launched a new robot into the workforce. It is an autonomous security patrolling robot called Ascento Guard and its purpose is to fill the labour shortage of security guards – which has seen a 52 percent d... |
| 10.08.2023 | Swiss startup SAEKI launches with $2.3M seed funding for industrial micro-factories | Today Swiss startup SAEKI has launched from stealth with a $2.3 million seed funding round to create fully automated plants with industrial robots using 3D technology to create anything from wings for aircraft to construction site installat... |
| 27.06.2023 | Swiss start-up DePoly raises $13.8 million to scale its operations converting plastics and polyester textiles back to raw materials | Swiss start-up DePoly converts PET plastics and polyester textiles back to their main raw materials. The climate tech is reacting to the waste plastic issue where only clean plastics and sorted waste is recycled. Its energy efficient chemic... |
| 14.02.2023 | EthonAI secures USD 6.8M in seed financing round | |
| 12.12.2022 | Swiss AI risk management startup Calvin Risk closes on $1.5 million | Swiss AI risk assessment startup Calvin Risk has raised $1.5 million of pre-seed funding from VC investors btov Partners and Wingman Ventures.
Having spun off earlier this year from the Swiss institute ETH Zurich, Calvin Risk is working on ... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 06.06.2022 | Strong Network raises €5.1 million to curb data theft | Swiss SaaS startup Strong Network has raised €5.1 million to expedite its roll out in Europe and the U.S. The round was led by OpenOcean, and joined by Wingman Ventures.
The platform enables companies to protect against the ever-growing thr... |
| 03.03.2022 | Swiss startup plugs in $700,000 to rollout AI-powered podcast player | The podcast industry shows no sign of slowing, with emarketer forecasting ad revenue to more than double and grow to $2.7 billion by 2025. The pandemic has lent a hand in accelerating growth in podcast listening and accounted for the steep ... |
| 22.02.2022 | 9T Labs secures $17M Series A funding to commercialize carbon fiber 3D printing | Swiss carbon fiber 3D printing specialist 9T Labs has raised $17 million in Series A funding that it will funnel into fully commercializing its Red Series Additive Fusion Solution platform.
A combination of 3D printing and compression moldi... |
| 07.02.2022 | CHF 1.2 million to bring AI-powered quality management to manufacturing | |
| 30.09.2021 | Procurement software company Archlet raises $10 million | |
| 28.09.2021 | Oversubscribed USD 2M pre-seed round boosts Urbio | Urbio accelerates the transition of utilities towards clean energy, with a novel software based on research from world-leading technical university EPFL that reduces ten-fold the time spent on design tasks. Today, customers deal with scatte... |
| 27.09.2021 | Investoren unterstützen internationale Expansion von Scewo | |
| 23.09.2021 | 2,4 Millionen für Fachkräfte-Plattform Kollabo | |
| 22.09.2021 | Tune Insight secures pre-seed round from Wingman Ventures | |
| 15.09.2021 | Wingman Campus Fund becomes operational with the first batch of students | |
| 14.09.2021 | $5.5M investment takes proptech Backbone to the next level | |
| 24.08.2021 | Travel tech innovators RoomPriceGenie bring in US$ 2.2m | |
| 18.06.2021 | Kyan Health secures capital to alleviate mental health problems in workplaces | Mental issues are increasingly affecting the corporate environments, and the current pandemic has exacerbated the issue, as reported by the World Health Organisation. With more cases of chronic stress and anxiety caused by the blurring line... |
| 18.06.2021 | Kyan Health secures capital to alleviate mental health problems in workplaces | |
| 02.06.2021 | Templates and tips for first-time founders and investors | There are many decisions made in the course of financing rounds. They concern the actual financing but also, for example, participation and information rights. This constitutes a challenge for first time founders. It takes a while before en... |
| 02.06.2021 | Templates and tips for first-time founders and investors | |
| 17.05.2021 | CareerLunch AG secures CHF 1.1 million for its European expansion | Traditional recruitment makes it challenging to assess a candidate’s cultural fit or give prospective hires much insight into their possible future work and colleagues. Co-founders Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov built CareerLunch to pa... |
| 17.05.2021 | CareerLunch AG secures CHF 1.1 million for its European expansion | |
| 11.05.2021 | How the Venturelab Challenge workshops help students and scientists start their own companies | How the Venturelab Challenge workshops help students and scientists start their own companies 11.05.2021 09:25, Isabelle Mitchell linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Over the last six weeks, more than 60 students, PhDs, postd... |
| 18.03.2021 | Wingman Ventures dedicates a fund to student investments | Wingman Ventures decided to support student entrepreneurs by launching a new investment program backing a total of 15 student teams per year at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne and the University of St.Gallen (HSG) at the earliest stages of their f... |
| 18.03.2021 | Wingman Ventures dedicates a fund to student investments | |
| 20.01.2021 | Archlet secures $2.8m to fuel its growth | Alongside Senovo and La Famiglia are further investors including Nicolaus Schefenacker, David Nothacker and Julius Köhler, the founders of unicorn start-up sennder. Existing investors Wingman Ventures, Flavio Pfaffhauser (Founder of Beekeep... |
| 20.01.2021 | Archlet secures $2.8m to fuel its growth | |
| 16.12.2020 | DePoly secures CHF 1.3 million pre-seed financing | |
| 16.12.2020 | DePoly secures CHF 1.3 million pre-seed financing | Alongside the lead investor Wingman Ventures, DePoly received contributions from Berlin-based Angel Invest Ventures, US-based Tiny VC and two seasoned executives from the chemicals industry. The company has previously obtained financial sup... |
| 04.11.2020 | UniSieve banks USD 4.6 million | The USD 4.6 Million investment in UniSieve consists of a financing round led by Wingman Ventures, a Venture Capital fund operating in Switzerland, the GREEN DEAL Grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC, previously known as SME Instr... |
| 04.11.2020 | UniSieve banks USD 4.6 million | |
| 20.10.2020 | New management at life sciences start-ups | |
| 20.10.2020 | New management at life sciences start-ups | Aktiia SA is a Swiss-US start-up developing an accurate, wrist-worn optical blood pressure monitor that can automatically take measurements 24/7. As the company rapidly approaches the commercial launch of its product, Aktiia welcomed Michae... |
| 09.10.2020 | Wingman Ventures closes Europe’s largest first Fund investing at seed-stage | |
| 09.10.2020 | Wingman Ventures closes Europe’s largest first Fund investing at seed-stage | Wingman Ventures was established in 2019 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs that had the goal to support startup founder teams in building globally leading technology companies from Switzerland. Besides providing them with funds and exp... |
| 30.06.2020 | Wingman Ventures leads funding round with European co-investors | Document and signature forgery is a massive problem. While it is very easy to manipulate documents, forge a signature or buy fake credentials online, verifying the authenticity of any piece of information is quite cumbersome and time-consum... |
| 30.06.2020 | Wingman Ventures leads funding round with European co-investors | |
| 12.05.2020 | Bring! to enter France and Italy after receiving CHF4 million | |
| 12.05.2020 | Bring! to enter France and Italy after receiving CHF4 million | Bring! Labs AG is the developer of the shopping app Bring!, which is used by millions of people for the planning of their grocery shopping. According to the company, this number is set to double in the coming years. |
| 14.04.2020 | Wingman Ventures leads CyanoGuard's seed round | Established in 2016 by Benedikt Kirchgässler (CEO) and Mathias Cherbuin (CTO), CyanoGuard is developing next-generation solutions that allow for safe and efficient cyanide detection, monitoring and optimization for industrial process contro... |
| 14.04.2020 | Wingman Ventures leads CyanoGuard's seed round | |
| 28.02.2020 | Wingman Ventures invests in Archlet | Founded by ETH Zürich alumni Jakob Manz, Lukas Wawrla and Tim Grunow, Archlet is a SaaS company offering cloud-based sourcing solutions to large enterprise clients and SMEs. Powered by advanced analytics and data science, Archlet scans thro... |
| 28.02.2020 | CHF 1.7m to boost Backbone’s success | It was while building an Art gallery project that Backbone’s co-founders, Antoine Tomasini, Federico Leis and Dorian de Vinck, realized the difficulty to book a photographer in a business context. “It is a market dominated by independent ph... |
| 28.02.2020 | Wingman Ventures invests in Archlet | |
| 28.02.2020 | CHF 1.7m to boost Backbone’s success | |
| 29.01.2020 | 9T Labs secures $4.3 million | Founded in 2018 by founded by Chester Houwink, Giovanni Cavolina and Martin Eichenhofer, 9T Labs developed a proprietary technology that provides a seamlessly integrated workflow to mass-produce industry-grade carbon fiber composite parts, ... |
| 29.01.2020 | 9T Labs secures $4.3 million | |
| 28.11.2019 | RoomPriceGenie raises CHF 1m round led by Wingman Ventures | |
| 21.11.2019 | “Netflix of games” raises USD 3M in a Series A funding round | |
| 21.11.2019 | Platform for casual games, AirConsole raises $3M in a Series A | The Series A funding round was led by Ringier Digital Ventures
AirConsole transforms any Laptop or AndroidTV into a video game console. Smartphones are used as gamepads.
AirConsole widely considered to be the “Netflix of games”
Funds will b... |
| 04.11.2019 | Wingman Ventures announces first closing of seed fund | |
| 30.06.2017 | „Wir konzentrieren uns voll auf die Beratung von Startups“ | |
| - | Automated pricing solution RoomPriceGenie raises $2.2 million | Swiss/German hospitality industry startup RoomPriceGenie has raised $2.2 million in new funding. The company helps independent businesses maximise revenues via automated pricing adjustments. To date, the firm has raised $3.3 million.
Founde... |
| - | Strong Network raises €5.1 million to curb data theft | Swiss SaaS startup Strong Network has raised €5.1 million to expedite its roll out in Europe and the U.S. The round was led by OpenOcean, and joined by Wingman Ventures.
The platform enables companies to protect against the ever-growing thr... |
| - | Swiss startup plugs in $700,000 to rollout AI-powered podcast player | The podcast industry shows no sign of slowing, with emarketer forecasting ad revenue to more than double and grow to $2.7 billion by 2025. The pandemic has lent a hand in accelerating growth in podcast listening and accounted for the steep ... |
| - | Swiss insurtech grape brings home €1.7 million to boost digital insurance and mental health benefits at work | Employee insurance is a standard for companies’ benefit packages across the world. The group insurances for health, accident and life has reached a market size of over $5 trillion in 2021. And though it’s a massive market, it’s one ripe for... |
