Spicehaus Partners AG is an independent Swiss venture capital investor, fully owned by its partners. We focus on early-stage companies in the technology sector in Switzerland.
Our team uniquely combines investment experience and entrepreneurship. We believe in creating long-term partnerships between entrepreneurs and investors. We actively work with our portfolio companies on their journey to success.
With our unique combination of entrepreneurship and institutional experience, we know what it takes to successfully build a start-up and actively support our portfolio companies.
We focus on real business models and entrepreneurs who want to build sustainably successful companies. Our focus lies primarily on B2B software and we invest after the first successful «proof of concept».
Our aim is to drive digital transformation in Switzerland and make Swiss technology companies internationally successful, thereby creating jobs and driving innovation in Switzerland.
We are grateful to work with so many successful founders and actively support our portfolio companies.
Since 2012, we have invested in 40 start-ups and were part of some of Switzerland’s most successful exits including MOVU (acquired by Baloise) and Bexio (acquired by Mobiliar). We have seen hundreds of pitchbooks and met hundreds of founders and entrepreneurs. Our experience allows us to identify the best teams and help them to grow.
The Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund was launched in 2019 and invests in technology companies in Switzerland. The current portfolio includes companies from the most innovative sectors such as fintech, proptech, big data, robotics and cybersecurity.
The Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund II completed its second investment into Caplena AG. Caplena is an ETH spin-off and offers an AI-powered SaaS solution for the automated analysis of customer feedback. Their solution helps companies to automatically analyze countless customer feedback from various sources to identify relevant topics and trends. Caplena’s software can analyze customer […]
read more
The Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund II completed its first investment into DAAV SA. DAAV is a spin-off of EPFL and offers a mobility solution to transport passengers with reduced mobility (PRM) at airports semi- or fully autonomously from the check-in to the respective gate. The mobility solution consists of a fully autonomous vehicle, the DAAV-air, […]
read more
We are delighted to welcome Erik Gunnervall, a highly experienced private markets expert, to our Advisory Board. Erik Gunnervall spent more than 21 years at Partners Group, where he was most recently Partner and Head Switzerland.
read more
We are happy to announce the first closing of our second fund, the Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund II. Investors include family offices, pension funds, asset managers and private individuals. Most investors were already invested in our first fund. With the successful launch of the Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund II, we are on track to reach […]
read more
