Swisscom Ventures

What they do

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007. Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technical expertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services. Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

What they look for

Delivers returns and fosters innovation by investing across the full life cycle of high-potential startups, focusing on Swiss university spin-offs as well as North America, Europe, and Israel across domain expertise sectors like DeepTech, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and AI.

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sectors

AI, Climate, Deeptech, Edtech, SaaS, Fintech, Govtech and defence, Healthcare, Media, Cybersecurity

Based

Zürich, CH