Climb Ventures
Avenue de Sécheron 15, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
Overview
Climb Ventures was created in September 2020 by Dominique Pitteloud and Julien Monney. They are targeting founders with global ambitions and focus on ventures including growth to late-stage within sectors such as Digital Services, Consumer Internet, and Emerging Technologies. Climb Ventures has a primary focus on Switzerland, Europe and selectively in other markets.
- Total investments
- 4
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Investment portfolio
- FINN
Participated · Series B · May 2022
FINN operates a multi-brand car subscription service that lets customers subscribe to vehicles fully online with insurance, registration, taxes, and servicing bundled into a single monthly fee and flexible cancellation. The platform features more than 25 brands including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, BYD, and MG. FINN has grown rapidly since its 2019 founding in Munich, reaching over 50,000 active subscriptions and annual recurring revenue of more than €300 million. Reported revenue rose from €3.2 million in 2022 to €444 million in 2024, representing a two-year compound annual growth rate of 1,078%. The company employs roughly 484 people as of 2025 and plans to expand its subscription fleet, improve profitability, and continue enhancing its technology. FINN faces competition from players like Sixt+, Onto, and Free2Move and acknowledges macroeconomic sensitivity given subscription pricing versus traditional leasing.
- Talent.com
Participated · Series B · Mar 2022
Talent.com operates a next-generation job search platform that matches job seekers with relevant opportunities using proprietary technology and a pay-per-click model for recruiters. The platform is available in 78 countries and 29 languages and is designed to serve businesses of all sizes, including scaled solutions for SMBs. The company emphasizes programmatic, user-centric search to improve relevancy and efficiency for job seekers. Talent.com currently employs 400 people across eight offices globally. The company plans to use recent funding to expand its platform, hire new team members globally, invest in product development, further establish its brand, and scale its newest SMB solutions. Talent.com was co-founded by Maxime Droux, Lucas Martínez, and Benjamin Philion.
- Bitmovin
Participated · Series C · Apr 2021
Bitmovin builds cloud-native video infrastructure and developer tools for digital media companies and service providers. Its software-defined encoding service runs on any cloud platform and provides scalable media encoding, playback, and analytics features. The company supplies video developer tools used by major OTT providers including discovery+, fuboTV, DAZN, BBC, RTL, RedBull Media House, Globo, ClassPass and The New York Times. Led by CEO and founder Stefan Lederer, Bitmovin emphasizes product innovation and technology leadership in streaming. It maintains offices in San Francisco and Denver as well as internationally in Austria (Vienna, Klagenfurt), London, Berlin, Singapore and São Paulo. The company intends to use new funding to continue expanding its product and technology capabilities. Bitmovin is an Austrian multimedia company, now headquartered in San Francisco, that provides software-driven video streaming and OTT delivery technologies. It powers streaming services for customers including the BBC, fuboTV, Hulu Japan, RTL and iFlix. The company said the financing will be used to strengthen research and product development teams in Austria and to support sales and marketing investments to scale its distribution network. Bitmovin’s founding team contributed to modern video standards and the company emphasizes optimized, bandwidth-efficient, software-based delivery uncoupled from hardware. Financially, Bitmovin will receive up to €20 million in financing from the European Investment Bank, backed by the Juncker Plan. Bitmovin provides a developer- and API-focused platform for online video, including video compression, playback and analytics APIs. The company was founded by two creators of the MPEG-DASH streaming standard and targets TV streaming providers, internet companies and social media firms. Its technology roadmap includes AI-driven encoding, a video player that reduces page load time, and support for the royalty-free AV1 codec. Named customers include Sling, Periscope, The New York Times, ProSiebenSat.1, Red Bull Media House, FuboTV, RTL and iflix. Bitmovin plans to use new funding to scale product R&D, field engineering and sales teams worldwide to expand its global customer base. Financially, the company reported 3.5x revenue growth last year, expects similar growth this year, and has raised $43M in total to date. Bitmovin develops adaptive streaming and video-encoding software, including an HTML5 player that supports MPEG-DASH and HLS across desktop, mobile, Smart TVs and VR headsets. The company says its encoder produces output 100x faster and at higher quality than other services on the market. Its co-founders helped create the MPEG-DASH standard, which powers streaming on services like Netflix and YouTube and accounts for roughly 50% of peak U.S. internet traffic. Bitmovin already provides services for several recognizable names in the VR industry while maintaining significant work in traditional video streaming. Management intends to use new funding to accelerate development of its adaptive streaming technology for new mediums such as VR. The article frames Bitmovin’s product as addressing quality and device-mismatch issues as higher-resolution and diverse VR headsets enter the market.
- Kandou AI
Participated · Series C · Nov 2020
Kandou AI designs and delivers high-performance connectivity products and interconnect IP for datacenter infrastructure, AI and consumer electronics customers. The company reports over 20 million silicon units shipped using its technology. Recent engineering milestones include tapeout of its next-generation SerDes technology and growing momentum in its retimer product lines. Kandou AI has expanded its global engineering footprint with a new design center in Hyderabad, India, and has added industry veterans to its executive team. With the $225M Series A, the company plans manufacturing ramp-up for its AI connectivity chips and to accelerate its chip and IP portfolio. The company is led by Co-Founder and CEO Srujan Linga and is headquartered in Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland.