Core Angels
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Overview
COREangels is a global brand of hands-on angels, investing in early stage startups through local portfolio funds. Our funds invest in a portfolio selected by the angels from a pool of startups curated by the leaders. Our angels are doing an incredible job of contributing to their local communities by, not only investing their money in the next generation of entrepreneurs, but also mentoring them, with their experience and network. COREangel funds are co-investing cross borders, sharing good practices, tools and opportunities using one proven model that merges financial outcomes with angel involvement.
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Ex Nunc Intelligence
Participated · Seed · Jan 2026
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Ex Nunc Intelligence has built Silex, an AI legal-intelligence platform that interprets natural-language legal queries and returns documented answers grounded in authoritative legal sources. The company has created a proprietary legal intelligence stack that covers data ingestion, legal structuring, retrieval, reasoning, and generation, including its own AI models. Silex is already used by hundreds of law firms, notary offices, and corporate legal departments, demonstrating early market traction in the B2B legal sector. The product roadmap includes rolling out specialized AI agents tailored to individual legal domains and expanding the underlying legal knowledge infrastructure. Recent funding will accelerate these development efforts and support broader market rollout. Although still at the pre-revenue or undisclosed-revenue stage, the company’s adoption figures suggest growing demand for automated legal research solutions.
- hypt
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
hypt builds a proprietary word-of-mouth manager SaaS that helps enterprise customers systematically activate satisfied customers through real-time feedback collection, trustworthy online reviews and personal recommendations. The company focuses on enabling brands—especially in banking and insurance—to harness word-of-mouth as a growth channel. Since launch it has secured clients in Switzerland including UBS, Raiffeisen, die Mobiliar, Nestlé, Sanitas, PostFinance, CONCORDIA and ImmoScout24. Founded in May 2022 and based in Bern, hypt plans to use new funding to improve product development and drive growth in the DACH region. The product and go-to-market target enterprise needs for managing referrals and online reputation. Current financial details beyond the announced seed raise were not disclosed in the article. Hypt, founded in 2021 and based in Bern, provides a gamified chatbot solution that drives word-of-mouth in the app era. The software prompts users for feedback and the chatbot responds based on the rating, encouraging satisfied users to send editable "Personal Media Ads" recommending products, services, or advisors. Those ads include links that open webshops or landing pages and generate direct, measurable revenue. The company has secured enterprise customers including Rivella, Helvetia, Post, CSS and the Berner Kantonalbank, and reports roughly 50,000 users with a 40% recommendation rate. Hypt currently employs 13 people. The team plans to expand across the DACH region and enter the U.S. market within three years.
- Ethiack
Participated · Seed · Dec 2024
ETHIACK provides a SaaS cybersecurity platform that combines human ethical-hacking expertise with AI to perform Automated Continuous Pentesting, identify vulnerabilities, detect complex threats, assess attack surfaces, and produce compliance reports for regulations such as CRA, DORA and NIS2. The platform has tested over 150,000 digital assets and serves clients across nine countries. Founded in 2022 by André Baptista, Jorge Monteiro and Vitor Pinho, the company positions its product to both prevent cyberattacks and optimize clients' security costs and resources. ETHIACK plans to use new funding to enhance its Automated Continuous Pentesting technology and scale geographically. Target expansion markets include the UK, wider Europe, and potentially the US and the Middle East. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics beyond the recent funding.
- Strong by Form
Participated · Seed · Dec 2023
Strong by Form develops Woodflow, a digitally molded structural biomaterial made from wood residues (e.g., radiata pine, fir) combined with resin to produce pieces that the company says reach concrete-level strength at a fraction of the weight and using less wood than cross-laminated timber. Founded in 2018 in Santiago by Andrés Mitnik (CEO), Jorge Christie (CPO) and Daniel Del Río (CTO), the company operates a plant in La Reina with four robots and a laser cutter and employs about 25 people. Its technology has been used in real projects, including a balsa wood cladding installation in the departures hall of Quito airport. The new capital is intended to fund a pilot plant in Spain by late 2027 to scale toward industrial construction applications. Financially, Strong by Form completed a roughly $5M seed in 2023 and has now advanced the first tranche of its third round.
- Uelz
Participated · Equity · Oct 2023
Uelz Pay builds a payments platform that automates subscriptions and single payments across multiple gateways and methods (card, SEPA, bank transfers), allowing companies to automate recurring flows (fixed, variable, per-use, fractional). The product unifies payment plans and offers API integration or payment links so businesses can share invoices via social networks, WhatsApp or email. Uelz Pay provides transaction monitoring, sales metrics, secure data storage, and issues recoveries after transaction errors to significantly reduce default rates. The startup was founded in 2022 by María Luque and Xandra Etxabe after their prior international venture faced high fees and fragmented payment setups. Uelz Pay won South Summit 2023 and is focused on consolidating growth with new investment support. The company closed a new investment round of around €800k to accelerate adoption and make payment processes faster and more frictionless for each business.