Helvetia
Dufourstrasse 40, St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, 9001, Switzerland
Overview
Helvetia is active in the life, property and casualty, and reinsurance business.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Health Insurance
- Insurance
- Risk Management
Investment portfolio
- Napo
Participated · Series B · Feb 2025
Napo operates a digital-first pet insurance platform that offers lifetime coverage including dental care, 24/7 vet access, behavioural consultations, and preventive care. Its platform reduces administrative costs and processes claims through an online system, and it offers multi-pet discounts to encourage larger household bundles. The company emphasizes AI-driven claims handling combined with human expertise to increase efficiency and empathy. Napo reports an NPS of 70+ and standout Trustpilot reviews as indicators of customer satisfaction. The business model focuses on controlling the full value chain to deliver seamless experiences for pet parents. The new funding will be used to strengthen AI and automation capabilities, drive market share growth, grow the team, and support geographic expansion; to date Napo has raised approximately £30M. Napo combines pet insurance with preventative health and education services aimed at improving pet wellbeing. Its offerings include 24/7 online vet consultations, obesity awareness resources and expert-led live classes for puppy training. The company launched last December and claims to have insured over 35,000 pets in the year since launch. Napo emphasizes owner education and preventative care as a route to better pet health and lower claims. Leadership says the model aligns stakeholders to reduce claims, lower premiums and increase customer satisfaction. The business has just completed a £15 million Series A to support growth and product expansion.
- Flitter
Led · Seed · Nov 2023
Flitter offers a digital, usage-based pay-by-mile car insurance product that can deliver up to 50% annual savings for customers and provides high coverage with digital-first customer support. The company has built a connected-car offering that lets vehicles with embedded communication systems report mileage automatically. Founded in 2022 in Paris by Hajer Gorgi, Jérémy Steinberg, and Arnaud Dumora, Flitter has tripled its policyholder base to over 30,000 customers in the past year. The startup emphasizes cost-efficient innovation and aims to reach profitability by the end of 2024. With the new funding, Flitter plans to double its team to about 40 employees and bolster its tech, operations, and customer-service functions. The company positions itself as an alternative to traditional car insurers by targeting changing mobility habits of French households.
- Skribble
Participated · Series A · Sep 2022
Skribble provides electronic signature services that cover all e-signature standards, including the qualified electronic signature (QES), and emphasizes legal validity and data protection. The company says its service delivers a seamless user experience for contracts, delivery notes, tenders and other documents and positions itself as a convenient signature service. It claims to be the leading Swiss provider of electronic signatures and cites corporate clients such as DATEV, easyJet, SBB and international auditing firms. More than 3,000 companies from over 30 countries have digitized signing processes with Skribble, and the service is actively used in 140 countries. Founded in March 2018, Skribble operates offices in Zurich and Karlsruhe. The firm plans to use new funding to expand its Karlsruhe office, solidify its position in the DACH region, enter additional European markets, and enhance product development. Skribble is a Swiss TrustTech company offering electronic-signature software combined with a fully digital identity‑verification process that consolidates E‑IDs from providers and brokers across Europe. The service couples e‑signatures with E‑IDs to achieve signatures with high probative value suitable for contracts with legal form requirements or high liability risk. Skribble has implemented end‑to‑end digital signing processes for use cases such as occupational pension and plans further applications; notable customers and partners include Helvetia and Mobiliar. The company uses integration of E‑IDs (including SwissID) as a core feature and will expand support for more E‑IDs. Proceeds from its recent financing will be directed toward market expansion into Germany and additional European markets and toward integrating further E‑IDs. Employees also participated in the round and earlier investors from a May 2019 financing, including Zürcher Kantonalbank and btov Partners, reinvested. Skribble offers an e-signing platform that enables electronic documents to be signed simply and legally using the qualified electronic signature (QES). The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland and Karlsruhe, Germany and was founded in March 2018. Skribble has a team of 14, including co-founders Philipp Dick (CEO), Michel Fernandez (CXD), Roni Oeschger (CTO), Waldemar Dick (CSO) and David Fürsinger (CXE). Existing customers include the Canton of Fribourg. The company secured €1m in funding and says the capital will be used to expand its e-signing solution. No revenue or user metrics are disclosed in the article.
- Coinscrap
Led · Equity · Aug 2021
Coinscrap provides a white‑label platform for micro‑savings and personal‑finance planning that uses automated saving rules and behavioral‑economics principles for banks and insurers. The company is led by David Conde, Óscar Barba and Juan Carlos López. With this product strategy Coinscrap has closed commercial agreements with Banco Santander and Mutualidad de la Abogacía. The firm reported that 2020 revenue was 3.5x higher than in 2019, demonstrating material topline growth. Coinscrap says the new funding will be used to consolidate its position in the micro‑savings category and begin international scaling. The startup has also received industry recognition, including the Titán de las Finanzas 2020 and a “Best Financial Management Platform” award from Faster Community. Coinscrap offers a solution intended to make saving money engaging rather than tedious. The company was one of the startups selected by accelerator Bbooster Ventures in an October 2018 cohort. Bbooster deployed a total of €300,000 across Coinscrap, Discocil and Usizy as part of that program. Coinscrap and the other selected startups were reviewed by national investors Kfund, Nekko, Faraday and Bankinter and by international investors Redstone, Join Capital and DraperSprit. The startups were presented at an event hosted by B‑Venture and Biscay Bay Startup Campus. The article does not disclose founding year, location, equity stakes or operating metrics for Coinscrap.
- Baufi24
Led · Series A · May 2021
Baufi24 operates a digital platform and networked brokerage for home finance, building society savings and loans, comparing offers from some 450 banks. The company started in 2006 as a search engine for construction finance and has expanded into personal advisory services. It combines its digital offering with about 60 franchise-operated branches that provide on-site and video advice. The group includes consumer brands Baufi24, Kredit24 and LoanLink24 as well as the B2B unit FinLink. Baufi24 employs roughly 100 people across Hamburg, Berlin, Mannheim and Munich. The company plans to use new funds to expand its market position, further develop its technology and grow its branch network throughout Germany.