Led · Series A · Mar 2024

Farie, founded in 2021 as a spinoff of Carvolution, operates farie.ch, an e‑commerce ecosystem for buying and selling used cars in Switzerland. The platform automates offer generation and price discovery and was initially used by Carvolution to dispose of fleet vehicles. Private owners can access Carvolution’s lifecycle management and digitalization expertise through the service. The Series A of CHF 4 million concludes the company’s incubation under Carvolution and establishes Farie as an independent entity. CEO Johannes Weirather says the new capital will accelerate expansion plans and enable exploration of new opportunities. The company plans to broaden its investor base in future financings.

Participated · Series D · Oct 2022

Carvolution operates a car-subscription (Auto‑Abo) service and is described in the article as the Swiss market leader in that segment. The company is an Oberaargau startup that uses fleet financing as a core part of its business model. It recently secured up to CHF 200 million in external financing to support growth. The funding package is asset-backed debt supplemented by a mezzanine facility. New lenders include the British bank Barclays and a mezzanine provision arranged with clients of Waterfall Asset Management. Carvolution says it will use the capital to expand its vehicle fleet, sustain its growth trajectory, and further build on achieved profitability. Carvolution is a Swiss car subscription platform that lets consumers choose a car on a monthly subscription instead of committing to purchase or lease. The service bundles insurance and maintenance to provide a one-stop solution for getting on the road. Carvolution describes itself as a next-generation mobility services provider. The company plans to use newly secured funds to expand its fleet of vehicles and accelerate growth. Financially, it has secured a €25 million working-capital facility and, including this facility, has raised approximately €69 million to date. Carvolution was founded in 2018 and counts investors such as Redalpine, Armada Ventures, Ringier Digital Ventures, Die Mobiliar, Francisco Fernandez, and Stefan Muehlemann among its backers. Carvolution operates a car subscription platform that lets customers select and book a car online, have it delivered, and pay a monthly fixed price that includes insurance, registration, taxes, maintenance and tyres. The company positions its offering as a full-service "carefree package," handling paperwork and providing customer support via its app. Led by CEO Olivier Kofler, Carvolution recently founded the subsidiary Farie AG earlier in the year. The company intends to use the new funds to further expand its core car subscription segment and to simplify buying and selling of used cars by shifting that process online. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Carvolution is a pioneer in the Swiss car-subscription market, providing subscription-based access to vehicles as an alternative to ownership or leasing. Founded in 2018, the company positions itself on simplicity, flexibility, and a digital customer experience. Management says the model responds to growing market demand, with experts forecasting car subscriptions could reach up to 40% market share by 2030. The business is capital-intensive and focused on scaling its offering and marketing to educate the Swiss market. Recent investors are expected to support expansion, product development, and go-to-market activities. Carvolution is a Swiss market leader in car-subscription (Auto-Abo) services. The company offers subscription-based access to cars and is expanding its offering to meet rising demand. To increase financial flexibility and support growth, CEO Olivier Kofler is pursuing external debt financing. Shareholder and insurer Mobiliar has granted a CHF50 million framework credit. Mobiliar had also participated in Carvolution's most recent equity round. Carvolution reported year-over-year growth of over 210% and will use the credit line to scale its services from its base in Bannwil (Bern).

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.

Participated · Series C · Oct 2021

SkyCell develops smart hardware and software for pharmaceutical cold-chain logistics, including insulated "smart containers" and a logistics platform called SkyMind. Its containers use machine learning and sensors to maintain strict temperatures, humidity levels, and vibration control, and the company has begun selling components such as its smart thermometer. SkyCell says its containers are on average about half as heavy as competitors’, which it equates to roughly 50% less CO2 from air transport. The company reports roughly 50% annual growth and moves about $2.5 billion worth of pharmaceutical products and ingredients per month. Customers include pharmaceutical companies and a large network of cargo partners. SkyCell plans to use the new funding to double down on work with companies operating in Asia and the U.S. SkyCell designs and manufactures insulated, “smart” transport containers for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, underpinned by roughly 140 patents. Its latest container version can maintain conditions for up to 180 hours and is paired with an analytics platform that provides recurring revenue and shipment monitoring. The company says it now transports $1.5 billion of pharmaceutical products each month (finished and raw materials), representing hundreds of millions of doses. After pandemic disruptions, SkyCell reports a return to a 40–50% growth rate. The firm is focused on sustainability, aiming to transition to a CO2-neutral supply chain and reduce industry waste tied to disposable solutions. SkyCell is 10 years old and is choosing to remain focused on pharmaceuticals rather than diversify into other temperature-sensitive markets like food. SkyCell designs and manufactures self-charging hybrid containers that maintain stable temperature conditions, deflect shock, and protect temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals on long journeys. Its containers include embedded IoT sensors and shipment monitoring software that provide worldwide tracking and near-real-time quality oversight. The startup positions its product to reduce risk in transporting biologics and other temperature-sensitive drugs. Following an investment by Lazard Asset Management, SkyCell says it is financially equipped to accelerate innovation and expand its global reach. The company emphasizes growth ambition as a global leader in temperature-controlled container solutions and a trusted partner to pharmaceutical companies worldwide. SkyCell develops smart containers and a SaaS solution (SECURE) to enable safe, secure, and sustainable transportation of temperature‑sensitive pharmaceuticals. Its hardware is designed to predict, reduce, and control risks associated with cold‑chain logistics while the SECURE platform provides end‑to‑end shipment oversight and automated approval capabilities. The company has expanded its global service footprint with new centers in locations including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seoul, Rome, Toronto, Tokyo, and Ireland. SkyCell significantly increased headcount (45% growth since its previous funding round in April 2020) and is focused on converting a growing pipeline of global pharma and biotech clients. The firm plans to use new funding to grow sales teams, further differentiate its hardware and SaaS offerings, and improve client experience to become a preferred distribution solution for the cold chain. SkyCell builds insulated, instrumented "smart containers" and a software platform to maintain strict temperature, humidity and vibration conditions for pharmaceuticals in transit. Its containers withstand temperatures from -35°C to 60°C and the hardware and software are covered by about 100 patents. The company operates a logistics network using some 22,000 air freight pallets and says its failure rate is under 0.1% while cutting CO2 emissions on a typical shipment by almost half. SkyCell works with eight of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies and is in validation trials with another seven. The company was founded in 2012 in Switzerland and counts customers involved in COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccine development among its clients. New capital will be used to expand in the U.S. and Asia and to double its fleet to become the largest pharmaceutical-transportation company globally.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2019

Nexxiot provides hardware and an intelligent cloud platform to digitize non-powered cargo transport assets such as railcars, intermodal and tank containers, sold via a flexible subscription model. Its devices are maintenance-free for a minimum of six years and carry HazLoc certification for dangerous industrial environments, including U.S. standards. The company’s solutions are deployed in more than 160 countries, operate across 450 network roaming partners, process over 1.2 billion data points per month and store data from more than 2.5 billion traveled miles. Nexxiot emphasizes Swiss quality, military-like data security, and an open ecosystem that supports integration of sensors and third-party devices. The company employs staff across 20 countries and operates in Germany and the USA in addition to its Switzerland headquarters. Nexxiot plans to use new funding to accelerate global growth and specifically expand in North America while further developing its technology. Nexiot is a spin-off from ETH Zurich founded in 2015. It builds a hardware and software solution for the logistics industry comprising a range of smart sensors, cloud infrastructure and a user-facing connectivity platform. The company is Zurich-founded and currently has offices in Hamburg, Germany, and Dallas, USA. Nexiot has raised €13 million in a Series B funding round. The startup plans to use the fresh funding to hire more people and kickstart international sales. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or a full investor list beyond those named.