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 · Jul 2020

Yamo produces fresher, healthier refrigerated baby meals and purees using high-pressure pasteurisation (HPP) to retain nutrients, taste and colour. Its products are sold online via a direct-to-consumer subscription model and through grocery retailers, including Coop in Switzerland and trials in select Edeka and Rewe stores in Germany. Yamo's items last between eight and 12 weeks when refrigerated, and it recently launched what it claims is the first non-dairy oat-milk yoghurt for kids in Europe. Founded in 2016 by Tobias Gunzenhauser, José Amado-Blanco and Luca Michas, the company was created in response to concerns about added sugar, salt and long shelf lives in conventional baby foods. With the new funding, Yamo plans to expand into France and to introduce additional food products for children. The company positions homemade baby food and incumbent baby-food brands as its main competitors and notes the retail challenge of securing refrigerated placement. yamo is a Swiss, vertically integrated baby-food brand that controls recipe development, production, and online sales. It produces fresh, natural organic baby food and leverages innovative high-pressure preservation (HPP) technology to preserve vitamins, taste, and original colours. The company was founded in 2017 by Tobias Gunzenhauser, José Amado-Blanco and Luca Michas. Its products are available in large retailers. yamo plans to use new funding to strengthen its brand presence in Germany and Austria and to bring solid food and snacks to market. The article reports the company raised a low seven-digit funding round.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2020

Archilyse provides data-analytics driven tools that make architecture and real estate quality digitally and objectively measurable, producing qualitative KPIs to support decisions and optimise processes across the real estate value chain. The company positions its product to deliver comparable and understandable metrics for a wide set of real estate stakeholders. In 2020 Archilyse planned continued extension of its product offering and the launch of an easy-to-use web application. The company also intended to intensify market expansion with a focus on the DACH region, the Nordics, the UK and selected APAC destinations. Prior fundraising rounds in 2017 and 2018 totaled CHF 1.2 million; the current Series A first closing and follow-on bring the round to CHF 4.0 million. Archilyse is headquartered in Zurich.

Led · Series A · Nov 2019

N-Dream develops AirConsole, a cloud OTA in-car game aggregation platform that runs casual games inside vehicles, using smartphones as controllers and integrating with car displays, sound and interior lighting. The company emphasizes onboard execution rather than cloud streaming to avoid heavy mobile bandwidth requirements. AirConsole offers over 180 games and reports over 16 million players connected on 300 million TVs and set-top boxes worldwide, with some PC/Mac usage via a web portal. Revenues grew from CHF 0.784 million in 2020 and CHF 0.865 million in 2021 to CHF 1.99 million as of December 2022. N-Dream has partnered with BMW (extended to MINI) and is working with Sony Pictures Entertainment on a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire title slated for 2024. Following a successful BMW launch, the company has shifted focus toward the automotive industry to scale its in-car gaming offering. AirConsole provides a browser-based platform that turns any laptop or AndroidTV into a video game console with smartphones serving as gamepads, requiring no downloads or extra hardware. Over four years the platform attracted a community of 5 million players and supported more than 150 games developed by 4,000+ developers. In 2019 players from over 180 countries logged more than 1 million hours of play on airconsole.com. The company says it solved cross-device latency with an ultra-low latency input mechanism that makes reactions in fast games effectively instant. AirConsole plans to expand its content library to AndroidTV and pursue partnerships with TV operators and manufacturers to pre-install or distribute the service. The team aims to bring AirConsole to every home with a TV and is initially targeting AndroidTV set-top boxes, citing Swisscom’s pre-installation on 1.5 million SwisscomTV boxes as an early distribution win. AirConsole is a virtual gaming console that uses a PC, Mac, SmartTV or tablet as the screen and smartphones as adaptive gamepads; smartphones automatically adapt to each game's control scheme. Players only need a big screen and a smartphone, and all devices must be connected to the internet (not necessarily the same Wi‑Fi). N-Dream launched AirConsole with six games developed in-house and aims to encourage third‑party game studios to port browser and Unity3D games to the platform. The company emphasizes bringing real social, in-room multiplayer gaming back to life rather than solitary online play. N-Dream is based in Zurich and was founded in January 2015. The articles report that the company had raised CHF 1.35 million from investors.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2019

Skoove is a Berlin-based piano e-learning platform that provides interactive guidance and feedback via an app (iOS and browser) to help users develop piano and keyboard skills. Founded in 2014 by Dr. Florian Plenge and Stephan Schulz, the company offers 13 different courses, hundreds of popular tracks, and instruction in music theory, composition and freestyle playing. Users across 211 countries have taken more than 1 million lessons on Skoove. The team currently consists of 20 people. Skoove raised €3M in funding from Caparuca, MGO Digital Ventures, Ringier Digital Ventures and existing investors Egora Holding, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The company intends to use the funds to further develop its technology and didactics and to grow its customer base, especially in North America and Europe. Skoove is a Berlin-based piano learning platform that provides professional online piano training. The company was co-founded in August 2014 by Dr Florian Plenge and Stephan Schulz and launched its web service in 2015. Since launch it has delivered over 200,000 piano lessons to users across 187 countries. In conjunction with its funding the company launched an iOS app on 8 March 2017, available free on iPad. Skoove is supported globally by the Microsoft Ventures Alumni Program. The company raised capital to scale operations. Skoove offers interactive, software-driven online piano lessons that connect a keyboard or e-piano to a computer and deliver real-time feedback that adapts to students' pace. The platform targets primarily beginner piano students aged 12 and older and runs in any web browser with a USB-connected keyboard or e-piano. Its curriculum, developed and curated by Dominik Schirmer (formerly a lecturer at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), incorporates popular music and games that teach music theory and note reading. Public beta sign-up is free and available on the Skoove homepage. A version for acoustic pianos that uses devices' internal microphones is in development and slated for release later that year. Skoove was founded in August 2014 by Stephan Schulz and Florian Plenge and is a graduate of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, supported by the Microsoft Ventures Alumni program.