Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Carewell operates a multi-platform software solution combining an internal staff-pool management module (Carewell Pool) and access to an external pool of qualified professionals (Carewell Work). Its platform uses an intelligent matching algorithm to let HR managers identify suitable candidates first from internal staff and then from external professionals. The service has been adopted by more than 50 healthcare institutions across Switzerland and targets a short-term healthcare recruitment market estimated at CHF 800 million nationally. The company highlights a projected shortage of 40,000 healthcare professionals by 2040 as part of the market need it addresses. Carewell has received non-dilutive support and awards including the PERL 2025 Trophy, CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick and a CHF 200,000 Digital Growth loan from the FIT. Following the CHF 1.5 million round led by StartAngels Network, the company plans to accelerate rollout and expand commercially and technologically, including a pilot in German-speaking Switzerland.

Led · Seed · Dec 2025

Ionic Wind is a St. Gallen–based spin-off from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) that creates cooling modules using high-voltage electric fields to move air without any mechanical parts. The solid-state design allows the cooling elements to be integrated directly into device housings, densely populated PCBs, or structural components, enabling quieter operation, higher reliability, and more compact product designs. Target applications include edge-AI systems, single-board computers, and industrial sensor modules that are bumping into thermal and spatial limitations with conventional fans. With fresh capital, the company plans to complete product certification, broaden its portfolio, and carry the solution through the final steps to market readiness. Mid-term, the technology could let hardware makers build more powerful, robust, and energy-efficient devices for the expanding edge-computing and industrial IoT markets. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

PeriVision’s core product, the VisionOne platform, fuses standard VR goggles with advanced artificial-intelligence algorithms to perform visual field examinations that are faster and more comfortable than traditional hospital equipment. Aimed at the world’s 100 million glaucoma patients, the system has already obtained certifications in the EU, the US and the UK, and its first product has been commercially launched. The company plans to broaden VisionOne with new tests for retinal disorders, add AI-driven analytics tools and build deeper clinical-integration solutions. Over the past three years, PeriVision has augmented its development with multiple non-dilutive supports, including EIT Health Wild Card, two Innosuisse project grants, FIT credit, and placements in Switzerland’s TOP100 Startups and Venture Leaders Medtech 2023. The startup is also taking part in Innosuisse Scale-up Coaching and the Biopôle Vanguard Accelerator. With the fresh capital, PeriVision intends to accelerate market expansion across Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom through 2025.

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.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Creaitor builds an AI-powered platform that covers the full content workflow from ideation to generation and optimization, with tools focused on blog posts and SEO-optimized articles. Its product includes a Blog Wizard that guides users step-by-step and features competitor analysis and SERP tools such as Beater. The platform supports content creation in over 40 languages and aims to help brands maintain a consistent voice across markets. Creaitor reports more than 200,000 registered users and has enterprise customers including KPMG, Goldbach, Raiffeisen and L'Oréal. The company plans to use new funding to further develop its content generation and optimization tools and to expand its market presence in Europe and beyond. Creaitor was founded in 2022 and is based in Luzern; Simon Funk is CEO and Michael McCrae joined the leadership team in 2023 to help scale the business.