• KEMARO AG

  Led · Series B · Apr 2026

  Founded in 2016, KEMARO designs and sells autonomous industrial floor-cleaning robots tailored for complex, high-debris environments. Its flagship model, the K900, has helped the company sell over 1,500 robots to more than 600 industrial clients worldwide, including Unilever, Nestlé, BMW, and Amazon. KEMARO emphasizes a "Privacy by Design" approach—its robots do not collect visual data or use 360° cameras—to address industrial-espionage concerns. The company is expanding its product lineup with the compact K700, which has attracted strong pre-order interest and is intended for tighter industrial spaces. KEMARO has established a U.S. subsidiary, opened an Atlanta office, and is relocating a co-founder to drive North American go-to-market efforts. Financially, KEMARO announced a $5 million initial pre-closing of its Series B and is targeting a $20 million total Series B to fund international scaling and continued product development.

• Ex Nunc Intelligence

  Led · 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.

• Caplena

  Participated · Convertible Note · Jul 2024

  Caplena is a Zurich-based B2B SaaS provider of customer feedback and text analysis serving more than 170 clients worldwide and holding a leading position in the DACH region. Its platform combines proprietary generative-AI algorithms and third-party models to analyze survey responses and online reviews, automatically generating thematic categories and highly accurate classifications via a patented AI algorithm. The product consolidates feedback from multiple sources through APIs and integrations, offering automated analysis and interactive visualizations with multilingual support and machine translation for global use. Caplena is transitioning from a text-analysis tool into a broader feedback-insights platform that integrates open-text evaluation with numeric and categorical data across ingestion, curation and insight extraction. The company plans to use the new funding to professionalize its go-to-market and sales operations, expand marketing efforts and grow its customer base in the United States, where it has recently shown traction. Investor commentary in the coverage highlights high-quality revenue and strong customer satisfaction; the €3M financing via convertible notes is intended to support this next phase of growth. Caplena is an ETH Zurich spinoff that offers an AI-powered SaaS to analyse large amounts of free-text customer feedback. The product automatically identifies topics, auto-tags datasets and assigns sentiment to individual comments, drastically reducing manual categorisation time. The company has been revamping its AI engine to improve topic identification and per-comment topic sentiment. Caplena serves more than 100 active customers in 15 countries and says it has been doubling its customer base yearly. The startup is a team of ten and plans to use new funding to mature the product, expand its core technology and scale sales and marketing. Founders Maurice Gonzenbach and Pascal de Buren intend to bring the product to mid and large-sized companies globally.

• Drone Harmony AG

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

  Drone Harmony builds automation software for data-acquisition workflows in the commercial drone market, centered on an industry-leading 3D Flight Planning Engine. Its platform enables automated flight-plan generation, plan visualization, and flight execution, supporting recurring and scheduled BVLOS flights from remote command centers and use of low-oversight docking stations. The software is designed to scale drone-based data capture from small proofs of concept to large enterprise-wide operations. More than 200,000 drone flights take place annually using Drone Harmony's solution, and the company employs 20 people. Drone Harmony raised CHF2 million in a second financing to accelerate innovation, enhance product offerings, and expand into the US market. The company recently established a US presence and appointed a Chief Operations Officer for North America. Drone Harmony provides a market-first Full-3D Flight Planning Engine that automates mission planning, visualization and flight execution for commercial drone data acquisition. The platform comprises mobile and web applications plus an integrated cloud service designed for enterprise workflows and widely available off-the-shelf drones. Key capabilities include an automated mission planning feature that uses GIS, CAD and shape data to generate safe, optimized missions and unique terrain-aware surveys. The engine supports inspections of telecommunication towers, electric grids, railways, roads, pipelines, bridges and other complex infrastructure. The company is bootstrapped and currently plans and executes more than 150,000 drone flights globally each year; since 2016 customers have automated over 350,000 commercial drone flights. Recent funding will be used to accelerate innovation in its Full-3D products, execute its market strategy and expand its portfolio through strategic partnerships in the drone and infrastructure digitalization space.

• DAAV

  Led · Equity · May 2024

  DAAV develops DAAV-air, an AI-enabled mobility device designed to improve mobility services for persons with reduced mobility (PRM) in airport settings. DAAV-air features omni-directional motion and multiple smart modes to increase accessibility and flexibility while aiming to reduce operational costs for service providers. The company framed its mission as revolutionizing mobility services and enriching lives through more inclusive travel. DAAV said it will use the new capital to advance product development and expand pilot implementations globally. The company also plans to drive market entry initiatives to accelerate adoption in airports and related travel settings. DAAV recently closed its first funding round, raising CHF 1 million led by Spicehaus Partners AG with participation from kickfund, TR-Invest Thomas Rauber, and Dieter R. Streuli of Airline Assistance Switzerland.

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