Founderful

Founderful is a Swiss venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed investments in technology startups. The firm focuses on sectors such as robotics, industrial automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, clean tech, climate tech, and construction tech. It aims to support ambitious founders in building global market leaders from Switzerland.

The firm's investment strategy involves leading the first financing rounds for startups, providing initial investments ranging from CHF 100,000 to CHF 1.5 million. Founderful has a track record of supporting exceptional founders in creating breakthrough companies, with a portfolio that includes companies like Wingtra, DePoly, and Corintis. The firm has made nearly 50 investments over the past four years, with Fund I deploying $60 million into 40 startups.

Founderful's approach is founder-focused, offering hands-on support and operational guidance from experienced entrepreneurs. The firm works closely with academia and industry to boost the new generation of technology leaders, with many of its portfolio founders coming from universities and research institutions like ETH Zurich through the Founderful Campus program. The firm aims to continue investing in the most ambitious founder teams each year as their lead investor for their first financing round.