Swiss Startup Mafia Map
In our interview with smallpdf CEO Dennis Just we talked about the DeinDeal Mafia, which, though on a much smaller (Swiss) scale, reproduced the PayPal phenomenon. Ever since then, the same question has been popping up in our head time and time again: what other Swiss startup mafias are out there?
As stated by Swisspreneur chairman and serial entrepreneur Alain Chuard, this infographic shifts the focus from input analyses (e.g., how much VC money is invested in Swiss startups) to an outcome analysis, painting a far more accurate picture of the health of the Swiss ecosystem.
Eventually, we gave in to our curiosity and fell down a dizzying LinkedIn rabbit hole — and this is the result*!
Swiss Startup Mafias
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The DEIN DEAL Mafia
Dein Deal
Dein Deal is an e-commerce company that sells a variety of products such as travel goods and home goods.
Founding Year
2010
Founders
Adrian Locher, Alexandre Branquart, Amir Suissa, Dario Fazlic, Flavio Rump, Julian Teicke, Lucas Vogelsang, Maximilian Rofagha
Startups
42hacks
https://www.42hacks.com/
42hacks accelerates real change for climate through untapped human potential.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Hermann Arnold, Marc Stoffel, Christoph Forsting
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AirGateway
https://airgateway.com/
AirGateway is a facilitator for the IATA NDC (New Distribution Capability) age in the air travel distribution industry.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Jorge Díaz
Altoida
https://altoida.com
Creating a New Gold Standard in Brain Health With Precision Neurology.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Adrian Locher, Fabian Wahle, Ioannis Tarnanas, Maximilian Bügler, Richard Fischer
Avrios
https://www.avrios.com/
Avrios is an award-winning fleet management software.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Andreas Brenner, Andreas Brenner, Robin Guldener, Roger Jäggi
Carvolution
https://www.carvolution.com/en
A car subscription alternative to buying or leasing.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Luis Wittwer, Léa Miggiano
Centrifuge
https://centrifuge.io
Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Lucas Vogelsang, Markus Ament, Martin Quensel, Philip Stehlik
Certifaction
https://certifaction.io/
Certifaction provides eSigning with privacy.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Benoit Henry, Emeka Mosanya, Fabian Mösli, Lukas Karth
Dini Chance
https://dinichance.ch/
DiniChance.ch is an e-commerce platform for cosmetics, restaurants, leisure, and travel products.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Antonio G.
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EMPAUA
https://www.empaua.com/
Salesforce Solutions for Hypergrowth Companies.
Founding year
2014
Founders
David Padilla, Gonzalo Abruna, Jonathan Seoane, Julian Teicke, Malte Warczinski, Nicklas Teicke
Evulpo
https://evulpo.com/
Evulpo is a free learning website that provides an instructional videos, summaries, and practice units for curriculum-related topics.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Christian Marty, Jonas Fehlmann, Manuel Kant
Finimize
https://www.finimize.com
Finimize is on a mission to empower its users to become their own financial advisers.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Maximilian Rofagha
Immozins
https://immozins.ch
Immozins is a real estate investment company.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Igor Brestovac
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Lend
https://lend.ch
LEND operates as a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects investors with borrowers.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Andy Siemers, Florian Kübler, Michel Lalive d'Epinay, Tom Stierli
Lohncheck
https://lohncheck.ch/de
Lohncheck specializes in the statistical calculation of wages and analyzes your salary using the most up-to-date data sets.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Tobias Egli
Merantix
https://www.merantix.com
Merantix is a research lab and venture studio in the space of artificial intelligence.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Adrian Locher, Rasmus Rothe, Sona Chandra
Numbrs
https://www.numbrs.com
Numbrs is a customer-centric financial services company that enables customers to manage their existing bank accounts and personal finances.
Founding year
1999
Founders
Boris Manhart, Martin Saidler
Online Recruiter
https://online-recruiter.ch/
Online Recruiter helps companies to reduce costs in the application process, simplify access to top candidates and at the same time strengthen employer branding even further.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Pradhees Pushparaj, Philipp Bürgi
Schlaufux
https://www.schlaufux.ch
Schlaufux is the Swiss learning platform for schoolchildren from the 5th grade.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Dr. Christian Marty, Manuel Kant, Jonas Fehlmann
Smallpdf
https://smallpdf.com
Smallpdf is the first PDF software you will actually like.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Manuel Stofer
SwissCommerce
https://swiss-commerce.ch/
SwissCommerce establishes or takes over e-commerce companies in emotional, specialized markets and develops them into market leaders in their field.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Peter Schuepbach
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Trekksoft
https://www.trekksoft.com/
The leading booking solution for Tour and Activity Companies.
Founding year
2010
Founders
Jon Fauver, Philippe Willi, Valentin Binnendijk
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crowdhouse
https://crowdhouse.ch/
Crowdhouse stands for a transparent, efficient and easily accessible real estate market: it has never been easier to buy and sell multi-family houses in sole or co-ownership.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Ardian Gjeloshi, Francisco Fernandes, Robert Plantak, Ruedi Baer
poinz
https://www.poinz.ch
Poinz connects local businesses with your clientele - via smartphone.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Nicolas Egger, Robert Blum
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rready
https://www.rready.com/
rready provides an end-to-end solution for employee engagement, idea management and idea execution.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Dave Hengartner, Ralph Hartmeier, Reto Wenger, Vinzenz Leuenberger
wefox
https://www.wefox.de
wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Dario Fazlic, Fabian Wesemann, Jonathan Seoane, Julian Teicke, Teodoro Martino
The foodpanda Mafia
foodpanda
foodpanda is a online food delivery marketplace that enables users to place orders at local restaurants via its website or mobile app.
Founding Year
2012
Founders
Benjamin Bauer, Christian Mischler, Felix Plog, Kiren Tanna, Ralf Wenzel, Rico Wyder, Rohit Chadda, Simon Schmincke
Startups
AirConsole (N-Dream AG)
https://www.airconsole.com
AirConsole is an online video game platform that transforms the browser into a video game console and the smartphones into gamepads.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Andrin von Rechenberg
Antler
https://www.antler.co/
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that builds and invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Avinash Uddaraju, Daniel O'Donnell, Dilan Mizrakli Landgraff, Fridtjof Berge, Jussi Salovaara, Magnus Grimeland, Shannon Bender, Stefan Jung, Vegard Medbo, Marco Cesare Solinas
Bring!
https://www.getbring.com
Bring! is a simplify grocery shopping for millions of people.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Dominic Mehr, Marco Cerqui, Sandro Strebel
Bullfinch
https://www.bullfinch.com/
Bullfinch is a climate fintech company.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Robin Haack
Casavo
https://casavo.com
Casavo is a digital residential platform that is redesigning the experience of selling and buying homes in Europe.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Giorgio Tinacci
Eastern Spectrum
https://www.easternspectrum.com/
Eastern Spectrum Group Co., Ltd. is Thailand’s pioneer fully integrated cannabis plant cultivators, offering high quality medical-grade and consumer hemp-derived cannabinoid products.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Somil Sawansuk, Pitchayatorn Paha, Thanisorn Boons, Calvin Chen
Flagship Founders
https://flagshipfounders.de/
Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Fabian Feldhaus, Malte Cherdron
GotCourts
https://www.gotcourts.com
GotCourts is an online booking platform for tennis, badminton, paddle, and table tennis courts.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Diego Seitz
GuestReady
https://www.guestready.com
GuestReady is a platform for real estate management with a focus on short-term rentals.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Alexander Limpert, Bertrand Desies, Christian Mischler, Idzwan Tan, Lou Chan, Patrick Degen, Wen Dee Tan
Scaling Spaces
https://www.scalingspaces.com/
Scaling Spaces offers innovative office solution for freelancers, early stage start-ups, and sophisticated corporates.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Martin Ballweg
Spoonshot
https://spoonshot.com/
Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Kishan Vasani
Swiss Founders Fund
https://www.sff.vc
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in Switzerland.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Christian Mischler, Patrick Degen
Uniseminar
https://www.uniseminar.ch
Uniseminar provides seminar and training services at for universities.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Tim Ruffner
The Unic Mafia
Unic
Unic is a leading European provider of integrated e-business solutions.
Founding Year
1996
Founder
Patrick Barnert
Startups
Active Rock
https://activerock.com/
Active Rock is a technical sports socks brand. Designed by athletes to deliver comfort, safety & durability, specific to each sport.
Founding year
2023
Founders
Laurent Christen
Axelra
https://www.axelra.com/
Axelra is an IT company that designs, develops, offers and tests MVP for startups and corporates.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Dr. Thomas Bocek, Lucas Pelloni, Peach Zwyssig
Campanda
https://www.campanda.de/
Campanda is the exclusive marketplace for recreational vehicle rental.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Chris Möller
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Cook Eat
https://cookeat.ch/
CookEat is your marketplace for home-cooked food.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Matthew Brandt
Dark Studio
https://darkstudio.com/
Dark Studio is a venture studio for tech-enabled start-ups.
Founding year
2023
Founders
Laurent Christen
Digital Innovation Lab
https://diginlab.com/
Digital Innovation is a company which offers Digital Transformation, Business Model Generation & Software Engineering services.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Christoph Camenisch, Michael Hählen, Christian Wittwer, Tom Röthlisberger
Embley
https://embley.com/
Embley is a unique Marketplace Automation Platform that helps merchants and sellers to market and sell products better and faster.
Founding year
2023
Founders
Eusebio Trigo Vicente, Laurent Christen
Espoto
https://espoto.com
Espoto is a privately held company that develops apps for mobile applications in the field of "mobile serious game".
Founding year
2013
Founders
Chris Möller
Exense
https://www.exense.ch/
Exense is a software vendor company active in the fields of test automation, performance monitoring and analytics.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Jérôme Comte, Céline Kahn
Fashion Days
https://www.fashiondays.com/
Fashion Days is a fashion website offering products and daily advice. Acquired by
Founding year
2009
Founders
Jan Vichr, Markus Okumus
Foryouand yourcustomers
https://foryouandyourcustomers.com
foryouandyourcustomers advises and designs an integral view and comprehensive knowledge of digital possibilities.
Founding year
2010
Founders
Jonathan Möller
Livealytics
https://www.livealytics.com/
Engagement and performance analytics for live marketing, trade shows and retail.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Simon Tuck, Marco Eberhard
Maatoo
https://maatoo.io/
maatoo.io boosts your online shop's revenue with smart automations in a breeze.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Christoph Camenisch, Niklaus Jonas Moser, Simon Balz, Tom Roethlisberger
Meridium Partners
https://www.meridium.ch/
Meridium Partners helps their clients to assess the option of a company sale or a secondary transaction, exploit value potentials, develop a compelling equity story, identify and engage potential buyers and manage the sale process until signing and beyond
Founding year
2006
Founders
Heiner Grüter
Mineko
https://www.mineko.de
PropTech & LegalTech Startup specialised in checking rental side costs and services around rental side costs.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Chris Möller
Product Academy
https://www.productacademy.ch/
Product Academy empowers product people to explore their full potential.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Tanja Lau
Rentouch
https://www.rentouch.ch/
Rentouch - Swiss enterprise software company that develops products geared towards e-collaboration. It is best known for the piplanning app.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Raphael Vincent Sigg
Signifikant
https://www.signifikant.com/
Signifikant empowers marketers to improve their advertising effectiveness.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Esther Cahn
SunaCare
https://www.sunacare.de/
SunaCare specializes in the nationwide placement of private nurses from the (adjoining) EU-countries.
Founding year
2011
Founders
Daniel Schlör, Diana Schlor, Chris Möller
students.ch
https://www.students.ch/
Students.ch is the leading online platform for students in Switzerland.
Founding year
1998
Founders
Jan Vichr, Markus Okumus
The Namics Mafia
Namics
Namics provides customers with holistic support in their digital transformation.
Founding Year
1995
Founder
Andreas Göldi
Startups
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Apilio
https://www.apilio.com/
Apilio is a home automation platform that helps you connect and control smart devices from almost any brand out there.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Philipp Ebneter
BrainE4
https://braine4.com/
BrainE4 has developed the scientific method of swarm dialogue together with the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland OST and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in order to make swarm intelligence usable for humans.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Andreas Seonbuchner
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Freshjobs
https://freshjobs.ch/en/
Freshjobs is a job platform for jobs in the web environment.
Founding year
2011
Founders
Karin Christen and Stefan Velthuys
Frontify
https://www.frontify.com/en/
Frontify is a cloud-based brand management platform for creators and collaborators of brands, connecting everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Roger Dudler
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GotCourts
https://www.gotcourts.com
GotCourts is an online booking platform for tennis, badminton, paddle, and table tennis courts.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Diego Seitz
Impact Founders Club
https://www.impactfoundersclub.com/
Impact Founders Club is a startup studi which supports entrepreneurs in creating startups that have a positive impact in the world.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Andreas Fischler
No Bullsh!t
https://nobullshit.care/
Honest Cosmetics. All Natural. Bio. Vegan. Swiss Made.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Nicole Blum
OneTwenty
https://onetwenty.ai/
OneTwenty is a stealth mode health tech startup that helps people with diabetes life sustainably healthier.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Julian Stiels, Michael Rottmann
PopUp Piazza
https://www.popuppiazza.com/
PopUp Piazza is a startup that offers modular, urban and sustainable PopUp Piazzas. A PopUp Piazza consists of various outdoor furniture elements for trees, plants and animals as well as seating for people.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Andreas Fischler, Roman Zollet
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Squirro
https://squirro.com/
A visionary insight engine connecting all data with the user's intent and context via augmented intelligence solutions.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Dorian Selz, Felix Hürlimann, Patrice Neff, Toni Birrer
TestingTime
https://www.testingtime.com
TestingTime is an automated recruiting service of test users for usability tests, interviews, workshops, focus groups and surveys.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Oliver Ganz, Rahel Vils, Reto Laemmler
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Uplyfe
https://uplyfe.io/
Revolutionizing self-care for healthy and chronically ill users since 2016.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Michael Rottmann
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eXaminer
https://www.examiner.ch/
eXaminer is a cloud-based exam platform for both online and paper exams.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Pascal Bischof
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newhome
https://www.newhome.ch
One of the leading Swiss real estate portals.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Jean-Pierre Valenghi
prepared
https://www.prepared.app/
Prepared's mission is to provide medical professionals with intelligent solutions to overcome barriers towards excellence.
Founding year
2020
Founders
André Schraner
The tilllate Mafia
Startups
8returns
https://www.8returns.com/
8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Amin Ben Said
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Bontique
https://bontique.ch
Your partner for customized corporate checks and emotional employee gifts.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Roman Ackermann
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Eveni.to
https://evenito.com/
The all-in-one event management software for personalised & branded guest experiences.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Markus Popp
Juubel
http://juubel.com
Juubel provides free mobile apps to sports clubs and creates a new revenue stream. Monetization with Advertising, Merchandising, online Shop, Cashback etc.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Cihan Kuekmen
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Malindo
https://www.malindo.de/
We provide processes and a technological solution that connect goods directly to consumers, cutting out all middlemen and increasing recovery value for retailers, while giving consumers great deals and reducing environmental waste.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Amin Ben Said
Medison
https://medison.ch
Medison is an impact-driven technology company on a mission to support medical professionals on their career journey.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Pascal Wacker
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Mühlemann & Popp
https://muehlemann-popp.ch
We develop digital business models with startups, KMUs and large companies.
Founding year
2010
Founders
Markus Popp
Numarics
https://www.numarics.com/
Numarics® is Switzerland’s first 100% digital accounting ecosystem, with a consistent mobile-first approach.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Dominique Rey, Kristian Kabashi
PerfectHair
https://www.perfecthair.ch/
Perfecthair.ch offer you the widest selection of professional hair and beauty products.
Founding year
2007
Founders
Matthias Müller
Quandoo
https://www.quandoo.com/
Quandoo connects restaurants and diners through a seamless reservation system.
Founding year
2012
Founders
Antoine Martin, Anton Rummel, Daniel Glasner, Karin Lems, Konrad Perenyi, Philipp Magin, Ronny Lange, Sebastian Moser, Tim-Hendrik Meyer, Cihan Kuekmen
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Shubidu
https://www.shubidu.com/
Die innovative Familienkalender-App aus der Schweiz.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Sonia Eterno
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Sobrado
https://landing.sobrado.ch/
We connect brokers and insurers. For faster, safer and reliable business processes.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Markus Popp
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Swiss QualiQuest
https://swissqualiquest.ch/
An online tool to obtain, process and implement feedback.
Founding year
2015
Founders
André Glauser
hairbooster
https://hairbooster.ch/
hairbooster is a Swiss medical practice with focus on hair loss and hair problems. Offer: hair transplantation, PRP...
Founding year
2020
Founders
Cihan Kuekmen
The Doodle Mafia
Doodle
Doodle is the simplest way to schedule meetings and events.
Founding Year
2007
Founders
Michael Näf and Paul Sevinç
Startups
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Amazee Holding
https://amazee.com/
Amazee Group is a global team of 3 companies each specialising in a form of digital conversion; performance marketing, experience design, and open source web operations.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Michael Schmid
Frontify
https://www.frontify.com/en/
Frontify is a cloud-based brand management platform for creators and collaborators of brands, connecting everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Roger Dudler
Glassfy
https://glassfy.io/
The Glassfy App Revenue Management Platform helps engineering and growth teams build predictable revenue streams from their apps.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Alex Kudelka, Marco Pifferi
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Ledgy
https://ledgy.com/
Ledgy makes your equity plans scalable, compliant in all countries, integrates with your existing systems and comes with enterprise-ready security and privacy.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Yoko Spirig
LinkFive
https://www.linkfive.io/
Modern & Smart App Subscription Management
Founding year
2020
Founders
Alexander Thiele, Malte Schiebelmann
Meekan
http://meekan.com/
Meekan builds a robot assistant. You communicate with him through your team’s Instant messenger (Slack, HipChat) in plain English, and ask him to perform tasks.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Eyal Yavor, Lior Yavor, Matty Marianksy
SOLcollab
https://www.solcollab.com/
SOLcollab provides integrated climate intelligence for resilient supply chains in the forest, land and agriculture sector.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Roman Suleiman
.avif)
Sherpany
https://www.sherpany.com/en/
Sherpany helps leaders and their companies to increase meeting productivity
Founding year
2010
Founders
Mathias Brenner, Nathanael Wettstein, Roman Bühler, Tobias Hackermann
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Testing Time
https://www.testingtime.com/en/
Carefree test user recruiting.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Reto Lämmler
.avif)
Übermorgen
https://www.uebermorgen.vc/
We are an early stage venture capital firm for climate tech startups.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Adrian Bührer
The MOVU Mafia
MOVU
MOVU is the largest moving platform in Switzerland.
Founding Year
2014
Founder
Laurent Decrue
Startups
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Aroov
https://aroov.ch/
Aroov connects tenants and managers with a holistic solution - and accompanies them step by step through the entire tenant cycle.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Matthias Frieden
.avif)
Creadi
https://www.creadi.ch
Creadi develops digital solutions around the topic of pension provision.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Clemens Bachmair
DIFFAIR
https://www.diffair.ch/
DIFFAIR Market is a new marketplace showcasing the best of independent Swiss design.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Jasmine Blötzer
Educagrow
https://www.educagrow.com/
The first fully automated tutoring platform with matching function. Tutoring seekers are conveniently and efficiently served with tailor-made solutions.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Nektar Mustafa
.avif)
Holycode
https://www.holycode.rs/
Holycode provides nearshoring software development services for demanding clients.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Laurent Decrue
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.avif)
Room Estate
https://roomestate.com/en/
Room Estate is the biggest co-living provider in Switzerland.
Founding year
2015
Founders
John Trajkov and Sven Schürch
SwissNFTs
https://swiss-nfts.ch/
SwissNFTs' vision is to create a platform for Swiss artists and art enthusiasts to securely, reliably and easily issue and trade digital art.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Yannick Scheidegger
.avif)
Zebra Box
https://www.zebrabox.ch/de
Zebrabox has been the Swiss self-storage market leader since 1979 and offers its customers around 5,900 storage units at 10 locations.
Founding year
2003
Founders
Christian Schmutz
The usgang.ch Mafia
usgang.ch
usgang.ch is a community, networking and communication service on the Internet.
Founding Year
2000
Founder
Symeon Virlis, Marc P. Bernegger
Startups
AltAlpha Strategies
https://www.altalphastrategies.com/
AltAlpha Strategies provides solutions to navigate a new era of investing, addressing both the risks and the opportunities.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Frank R. Suess, Marc P. Bernegger, Dirk Steinhoff, Marc D. Seidel
Amiando
https://www.xing.com/en
Ticketing system acquired by Xing in 2010.
Founding year
2006
Founders
Marc P. Bernegger, Dennis von Ferenczy
Biolytica
https://www.biolytica.com/
Biolytica is a health data company developing a platform for data-driven personalised health optimisation.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Rob Konrad Maciejewski, Marc P. Bernegger
.avif)
Crypto Finance
https://www.cryptofinance.ch/
Crypto Finance Group provides crypto asset products and services to professional and institutional investors with excellence, quality and integrity.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Jan Brzezek
Lensvision
https://www.lensvision.ch/
Lensvision helps their customers find the most comfortable contact lens: for maximum vision quality and best wearing comfort - uncomplicated and at attractive prices.
Founding year
2006
Founders
Dominik P. D. Müller
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Maximon
https://www.maximon.com/
Maximon is the longevity company builder.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Tobias Reichmuth, Marc P. Bernegger and Jörg Rieker
Red or Blue Labs
https://www.redorbluelabs.com/
Red or Blue Labs designs, prototypes, builds, and procures products that create a positive impact for your future.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Adrian Hilti, Karim Zekri and Lukas Schleuniger
.avif)
Service Partner ONE
https://www.kaercher.com/int/
Service Partner ONE offers the 'ONE' app suite which digitally embeds the entire value chain of building services and facility management.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Elsa Cordonnier, Hanspeter Wehle, Philipp Andernach
.avif)
Spicehaus Partners
https://www.spicehaus.com/
Spicehaus Partners AG is a Swiss venture capital investor and the advisor to the Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Teddy Amberg
.avif)
Swiss Blockchain Federation
https://blockchainfederation.ch/
The Swiss Blockchain Federation is committed to maintaining and expanding the attractiveness and competitiveness of Switzerland as a blockchain location.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Philipp Stauffer
Teleboy
https://www.teleboy.ch
Teleboy offers you fast Internet access and a complete viewing experience on your PC, tablet, smartphone or TV.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Karim Zekri
The Leonteq Mafia
Leonteq
Leonteq offers 22 crypto-assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and others as underlying assets.
Founding Year
2007
Founders
Lukas Ruflin, Jan Schoch, Michael Hartweg, and Sandro Dorigo
Startups
AIS Financial Group
https://www.aisfg.com/
AIS Financial Group is an independent, client service-oriented entity. We provide advice on investment solutions with a special focus on structured products and investment funds.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Samir Lakkis
.avif)
Anova provides an independent marketplace where investors and manufacturers meet to achieve better investment decisions facilitated through technologically enabled investment, risk, product management as well as execution services in order to manage your portfolio in a simple way.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Jan Schoch
Board Owl
https://boardowl.com/
Board Owl matches remarkable people with exceptional organisations for board positions to empower growth and make an impact.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Daniel Aghdami
.avif)
Data Purpose
https://www.data-purpose.com/
Data Purpose combines SAP and Microsoft to unlock the purpose in your data.
Founding year
2023
Founders
Mathis Sommer
Everon
https://everon.swiss/
Everon offers wealth management and investment management services that used to be reserved for an exclusive clientele.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Brice Zanetti
Evulpo
https://evulpo.com/
Evulpo is a free learning website that provides an instructional videos, summaries, and practice units for curriculum-related topics.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Christian Marty, Jonas Fehlmann, Manuel Kant
Ex Indiciis
https://www.exindiciis.com/
Ex Indiciis' recommender engines analyze your data and propose the next best offering to your clients or your business.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Andre Bertolace
.avif)
Greenfinn Technologies
https://www.greenfinn.com/
Greenfinn is addressing today's agricultural and ecological challenges with a robotic work force, AI frameworks and cloud services.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Mirko Kueck
Meikovet
https://meikovet.ch/
MeikoVET operates a network of local veterinary practices.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Simon Jungen
Migelino
https://migelino.ch/
Migelino sells brand-name hearing aids online at unbeatable prices.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Simon Jungen, Manuel Jungen
.avif)
Petcare
https://pet-care.ch/
Petcare is an online platform that provides access to an immediate video consultation with a vet.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Simon Jungen
Polimec
https://www.polimec.org/
Decentralized community-driven funding protocol for Web3.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Luca Von Wyttenbach, Kasper Mai Jørg, Thomas Juel Madsen
.avif)
Z22 Technologies
https://www.z22.ch/
the scientific approach to finance Z22 Technologies is a financial research and quantitative asset management company and an official spin-off from ETH Zürich and the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
Founding year
2019
Founders
Philipp A. Baumann and Armin Herbsthofer
.avif)
The Beekeeper Mafia
Beekeeper
A mobile platform for a mobile workforce.
Founding Year
2012
Founders
Cristian Grossmann and Flavio Pfaffhauser
Startups
.avif)
Atfinity
https://atfinity.io/
Atfinity quickly digitizes your paper based processes.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Alexander Balzer
.avif)
Gaia Tech
https://www.gaiatech.ch/
Gaia Tech transforms agricultural sidestreams to high-value ingredients for the processing industry.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Samuel Bühlmann
.avif)
Oxygen at work
https://www.oxygenatwork.org
Oxygen at work improves air quality with high-performing plants and data analysis to enhance employee health and reduce energy consumption.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Manuel Winter and Rita Salathé
Peakora
https://www.peakora.io/
Peakora is the leading startup enablement platform that allows startups to work with former startup executives from high-growth companies like Beekeeper, Frontify, Blinkist, Tinder and Dropbox. Together you will build hands on all the foundations in marketing, sales, operations and strategy systems you need to scale.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Joël Capt
SaaS Intelligence
https://saas-intelligence.com
SaaS Intelligence is for Sales Execs, Leaders and Senior Managers to better understand prospective customer profiles, their purchasing processes, required teams and documents.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Marius Kriening, Jens (Dreisewerd) Cavallo
.avif)
Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Thomas Inhelder, Melanie Gabriel, Dr. Devis Lussi, Lars Mangelsdorf and Philippe Sahli
The Dacuda Mafia
Dacuda
Dacuda is a computer vision company that redefines the capabilities of cameras with real-time 2D and 3D algorithms.
Founding Year
2009
Founder
Michael Born
Startups
ETH AI Center
https://ai.ethz.ch/
The ETH AI Center is one of the world's largest hubs for research in artificial intelligence comprising a faculty of over 88 professors.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Alexander Ilic
.avif)
Hier
https://hier.in/
Hier is the simple ordering app for regional food.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Lara Hämmerle and Mark Jäger
.avif)
Locatee
https://locatee.com/en/
Locatee is a Switzerland-based company striving to empower corporate real estate managers to make fact-based decisions about their real estate portfolio.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Thomas Kessler and Benedikt Köppel
PXL Vision
https://www.pxl-vision.com
PXL Vision provides best-in-class technology for scalable, configurable identity verification worldwide.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Michael Born, Karim Nemr, Nevena Shamoska, Roxana Porada and Lucas Sommer
Red or Blue Labs
https://www.redorbluelabs.com/
Red or Blue Labs designs, prototypes, builds, and procures products that create a positive impact for your future.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Adrian Hilti, Karim Zekri and Lukas Schleuniger
S2S Ventures
https://www.s2s.vc/
S2S Ventures is Switzerland’s first student-run Venture Capital firm.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Alexander Ilic
Talent Kick
https://www.talentkick.ch/
Talent Kick will assist you in finding a co-founder with complementary skills and gaining hands-on entrepreneurial experience.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Alexander Ilic
.avif)
Vantik
https://vantik.com/
Vantik is a startup radically simplifying retirement planning.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Lara Hammerle and Til Klein
The NEEO Mafia
NEEO
NEEO was a smart system that let you control all your devices from one place and even knew who you are when you pick it up.
Founding Year
2014
Founders
Oliver Studer, Raphael Oberholzer
Startups
AVA Remote
https://www.ava.com/
AVA is a Swiss-American manufacturer of connected home products, with a focus on audio streaming and home control.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Michael Vogt, Patrick Domenig
Control4
https://www.control4.com/
Control4 connects smart devices to work in unison, delivering a truly intelligent smart home experience that makes life more convenient, safe, and enjoyable.
Founding year
2003
Founders
Eric Smith, Will West
.avif)
Ignatica
https://www.ignatica.io/
Ignatica enables insurers to profitably provide every person on the planet the type of insurance they need, at a price they can afford, with digital service and speed that today’s customers expect.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Adhish Pendharkar, Manuel San Miguel, Travis Callahan
legal-i
https://legal-i.ch/
legal-i's medical case intelligence solution helps to predict the outcome of insurance cases and simplifies collaboration between providers
Founding year
2019
Founders
Achim Kohli, Markus Baumgartner
The QoQa Mafia
Startups
.avif)
AMP Sport
https://ampsport.ch/
AMP Sport is an eCommerce platform for innovative and creative sport products and brands.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Fanny Tschäppät
.avif)
HOPR services
https://hopr.swiss/
HOPR is an IT consultancy with its own in-house development team.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Rik Krieger
Sonect
https://sonect.net/
Sonect is a Swiss company that converts every shop into a “virtual ATM”.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Rik Krieger
Windmill
https://www.windmill.dev/
Windmill is an OSS developer platform to quickly build production-grade multi-steps automations and internal apps from minimal Python and Typescript scripts.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Faton Ramadani
hauskrieg
http://hauskrieg.ch/
hauskrieg is the first and only agency in Switzerland that specializes in the production and organization of stand-up comedy shows.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Rik Krieger
The Siroop Mafia
Siroop
Siroop was an innovative eCommerce platform.
Founding Year
2015
Joint Venture
Coop-Group & Swisscom
Startups
Eggfield
https://www.eggfield.com/
Eggfield is an alternative protein startup replacing egg in the baking industry through plant based ingredients.
Founding year
-
Founders
Silvan Leibacher
Leibacher Biber-Manufaktur
https://biber-manufaktur.ch/
Leibacher Biber-Manufaktur produces with the utmost care their original Swiss specialty, called Biber.
Founding year
2010
Founders
Silvan Leibacher
Menon
https://menon.group/
Menon supports people in their unfolding and development by making talents and potentials visible and promoting them in a targeted manner.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Jasmin Bissig
.avif)
MyCamper
https://mycamper.ch/en
MyCamper is the largest camper sharing platform in Switzerland.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Stefan Lieberherr, Michele Matt, Mirjam Affolter
inckd
https://inckd.com/
inckd is an application that allows users to find, save, and book tattoos.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Fabian Bähler
thirty3
https://thirty3.ch/en/
thirty3 are an agency providing the right expertise on every development stage so that you can ideate, launch and scale with confidence.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Sylvestre Lucia, Mike Zurbrügg
The VIU Mafia
Swiss eyewear brand combining high fashion with technical innovation and precise craftsmanship.
Founding Year
2013
Founders
Christian Kaegi, Dominik Müller, Fabrice Aeberhard, Kilian Wagner, Peter Kaeser
Startups
Bananatex
http://bananatex.info/
Bananatex® is the world’s first durable, waterproof fabric made purely from Banana plants.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Christian Paul Kaegi, Hannes Schoenegger
Formo
https://formo.bio/
Formo is a food biotech company on a mission to bring the next generation of sustainable, healthy, and equitable dairy products to consumers.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Raffael Wohlgensinger, Britta Winterberg
.avif)
HAIR & SKIN
https://hairskin.com/
HAIR & SKIN is a young company in the medical retail sector with the aim of opening modern and fully digitalized clinics in pedestrian areas throughout Switzerland.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Marcel K
Online Doctor
http://onlinedoctor.ch/
OnlineDoctor is an innovative Swiss-based platform that allows the user to diagnosed any skin problems quickly.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Paul Scheidegger, Philipp S. F. Wustrow, Tobias Wolf
.avif)
Qwstion
https://www.qwstion.com
Qwstion produces everyday bags made from plants instead of plastic.
Founding year
2008
Founders
Sebastian Kruit, Christian Kaegi, Fabrice Aeberhard, Matthias Graf, Hannes Schoenegger.
Soeder
https://en.soeder.ch
Soeder sells care products that are made locally and sustainably.
Founding year
2013
Founders
Johan Olzon, Hanna Akerström
Studio 177
https://studio177.com/
Studio 177 is the largest network for circular office furnishings.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Alessa Schuhmacher
.avif)
UMAMI
https://www.eat-umami.ch
UMAMI is a startup aiming to understand the design of nature in order to replicate its processes and grow food the way it's meant to be grown: as part of a complex system of many plants and animals.
Founding year
2015
Founders
Denis Weinberg
.avif)
bestsmile
https://bestsmile.com
bestsmile is a Swiss orthodontics start-up specializing in clear Aligner therapy and Veneers.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Marcel K
bottleplus
https://bottleplus.com/
BottlePlus is a reusable water bottle brand that allows creating its own sparkling water anytime and anywhere – without single-use plastics.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Christian Käser, Gregor Heusser, Linus Lingg, Luca Serratore, Nicolas Wild
.avif)
juli Health
https://www.juli.co/
juli Health is a chronic condition management platform that empowers patients and their care teams to manage chronic conditions with an AI-powered app.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Joris Straatman, Bettina Hein, Bettina Duehrkoop
tanne360º
https://tanne360.de/
Tanne360° wants to position itself as an innovation leader in the online Christmas tree trade.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Florian Multhammer
The GetYourGuide Mafia
GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide.
Founding Year
2009
Founders
Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, Tao Tao, Tobias Rein, Pascal Mathis
Startups
ComparaCar
https://www.comparacar.com.br
ComparaCar is a car subscription price comparison platform.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Marcio Klepacz, Alan Lewkowicz
F1Sales
https://f1sales.com.br/
F1Sales is a digital communication platform allowing you to service your clients remotely but with in-person agility.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Marcio Klepacz, Alan Lewkowicz
Insightness
https://www.insightness.com/
Insightness develops visual tracking systems based on brain-inspired technology.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Christian Brandli, Marc Osswald, Nathan Baumli, Prof. Tobi Delbruck, Raphael Berner
Knickey
https://knickey.com/
Knickey is a textile company that offers organic cotton lingerie, socks, bralettes, and face masks petroleum-based fabrics.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Cayla O'Connell Davis, Lauren Sagadore
Passionfroot
https://www.passionfroot.me/
Passionfroot is a tool that helps creators keep track of their clients, cashflow and projects.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Jennifer Phan, Jens Joseph Mannanal, Michelle Tian
SpicyFi
https://cryptochefs.io/
Spicyfi revolutionizes the digital phenomenon of web3 by building games with amazing user interface design and boundless possibilities for innovative and intriguing uses.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Ali Habbabeh
Tilpy
https://tilpy.com
Tilpy is a marketing and advertising company that helps all kinds of agencies, publishers and brands to allow new professional images.
Founding year
2014
Founders
Anvarzhon Zhurajev
Welldium
https://welldium.com/
Welldium offers help to healthcare practitioners find the best supplements in order to achieve their fitness goals.
Founding year
2020
Founders
Tina Randrup, Luisa Carvalho
Wingman Ventures
https://www.wingman.ch/
Wingman Ventures is Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund backing tech founder teams with the potential to become global market leaders.
Founding year
2018
Founders
Alex Stöckl, Lukas Weder, Pascal Mathis
encara
https://encara.com
encara is your companion in migrating to the cloud and adapting to the new normal.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Kevin Pfaffhauser
voliro
https://voliro.com/
Voliro is developing advanced flying robots to perform Inspection and Maintenance tasks. Voliro's flying robot can “fly, see and touch”.
Founding year
2019
Founders
Mina Samir Kamel, Marius Fehr
The Echovox Mafia
Echovox
Echovox is a mobile monetization company focused on monetizing web and traditional media audiences with transaction-enabled mobile services.
Founding Year
2000
Founders
David Marcus
Startups
Diem Association
http://diem.com/
Diem is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
Founding year
2019
Founders
David Marcus
General Compression
http://generalcompression.com
General Compression is a developer of air energy storage systems.
Founding year
2006
Founders
David Marcus
Lightspark
http://lightspark.com/
Lightspark is created to explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin.
Founding year
2022
Founders
David Marcus
The HYT Watches Mafia
HYT Watches
HYT Watches is a watch brand evolving in the upper luxury market creating exclusive hybrid mechanical timepieces for watch connoisseurs.
Founding Year
2012
Founders
Lucien Vouillamoz
Startups
EAPOSYS
https://www.eaposys.com/
EAPOSYS is an early-stage development Company stands for Earth Power Systems,heating and power generation using deep geothermal energy.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Lucien Vouillamoz
Preciflex
https://www.preciflex.com/
Preciflex works, among others, for the Watchmaking, Luxury Goods and Medical industries.
Founding year
2010
Founders
Lucien Vouillamoz
Precihealth
http://precihealth.com/
PreciHealth offers creative engineering solutions in the fields of micromechanics and microfluidics.
Founding year
2017
Founders
Lucien Vouillamoz
The quitt Mafia
quitt (former Servicehunter)
Quitt. provides a platform to register, insure and payroll domestic helpers and comply to all legal requirements including insurance.
Founding Year
2010
Founders
Daniel Moser, David Christen
Startups
Julia Capital AG
https://www.julia.capital/
Julia Capital takes proven and purely quantitative trend following methods of classic financial markets and adapt them to the emerging crypto markets.
Founding year
2020
Founders
David Christen
Legalesgras
https://legalesgras.ch/
Legalesgras sells the best Swiss CBD hemp products online and without complications.
Founding year
2017
Founders
David Christen
Skribble
http://skribble.com/
Skribble is a platform for electronic signatures that presupposes the identification of the signatures.
Founding year
2018
Founders
David Fürsinger, Philipp Dick, Roni Oeschger, Waldemar Dick
The Zattoo Mafia
Zattoo
Zattoo is one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million users per month, serving both B2B and DTC markets.
Founding Year
2005
Founders
Bea Knecht
Startups
Antefil Composite Tech
https://antefil.com/
Antefil Composite Tech provides micro engineered hybrid fibre for lightweight structures.
Founding year
2022
Founders
Christoph Schneeberger, Nicole Aegerter, Paolo Ermanni, Thomas Billeter
Green Streams
https://www.greenstreams.com/
Green Streams provides a modular IPTV & OTT backend and business logic management platform in a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) model.
Founding year
2021
Founders
Gernot Jaeger, Ivo Stock, Thomas Billeter
workspace2go
http://workspace2go.com/
Workspace2go is the leading Swiss marketplace for meeting rooms, desks and workshop locations.
Founding year
2016
Founders
Manuele Fumagalli, Thomas Billeter
* Our source for most of the information is crunchbase.com.
For a group of companies to count as a mafia, they must meet the following conditions:
- A minimum of 3 companies must have originated from the "mother" company;
- "Originating": an employee from the "mother" company must have (co-)founded the "daughter" company during their time working at the "mother" company or after leaving the "mother" company;
- The "daughter" company founded must be either a startup or a VC fund. There are only two exceptions to this rule: associations in the case of crypto, and very big agencies.
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For a group of companies to count as a mafia, they must meet the following conditions:
- A minimum of 3 companies must have originated from the "mother" company;
- "Originating": an employee from the "mother" company must have (co-)founded the "daughter" company during their time working at the "mother" company or after leaving the "mother" company;
- The "daughter" company founded must be either a startup or a VC fund. There are only two exceptions to this rule: associations in the case of crypto, and very big agencies.
If you have any suggestions for changes or additions, you can contact us here.