investors
VI Partners
Venture Incubator is a Swiss venture capital firm that supports university spin-off's as well as other promising start-up companies with capital, coaching, consulting and networks. Venture Incubator was established in 2001 by 6 industrial corporations (ABB, Hilti, Sulzer, Schindler, Novartis, Nestlé), 4 financial institutions (Credit Suisse, Pictet & Cie, Zurich Cantonal Bank and SUVA), McKinsey & Company and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ).
Its portfolio comprises 19 companies. Approximately half the money is invested in life sciences and the other half in IT and material sciences. The company has been setup as an evergreen fund with a CHF 101m paid in capital.
Auriga Partners
Auriga Partners is an independent venture capital firm. Based in Paris, it invests in information technologies and life sciences, in innovative high potential ventures, in seed or early development stages, in Europe, North America and Israel. Auriga Partners manages three funds for a total of more than EUR 330m.
Along with investing the necessary capital, Auriga Partners also brings its savoir-faire in developing and solidifying executive teams, organizing companies, broadening their networks and forming strategic and corporate partnerships.
