Wingman Ventures announces first closing of seed fund

The three founding partners of Wingman Ventures have a deep understanding of entrepreneurship: Pascal Mathis (Co-Founder and former COO of GetYourGuide; picture: right), Lukas Weder (Co-Founder EAT.ch; picture: left ) and Alex Stöckl (former COO Gärtnerei and Senior Investment Manager Creathor Ventures) have founded startups themselves - and made them highly successful. Now they want to dedicate their knowledge, experience and energy to a new generation of startup founders - as they are convinced that the Swiss startup ecosystem is just beginning to write its best success stories.

Additionally, Wingman Ventures is backed by a large number of Switzerland’s most recognized tech founders. The “Founder’s Family” unites - amongst others -  the founders of Digitec/Galaxus, Bexio, Duolingo, U-Blox, Xovis, Netcentric, VIU, Doodle, GetYourGuide and Contovista.  

Institutional lead investor for the seed stage

Wingman Ventures will invest tickets of up to CHF 1 million as lead investor at pre-seed and seed stage. By investing as the lead investor at seed stage, Wingman makes sure that its entrepreneurial experience is of most use to the young founder teams. An important strategic and operational value at this crucial early stage.

Wingman Ventures offers a unique network to the startups in its portfolio. The network provides access to more than 150 international venture capital funds and enables efficient follow-on fundraising and co-investment at growth stage. The aim is no less than to build Swiss global market leaders. 

Wingman Ventures already has a large tech-portfolio. Amongst the 14 most promising startups within the portfolio are fast growing and internationally acknowledged companies like Wingtra, Ava, Bring!, Algrano and 9T Labs.

More new funds in the pipeline

At an event organized by Seca last week, Alex Stöckl had already presented the achievements and plans of Wingman Ventures. Several other investors who are raising money for new funds had also pitched at the event including DAA Capital Partners, Privilège Management, Spicehouse Partners and VI Partners. A comprehensive list of new funds and fund projects will be published in the Swiss Venture Capital Report 2020.