PreSeries #AngelRanking — Top 5 Angel Investors In Switzerland
Angels investors are on the front-line of innovation, trusting teams in their early days, evaluating alpha-prototypes, and backing unproven ideas before everyone else. They end up writing virtually every startup’s first cheque. But some are better than others at finding hidden gems. Today let’s look at the 5 most prolific angel investors in Switzerland for the past 18 years.
BALZ ROTH
Balz Roth, a long time member of the Go Beyond community, has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, during which time he has developed several startup companies mainly in the areas of technology/media and lifestyle/entertainment. His focus has been on deal sourcing and investment structuring; advising and coaching several startups in business model engineering, strategy development and operational excellence as well as in training Business Angels. Source
ARIEL LUEDI
Mr. Ariel F. Luedi is Founder of Hammer Team. Mr. Luedi served as Chief Executive Officer of hybris GmbH since 2004 until 2013. Mr. Luedi was responsible for European expansion and has initiated aggressive growth for hybris GmbH. He joined Hybris in September 2004. He has 20 years’ experience having held executive posts at some of the world’s leading enterprise software companies. Mr. Luedi served for two years as Senior Vice-President of Salesforce.com with responsibility for European sales and the development of European subsidiaries. Mr. Luedi led European sales of BroadVision for six years. He served as In Charge of sales of Oracle Switzerland for seven years. Mr. Luedi worked at IBM. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Oxial. Mr. Luedi is the Chairman of MobileBridge. He has been Director of Balluun, Inc., since November 17, 2016. He serves as Director of hybris GmbH. He served as a Director of Day Software Holding AG from May 2005 to May 19, 2009. His recent speaking engagements include the Global Webit Congress and the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit EMEA. Mr. Luedi studied Physics at ETH in Zurich and later graduated from the School of Business Administration Zurich. Source
PETER AFFOLTER
Peter Affolter has decades of experience in multiple areas of IT, including as co-owner of a software house and CTO of a leading information service provider at international level. Since holding those posts, he has invested in new, ambitious and rising companies. Source
ROBERTO OPRANDI
Roberto Oprandi has worked in information technology for more than 30 years. He started out as Sales Manager at Europe’s most significant and innovative computer manufacturing company. Later, he also served as its Marketing Director. Since founding oprandi & partner in 1988, he has had a presence in both Europe and Dubai (UAE), with 120 partners and staff. Source
ADRIAN LOCHER
Adrian is a serial entrepreneur and investor in artificial intelligence and digital health. He’s currently building and investing in companies both in Berlin and Silicon Valley. He sold his last company, a Swiss-based e-commerce firm at 100M revenue and 200 employees. Prior to that, he had built several firms in the software and internet space with clients like Facebook, Microsoft, NASA and others. And as almost every entrepreneur, Adrian has also gone through various failures both in his own companies, as well as failed investments. Adrian graduated with a degree in business and economics from University of St. Gallen (HSG). He was awarded “HSG Entrepreneur of the Year 2012”, “Swiss E-Commerce Champion 2015” and was ranked “40 under 40” by Swiss Bilanz magazine. Source
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