Alexander Schlaepfer positions Swisscom Ventures as an institutional-grade corporate VC where 75% of capital comes from external LPs rather than Swisscom's balance sheet, operating with no strings attached and focusing purely on returns. He advocates for building a complete Swiss and European deep-tech capital stack and IPO path, noting that ETH Zurich and EPFL together produced more VC-backed deep-tech startups than Oxford and Cambridge combined, yet 70-80% of late-stage deep-tech funding still comes from non-European investors.
About their Fund
Swisscom Ventures
Sectors
Mobile / Telecom, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Deeptech / Hardware, AI
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Pre-Seed - Series B+
Avg Check Size
€250K - €2.5M
Notable Investments
Swisscom Ventures specializes in spinning out internal corporate ventures into independently financed companies and focuses on Swiss university spin-offs from Seed to Series C with initial checks of $2–10M. The fund has achieved 45 exits from 90+ companies since 2007 while maintaining a deeptech and infrastructure focus rooted in telecom expertise, operating with structured autonomy from its corporate parent through an independent decision-making process.
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