Arcanys Ventures
ventures.arcanys.com Direct investor
Arcanys Ventures is an operator VC that invests a combination of capital and its own team's work into scaling companies. It backs B2B software and software-enabled hardware companies from Seed to Series A in Europe and Australia.
Arcanys Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 2020. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in B2B software and software-enabled hardware. Its stated cheque size is A typical deal is US$600k: US$400k of our team's work taken as equity, US$200k in cash.. 35 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Who do you invest in? B2B software and software-enabled hardware companies, Seed to Series A, in Europe and Australia, with product already in market and real traction.”
— Arcanys Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Invests in
- Europe, Australia
- Sectors
- B2B software, software-enabled hardware
- Cheque size
- A typical deal is US$600k: US$400k of our team's work taken as equity, US$200k in cash.
- Founded
- 2020
- Portfolio
- 35 companies
- How to reach it
- Its pitch / apply page on its own site
Team, as Arcanys Ventures publishes it
- Alan Debonneville Co-founder and Managing Partner
- Frederic Joye Co-founder and Managing Partner
- Karen Lawson Managing Director, Australia
Names and roles exactly as listed on ventures.arcanys.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 9 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- SICTIC 2 shared companies: machinemd.com, ovomind.com
- Archangel Ventures 1 shared company: elita.pet
- M8 Ventures 1 shared company: elita.pet
- Side Stage Ventures 1 shared company: elita.pet
- Vitalizevc Management, LLC 1 shared company: duetinc.com
- Biopôle 1 shared company: bewe.com
- Kickfund 1 shared company: bewe.com
- Scalare Partners Holdings Limited 1 shared company: catalyser.com
- Tractor Ventures 1 shared company: neointelligence.com.au
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Arcanys Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://ventures.arcanys.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence, approach_url
- https://ventures.arcanys.com/teamfounded, people
Record 8611 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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