Venture Kick
venturekick.ch Direct investor
Venture Kick is a Swiss philanthropic initiative that provides early-stage funding and support to startups from Swiss universities. It offers a three-stage funding model with up to CHF 150,000 in initial funding, plus additional equity and grants, along with business development and networking opportunities.
Venture Kick is an accelerator headquartered in Schlieren-Zürich, Switzerland, founded in 2007. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in high-tech, life sciences, cleantech and ICT. Its stated cheque size is up to CHF 150,000. 1251 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Venture Kick is a philanthropic three-stage funding model designed to support Swiss startups with initial funding of up CHF 150,000 to kick-start their entrepreneurial success.”
— Venture Kick, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- Schlieren-Zürich, Switzerland
- Invests in
- Switzerland
- Sectors
- high-tech, life sciences, cleantech, ICT, medtech, biotech, micro/nano technology, electronics/mechanics
- Cheque size
- up to CHF 150,000
- Founded
- 2007
- Portfolio
- 1251 companies
Team, as Venture Kick publishes it
- Beat Schillig Management team (Venturelab)
- Jordi Montserrat Management team (Venturelab)
- Philip Hassler Management team (Venturelab)
Names and roles exactly as listed on venturekick.ch. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 1 co-investors found.
- Venturelab 2 shared companies: top100startups.swiss, venturelab.ch
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Venture Kick publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.venturekick.ch/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.venturekick.ch/portfolio?profilesEntry=1sectors
- https://www.venturekick.ch/aboutpeople
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Record 184 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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