Swiss Startup Group

Our legal services company covering all legal needs that startups and entrepreneurs face in their ordinary course of business Code Law is not a traditional law firm It has customers, not clients and provides hands-on advice

Entrepreneurs at heart using a sophisticated framework to analyse, select and test business ideas The Swiss Startup Factory leverages opportunities for innovation and creates market-leading companies

Switzerland’s leading venture intelligence boutique equips leaders from strategy to execution BV4 enables great venture transactions by creating transparency through its startup intelligence

Our youngest daughter company provides professional CFO and backoffice skills essential to founders GETGOING creates and executes winning fast-growth business strategies while keeping startups' teams lean

Our Board of Directors is the strategic driving force behind the Swiss Ventures Group Comprising two of the group’s founders and three shareholder representatives, it is responsible for steering the whole organisation in the right direction and making sure it keeps evolving

CEO and Chairman of the Board

Mike Baur is a Swiss venture investor and entrepreneur He worked in private banking for almost 20 years before starting his entrepreneurial journey in 2015 by co-founding the Swiss Startup Factory with Max Meister and Oliver Walzer Mike is one of the top 100 «Digital Shapers» in Switzerland He holds an MBA from the University of Rochester New York as well as an Executive MBA from the University of Berne

Eric Sarasin boasts over 30 years of banking experience gained at Morgan Stanley, Pictet & Cie, Citibank and, most notably, Bank J Safra Sarasin He helped the family-owned bank become one of Switzerland’s leading private banks Since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Board of directors of Singularity Group SA and a board member of several other companies

Suzanne Thoma is CEO and Chairwoman of the Board of Sulzer Before she was CEO of BKW Group, an international energy and infrastructure services group, listed on the SIX Swiss stock exchange Prior to that Suzanne Thoma held several leadership roles in other industries such as specialy chemicals As former CEO of Rolic Technologies she successfully led a high-tech start-up company Suzanne is a chemical engineer with a PhD from ETH Zürich

J D Michael Widmer is the Swiss Ventures Group’s Legal Counsel and manager of the Brino Group AG After his Doctor of Law and a master’s degree in business administration, he worked as an associate and lawyer, was part of the management at Eurex, managed the Cat Group for four years and later the Gutenberg Group For seven years, he regularly took off as a freelance pilot for Cat Aviation

Philomena Colatrella is CEO of CSS, one of the biggest health insurance companies in Switzerland She studied law at the University of Fribourg, was admitted to the bar of the Canton of Lucerne in 2000, completed a CAS in Finance and Accounting at the Zug Financial Institute and graduated from the Senior Executive Programme at the London Business School in 2014

There is an alternative to Botox

20 Minuten has tried Haute Contour's facegym products The startup is a spin-off from our daughter company Swiss Startup Factory

ETH-spinoff MindMetrix preparing for official launch

MindMetrix obtains a convertible loan from Serpentine Ventures The ETH-spinoff uses a data-driven neurofeedback training software to quantify the performance of the mind and mental well-being The official launch is planned for Q4 2023

Fixposition partners with Movella

Inside GNSS magazine reports about Serpentine Ventures' portfolio startup Fixposition new partnership with Movella In simple terms machines equipped witht their hardware will be able to navigate even if no GNSS data is available

"When communication works, so does the construction project"

Sandor Balogh, CEO of Serpentine Ventures' portfolio startup smino, has talked to Finanz und Wirtschaft about how the company's cloud-based software enables every stakeholder in construction projects to work and collaborate digitally