Wingman Ventures

Wingman Ventures is a venture capital firm run by founders for founders, aimed at Swiss teams that want to build technology companies with global reach. It acts as lead investor in a startup's first financing round.

Services

• Lead investment: takes the lead position at angel, pre-seed and seed stage, and can keep investing in later rounds.
• Founder-friendly terms: publishes the terms it works to, so founders can read them in advance.
• Day-to-day sparring: advises on strategy and operations as well as finance, legal matters, hiring, expansion, sales, marketing and the next fundraise.
• Founder community: gives portfolio teams access to a group of experienced Swiss tech entrepreneurs who back the fund.

Clients

Early-stage founder teams in Switzerland building technology businesses. The portfolio spans areas such as flexible storage systems, carbon composite manufacturing, protein engineering, cloud gaming and coffee trading.

Key facts

• Based in: Switzerland
• Stage: angel, pre-seed and seed
• Role: lead investor, with follow-on funding available