Welcome to SICTIC

How to Invest in Swiss Startups That Last

The SICTIC Investor community helped to fund to more than 254 Swiss tech startups to date. While doing so, they learned a lot about what to watch out for and how to foster success. Read more Get your FREE angel handbook

Services For Startups

We invite all seed and early-stage tech startups based in Switzerland to apply for funding from our smart money investors in the range CHF 200’000.- to CHF 2’000’000.-, even before incorporation.

We love startups and all our services for startups are free of charge. You may submit your business case anytime as our team looks at all cases continually.

As a startup funded by SICTIC investors, you will get various benefits like startup savvy attorneys at law providing free legal consulting sessions, cloud credits and other partner services.

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Services For Investors

Join the largest angel investor community in Switzerland and invest directly into Swiss tech startups together with experienced angels and VC funds in our network.

SICTIC Investors pay a small flat fee and get complimentary access to all our matchmaking events, our extensive startup deal flow database and receive a printed Swiss Angel Investor Handbook.

If you want to get to know us and our investor community before deciding to join, we encourage you to attend one of our SICTIC Investor Days as a guest by purchasing a regular event ticket.

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Swiss startup unicorns

Switzerland is home to more than 45 startups that have reached a CHF 1 billion valuation, so called unicorns, in healthtech, lifescience, fintech, security, insurtech, data analytics, tourism and fashion. Another 30+ Swiss “soonicorns” are on the rise to become unicorns soon. We list all known Swiss unicorns in our slide deck. Show me the Swiss unicorns

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SICTIC connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage technology startups.

SICTIC is a non-profit association, which has a strong investor community and organizes the deal flow and matchmaking of startups and investors online and at in-person pitching events. We have offices in Zürich, Lausanne and Ticino.

SICTIC is the largest and most active business angel network in Switzerland and was awarded “Best Performing EBAN Member 2018” from over 150 member organizations in more than 50 countries.

Read the SICTIC Investment Report 2023

SICTIC is an outstanding investor network that combines passion for startups and in-depth entrepreneurial experience with the power of seed money to make things happen.

Ariel Lüdi, Former CEO of Hybris Software and active smart-money investor
 

SICTIC in numbers

   

>500

SICTIC Investors

>2’200

Startups Screened

>800

Startup Pitches

>100

Matchmaking Events

Partners

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