Record year for Business Angels Switzerland

Business Angels Switzerland (BAS) is an association founded in 1997 giving young entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their projects and start-up companies to seasoned investors and successful entrepreneurs. The aim of the presentation is to obtain financing for the project, coaching, or both. BAS organises 24 Dinner Meetings every year where 70 – 80 start-ups present their company to investors. The meetings take place in Zurich, the Lake of Constance Area and in Western Switzerland. Since 1997 members of BAS have invested in more than 100 Start-ups.

BAS is neither an investment fund nor a holding company: the decisions to invest are made by its members on a personal basis. BAS is thus not involved at all in its members’ investments. A consequence of this is that there might be investments which the organisation itself don’t know about. The known investments in 2015 are:

ACTLIGHT develops a new type of photodetectors and improves photovoltaic energy harvesting technology.

AVA develops a smart bracelet to precisely track women’s fertility and health.

BLINQ is lifestyle app allowing to connect with authentic people nearby.

The product of CashSentinel is an API providing numerous smart contracts that protect both parties in common transactions like cars, housing rentals and services.

Goodwall is the first social network for high school students to share their achievements to stand out when applying to university.

Gymhopper is an app which allows users to buy reduced price, one-off gym entry passes in cities all over Switzerland. Background information about the financing round was published on the BAS blog.

HGuitare is an online guitar learning platform.

Kizy Tracking offers a complete range of products and services for global object tracking.

Konduko has a solution to track people preferences in mass traffic environments such as trade shows.

Parquery is an ETH spin-off that provides real-time parking vacancy information.

Sharely.ch is the Swiss sharing platform for everyday objects.

TwingTec develops mobile wind energy systems for off-grid and temporary power supply applications.

With its solution for product data exchange xyxle guarantees up to date and accurate product information at any point along the distribution chain.

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