Swiss Post invests in start-ups

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09.05.2017
Swiss Post Headquarter

Swiss Post launches a corporate venturing initiative. The corporation plans to invest increasingly in start-ups relevant to its operations. To this end, it recently entered into a cooperation with investiere.ch.

Its goal is to invest in start-ups which fit well with Swiss Post’s strategic business development areas and offer potential for Swiss Post’s core competencies to make a key contribution to their success. Through targeted investments, Swiss Post also wants to participate in technological development in an effort to counter the displacement of logistics companies by technology companies.

Swiss Post is particularly interested in start-ups in the following sectors: e-commerce, mobility, digital financial services, digital trust (e-post), cross-channel communication, business process outsourcing, and sales and solutions for major business customers. In return, Swiss Post requires a minority interest.

This corporate venture capital initiative is long term in nature and enjoys the full support of Executive Management: “Swiss Post wants to actively exploit new technologies or business models that are emerging as a result of digitization. To do so, we invest early in start-ups, among other things,” says Claudia Pletscher, Head of Development & Innovation at Swiss Post.

Partnership with experienced specialists
When selecting and assessing the start-ups, Swiss Post works with investiere.ch, a leading venture capital specialist and itself one of the most active start-up investors in Switzerland. This external expertise ideally complements Swiss Post’s existing internal specialist competencies. As part of the collaboration, Swiss Post has made an initial investment in a robotics start-up.

Swiss Post has long relied on the innovation of more than 61,000 employees in-house and conducted innovative projects with start-ups. In light of the challenges posed by digital transformation, Swiss Post is now additionally strengthening its capacity for innovation with targeted investments in start-ups. Swiss Post has a long tradition of innovation. For more than 160 years, the Group has successfully developed in line with social and technological changes.

(Press release)

Picture: Die Schweizerische Post

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