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What is the Swisspreneur Syndicate?
The Swisspreneur Syndicate connects investors with exceptional startup founder talents from our community for investments.
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Why get investment from Swisspreneur?
No fuss
Smart money
Follow up rounds
Vetting criteria
Hard facts
- We only invest in Swiss-based companies
- You have to have a legal entity formed either a GmbH or an AG
Soft facts
- Stage: Based on our average ticket size of around 75k we prefer to invest in the pre-seed / seed stage
- Traction: Your traction should be beyond a pure idea stage, ideally, you have your first customers and revenue
- Cap table: 70-80% kept by operational founders, ideally with an equal split
- Team: between 2 and 5 founders with different skillset
- Valuation: reasonable for your stage (we prefer <10M)
Our application process
Our application process is based on 3 main stages that you will go through until we send your case to our investor community:
Application review
We check your application against our vetting criteria.
Intro call
We invite you to an intro call to better get to know you and your venture and clarify any open questions.
Deep dive call
We invite you to a deep dive call to learn more about your business and specific areas of interest.
Testimonials
"Through the Swisspreneur Syndicate, we were able to close our pre-seed round really efficiently. We’ve been part of the community for a long time so we knew that they are all about making it easy for founders - and we weren’t disappointed."
"We’ve been an active part of the Swisspreneur community for some time and their network has really helped us take our business to the next level."
“I really appreciated how fast and seamless the whole process was - very founder-friendly! Swisspreneur is a great supporter to have on your cap table.”
FAQ
The advantage of a syndicate is that you have one item on your cap table for a potentially large number of investors, and that's multiplied brainpower & network to get your idea off the ground.
We usually sign tickets between CHF 50k and 500k per deal.
We invest in pre-seed and seed Swiss-based companies without a specific vertical focus.
Click ‘Apply to Pitch’ and fill out the form.
If you manage to pass all stages of our application process, we send out your case to our investor base. Usually, we have the final commitments ready within two to four weeks and can sign your term sheet.
There are no costs involved for the startup.
Due to privacy reasons, we cannot release the names of the investors in our syndicate.
No, only the syndicate as a whole will be shown on your cap table.
After the round is closed, we expect you to keep the syndicate updated as you do with all of your investors. We’re also here to support you with advice, intros, access to our network (e.g. to investors for your next round), and events.
If you have applied and haven’t heard back, we normally get back to you within a week about the next steps. For any other inquiries, feel free to reach out to us via syndicate@swisspreneur.com.
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