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Founderful
Venture capital · Zurich, Switzerland · Europe
Founderful is a venture capital firm based in Switzerland that backs founder teams as lead investor in their first financing round. It supports portfolio companies with an in-house team of entrepreneurs and operators in finance, legal, people and culture, marketing, and branding.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsswitzerlandearly-stagelead-investorfounder-supporttechnology
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Or find every investor that fitsFounderful lists 61 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 13 funding rounds, 9 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Industrial & Manufacturing (13%) and Healthcare & Biotech (8%). 76% of its companies are based in Switzerland. It invests most often alongside Kickfund, Playfair Capital and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Founderful, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Founderful's whole history. Rounds on record name 12 companies; its own site lists 61. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 17% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 8% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 1 |
| '25 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 9 | 7 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 88th | 61 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 86th | 92% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 86th | 15% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 45th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Kickfund | 4 |
| Playfair Capital | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Kickstart Innovation | 3 |
| Angel Invest | 2 |
| Bluelion | 2 |
| Crane Venture Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers61100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Founderful head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Founderful| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 27 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 20 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 6 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Jan 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Founderful
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Founderful's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
61 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8inks develops and manufactures multilayer battery electrodes using a curtain coating solution | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Absolute Magnetics focuses on tailor-made encoder solutions for applications. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Adaptyv provides automated lab services for protein validation and design | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Algrano provides infrastructure for coffee producers and roasters to trade directly with each other | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Anthropos provides a platform for workforce assessment and upskilling | Human ResourcesEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Apheros develops metal foam solutions for thermal management and liquid cooling | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Archilogic provides a spatial system of record for buildings, allowing for the management and integration of spatial data with various systems and applications. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Archlet develops and provides AI-native eSourcing and eAuctions software solutions | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arqh helps dispatchers leverage AI to build optimized fleet plans | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ascento provides autonomous robotics services to secure and maintain outdoor assets | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aspaara creates a Digital Twin of a bodyshop to boost productivity and cut Key-to-Key time using AI planning software and an AI-Copilot | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Avian watches critical industrial assets 24/7, detects abnormal heat, alerts the right team, and helps operators act before fire, downtime, or equipment damage. | Industrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Axmed operates a B2B marketplace for global health where hospitals, ministries, and clinics in low- and middle-income countries can buy medicines and health products from suppliers worldwide | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company simplifies shopping for millions and provides a platform for brands and retailers to reach customers at the point of purchase decision | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Calvin Risk provides an AI risk management and governance platform that tests and evaluates AI systems and agents with realistic scenarios to provide auditable results. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| CareerLunch connects job seekers with top employers through informal lunch meetings to provide authentic insights into companies and their cultures. | Human ResourcesEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Certifaction provides electronic signature solutions for confidential documents | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Chipmind develops AI agents for chip design and EDA automation | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Chiral develops semiconductor manufacturing equipment to fabricate electronic transistors with nanomaterials. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Mar 2024Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Corintis designs, builds, tests, and mass-produces leading-edge liquid cooling for high-power chips in data centers. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- founderful.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Mar 2024
- Companies checked
- 61
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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