Wingman Ventures

Wingman Ventures is a Zurich-headquartered Swiss pre-seed venture capital firm founded in 2019 and rebranded in February 2024 as Founderful, reflecting the firm's expansion from Wingman's original sole pre-seed mandate into broader pre-seed and seed coverage with Fund II. The firm was co-founded by three Swiss tech veterans: Pascal Mathis, co-founder of unicorn GetYourGuide; Alex Stöckl, formerly Switzerland Lead at Creathor Ventures; and Lukas Weder, co-founder of food-delivery marketplace EAT.ch. Wingman/Founderful is the largest and most consistent first-check institutional capital partner for the historically capital-scarce Swiss founder ecosystem, with a thesis centred on B2B software and industrial technology spinning out of ETH Zürich, EPFL and other Swiss research institutions, specifically robotics and industrial automation, applied AI and ML, computer vision, advanced materials, and climate, cleantech and construction tech, and it is willing to lead. Fund I deployed roughly 50 first-checks over four years. Fund II reached first close at $85M in February 2024 toward a $120M hard cap, backed by institutional LPs, family offices and unicorn founders from Duolingo, Climeworks, GetYourGuide, Delivery Hero and Scandit. Fund II checks are sized at roughly $1M for pre-seed and up to $2M for seed. Portfolio companies include drone manufacturer Wingtra, plastics-recycling startup DePoly, Chiral Nano, Nala Earth, Ascento, SAEKI, Anthropos, Isospec Analytics, Eightinks, Faive Robotics and Corintis. Notable exits include vision-chip startup Insightness, acquired by Sony, and Bring! Labs, acquired by Swiss Post. As Switzerland's leading first-check investor, Wingman Ventures backs B2B and deep-tech founders spinning out of Swiss research institutions.