New Senior Management Team at Swisscom Ventures – Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News

Dominique Mégret, founder and head of Swisscom Ventures, can be shifting to Ecorobotix per 1 March, the place he’ll take over as CEO.

His function at Swisscom Ventures can be handed over to a longtime workforce: Stefan Kuentz, Alexander Schläpfer and Pär Lange will assume the management of the corporate as joint Managing Companions.They’ve been carefully working collectively within the ventures workforce for years and have constructed it up in collaboration with Dominique. They carry with them a variety of expertise and expertise, are extraordinarily effectively related and can lead Swisscom Ventures efficiently into the long run.

Dominique Mégret based Swisscom Ventures in 2007. Since then, the division has turn out to be a key participant within the Swiss startup scene and is now one of many greatest enterprise capital traders in Switzerland. Swisscom Ventures helps firms on their journey over a number of years from the start-up to the expansion part, with the purpose of guaranteeing that they become sustainably profitable firms. Overseas, Swisscom Ventures focus lies on new applied sciences with the potential to assist Swiss firms and the Swiss economic system to develop.

In Switzerland, Swisscom Ventures helps promising startups to be able to additional advance Switzerland’s digital transformation and strengthen the nation’s revolutionary energy. Which means firms like Sophia Genetics, Ecorobotix and Yokoy have been capable of develop and develop.

Isa Müller-Wegner, who took over as Head of Group Technique & Enterprise Growth at Swisscom in June 2023, has numerous causes to be happy concerning the change in administration at Swisscom Ventures:

“It’s fantastic that Dominique Mégret is the brand new CEO of Ecorobotix, an organization during which Swisscom Ventures has invested in recent times. And I’m additionally delighted that the appointment of Alexander, Pär and Stefan ensures the continuity throughout the workforce. In spite of everything, robust partnerships, belief and having good connections within the start-up ecosystem are key success components at Ventures. All three have been working aspect by aspect for years, have entry to a big community and have supported firms resembling ANYbotics, Kandou and Scandit. They recognise challenges, alternatives,developments and corporations which are creating in Switzerland and overseas by means of digitisation and new expertise.”

Swisscom Ventures depends on a workforce with totally different skilled, cultural and purposeful backgrounds and is dedicated to a various portfolio. And the brand new administration workforce brings additionally various information and a variety of experience to the desk.

Alexander Schläpfer, MSc in Finance

Alexander Schläpfer

Earlier than becoming a member of Swisscom Ventures in June 2016, Alexander was the co-founder and associate at Aster Capital in Paris, the company enterprise platform of Schneider Electrical, Alstom and Solvay, the place he managed investments within the areas of renewable energies, industrial IT and IoT. Earlier than changing into VC, he headed the technique, M&A and S&M departments at Alstom’s Energy Service division, and had beforehand held a number of operational administration positions within the Center East with ABB. He additionally co-founded and chaired a robotics start-up on the Federal Institute of Know-how (ETH) in Zurich.

His areas of focus are: robotics, Business 4.0, edtech, fintech.

Pär Lange, MSc in Physics, MBA INSEAD

Pär Lange

Earlier than serving to to arrange Swisscom Ventures in 2007, Pär was co-founder and chief government of a Stockholm-based consultancy agency specializing in early-stage investments within the ICT sector. Earlier than that he co-founded a cell phone operator, which efficiently obtained a 3G licence in Sweden. He began his profession in Sweden by creating RF and microwave transmission options after which labored in gross sales and advertising and marketing for Ericsson in Japan.

His areas of focus are: communication, semiconductor and sensor applied sciences.

Stefan Kuentz, MSc in Laptop Science

Stefan Kuentz

Stefan has been with Swisscom since 2003. In 2011, he joined Swisscom Ventures the place his focus has been on worldwide investments within the cloud, SaaS and cybersecurity. Stefan has held numerous administration positions at Swisscom, together with operating the corporate’s US outpost in Silicon Valley and establishing new answer items for the B2B sector. Earlier than becoming a member of Swisscom, Stefan was employed for a few years at IBM, the place he was Affiliate Associate accountable for IT technique consulting.

His areas of focus are: IT, cloud, enterprise software program, cybersecurity, USA ecosystem

Featured picture credit score: Pär Lange, Stefan Kuentz and Alexander Schläpfer