DS01 / GENERAL PARTNER
Declan Shine
Founding Partner
President of the ETH Robotics Club. Brings robotics community leadership and early-stage investing experience through Founderful Campus.
+ SWISS ROOTS. GLOBAL AMBITION.
THE NEXTGREAT LEAPIS PHYSICAL.
We back the founders bringing
intelligence into the physical world.
ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND
SCROLL TO DISCOVERVENTURE CAPITAL / ROBOTICS + PHYSICAL AI
CHF 10MFUND I TARGET
CHF 100KINITIAL TICKET TARGET
Pre-seedWHERE WE ENTER
SwitzerlandWHERE WE BEGIN
01 THE THESIS
Intelligence is
leaving the screen.
The next defining companies will move, make, and do. We invest at the beginning — when exceptional engineering is ready to become a company.
OUR INVESTMENT FRONTIER
Intelligence. In the real world.
From dexterous manipulation to whole-body autonomy. We back the teams giving machines the ability to perceive, learn, and act.
01 / EMBODIED AI3D / INTERACTIVE
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02 OUR EDGE
We’re already
in the room.
Close to the builders.
Early to the conviction.
Our roots in the ETH Robotics Club put us alongside founders long before their first pitch. The ETH–HSG network connects technical ambition with the commercial discipline to build enduring companies.
01 /
Built alongside engineers
Hands-on exposure to the people, prototypes, and technical decisions that matter.
02 /
A place to make progress
The Hangar ecosystem brings together prototyping, hardware, compute, and a community of builders.
03 /
Engineering meets enterprise
HSG talent contributes finance, strategy, and company-building expertise around technical teams.
03 THE PEOPLE
Builders’ perspective.
Investors’ discipline.
EP02 / GENERAL PARTNER
Erik Pfister
Founding Partner
Vice President and Head of Partnerships at the ETH Robotics Club. Connects technical founders, industry partners, and the HSG business community.
MP03 / GENERAL PARTNER
Mark Pfister
Founding Partner
Focused on finance, operations, and the commercial foundations that help early-stage teams become investable companies.
04 FUND I
The Swiss Robotics
Founders Fund.
Patient capital for a physical future.
A focused pre-seed strategy backing the next generation of Swiss robotics and physical AI companies.
TARGET FUND SIZECHF 10M
INITIAL INVESTMENT TARGETCHF 100K
INVESTMENT STAGEPre-seed
CORE FOCUSRobotics & physical AI
Fund I is in formation. Figures describe the proposed strategy and remain subject to final fund documentation.
05 THE NEXT CHAPTER
STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION