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Thank you Alexandre Meldem and Deep Tech Nation Switzerland for the analysis of the evolution of the Swiss VC landscape, and for surfacing our rebranding and new strategy at @swissvc_. 🗞️: deeptechnation.ch/dtn-news/swiss… Indeed, the article highlights a meaningful shift, ie Swiss VC maturing, with stronger return profiles, more consistent exits, and the emergence of a more specialized and disciplined investor base. This reflects years of ecosystem building across founders, investors, institutions, and policymakers, resulting in a market that is increasingly competitive on a global stage. At SwissVC, we see this moment as both validation and responsibility. As the ecosystem sharpens, our role is to continue fostering transparency, collaboration, and long-term value creation, ensuring Switzerland remains a leading hub for #deeptech innovation while reinforcing our #venturecapital excellence.

Thanks a lot Stefan Kyora and @startuptickerCH for covering @swissvc_'s repositioning. 🗞️: startupticker.ch/en/news/swissv… The article captures an important evolution: SwissVC is sharpening its focus as a peer network for active venture investors, prioritizing relevance, quality of exchange, and alignment among those directly engaged in deploying capital and supporting companies. This reflects a broader maturation of the ecosystem, where specialization and high-signal collaboration matter more than ever (cc Deep Tech Nation Switzerland's recent article). As new leadership, we see this step as a foundation for what comes next. Our mission is to strengthen Switzerland’s venture ecosystem by enabling deeper peer-to-peer engagement, advancing best practices, and amplifying the collective voice of active investors, while remaining closely connected to founders, policymakers, and the broader innovation landscape. We aim to build a platform that is both highly valuable to its members and impactful for Switzerland’s global competitiveness.

Today we are thrilled to officially unveil the new @swissvc_ strategy. Full details: swissvc.ch/wearelive 🇨🇭 For 11 years since started by Alex Stöckl, SwissVC has been a trusted meeting point for the Swiss venture community, built by practitioners for practitioners and shaped by a board and community that helped establish its credibility. Yesterday the community gathered at Swisscom Ventures in Zürich, thanks Jennifer & Tina for hosting us so well. We are today rebranding our community, reorganizing its Board, officially registering as a Swiss non-profit association, and launching a new strategy, because the market has changed: AI is compressing timelines, LP expectations are higher, and venture has become more operational, more demanding, and less forgiving of generic ecosystem programming. The new SwissVC is sharper. We become an operator-grade peer network for active, professional, full-time VC investors currently deploying in Switzerland. We are moving from broad event-led activity to smaller, higher-trust guilds focused on three areas: Deal Intelligence, Firm Architecture, and Portfolio + DPI. What to expect: - Focused conversations - Practical outputs and playbooks - Candid peer exchange under Chatham House rules. A stronger member experience built around contribution, instead of passive attendance. One word about our visual identity: it had to match the ambition. The new color is Magenta, a modern Swiss Red, not a copy of the flag, but an evolution of it. Vivid, energetic, and impossible to ignore in a room full of navy/grey decks. It signals that SwissVC is serious about craft, not corporate grey. The three shapes (circle, triangle, square) you will see across our comms channels each carry deliberate meaning: - the circle represents relationships - the triangle represents leverage and direction - the square represents structured, operational work. While all three are rendered in crumpled paper, each paper sharpens towards its forward edge, just like our work: conversations that start rough and become sharper as a guild progresses. And the domain name: we dropped the dash. "swiss-vc. ch" becomes swissvc.ch, one word, altogether like our members, cleaner visually, more confident, and exactly how practitioners actually say our name. If you are an active investor in Switzerland, apply, contribute, and help build the next chapter of SwissVC. Here is how to contribute: - ✅ New board composition in progress, apply on the website. - Join as a Network Member if you want curated access and stay connected. - Apply as a Guild Member or Lead if you want to shape the agenda and contribute to the work. Also, come engage as a founding partner/expert with us, if you can bring expertise, tools, or workflows that help investors operate better, via our Guilds system. We are building SwissVC as a working network: fewer spectators, more contributors, and real leverage for the people actually deploying capital in Switzerland.

📢 | We are today rebranding our @swissvc_ community, renewing its Board (apply to join the Board!), officially registering as a Swiss non-profit association, and launching a new strategy, because the market has changed: AI is compressing timelines, LP expectations are higher, and venture has become more operational, more demanding, and less forgiving of generic ecosystem programming. The new SwissVC is sharper: "Peer Intelligence & Collective Action". We become an operator-grade peer network for active, professional, full-time VC investors currently deploying in Switzerland. We are moving from broad event-led activity to smaller, higher-trust guilds focused on three areas: deal intelligence, firm architecture, and portfolio + DPI. Amongst a few other substantial rebranding elements, our homepage becomes swissvc.ch: one word, altogether like our members, cleaner visually, more confident, and exactly how practitioners actually say our name. If you are an active VC investor in Switzerland, apply, contribute, and help build the next chapter of SwissVC.

H-24 : are you ready for the rebirth of SwissVC? Tomorrow May 26 in Zürich, the new strategy will be revealed to the SwissVC community. Bold. Waitlist luma.com/ephpsox4 📆

SwissVC has always been more than a name on the door. It is a community built over eleven years by people who care about the quality of the ecosystem and the standards we set for it. On May 26, we open the next chapter with a strategy that is more deliberate, more useful, and more aligned with what the Swiss venture capital ecosystem needs now. See you in Zurich: luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭

Zürich, please welcome on May 26 the announcement of the "SwissVC Rebirth"! Super thrilled to be hosting our landmark community event, where I will share what we've been building behind the scene for the next chapter of this 11-year-old, 500-VC-member community that was started in 2015 by Alex Stöckl. The community has always been active ever since 500+ professional VC investors who operate in all industries, joined forces to make the Swiss ecosystem stronger. As its new chapter is about to open, building on what worked means leaving behind what no longer serves. The next iteration of @swissvc_ is designed to be sharper and more useful for today's venture environment. We are keeping the details under wraps until Tuesday. I am excited to say that the response to our upcoming strategy reveal has been exceptional. We are officially at full capacity for this gathering at @Swisscom Ventures, and we have an active waitlist of community members hoping to join. You can still join the waitlist in case RSVPs are released. luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭

A network of 500+ VCs requires a robust architecture At SwissVC, we spent the last 11y laying the foundation Now, we are re-engineering the framework We unveil the new strategy on May 26 in Zürich Join us luma.com/ephpsox4 if you're an active venture capital investor

The Swiss venture capital ecosystem has evolved, and the requirements of its investors have matured alongside it. @swissvc_ is stepping into its next phase to match this evolution. The early days of SwissVC were defined by organic expansion and exploration. Our new chapter relies on focused execution designed for those who need it most right now. The new SwissVC strategy is a calculated response to the current realities of our members. We present the plan on May 26 in Zürich. If you're an active venture capital investor, ensure your attendance: luma.com/ephpsox4. Built by the community, designed for the community. #venturecapital #ecosystem #tech

Active sprouts characterized the early Swiss venture ecosystem Since 2015, those initial efforts compounded into a network of 500+ investors Scale however demands structural evolution. May 26: new strategy designed to drive actionable value RSVP luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭

🗣️📆 Less than 2 weeks ​Before May 26, 2026 at 6pm where we'll unveil the new @swissvc_ strategy in Zürich. Many of you already registered, and there's still room for more participants. luma.com/ephpsox4 (free) Looking forward to seeing all of you.

Over the past decade, SwissVC connected investors to strengthen the local ecosystem. Scale brings new capabilities. Our upcoming strategy is a highly deliberate way to address current industry challenges. Join the reveal luma.com/ephpsox4 on May 26, in Zürich 🇨🇭

🗣️ May-26 @ Swisscom Ventures Zürich One evening where the new SwissVC strategy will be unveiled Leveraging the great achievements of the SwissVC 2015-26 era With a new shape, adapting to today’s most pressing challenges Immediate, actionable value luma.com/ephpsox4 🎟️

11y ago, Swiss venture capital lacked a dedicated community Today, @swissvc_ is a network of 500+ professionals across Switzerland, Europe, the US The ecosystem is shifting, we're evolving with it On May-26, we unveil our next chapter in Zurich RSVP luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭

In 2015, Alex had the conviction to create a space for VC investors to meet, share, and collaborate. His energy shaped SwissVC into what it is today: 500+ members. May-26, Zürich: we honor this foundation & reveal what comes next. RSVP luma.com/ephpsox4, for active VCs

Familiar clichés often define international perceptions of Swiss venture capital. While we remain proud of our heritage, tradition alone does not drive innovation. May 26, Zürich: a sharpened strategy built for the current realities of VC. Join us luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭

Rebuilding a brand is harder than building one, no surprise. That is the truth I keep running into as I am excited to be leading @swissvc_ into its next chapter. When you build from scratch (as I did with @UPCOMINGVC, @olivecap, @podcastsmakers, @VerticesCap..) you work with a blank slate. Every choice is additive, you define the tone, the positioning, the visual language. There are no wrong answers yet, only bets, and the risk is invisibility. Rebranding an existing organization/movement is structurally different, because space is not empty, and you are negotiating with memory. SwissVC was founded in 2015, which means there are ecosystem players who carry a version of this brand in their heads that predates the new branding. Some of that equity is valuable, some of it is a constraint. The hard part is knowing which is which, and you cannot ask the brand itself. Framing the tension "heritage vs. innovation." is too clean, because the real tension is between continuity of trust and clarity of direction. You need people who knew the old chapter to feel respected, and people who have not yet discovered SwissVC to feel like they are joining something at the right moment. What I have learned so far: do not erase, do not over-explain, and do not mistake nostalgia for relevance. A brand that has been around for a decade has compounded associations, some earned, some accidental. The job is to choose which ones deserve to carry forward. The blank-slate build is a sprint. The rebuild is an archaeological dig with a construction permit 🚧 Excited about where SwissVC is heading. More on May 26, at 6pm in Zürich, luma.com/ephpsox4. - - - - - After careful consideration, I have decided Helvetia might be slightly over-indexing on the Swiss identity 😜

Reputation, signaling are fundamental to VC For 11y, @swissvc_ organically evolved into a network of 500+ pro investors May-26, Zürich New strategy Immediate, actionable value Stamp of quality across the ecosystem luma.com/ephpsox4 🇨🇭