Dr. Thomas Dübendorfer
Startups
I have co-founded these nine Swiss startups: 9T Labs, Agrinorm, Contovista (acquired by Swiss Aduno Group), Frontify, Get More Brain, precisionED, Spontacts (acquired by German Scout24 Group), threatray and yes.com (acquired by German Verimi GmbH). Frontify with more than 300 employees is redefining brand management for larger organizations globally.
Angel Investor
I am an angel investor since 2010 and the president and co-founder of SICTIC, the leading angel investor club in Switzerland with an investor community, which has financed more than 400 startups that created more than 10’000 jobs. I invest into technology startups with my Datartis Ventures AG and have received the award SECA Business Angel of the Year 2024. Bilanz named me three times as one of the top 100 Digital Shapers of Switzerland. I also invest in startups with target markets in Africa through Launch Africa, which helped to create more than 80’000 jobs.
Juror, Panelist, Board Member, Author and Speaker
As juror, panelist, and board member I add value with my startup and scale-up know-how, management strategy, technology experience and as a computer scientist with a PhD from ETH Zürich and experience from my software engineering job at Google. I also teach at universities and give talks at events and moderate panels, usually for larger audiences in standard German, Swiss German or English. I’m the author of the Swiss Angel Investor Handbook available for free at angelhandbook.ch or by asking my handbook AI assistant about angel investing, and I wrote a foreword to the free Product-Market Fit book.
Podcasts
I’ve also given several interviews in Podcasts. Here’s a selection:
- Swisspreneur EP #531 – Thomas Dübendorfer & Paulina Grnarova
A Founder’s & Investor’s Perspective On How AI Will Change Legal Tech - Coffee Talk Podcast – Interview by Felix Niederer, Founder True Wealth
Gründerland Schweiz mit Dr. Thomas Dübendorfer
How to contact me
Send me an email to thomas@duebendorfer.ch if you have a request and follow me on LinkedIn to hear about the Swiss startup ecosystem. Please use a telling title and be specific when you contact me as I get a very large volume of emails and I guess you want to me read what you wrote yourself instead of just the AI summary of it ;-).