• Supercharging Innovators

    WE ARE CATALYSTS FOR CORPORATE INNOVATION, STARTUP GROWTH & VENTURE DESIGN

Fusion Geneva – corporate innovation, startup growth

The global platform designed for innovation efficiency at scale

Redefining Corporate Venture Capital, Fusion supercharges innovators. We invest in world class entrepreneurs & technology to drive next-phase corporate engagement, innovation delivery & integrations with industry leaders just at the right time. We do so by designing and operating world class Vertical Accelerators, a global community of innovators & gearing our platform to engineer innovation efficiency at scale.

X for eXponential

eXponential technologies are transforming industries. As technologists and futurists we take a long term view of the universe in which ventures & corporations work.

Understanding tech and human behaviours is the foundation to structure your future roadmap.

Y for YOU

We focus startups & corporations on the right industry problems to solve.

Entrepreneurs get faster market validation and unmatched access to industry leading customers by working on Corporate-Startup-Engagement. Corporations get to push their boundaries and partner with innovators.

Z for Zero-to-1

From Product (0) to Go-To-Market-Fit (1).
We created the necessary conditions to develop early betas into growth ventures.

Leveraging the Fusion infrastructure to supercharge innovation. Gain Education, tech infrastructure, academic research mentors & tech entrepreneurs with vested interest in catalyzing your business.

A new approach
to innovation

We fuel operating capital to push ventures to the next level.

We are entrepreneurs, venture designers & builders. We take direct and proactive action in defining our future. We are not afraid of being misunderstood even when is risky to build new business models.

It takes boldness, structure & execution to achieve true Fusion

Like the energy generating process in the Sun, we fuse the raw ingredients of the innovation ecosystem to drive lasting and positive changes in key industries enabling corporations & entrepreneurs to evolve and leverage the disruptive force of innovation to their advantage.

3 industry-shaping vertical accelerators

FINTECH

As Switzerland’s First Fintech Acceleration Program Fusion capitalises on Switzerland’s position as a global hub for financial services as well as its world-beating reputation for innovation to drive the fintech agenda. We fuse the best of Switzerland with the most promising fintech talent to lead innovation in financial services.

Find out more about Fintech Fusion

LIFETECH

Lifetech & IOT are digital technologies which – via direct and continued interaction with individuals – enable betterment and extension of life. LifeTechs open up unparalleled opportunities for Health, Nutrition, Medical, Wellness, Fitness and Insurance providers to deliver new products & services that impact life.

Find out more about LifeTech Fusion.

PROPTECH & SMART CITY

By 2050, some 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities. How will we cope? Fusion’s Proptech & Smart City Accelerator works with leading industry players & startups to redefine the real estate industry and the limits of what living in a city means – delivering solutions that will enable the next phase in civilisation of urban spaces.

Find out more about PropTech Fusion.

A collective of industry-defining partners

Temenos
Temenos Group AG, headquartered in Geneva, is a market leading software provider, partnering with banks and other financial institutions to transform their businesses and stay ahead of a changing marketplace.

Temenos

NOTZ STUCKI
Notz Stucki develops tailored solutions for both private and institutional clients. His vision is to achieve long-term, transparent and close “hand-to-hand” collaboration with our clients that delivers efficient investment solutions.

Swisscard
Swisscard AECS is a Joint Venture between Credit Suisse and American Express. Swisscard AECS is the only provider in Switzerland offering all worldwide credit card brands, namely American Express, MasterCard and Visa.

Google Cloud Platform
By choosing Google Cloud Platform, you can build on the same future-proof infrastructure that allows Google to return billions of search results in milliseconds.

Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise apps.

European Space Agency
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.

Intercom
Intercom is the first to bring messaging products for sales, marketing & customer service to one platform, helping businesses avoid the stiff, spammy status quo and have real conversations.

La Mobilière
Every third household in Switzerland is insured by Swiss Mobiliar. Active in all lines of insurance, Swiss Mobiliar had a premium volume of CHF 3,630 billion as of 31 December 2016.

Investis
Founded in 1994, Investis Group is a leading residential property company in the Lake Geneva region and a national real estate services provider active in the two synergetic segments of Properties and Real Estate Services.

Polytech
Polytech Ventures is an early stage VC firm strategically located at EPFL in Lausanne, one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world, and with a permanent presence in the Silicon Valley.

EPFL
EPFL, one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, based in Lausanne, is Europe’s most cosmopolitan technical university with students, professors and staff from over 120 nations.

FTI
Establishment Facilitator in Geneva

Saxo Bank
Saxo Bank was the first to develop an online trading platform that provided private investors with the same tools and market access as professional traders.

Hochschule Luzern

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40+ accelerated ventures

We leverage our community of Ambassadors around the world

Bankex
System Kredit
Medicsen
Mojo
Neurosphere
WealthInitiative
Stuward
Yetivisit

With over 40 ventures

grown in 2 years,

we’re one of the most fastest

growing incubators in Europe.

We engage, filter, and direct startups

at scale through our active network

of 1,000 entrepreneurial organizations,

research centers and corporations.

Our team of venture catalysts

Sal
Matteis

CEO & Venture Catalyst

Sal is an entrepreneur, ecosystem builder and venture catalyst. Operating in both F500 and startup companies across 3 continents for over 15 years.

Guillaume
Dubray

Founder & Managing Partner

Managing Partner of Polytech Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Lausanne (EPFL) and Silicon Valley investing in digital start-up with a focus on FinTech and HealthTech.

Laurent
Bischof

Founder & Managing Partner

Managing Partner of Polytech Ventures, Laurent has over 10 years of private equity investment experience, including an operational role in VC funded companies and was also an early stage investor.

Jean-Étienne Durand

Head of Blockchain / CIO

Jean-Étienne is an innovator, executive leader, and product & engineering expert with 18 years of experience, but above all a Blockchain Enthusiast.

Philippe
Beckers

Venture Partner

Jonathan
Sadoun

Venture Associate

Marc
Elias

Director & Venture Catalyst

Olga
Semeshina

Venture Analyst

Émilie
Vez

Program Manager

Eveliina
Kauppinen

Campus Manager

Charlotte
Lafrancesca

Marketing

Giada
Koch

Intern Operations Associate

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9 Jan

We are very Happy to announce that our Fellows @we_gaw went live in @Seedrs!
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9 Jan

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8 Jan

🚀Go check our latest interviews with two of the @InnoPeaksCH Fellows, Kim and Claudie from @Mendability!
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