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The Week in Swiss Startups
Gian Sbetta's weekly read on Swiss startups - 8,400+ subscribers, and the fastest way to know who just raised.
- 8,400+
- subscribers: VCs, angels, founders and operators
- Weekly
- every Monday morning, numbered by calendar week
- 2021
- when the weekly recap began (on LinkedIn)
- $780M
- a recent exit it flagged (Lilly / LimmaTech)
The story
If you want to know what's actually happening in Swiss startups, you could read a dozen sources - or you could read Gian Sbetta once a week. The Week in Swiss Startups is his free Monday-morning newsletter tracking the things that matter: who raised, who exited, who got acquired, and who's hiring.
It works because of who writes it. Gianmaria Sbetta isn't a journalist on the outside looking in - he's an active angel investor and Google Cloud's go-to-market lead for AI startups across DACH, and he's tracked Swiss startup investment for the better part of a decade. The result is a practitioner's read, not a press release - and 8,400+ subscribers, from VCs to founders, rely on it.
It's the kind of channel that keeps an ecosystem talking to itself: a deep-tech exit one week, a DeepMind accelerator pick the next. For a firm whose whole job is knowing the market before everyone else, it's required reading.
“Swiss startups financing rounds, exits, news, and more.”
Highlights
A hub of the ecosystem
Angel investor and Google Cloud AI-startups GTM lead - few people are as plugged into Swiss tech as Gian Sbetta.
8,400+ subscribers
VCs, angels, founders and operators - the people who actually move the Swiss ecosystem.
Signal, not noise
Funding rounds, exits and M&A, every week - from a $780M biotech exit to DeepMind accelerator picks.
The facts
- What
- A free weekly newsletter on the Swiss startup ecosystem - financing rounds, exits, M&A and the people behind them. Written solo, every week, by Gian Sbetta.
- Who
- Gianmaria 'Gian' Sbetta - a Zurich-based angel investor and Google Cloud go-to-market lead for AI startups in DACH, and one of the best-connected people in the Swiss startup ecosystem. He has tracked the Swiss investment scene for the better part of a decade.
- When
- Weekly, on Substack.
- Where
- Switzerland.
Why we sponsor it
Recruiting in deep tech is, in the end, about knowing the ecosystem better than anyone - who's building what, who just raised, who's about to need a team. A weekly like Gian's keeps that knowledge flowing in the open.
We back the people who keep the Swiss scene connected, because a healthier ecosystem is better for every founder, engineer and company in it - ours included.