Patient capital for Swiss deep technology
I am a General Partner at Climb Ventures SA, a Geneva-based, FINMA-authorized venture capital firm focused on Swiss DeepTech scale-ups. Climb backs a focused set of companies, pairing patient capital with hands-on support to help world-class Swiss research become businesses built to scale globally.
Before venture, I co-founded Talent.com (formerly neuvoo) in Montreal and served as co-CEO, growing it over 13 years into a global recruitment platform. Earlier in my career I worked in finance in London.
From operator to investor
Quick facts
The deal database
Every Swiss DeepTech financing round the tracker finds, read from the coverage, merged across outlets and checked against primary sources where it matters. Rebuilt every morning.
The tracker itself
The parts that run the thing rather than publish it. Open to anyone with the address, so nothing sensitive belongs here.
What goes in
The tracker only knows what its sources carry. These are the ways round that, and the way to tell whether the sources are still alive.
urls.txt and it is read
like any article, or write a round straight into rows.json
when there is no article at all. Every one is re-applied on every run,
so nothing is a one-off edit.
Source health
Every source probed, with its HTTP status and how
many items it returned. Runs on the first of the month and fails loudly
when a source dies. This is what found seventeen feeds returning
nothing, fourteen of which had never delivered a single story.
Runs and logs
The database rebuilds daily at 03:37 UTC, the
shortlist every Wednesday, the verification pass on Mondays. What each
run kept, dropped and why is in its log.
The files behind the pages
Everything above is rendered from these. Useful when you want the numbers rather than the layout.