Mobilière, Switzerland’s oldest private insurance company, has set up Lightbird Ventures as an independent venture capital fund managed by Marcau Partners.
Thomas Meier, former investment manager at Redalpine Venture Partners, joined Marcau Partners in September as a partner and will be responsible for building up the dedicated Lightbird Ventures team together with Benjamin Solenthaler, one of the three co-founders of Marcau Partners.
Solenthaler, David Hug and Thomas Kaiser founded Marcau Partners in 2018 and its other corporate venture-as-a-service clients include Ringier Digital Ventures and SIX Fintech Ventures.
Kaiser, co-founder and chairman of Marcau Partners, said: “The positioning as an independent venture capital unit allows Lightbird Ventures to optimally operate in a dynamic startup environment and to invest in the next generation of startup founders on an equal footing with leading co-investors.”
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