btov Partners (Switzerland)

btov Partners is a St. Gallen, Switzerland-based venture capital firm founded in approximately 2000, investing in technology companies at seed through Series B stages across German-speaking Europe, the broader DACH region, and European technology hubs, with a particular focus on deep tech, enterprise software, and fintech. The firm operates a distinctive dual-fund structure that combines an institutional venture fund with an angel investor network, allowing it to offer portfolio companies both institutional capital and access to a broad community of successful technology entrepreneurs and operators who can provide strategic guidance and commercial introductions. btov Partners invests from $1 million to $10 million at initial investment stages and has built a track record across some of the most significant European technology exits of the 2010s and 2020s. iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that btov backed as an early investor, was acquired by PayPal in 2018 for $2.2 billion, representing one of the largest European fintech acquisitions at the time. Data Artisans, the company behind the open-source Apache Flink real-time data processing framework, was acquired by Alibaba for $90 million in 2019 and rebranded as Ververica. Raisin is a European open banking platform for savings and investments. N26, the German neobank, is one of Europe's most valuable private fintech companies. Beyond its original investments in iZettle, Data Artisans, Raisin, and N26, the btov portfolio spans European enterprise software, fintech, and deep tech businesses.