Bornhaeusser Michael

Chairman and Managing Partner Bulb Capital AG

📍 Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 Switzerland20+ investments
21
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4
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2
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26y
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Portfolio

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Member of the Board
Oct 2023
AI-Native RegTech Platform (patent pending) for Private Capital Markets. Unlocking Early & Continuous Liquidity at fair value for Venture Funds, PE and other Private Illiquid Assets. Making these assets accessible to accredited investors at their fingertips in a compliant marketplace. We are mesh of RegTech, Fintech and Web3 technologies powered by AI end to end.
Member of the Board
Nov 2020
NRG is a professional gaming and entertainment company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Known worldwide, NRG embodies competitive esports excellence and the best of gaming culture for the greater part of the last decade. With its championship teams and innovative gaming lifestyle content, NRG amasses over 2 billion content views a year. NRG boasts a VCT partnered VALORANT squad, a franchised League of Legends team, a World Championship Rocket League roster, North Americas newest hope for Counterstrike, a PUBG Mobile team partnered with Samsung, and a top Apex Legends squad. Additionally, NRG is home to NRG Shock, a legacy team from the winningest and most popular Overwatch team of all time. NRGs content channels span YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and multiple Snap Discover shows. NRGs social gaming brand, Full Squad Gaming, has become an instant powerhouse amassing millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube and banging out over 1M views a day across their content channels. NRG is headquartered at the iconic NRG Spectrum Castle in Downtown Los Angeles. This innovative studio / play space is a Fantasy Factory for gamers featuring giant creative installations, studio space, scrim / stream areas ,the Kia Watch Party Theater and general craziness.
Member of the Board
Jun 2019
Karakuri is revolutionising Quick Service (QSR) and Fast Casual restaurants with intelligent, robotic kitchen automation. We bring together food, people, and robotics to deliver unprecedented levels of quality, consistency, and efficiency to restaurant ki
Board Observer
Sep 2016
Pluto TV, a Paramount Company, is the leading free streaming television service delivering hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience. The Emmy ® award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with over 400 international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids and much more. Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV’s growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 35 markets. We are always looking for the brightest new talent to join us on our mission of entertaining the planet. Check out the Pluto TV careers section for currently open roles.
Investor
Apr 2016
Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace. Learn more about us: www.aboutfarfetch.com
Member of the Board
Apr 2016
AMARO is a RetailTech that operates an omni-channel ecosystem for lifestyle products. It offers the best in fashion, beauty, wellness and home decor in the premium mass market. AMARO applies creativity, technology and data to deliver a seamless and delightful customer experience. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, the company has 800 employees. Committed to the planets future, AMARO is the first consumer company in Brazil to become 100% carbon negative. https://ama.ro/sustentabilidade
Member of the Board
Mar 2016
A Trocafone é uma empresa especialista na compra e venda de celulares e tablets seminovos. Nascemos de uma necessidade real das pessoas e nosso objetivo é propagar uma cultura que preze pelo padrão de consumo sustentável e por uma forma de viver mais consciente, além de permitir que, a cada dia, um número maior de pessoas possa ter acesso à tecnologia. Temos uma equipe jovem, criativa e determinada. Somos curiosos, inovadores e gostamos muito do mundo dos negócios online. Pessoas que sejam apaixonadas pelo que fazem, que abracem seus projetos com determinação, sejam design-thinkers e que querem, sobretudo, repensar a forma de trabalho e como consumimos, são o nosso foco.
Co-Founder and Member of the Board
Jan 2016
EBAC (British School of Creative Arts and Technology) is an innovative educational center that offers online education in the fields of Design, Programming and Data, Audiovisual, Games, Marketing, Software and Business. We are in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Colombia and today we have more than 140 options of courses designed and taught by teachers who are references in their areas of expertise and highly qualified tutors to provide individualized feedback. Our online learning platform features unique technology so students can learn whenever and wherever they want. These differentials have democratized access to education and contributed to the professionalization of more than 50.000 people who have already chosen us to change careers. For three consecutive years (2021, 2022 and 2023), we received recognition as one of the 100 most promising edtechs in Latin America according to the Holon IQ platform. We were also featured in Exame magazines 2022 special "205 expanding businesses", in the "newbies" category.
Board Observer
Mar 2013
At Rocket Lawyer, we believe everyone deserves affordable and simple legal services. Our laws should protect and empower—but for too many of us, the law is out of reach, because of high costs and complexity. So, we’re changing things. Since 2008, we’ve helped over 25 million people and organizations obtain the legal help they need, at a price they can afford. That’s legal made simple.®
Member of the Board
Feb 2013
Seal Software is now a DocuSign company. We’re bringing the benefits of AI to digital agreements. To learn more about the vision for the future of smart contracts, follow DocuSign.
Member of the Board
Jun 2010
Please follow https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco-service-provider for all future updates. Ubiquisys, now part of Cisco, is a leader in intelligent 3G and LTE small cells, with products deployed by operators around the world. The Ubiquisys difference is intelligence: small cells that continuously adapt to their surroundings and dynamically interact with their neighbours. Operators benefit from low operating costs and efficient use of spectrum assets, whilst mobile users experience dependable voice and high speed data services. The Ubiquisys small cell range includes public access hotspots, self-organising networks for enterprise, modular residential small cells and satellite-linked small cells for remote locations.
Member of the Board
Feb 2005
SIC invent, an innovative and dynamic company. As a global manufacturer of dental implant systems, we research and develop them in close cooperation with the Schilli Implantology Circle. We are among the leading companies in selected markets and product areas. Based on the cooperation with the Schilli Implantology Circle, our company is characterized by excellent product and market expertise. The use of this interdisciplinary network, the Schilli Implantology Circle, enables the rapid implementation of technological and scientific findings in current, practice-relevant medical products. We responsibly deliver innovative products in the fields of surgery, prosthetics, biomaterials and diagnostics based on scientific, technical and economic strength. Our own production facilities and decades of cooperation with leading suppliers, which are among the best in their genre worldwide, guarantee outstanding product quality. The unique symbiosis of the Schilli Implantology Circle and SIC invent gives us the edge in innovation, quality and relevance.
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2023
Member of the Board
Oct 2023
AI-Native RegTech Platform (patent pending) for Private Capital Markets. Unlocking Early & Continuous Liquidity at fair value for Venture Funds, PE and other Private Illiquid Assets. Making these assets accessible to accredited investors at their fingertips in a compliant marketplace. We are mesh of RegTech, Fintech and Web3 technologies powered by AI end to end.
2020
Member of the Board
Nov 2020
NRG is a professional gaming and entertainment company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Known worldwide, NRG embodies competitive esports excellence and the best of gaming culture for the greater part of the last decade. With its championship teams and innovative gaming lifestyle content, NRG amasses over 2 billion content views a year. NRG boasts a VCT partnered VALORANT squad, a franchised League of Legends team, a World Championship Rocket League roster, North Americas newest hope for Counterstrike, a PUBG Mobile team partnered with Samsung, and a top Apex Legends squad. Additionally, NRG is home to NRG Shock, a legacy team from the winningest and most popular Overwatch team of all time. NRGs content channels span YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and multiple Snap Discover shows. NRGs social gaming brand, Full Squad Gaming, has become an instant powerhouse amassing millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube and banging out over 1M views a day across their content channels. NRG is headquartered at the iconic NRG Spectrum Castle in Downtown Los Angeles. This innovative studio / play space is a Fantasy Factory for gamers featuring giant creative installations, studio space, scrim / stream areas ,the Kia Watch Party Theater and general craziness.
2019
Investor
Sep 2019
goop is a lifestyle platform dedicated to exploration, curation, and groundbreaking conversation. From its award-winning beauty and fashion lines to its expansive editorial lens, goop invites women to embrace the process of becoming, and to discover deep joy in the pursuit of pleasure, beauty, and growth in all phases of life. Gwyneth Paltrow began goop in the fall of 2008 as a weekly newsletter. It has expanded into a beauty, fashion, and food business that’s also known for its products, curation, podcast, TV shows, live events, and retail stores.
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2019
Cahiers d’Art is one of the world’s most distinguished publishers of the visual arts. We work directly with artists and their estates to create a revue, books, limited edition books and prints, and catalogue raisonnés – each of which is a celebration of the artist’s individual character and vision. Founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos at 14 rue du Dragon in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, ‘Cahiers d’Art’ refers at once to a publishing house, a gallery, and to a revue. Cahiers d’Art was entirely unique: a journal of contemporary art defined by its combination of striking typography and layout, abundant photography, and juxtaposition of ancient and modern art. The early days of Cahiers d’Art coincided with the advent of the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, of Klee and Kandinsky, and with Zervos’s exploration of primitive art and Cycladic archaeology. From 1930 until the outbreak of WWII, the journal concentrated on the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Ernst, Arp, Calder and Giacometti, amongst others. By 1932, Cahiers d’Art had published the first volume of the Picasso Catalogue, a project that would become a life’s work, prepared by Zervos together with Picasso. Artist collaborations with Cahiers d’Art often yielded original artwork. Joan Miró’s 1934 pochoirs and his Aidez L’Espagne, produced in 1937, and Marcel Duchamp’s Fluttering Heart of 1936, perhaps the world’s first example of kinetic art, are some of the most iconic images ever produced by these two artists. Christian and Yvonne Zervos organized between two and five exhibitions per year between 1932 and 1970 at the Cahiers d’Art gallery space. By 1960, Zervos had published ninety-seven issues of the Cahiers d’Art revue and more than fifty books, including monographs on El Greco, Matisse, Man Ray, and African and Mesopotamian Art. Zervos’s work on the Picasso Catalogue continued from 1932 until his death in Paris in 1970. These 33 volumes have since become the definitive reference for Picasso’s work.
Member of the Board
Jun 2019
Karakuri is revolutionising Quick Service (QSR) and Fast Casual restaurants with intelligent, robotic kitchen automation. We bring together food, people, and robotics to deliver unprecedented levels of quality, consistency, and efficiency to restaurant ki
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