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Gary Cige

Investment, Family Office at Afir

🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor
Jul 2025
Sword is building the future of healthcare through AI Care, a field we pioneered that brings together Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Experts to tackle healthcare’s biggest bottlenecks - access, outcomes, and cost. The result is a world where clinicians are able to focus on what they do best - handling nuance, providing empathy, and delivering the human touch -, while AI focuses on delivering hyper-personalized treatment programs, ensuring scalability, and being available 24/7 so that healthcare meets the needs of the patient, not the other way around. Our platform spans the full continuum of care, from predicting and preventing pain, to treating physical and mental health, and optimizing healthcare operations. We are trusted by over 2,000 organizations globally, across employers, health plans, and governments, having helped our clients generate over $1 billion in healthcare savings, largely by avoiding unnecessary procedures, such as surgeries, imaging, ER visits, and others. We’re backed by some of the world’s most seasoned investors, such as Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and others, and currently valued at $4B. We believe in - and are building toward - a world where AI Care is within arm’s reach of every human. If this mission inspires you, join us in building that future: https://swordhealth.com/company/careers.
Investor
Mar 2023
Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we’re opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We’re making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we’re changing the way products are made.
Board Observer
Apr 2022
Grover is the global leader in technology rentals, enabling people and empowering businesses to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them. Founded in 2015 by Michael Cassau, Grover’s mission is to make exceptional technology more accessible, because technology is a basic human right. With Grover and Grover Business, subscribers and companies get access to a wide range of tech products, including smartphones, laptops and smartwatches on a flexible, monthly rental basis. Once a product rental period has ended, Grover’s service allows its users to return the product free of charge. They can also decide to extend the product rental length or exchange the product for something else. Grover Business even takes care of the tech procurement and management process so that companies can stay focused on growth. Rentals are available in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain at GROVER.COM, as well as in Germany through Grover’s online and offline partner network, including Europe’s leading electronics retail group, MediaMarktSaturn. Grover is a pioneer in the circular economy: Its business model of renting out and refurbishing tech products contributes to devices being used more frequently and for a longer period. This increases the potential to avoid e-waste. To date, Grover has circulated more than 1.2 million devices in total. With total funding of around €1.4 billion to date and over 400 employees, Grover is one of the fastest-growing scaleups in Europe. www.grover.com
Board Member
May 2020
Takuma is an innovative watersports company that is 100% foil-focused. With a deep history rooted in surf, SUP, and kite, we have our knowledge and design expertize fully embedded in the industry.  A proud foil brand We pride ourselves on the extent of research and quality control that goes into delivering our exceptional products that are made to last.  We passionately believe that foiling has enormous growth potential and efoiling is the next evolution to the sport, making it accessible to the many. Foiling is the unique sensation of flying above water. Thanks to the electric foil (Efoil), any body of water, anywhere in the world, can be turned into an unexpected and limitless playground. Efoiling is extremely engaging for even the most experienced watersports athletes and simply breathtaking for complete beginners. Prepare yourself for an adrenaline-filled new hobby! Our ambition We aim to combine our design expertize with our passion for the sport. Foiling and efoiling provide us and our families the ultimate sensation of flying above water. We want to share this phenomenon with the world. Our only objective is to turn flying above water into a unique experience for you. Our product range will be sure to shake up your riding experience no matter your specialty. Innovation Made up of 4 offices around the world: JAPAN / FRANCE / SPAIN / NEW CALEDONIA Innovation and product design are at the heart of our daily activities. We are constantly looking for new technologies and developments that will help us take your riding experience to the next level and continue to make massive steps forward for the progress of foiling.
Board Member
May 2018
Usine IO is a service offering expertise/network/infrastructure for any hardware-based project looking to accelerate its development. Usine IO enhances and improves product design strategies from prototyping stages to manufacturing. Since 2014 Usine IO provides tactical prototyping tools to SMEs and startups thanks to a team of industrial experts (Design, CAD/CAM, Electronics, DfM, etc), an innovative product development methodology and an industrial network. Usine IO is based in Paris, France. More on : http://www.usine.io/ @usineio
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Board Member
May 2018
FOCUS by Usine IO is a thematic acceleration program that creates business cases between hardware or industrial startups and big corporations.
Experience · 15 entries
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2025
Investor
Jul 2025
KoRo’s mission is to deliver everyday feel good deliciousness to customers by redefining food industry norms with a wide range of high-quality innovative products. The product range extends from natural foods, such as nut butters and dried fruit, to clean label snacks and functional foods. An ongoing commitment to transparency and product innovation drives the company to explore new food frontiers. KoRos ambition is to establish a European-wide omnichannel love brand and become a household name in natural and snack foods. KoRo was founded in Germany in 2014. The management team consists of CEO Florian Schwenkert, CFO Dr Daniel Kundt and COO Steffani Busch. The company employs more than 300 people and is headquartered in Berlin. A customer base of over 2.5 million people across Europe shop for KoRo products online at www.koro.com, as well as in supermarket household names and major drug store chains.
Investor
Jul 2025
Sword is building the future of healthcare through AI Care, a field we pioneered that brings together Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Experts to tackle healthcare’s biggest bottlenecks - access, outcomes, and cost. The result is a world where clinicians are able to focus on what they do best - handling nuance, providing empathy, and delivering the human touch -, while AI focuses on delivering hyper-personalized treatment programs, ensuring scalability, and being available 24/7 so that healthcare meets the needs of the patient, not the other way around. Our platform spans the full continuum of care, from predicting and preventing pain, to treating physical and mental health, and optimizing healthcare operations. We are trusted by over 2,000 organizations globally, across employers, health plans, and governments, having helped our clients generate over $1 billion in healthcare savings, largely by avoiding unnecessary procedures, such as surgeries, imaging, ER visits, and others. We’re backed by some of the world’s most seasoned investors, such as Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and others, and currently valued at $4B. We believe in - and are building toward - a world where AI Care is within arm’s reach of every human. If this mission inspires you, join us in building that future: https://swordhealth.com/company/careers.
2023
Investor
Mar 2023
Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we’re opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We’re making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we’re changing the way products are made.
2022
Board Observer
Apr 2022
Grover is the global leader in technology rentals, enabling people and empowering businesses to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them. Founded in 2015 by Michael Cassau, Grover’s mission is to make exceptional technology more accessible, because technology is a basic human right. With Grover and Grover Business, subscribers and companies get access to a wide range of tech products, including smartphones, laptops and smartwatches on a flexible, monthly rental basis. Once a product rental period has ended, Grover’s service allows its users to return the product free of charge. They can also decide to extend the product rental length or exchange the product for something else. Grover Business even takes care of the tech procurement and management process so that companies can stay focused on growth. Rentals are available in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain at GROVER.COM, as well as in Germany through Grover’s online and offline partner network, including Europe’s leading electronics retail group, MediaMarktSaturn. Grover is a pioneer in the circular economy: Its business model of renting out and refurbishing tech products contributes to devices being used more frequently and for a longer period. This increases the potential to avoid e-waste. To date, Grover has circulated more than 1.2 million devices in total. With total funding of around €1.4 billion to date and over 400 employees, Grover is one of the fastest-growing scaleups in Europe. www.grover.com
2020
Board Member
May 2020
Takuma is an innovative watersports company that is 100% foil-focused. With a deep history rooted in surf, SUP, and kite, we have our knowledge and design expertize fully embedded in the industry.  A proud foil brand We pride ourselves on the extent of research and quality control that goes into delivering our exceptional products that are made to last.  We passionately believe that foiling has enormous growth potential and efoiling is the next evolution to the sport, making it accessible to the many. Foiling is the unique sensation of flying above water. Thanks to the electric foil (Efoil), any body of water, anywhere in the world, can be turned into an unexpected and limitless playground. Efoiling is extremely engaging for even the most experienced watersports athletes and simply breathtaking for complete beginners. Prepare yourself for an adrenaline-filled new hobby! Our ambition We aim to combine our design expertize with our passion for the sport. Foiling and efoiling provide us and our families the ultimate sensation of flying above water. We want to share this phenomenon with the world. Our only objective is to turn flying above water into a unique experience for you. Our product range will be sure to shake up your riding experience no matter your specialty. Innovation Made up of 4 offices around the world: JAPAN / FRANCE / SPAIN / NEW CALEDONIA Innovation and product design are at the heart of our daily activities. We are constantly looking for new technologies and developments that will help us take your riding experience to the next level and continue to make massive steps forward for the progress of foiling.
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