Maria Nunez Burkhalter

AI and Startups | Oxford EMBA | Angel Investor | Startup Mentor

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
Prevision Medicine envisions a world where every patient diagnosed with cancer receives the most effective treatment options through personalized ex vivo drug testing, delivering well tolerated life-extending therapies.
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2025
Quantum computing will be a world-changing technology with the potential to unlock powerful advances in medicine, energy, finance and beyond. At PsiQuantum, we’re focused on building the world’s first useful quantum computer. A useful quantum computer requires at least 1,000,000 qubits and error correction. We believe photonics is the only path to building a useful quantum computer. Our team at PsiQuantum is a mix of quantum physicists, semiconductor, systems, and software engineers, system architects and more. Error correction is at the centre of everything we do; and we focus on solving real-world problems. If you’re interested in joining our team, we are always open to hearing from exceptional people interested in working on one of the defining technologies of our lifetime.
Investor
Aug 2024
Cerebras Systems is the worlds fastest AI inference. We are powering the future of generative AI. We’re a team of pioneering computer architects, deep learning researchers, and engineers building a new class of AI supercomputers from the ground up. Our flagship system, Cerebras CS-3, is powered by the Wafer Scale Engine 3—the world’s largest and fastest AI processor. CS-3s are effortlessly clustered to create the largest AI supercomputers on Earth, while abstracting away the complexity of traditional distributed computing. From sub-second inference speeds to breakthrough training performance, Cerebras makes it easier to build and deploy state-of-the-art AI—from proprietary enterprise models to open-source projects downloaded millions of times. Here’s what makes our platform different: 🔦 Sub-second reasoning – Instant intelligence and real-time responsiveness, even at massive scale ⚡ Blazing-fast inference – Up to 100x performance gains over traditional AI infrastructure 🧠 Agentic AI in action – Models that can plan, act, and adapt autonomously 🌍 Scalable infrastructure – Built to move from prototype to global deployment without friction Cerebras solutions are available in the Cerebras Cloud or on-prem, serving leading enterprises, research labs, and government agencies worldwide. 👉 Learn more: www.cerebras.ai Join us: https://cerebras.net/careers/
Angel Investor
2024
Enara Bio is shining a light on Dark Antigen and T-cell biology to develop cancer immunotherapies designed to improve treatment outcomes for broad populations of cancer patients with solid tumors. Our pioneering EDAPT® platform enables us to discover cancer-specific antigens from previously uncharted genomic ‘dark matter’. The result is a growing library of Dark Antigens that can address the need for novel, cancer-specific targets in solid tumors. Through our proprietary EnTiCE platform, Enara is developing novel bispecific T cell engagers against Dark Antigen targets that are highly prevalent and homogenously expressed across solid tumors. Our partner, Boehringer Ingelheim, is combining multiple licensed Dark Antigens to create novel immunotherapies. Based in Oxford, UK, Enara Bio is backed by a strong syndicate of life science investors including RA Capital, Pfizer Ventures, M Ventures, Samsara BioCapital, SV Health Investors, and the Francis Crick Institute. For more information, visit: www.enarabio.com. Comments and DMs to this account are not monitored, for any further information please head to our website
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2026
Angel Investor
Jan 2026
Prevision Medicine envisions a world where every patient diagnosed with cancer receives the most effective treatment options through personalized ex vivo drug testing, delivering well tolerated life-extending therapies.
2025
Investor
2025
SICTIC is a Switzerland based non-profit association that connects smart money investors to innovative seed and early stage tech startups. Since 2018, SICTIC is the largest and most active business angel network in Switzerland. SICTIC itself does not invest and also does not take any commission on investments.
Investor
2025
Quantum computing will be a world-changing technology with the potential to unlock powerful advances in medicine, energy, finance and beyond. At PsiQuantum, we’re focused on building the world’s first useful quantum computer. A useful quantum computer requires at least 1,000,000 qubits and error correction. We believe photonics is the only path to building a useful quantum computer. Our team at PsiQuantum is a mix of quantum physicists, semiconductor, systems, and software engineers, system architects and more. Error correction is at the centre of everything we do; and we focus on solving real-world problems. If you’re interested in joining our team, we are always open to hearing from exceptional people interested in working on one of the defining technologies of our lifetime.
2024
Investor
Aug 2024
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable. Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. Autonomous IT. Unstoppable Business. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business - visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Investor
Aug 2024
Cerebras Systems is the worlds fastest AI inference. We are powering the future of generative AI. We’re a team of pioneering computer architects, deep learning researchers, and engineers building a new class of AI supercomputers from the ground up. Our flagship system, Cerebras CS-3, is powered by the Wafer Scale Engine 3—the world’s largest and fastest AI processor. CS-3s are effortlessly clustered to create the largest AI supercomputers on Earth, while abstracting away the complexity of traditional distributed computing. From sub-second inference speeds to breakthrough training performance, Cerebras makes it easier to build and deploy state-of-the-art AI—from proprietary enterprise models to open-source projects downloaded millions of times. Here’s what makes our platform different: 🔦 Sub-second reasoning – Instant intelligence and real-time responsiveness, even at massive scale ⚡ Blazing-fast inference – Up to 100x performance gains over traditional AI infrastructure 🧠 Agentic AI in action – Models that can plan, act, and adapt autonomously 🌍 Scalable infrastructure – Built to move from prototype to global deployment without friction Cerebras solutions are available in the Cerebras Cloud or on-prem, serving leading enterprises, research labs, and government agencies worldwide. 👉 Learn more: www.cerebras.ai Join us: https://cerebras.net/careers/
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