Patrick Frei

Chairman, Board Member, Founder & Investor

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2019
Operator-angel🌍 Switzerland
6
Total investments
1
Early stage
1
Mid stage
3
Late stage
13y
Years active

Portfolio

5 investments · sorted by recency
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Advisor & Seed Investor
Aug 2019
Für rundum gesunde Mitarbeitende. Wir unterstützen dich bei der Umsetzung eines ganzheitliche und wirkungsvollen BGF Konzepts in deinem Unternehmen.
Investor
Nov 2018
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
Investor
Sep 2018
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
Co-Founder & Board Member
Sep 2014
Centurium is an independent corporate investment boutique based in Zurich, Switzerland, that is owned and managed by its founding partners. Our company advises its clients on a wide range of business strategies, including capital raising, mergers & acquisitions and other topics revolving around corporate finance. The firm was founded in 2014 on the premise that it would provide outstanding tailor- made financial and capital market advisory services to companies with enterprise values generally valued at several millions of Swiss Francs. Centurium helps its partners around the world make profound investment decisions and thus meet their objectives. We offer capital seeking companies with strategies to make significant and lasting improvements to their performance and goals with creating value for our clients. We work with experienced executives to raise capital, acquire strategic assets and provide the full range of investment services, including portfolio allocation, market screening, investment due diligence, as well as individual reporting. Our experience includes completed transactions across a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on providing investment advice to companies where our senior executives bring operating expertise as well as investment consultancy.
early stageFundraising
Investor
Aug 2014
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers
Experience · 8 entries
All (8)
Investments (5)
Founder (2)
2024
Managing Partner
Aug 2024
2020
Chairman & Founder
Jan 2020
www.midfunder.com
2019
Advisor & Seed Investor
Aug 2019
Für rundum gesunde Mitarbeitende. Wir unterstützen dich bei der Umsetzung eines ganzheitliche und wirkungsvollen BGF Konzepts in deinem Unternehmen.
2018
Investor
Nov 2018
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
Investor
Sep 2018
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
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