Philipp Stauffer

Company-builder, founder mentor, investor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 32 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
32
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8
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2026
We are a Swiss startup powering ultra-fast, energy-efficient photonic devices through the first 200 mm foundry platform based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). Built for scale. Designed for speed. Trusted by innovators in datacom, telecom, and beyond.
Seed Investor
2025
The fastest path to safe super intelligence. Paved with better reasoning.
Seed Investor
2025
Kadoa is the most accurate and easy-to-use platform for unstructured data. Our AI agents automatically extract, transform, and integrate data from any source, such as websites, PDFs, or CSVs. This eliminates engineering bottlenecks, reduces the time-to-insight, and enables companies to make faster and better investment decisions.
Seed Investor
2024
Meet Ogment: Your AI-Powered HR Dream Team. Imagine an HR department that works 24/7, never misses a task, and frees you to focus on what truly matters - building exceptional teams and driving the company forward. At Ogment, we’ve built AI employees - digital coworkers specialised in HR. ‍ They’re here to take the repetitive, tedious work off your plate so you can unlock your full potential, achieve ambitious targets, and supercharge your productivity. ‍ Every day, HR professionals spend hours on knowledge work: Sorting résumés. Scheduling interviews. Managing compliance, Following up with candidates. It’s necessary—but it doesn’t have to be you doing it. Our AI-powered employees handle 80% of the manual work for you—accurately, efficiently, and seamlessly. And the best part: Ogment integrates with the tools you already use—your ATS, HRIS, emails, calendars. No overhauls. No disruptions. Just results. ‍ And here’s what you get in return: Time to focus on what really matters: strategy, innovation, and meaningful human connections. Free up resources to invest in candidate experience, employer branding, and long-term success. This isn’t just a new tool—it’s a new way to work. ‍AI leads the way, pulling you in only when human judgment is needed. It’s time to delegate the tedious and redefine how work gets done. Unparalleled productivity - your team, supercharged. ‍ Welcome to Ogment. Welcome to the future of HR.
Seed Investor
2023
Portal is an award-winning iOS wellness app, to help you sleep, focus and relax. Boost your mental health & productivity through our immersive nature escapes to beautiful places around the world. As featured by Apple as "App of the Day" in over 150 countries, and by the Independent, Huffington Post, CNN, Tatler, TimeOut, T3, MacStores, 9to5Mac, iMore and many more...
Seed Investor
2023
The economy is moving towards digital storage of critical assets and information. The last thing someone wants to be is regretful it wasn't better protected. Our mission is to equip humanity with protection against theft, loss, and seizure of digital property, and we start with cryptocurrency. Join us in reshaping the digital landscape. Together, we'll empower digital asset holders to take control of their assets at middleman-free rates. Connect with us today!
Board Member & Early Stage Investor
2023
Edgevana aims to be the market leader in “Blockchain Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services". Meeting the speed, scale, security and resilience needs of the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency operators, NFT providers and enterprises adopting decentralized ledger technologies.
Seed Investor
2022
Our startup leverages AI to diagnose and resolve issues with EV fast chargers before drivers even realize there is a problem. We can detect potential issues by constantly analyzing real-time data and proactively alerting station owners to take action. This not only minimizes downtime and revenue loss for station owners but also ensures a seamless charging experience for EV drivers. Our technology is essential as the demand for fast, reliable charging options grows and serves as a critical component in building a sustainable, electric future.
Seed Investor
2022
Unique is an AI-driven platform transforming financial operations through agentic AI solutions. We help financial institutions streamline middle- and back-office processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and security at scale. By leveraging cutting-edge agentic AI, Unique empowers teams to focus on high-value work, reducing manual effort and operational risk. Our goal is to automate resource-heavy and standardised workflows through an agentic workforce that complements employees.
Seed Investor
2022
DSCVR is a groundbreaking decentralized social platform built entirely on the Internet Computer (ICP). Major social networks have become immensely powerful and core to the way we communicate as a society, yet they are distrusted by their own users. DSCVR is a new kind of social network that presents the potential of a different future.
Seed Investor
Feb 2021
Decentralized discourse
Seed Investor & Board Member
2021
rready supports companies globally to unleash the full potential of their employees through bottom-up innovation and idea execution. By making employee driven innovation in companies scalable, fun and educational through SaaS based solutions, we help companies leverage their most important asset: the employees. Today we serve over 40 clients in 15 different countries, across the globe.
Seed Investor & Board Member
2020
Gmelius offers a new way to collaborate, manage projects and automate workflows inside Gmail (Google Workspace) - and beyond, by connecting your daily tools, such as Slack, Trello and more. Our Mission: Build the 1st collaboration platform that lives where you work 🚀 Teams can collaborate right from the tools they already know and love. Gmelius allows them to work together on email, monitor and distribute their company's workload visually, and automate all the grunt work. Their daily apps are brought together, with no need to migrate data to a different third-party solution nor to learn how to use another application. Company data is de-siloed and productivity increased, without the constant tab-switching. Master teamwork, not another tool! Work with us 🙌 We are a young and multi-cultural team based in Geneva, Switzerland and the US. We value openness, curiosity, low ego, and ownership. Gmelius is a Y Combinator (S19) company. Check out our career opportunities: https://gmelius.com/careers
Board Member
2020
Locatee - Uncover Workplace Insights Locatee is the leading Workplace Analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insights. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers Corporate Real Estate Managers to make decisions about their office buildings with confidence. Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patent-pending technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence right at their fingertips, Corporate Real Estate Managers can easily identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance the company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. www.locatee.com Imprint: https://locatee.com/en/imprint/
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2026
Investor
2026
We are a Swiss startup powering ultra-fast, energy-efficient photonic devices through the first 200 mm foundry platform based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). Built for scale. Designed for speed. Trusted by innovators in datacom, telecom, and beyond.
2025
Seed Investor
2025
The fastest path to safe super intelligence. Paved with better reasoning.
Seed Investor
2025
Kadoa is the most accurate and easy-to-use platform for unstructured data. Our AI agents automatically extract, transform, and integrate data from any source, such as websites, PDFs, or CSVs. This eliminates engineering bottlenecks, reduces the time-to-insight, and enables companies to make faster and better investment decisions.
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Meet Ogment: Your AI-Powered HR Dream Team. Imagine an HR department that works 24/7, never misses a task, and frees you to focus on what truly matters - building exceptional teams and driving the company forward. At Ogment, we’ve built AI employees - digital coworkers specialised in HR. ‍ They’re here to take the repetitive, tedious work off your plate so you can unlock your full potential, achieve ambitious targets, and supercharge your productivity. ‍ Every day, HR professionals spend hours on knowledge work: Sorting résumés. Scheduling interviews. Managing compliance, Following up with candidates. It’s necessary—but it doesn’t have to be you doing it. Our AI-powered employees handle 80% of the manual work for you—accurately, efficiently, and seamlessly. And the best part: Ogment integrates with the tools you already use—your ATS, HRIS, emails, calendars. No overhauls. No disruptions. Just results. ‍ And here’s what you get in return: Time to focus on what really matters: strategy, innovation, and meaningful human connections. Free up resources to invest in candidate experience, employer branding, and long-term success. This isn’t just a new tool—it’s a new way to work. ‍AI leads the way, pulling you in only when human judgment is needed. It’s time to delegate the tedious and redefine how work gets done. Unparalleled productivity - your team, supercharged. ‍ Welcome to Ogment. Welcome to the future of HR.
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