Roland Zeller

Serial-Entrepreneur and Startup-Investor

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Switzerland
6
Total investments
4
Early stage
0
Mid stage
1
Late stage
17y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Jan 2023
LIKE MAGIC is the go-to digital solution for hospitality businesses. Our platform leverages cutting-edge technology to optimize all aspects of operational management. By streamlining processes and integrating key systems, LIKE MAGIC offers a seamless, stress-free experience for guests and staff alike. With our platform, hospitality businesses can achieve healthy growth and innovation while staying ahead of the curve in an industry thats constantly evolving. LIKE MAGIC combines all business-relevant systems and applications in a single, smart, user-centric, and open solution and connects guests, staff, and operators like never before. Unlock the full potential of your hospitality business by reducing complexity, increasig efficiency, and creating a game-changing experience for everyone involved.
early stageHospitality
Boardmember
Jan 2020
CheckYeti was founded in 2014 in Austria and Switzerland by two young entrepreneurs from Salzburg, Stefan Pinggera and Georg Reich. Their vision: To develop an online platform that allows you to search for, compare and book winter and summer activities across Europe. The unique platform has quickly grown to become the European market leader. Today, CheckYeti enables holidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts from more than 137 countries to book over 12,000 activities across Europe – including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. CheckYeti is active in 16 countries and 1,500+ mountain and beach destinations. The website is available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. Find the best holiday activity tips on our blog: www.checkyeti.com/blog
Boardmember
May 2017
Lucerne Tourism (Lucerne Tourism Ltd) is the centre of competence for positioning, public relations, marketing and guest services on behalf of which offer and sell first class tourism services in the Lucerne – Lake Lucerne Region. The authenticity and the high quality of the services and products offered within the region are in the strategic focus of the duties and responsibilities of Lucerne Tourism. Our Tourist Information Offices in Lucerne, Weggis and Vitznau are happy to advise on the wide range of excursions in the area or book appropriate accommodations. They give information on current events taking place and know where the most beautiful places and sights are in the Lucerne – Lake Lucerne Region.
Member of the board and investor
Feb 2012
Foap is the best way to crowdsource, curate and buy legal visual UGC to answer the growing demand for content that engages and sells for bigger and smaller brands, advertising agencies in favour of real, authentic imagery. Foap Missions save marketers time finding the right photo and video by providing the ability to crowdsource custom, on-demand photo assets from a highly engaged community of social photo and videography enthusiasts. With the most competitive licensing structure in the industry and a fast-growing customer base, Foap is the antidote to the stock photos and videos challenges brands and agencies are increasingly facing in the social age. By making possible for millions of mobile phone users to commercialize their snaps, we bring to the industry something new and fresh. Traditional stock photography and videography feels just wrong. It's boring, fake, staged, artificial... Foap photos and videos are real and authentic. Our global community of photo and video-creatives is taking snaps of their everyday lives, of real moments. That’s why our visual content is more likeable and create more engagement, not least on social media. Besides, on Foap you get the world’s probably most attractive photo and video license: No limits of usage in whatever platforms, globally, forever. Simple. We also offer brands and agencies the opportunity to request a specific photo and video assets from our community. That’s what we call Foap Missions. Get the visual content you need and engage your fans, inviting them to become creators of your marketing content. Since our launch in 2012 our list of clients has been growing fast: Google, Heineken, Volvo Group, Pernod Ricard, MasterCard, VisitSweden, Sony, Lufthansa, Priceline, VisitEngland and many, many more. Welcome to the world of the real visual content marketing!
Member of the board and investor
Feb 2012
Foap is the best way to crowdsource, curate and buy legal visual UGC to answer the growing demand for content that engages and sells for bigger and smaller brands, advertising agencies in favour of real, authentic imagery. Foap Missions save marketers time finding the right photo and video by providing the ability to crowdsource custom, on-demand photo assets from a highly engaged community of social photo and videography enthusiasts. With the most competitive licensing structure in the industry and a fast-growing customer base, Foap is the antidote to the stock photos and videos challenges brands and agencies are increasingly facing in the social age. By making possible for millions of mobile phone users to commercialize their snaps, we bring to the industry something new and fresh. Traditional stock photography and videography feels just wrong. It's boring, fake, staged, artificial... Foap photos and videos are real and authentic. Our global community of photo and video-creatives is taking snaps of their everyday lives, of real moments. That’s why our visual content is more likeable and create more engagement, not least on social media. Besides, on Foap you get the world’s probably most attractive photo and video license: No limits of usage in whatever platforms, globally, forever. Simple. We also offer brands and agencies the opportunity to request a specific photo and video assets from our community. That’s what we call Foap Missions. Get the visual content you need and engage your fans, inviting them to become creators of your marketing content. Since our launch in 2012 our list of clients has been growing fast: Google, Heineken, Volvo Group, Pernod Ricard, MasterCard, VisitSweden, Sony, Lufthansa, Priceline, VisitEngland and many, many more. Welcome to the world of the real visual content marketing!
Investor, Member of the board
Aug 2009
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.
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Investments (6)
Founder (3)
Board (6)
2023
Co-Founder and Chairman
May 2023
Board Member
Jan 2023
LIKE MAGIC is the go-to digital solution for hospitality businesses. Our platform leverages cutting-edge technology to optimize all aspects of operational management. By streamlining processes and integrating key systems, LIKE MAGIC offers a seamless, stress-free experience for guests and staff alike. With our platform, hospitality businesses can achieve healthy growth and innovation while staying ahead of the curve in an industry thats constantly evolving. LIKE MAGIC combines all business-relevant systems and applications in a single, smart, user-centric, and open solution and connects guests, staff, and operators like never before. Unlock the full potential of your hospitality business by reducing complexity, increasig efficiency, and creating a game-changing experience for everyone involved.
early stageHospitality
2020
Boardmember
Jan 2020
CheckYeti was founded in 2014 in Austria and Switzerland by two young entrepreneurs from Salzburg, Stefan Pinggera and Georg Reich. Their vision: To develop an online platform that allows you to search for, compare and book winter and summer activities across Europe. The unique platform has quickly grown to become the European market leader. Today, CheckYeti enables holidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts from more than 137 countries to book over 12,000 activities across Europe – including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. CheckYeti is active in 16 countries and 1,500+ mountain and beach destinations. The website is available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. Find the best holiday activity tips on our blog: www.checkyeti.com/blog
2017
Boardmember
May 2017
Lucerne Tourism (Lucerne Tourism Ltd) is the centre of competence for positioning, public relations, marketing and guest services on behalf of which offer and sell first class tourism services in the Lucerne – Lake Lucerne Region. The authenticity and the high quality of the services and products offered within the region are in the strategic focus of the duties and responsibilities of Lucerne Tourism. Our Tourist Information Offices in Lucerne, Weggis and Vitznau are happy to advise on the wide range of excursions in the area or book appropriate accommodations. They give information on current events taking place and know where the most beautiful places and sights are in the Lucerne – Lake Lucerne Region.
2015
General Manager / Owner
Mar 2015
Innuvik Ventures is a swiss based early-stage startup-investor, focussing on internet-startups in Europe. Main focus is on seed and early-stage. Our hometurf is the travel-industry, where we have a deep expertise from earlier investments (eg: Getyourguide, Lodgify, Byhours). Furthermore we are interested in edutech and transportation. We do NOT invest into: - Life Science - Fintech - Hardware Startups
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