Tobias Bassi

Corporate Venture Capital | Fintech, AI & DLT | Driving Internal Growth & Innovation

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Board Observer
Jan 2021
Leveraging and connecting to payment services can be a stumbling block for insurers. Integrations are expensive and often prevent insurers from fully leveraging the full benefits of the payments ecosystem. Duck Creek Payments bridges the gap for any insurer through a single connection. It simplifies the complexity with seamless access to a diverse range of payment technologies and providers worldwide. Regardless of their existing IT infrastructure and financial process, insurers can connect to the entire global payments ecosystem for both collections and payouts. We do the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to. Deploy the right payment solution in the right market swiftly and seamlessly.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
BetterTradeOff is a Singapore-headquartered FinTech that’s revolutionising financial advice with an online solution that helps simplify and demystify financial planning. Making it possible for everyone, regardless of financial acumen, to make better financial decisions. Interactive and visual, the platform makes it easy for users to see and understand the impact of different decisions, while simulating a wide range of financial situations, such as purchasing a new home, or planning for retirement. The solution has been deployed in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the UAE, and Switzerland and is utilized across three distinctive business lines- a white-label and API based enterprise solution for financial institutions; a SaaS solution for Financial Advisers; and a free, do-it-yourself, financial planning platform for consumers. BetterTradeOff was selected as the Malaysia Champion in Zurich’s global Innovation Championships 2020. In 2018, BTO won the Global FinTech Hackcelerator organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); and the ‘DIAmond Award – Most Innovative Start-up’, at the most prestigious InsurTech event in the world, the DIA Conference in Amsterdam.
Board Observer
Oct 2017
Sentifi ingests social media, news, and blogs, capturing and making sense of investment signals in that unstructured data with a mature AI platform. Sentifi's investment analytics are leveraged by leading institutional investors to make informed investment decisions to generate above benchmark returns.
Board Observer
Apr 2017
The RaiseNow platform supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online fundraising. Use solutions for all digital touch points – from SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-peer event fundraising and donation forms. We integrate your email and social media channels and make everything tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor database.
early stageFundraising
Board Observer
Mar 2017
SONECT CONNECTS PEOPLE Sonect is a Swiss company that converts every shop into a “virtual ATM”. This reduces cost of cash distribution for banks and eases up in store cash management for merchants via a location-based on-demand service. Users of the platform can withdraw cash from any of the participating shops using a smartphone. Sonect builds a community around local businesses and helps them generate physical leads while banks save up to 50% in running their ATM operations and optimize their presence. Sonect also helps banks expand their services into new regions and increase financial inclusion without any significant capital investment. ❝We connect people who possess cash with people who need cash.❞ We are a team of payment industry experts, banking veterans, IT gurus, sales & marketing champions with a common mission: easy cash, everywhere by leveraging the power of sharing economy. We follow three core principles: Enabler ◄ Companion ► Community ☛ Enabler Possessing cash means freedom. We believe that cash withdrawals should be available everywhere and to everybody. We constantly seek for new innovative ways to make our services easier and more flexible to our customers. In order to make life easier, we improve the way cash withdrawals work. ☛ Companion As a Swiss company, we offer our services as reliable and professional as the banks in our country – but without the typical bank attitude: We focus on the use and feel of our customers and communicate as easy as possible. To our customers, we are a reliable, solid companion through their daily life that we understand our customers’ needs. ☛ Community Cash usually means social interactions. Cash connects people. We want to bring people together and build a strong community. Our goal is to let people discover local stores and businesses and help them knowing their surroundings better. 🤝 Join our team and have an impact: https://www.sonect.net/jobs/
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2021
Board Observer
Jan 2021
Leveraging and connecting to payment services can be a stumbling block for insurers. Integrations are expensive and often prevent insurers from fully leveraging the full benefits of the payments ecosystem. Duck Creek Payments bridges the gap for any insurer through a single connection. It simplifies the complexity with seamless access to a diverse range of payment technologies and providers worldwide. Regardless of their existing IT infrastructure and financial process, insurers can connect to the entire global payments ecosystem for both collections and payouts. We do the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to. Deploy the right payment solution in the right market swiftly and seamlessly.
2018
Head of Corporate Venture Capital
Nov 2018
PostFinance Ltd is one of Switzerland’s leading retail financial institutions. We are a diversified, innovation-driven financial service provider. At PostFinance, you’ll work on current and future ways of managing Switzerland’s money, helping to drive the digitization of the Swiss financial sector forward. We offer our customers fresh solutions and smart money-related innovations. We achieve this thanks to our unique culture, which enables us to work with a pioneering spirit every day. We treat each other as equals at all times, regardless of where we are on the company hierarchy. Because working in an agile environment is fun. PostFinance – Shaping progress.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
BetterTradeOff is a Singapore-headquartered FinTech that’s revolutionising financial advice with an online solution that helps simplify and demystify financial planning. Making it possible for everyone, regardless of financial acumen, to make better financial decisions. Interactive and visual, the platform makes it easy for users to see and understand the impact of different decisions, while simulating a wide range of financial situations, such as purchasing a new home, or planning for retirement. The solution has been deployed in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the UAE, and Switzerland and is utilized across three distinctive business lines- a white-label and API based enterprise solution for financial institutions; a SaaS solution for Financial Advisers; and a free, do-it-yourself, financial planning platform for consumers. BetterTradeOff was selected as the Malaysia Champion in Zurich’s global Innovation Championships 2020. In 2018, BTO won the Global FinTech Hackcelerator organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); and the ‘DIAmond Award – Most Innovative Start-up’, at the most prestigious InsurTech event in the world, the DIA Conference in Amsterdam.
2017
Board Observer
Oct 2017
Sentifi ingests social media, news, and blogs, capturing and making sense of investment signals in that unstructured data with a mature AI platform. Sentifi's investment analytics are leveraged by leading institutional investors to make informed investment decisions to generate above benchmark returns.
Board Observer
Apr 2017
The RaiseNow platform supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online fundraising. Use solutions for all digital touch points – from SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-peer event fundraising and donation forms. We integrate your email and social media channels and make everything tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor database.
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