Wanja Humanes

CEO and Managing Partner at Kickfund

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022
VC🌍 Switzerland
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Investor
Dec 2021
Cato provides a world-leading single-vendor SASE platform. Cato creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. Using Cato, businesses easily replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack to secure and optimize their global hybrid workforce and mission-critical applications and data on premises and in the cloud. With Cato, any organization can reap the full benefits of digital transformation and move at the speed of business.
Investor
Mar 2021
Bitmovin is the Emmy award-winning category leader in video streaming infrastructure. The company has been at the forefront of industry innovation and all major developments in the online video streaming industry. Bitmovin built the world’s first commercial adaptive streaming player and deployed the first software-defined encoding service that runs on any cloud platform. Its cloud-native technology offers the most flexible and scalable media encoding, playback, and analytics solutions available, with unparalleled device reach, ease of integration, and world-class customer support. Today, the company’s solutions are used by over 400 customers worldwide, including the BBC, ClassPass, Discovery, fuboTV, Hulu and many more. For more information, visit www.bitmovin.com.
Investor and Board Observer
Feb 2021
Cognism is the leading provider of European B2B data and sales intelligence. Ambitious businesses of every size use our platform to discover, connect, and engage with qualified decision-makers faster and close more deals. Headquartered in London with global offices, Cognism’s contact data and contextual signals are trusted by thousands of revenue teams to eliminate the guesswork from prospecting. Following multiple successful funding rounds and the acquisition of Mailtastic (2020), an email signature solution provider, and Kaspr (2022), a Paris-based sales prospecting tool, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. Please review our current vacancies on here or for more information check out our Careers Page on our website, linked below.
Investor and Board Observer
Apr 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
Investor
Apr 2020
The collaborative, AI-powered platform for customer conversations. Trusted by more than 22,000 companies worldwide. Aircall seamlessly integrates voice, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media channels into a single platform, with bi-directional syncing across 200+ essential business apps. Imagine your CRM and Helpdesk data flowing effortlessly into every customer interaction, empowering your team to deliver smarter, more personalized experiences. Trusted by over 22,000 businesses globally, Aircalls AI-powered platform supercharges sales and support. We automate the busywork—optimizing call routing, automating repetitive tasks–while simultaneously delivering actionable insights from across every customer interaction. As a result, your teams are free to focus on what truly matters: building and maintaining customer relationships. Aircall is where your tech stack unites and your teams excel. We transform customer interactions into strategic opportunities, fueling growth and turning conversations into satisfied customers. With Aircall, every connection counts.
Investor
Dec 2018
True precision medicine through single-cell science. Scailyte is an ETH Zürich spin-off with a best-in-class artificial intelligence platform for the discovery of complex disease patterns from single-cell data. Our solution provides unprecedented insight into diseases and enables ultra-sensitive diagnostics by uncovering human's hidden "single-cell"​ secrets. The performance and clinically-relevant application of Scailyte's platform ScaiVision have been demonstrated in numerous clinical projects that resulted in patent-pending biomarkers. Scailyte has a growing pipeline of clinical projects in immunology, oncology and women's health supported by top clinicians and access to high quality proprietary datasets. If you want to partner with us and save lives by enabling precision medicine, reach out to contact@scailyte.com More information about our company, technology & services you can find on our website - https://scailyte.com
early stageBiotechnology
Investor
Jun 2018
Get more powerful websites and applications with Fastly’s edge cloud platform. We help places like Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, Neiman Marcus, The New York Times, Epic Games, and GitHub do so every day.
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Bring! unterstützt Millionen Menschen dabei besser einzukaufen. Die App begleitet Nutzer:innen durch alle Aspekte des Einkaufens von Alltagsartikel wie Lebensmittel & Drogerieware – von der Inspiration, über die gemeinsame Planung bis hin zum Kauf. Gemeinsam mit Brands aus FMCG und Retail gestaltet die Bring! Labs AG die Zukunft des Einkaufens und unterstützt Werbetreibende durch neuartige Marketing-Kanäle dabei, ihre Business-Ziele zu erreichen. Bring! lässt sich per Smartphone, Desktop, Smartwatch und mittels aller gängigen Sprachassistenten nutzen. Bring! ist als kostenlose App für iOS und Android sowie über das Web (www.getbring.com) verfügbar. Die Bring! Labs AG mit Sitzen in Zürich, Berlin, Basel und Köln wurde 2015 gegründet und beschäftigt heute rund 50 Mitarbeitende.
Board member
Jan 2018
Bring! unterstützt Millionen Menschen dabei besser einzukaufen. Die App begleitet Nutzer:innen durch alle Aspekte des Einkaufens von Alltagsartikel wie Lebensmittel & Drogerieware – von der Inspiration, über die gemeinsame Planung bis hin zum Kauf. Gemeinsam mit Brands aus FMCG und Retail gestaltet die Bring! Labs AG die Zukunft des Einkaufens und unterstützt Werbetreibende durch neuartige Marketing-Kanäle dabei, ihre Business-Ziele zu erreichen. Bring! lässt sich per Smartphone, Desktop, Smartwatch und mittels aller gängigen Sprachassistenten nutzen. Bring! ist als kostenlose App für iOS und Android sowie über das Web (www.getbring.com) verfügbar. Die Bring! Labs AG mit Sitzen in Zürich, Berlin, Basel und Köln wurde 2015 gegründet und beschäftigt heute rund 50 Mitarbeitende.
Investor
Dec 2016
Vous manquez de temps pour les nouvelles commandes et le marketing? Vos factures s'empilent et vous ne disposez pas d'une vue d'ensemble? La comptabilité vous rend fou? Avec bexio, l'administration de votre entreprise est un jeu d’enfant. Épargnez-vous plus de 3 heures de travail administratif par semaine! bexio est une solution intuitive qui vous permet de mettre rapidement de l'ordre dans vos factures et de simplifier votre travail au quotidien — tout en effectuant votre comptabilité en arrière-plan, de manière quasi automatique. Résultat: vous avez enfin du temps pour ce que vous aimez vraiment faire! Avec bexio, votre administration devient simple comme bonjour: - Une interface utilisateur intuitive pour plus de simplicité. - L'automatisation des processus vous fait économiser jusqu'à 12 heures de travail administratif par mois. - Un Swiss Made Software de grande qualité qui vous épargne de nombreux soucis. - Un service d'assistance compétent accessible gratuitement, 24h/24 et 7j/7. - Une solution accessible à tout moment et où que vous soyez grâce au cloud. - Boostez les performances du logiciel grâce à plus de 120 add-ons et extensions.
Investor
Oct 2016
#Nanolive: Capture dynamic, unbiased live cell data to accelerate discovery, development and therapeutics. Nanolive delivers breakthrough 3D imaging solutions that accelerate research in growth industries such as drug discovery and cell therapy. Nanolive’s innovative solutions combine screening, imaging and analysis to radically advance how scientists study living cells and provide novel biological insights such as the mechanisms of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Investor
Jun 2016
Thanks to our solutions based on Artificial Intelligence, our solid business experience and the trust of our customers in the private and public sectors, we have become the company of choice for helping firms and organizations to manage reputational/ESG risks and information manipulation. Reputation damage, controversy, influence operations, disinformation, misinformation, propaganda and cognitive warfare are the daily topics covered by our teams in over 36 different languages and in all geographical areas. The influence campaigns and misinformation events detected, characterized and analyzed by Bloom over the years have enabled it to acquire unique expertise in risk management. We offer to our customers anticipation and response measures against the threats they encounter. Our proprietary technology collects large volumes of social data from conversational networks, then carries out in-depth dynamic analysis. Consolidated by predictive models and the expertise of Blooms staff, these analyses provide the trends, operational and strategic elements needed to understand the digital environment and make the right decisions at the right time.
Experience · 19 entries
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Investments (15)
Board (6)
2023
Chief Executive Officer
Jun 2023
Kickfund exclusively invests in Swiss pre-seed and seed stage technology startups that have successfully completed the Venture Kick competition. Established in Luxembourg, the fund was initiated by supporters of the Swiss startup and innovation ecosystem.
2022
Board Observer
Nov 2022
Mediktor was founded in Spain in 2011 by Oscar García-Esquirol, an intensive care provider, and Cristian Pascual, an industrial engineer. It is the most advanced clinically validated AI-based medical assistant for triage and pre-diagnosis that guides patients to the right level of care at the right time – improving access while enabling more efficient care navigation. Powered by a sophisticated AI engine that enables users to converse naturally in several languages, Mediktor’s white-labeled SaaS is omnichannel and can be easily embedded into any interface (web, mobile, desktop). Mediktor’s customers include health plans, hospital and health systems, telehealth, and pharmaceutical companies.
Investment Director
Jan 2022
MTIP is a leading Swiss-based growth equity firm investing in European healthtech companies that aim to revolutionize global healthcare. We leverage our deep sector expertise to help the founders scale up successful and sustainable digital health businesses.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Lumeon helps care teams close the gap between clinical intent and operational execution at scale with our Conductor SaaS platform. Lumeon Conductor™ enhances the EMR with proprietary clinical automation to algorithmically create the optimal care plan for every patient, in real time, individualized to their specific need, taking into account social, clinical and operational factors that drive access, quality and efficiency. Lumeon transformed the care journeys of over 10M patients in the last 12 months and has proven to improve care team capacity by 60%, improve patient satisfaction by 83%, and markedly improve revenue. Lumeon’s portfolio of solutions span perioperative efficiency, management of ambulatory care, discharge planning, and acute care at home, delivering ROI in as little as three months.
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Cato provides a world-leading single-vendor SASE platform. Cato creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. Using Cato, businesses easily replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack to secure and optimize their global hybrid workforce and mission-critical applications and data on premises and in the cloud. With Cato, any organization can reap the full benefits of digital transformation and move at the speed of business.
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