Privilège Ventures

Founding General Partner Jacqueline Ruedin Rüsch leads investment decisions alongside General Partner Angelica Morrone. Ruedin Rüsch has more than 15 years of finance experience and previously founded a wealth-management company before launching two venture funds that became Privilège Ventures. Morrone joined the firm as General Partner and shares responsibility for the deal pipeline.

Privilège Ventures concentrates on early-stage companies, specifically at the seed and startup phases. The firm positions itself as a venture-capital investor that enters at the earliest rounds, seeking to act as a catalyst for innovation. Later-stage growth equity has not been disclosed as part of its current mandate.

The firm’s investment team draws on a network built over decades of combined experience. Its website lists a venture partner and two venture scouts alongside a community manager, suggesting an emphasis on relationship-driven sourcing. Specific proprietary deal-flow channels have not been publicly detailed.

The firm operates as a generalist venture investor and does not publicly restrict its mandate to one or two sectors. Its confirmed portfolio names include AVELO AG, but no broader sector concentration has been disclosed. The firm’s outreach emphasizes broad support for ambitious teams rather than siloed vertical focuses.

Privilège Ventures is structured as an asset manager operating a venture-capital firm, not a single-family office. It was formed in 2021 by consolidating two previously existing venture funds. The firm’s capital is pooled across external LPs rather than serving a single family balance sheet.

Its headquarters are in Lugano, Switzerland, and the firm’s primary focus is Swiss and European early-stage companies. AVELO AG, a Swiss startup, is a confirmed portfolio company. Additional country-specific exposure has not been publicly broken out.

There is no publicly available reference to a separate philanthropic foundation or donor-advised structure tied to the firm. The firm’s website lists an advisory board, but no parallel investment vehicles, operating companies, or structured club-deal groups are identified on its public-facing pages.