Vita Advisory

Christian Winkler, who founded the firm after serving as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, leads investment decisions alongside partner Michael Winkler. The specific governance structure — such as an investment committee — is not publicly detailed, though the firm's co-investment activity with Apeiron Investment Group suggests alignment with that family office's capital-allocation process.

Vita Advisory and Apeiron Investment Group maintain a frequent co-investment relationship, appearing together in rounds for Helsing and Teralytics. Apeiron is the family office of Christian Angermayer, and the recurring co-investment pattern implies a preferred partnership or pipeline that gives Vita access to proprietary deal flow sourced through Apeiron's network.

The firm's known portfolio activity concentrates on venture-stage companies in Europe, with confirmed positions including defense-AI platform Helsing and mobility-analytics company Teralytics. Vita's generalist venture mandate does not publicly exclude growth-stage or later-stage participations, though its disclosed checks have appeared in early-to-mid-stage rounds.

The Winkler Foundation was registered in Switzerland in May 2022 as a separate legal entity from the advisory firm, carrying out charitable activities under its own governance. This structure mirrors the common family-office pattern of ring-fencing philanthropy from investment operations.

Vita Advisory has not published an exclusion list or negative investment screen. Its confirmed positions in defense-tech through Helsing, alongside a Swiss real estate portfolio, indicate an appetite for regulated, capital-intensive sectors that many generalist venture firms avoid — implying no hard restrictions on defense, dual-use technology, or physical-asset classes.