Kickfund AG, St. Alban-Vorstadt 12, 4052 Basel, Switzerland ("Kickfund", "we") operates the website www.kickfund.ch ("Website") and is responsible for collecting, processing and using your personal data in compliance with the applicable data protection law, in particular the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection and, where it applies, the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
In this Privacy Policy, we explain what personal data we collect, for what purposes we use it, who receives it, and how you can review, correct or delete it.
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact us at info@kickfund.ch.
Who is responsible?
Kickfund AG is responsible for the processing described in this Privacy Policy. For processing related to investments, our affiliated company Kickfund Partners Sàrl, 5 Avenue Gaston Diderich, 1420 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, is jointly responsible with Kickfund AG (see "Who receives your data?").
What personal data do we collect, and why?
Data you give us
You give us personal data when you use the contact form on our Website, subscribe to our newsletter, apply for a job through our Deep Tech Jobs board, send us pitch material, or contact us by e-mail, phone, LinkedIn or in person. This may include:
- contact details, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, company and role;
- your LinkedIn profile information;
- information about your company, such as pitch decks, financing details and business plans;
- any other information you choose to send us.
We use this data to answer your inquiries, assess potential investments, manage our investments and our relationships with founders and investors, connect founders with co-investors and other contacts in our network, send you our newsletter and invitations to events, and keep you informed about Kickfund and our portfolio companies. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the link in each e-mail.
Data from public sources
We may also collect personal data from publicly available sources, such as LinkedIn, company websites, commercial registers and news articles. We use it for the purposes above, in particular to assess investment opportunities and to keep our records about our portfolio companies up to date.
Data collected automatically when you visit our Website
When you visit our Website, our host's servers temporarily store each access in a log file. The following technical data is collected without your intervention and stored until it is deleted automatically:
- the IP address of your device;
- your operating system;
- your browser (type, version and language);
- the date and time of the request;
- the page from which you reached our Website (referrer URL);
- the status code (for example, an error message).
We process this data to make our Website work, to keep it secure and stable, and to improve it. In the event of an attack or other abusive use of the Website, we may use the IP address together with the other data to identify those responsible.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that your browser saves on your device when you visit a website. We use technically necessary cookies, performance cookies and functional cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can set your browser to refuse them or to warn you before a cookie is stored. If you disable cookies, some parts of the Website may not work. More information is available at allaboutcookies.org.
Who receives your data?
Only employees and partners of Kickfund who need your personal data for the purposes above have access to it. They are bound by confidentiality and by data protection law.
Kickfund Partners Sàrl. If you are a founder, we may share investment-related personal data with Kickfund Partners Sàrl in Luxembourg, which acts as a joint controller with Kickfund AG, when we assess an investment or when this is needed to prepare or carry out an investment. If you are an investor, we may share your personal data with Kickfund Partners Sàrl to carry out investment-related steps. Kickfund Partners Sàrl processes this data only for these purposes, under the same security standards as Kickfund AG.
Service providers. We may have personal data processed by service providers on our behalf, for example for hosting, e-mail, newsletters, file storage and our records. They may process the data only as we are allowed to ourselves, and we make sure they keep it secure.
Web host. Our Website is hosted by Webflow, Inc., 398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, on servers in the USA. Webflow also receives the messages sent through our contact form. Webflow's privacy policy: https://webflow.com/legal/privacy.
We may also disclose personal data if the law requires it, if it is necessary to enforce our rights, or if you have consented.
Links and social media. Our Website links to other websites, including LinkedIn. When you follow such a link, the operator of that website may receive data about you. We have no control over how these websites process data, so please read their privacy policies. When you click an e-mail address on our Website, your own e-mail program opens a new message.
Do we transfer personal data abroad?
We may transfer your personal data to service providers and to Kickfund Partners Sàrl abroad for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, in particular to the EU (Luxembourg) and the USA. They are bound to protect the data to the same extent as we are. If a country does not offer a level of data protection equivalent to Switzerland or the EU/EEA, we ensure by contract that your personal data is protected to that level at all times.
How long do we keep your data?
We keep personal data only as long as we need it for the purposes described above, unless the law requires us to keep it longer (for example, for accounting or tax purposes), or we have a legitimate business interest or your consent to keep it.
What are your rights?
You have the right to:
- ask what personal data we hold about you;
- have incorrect data corrected;
- have your data deleted, unless we are legally required or otherwise entitled to keep it;
- object to or restrict certain processing;
- receive the data you gave us in a common file format, or have it sent to another company (data portability);
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we process data based on your consent.
To use these rights, contact us at info@kickfund.ch or by post: Kickfund AG, Data Protection, St. Alban-Vorstadt 12, 4052 Basel, Switzerland. We may ask you to prove your identity.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority. In Switzerland, this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
Is your data safe with us?
We use suitable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss and unauthorized access, and we improve them as technology develops. No method of transmission over the internet or of electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our Website, our activities or the law change. The version published on our Website applies.
Last updated: 4 November 2026. Questions about data protection? Please contact us at info@kickfund.ch.