Swiss SaaS Startup Beekeeper Raises $45m to Expand Team in Europe and U.S.

The round was co-led by Thayer Ventures and Swisscanto Invest, with participation from investors including Atomico, Alpana Ventures, Edenred Capital Partners, Fyrfly, Hammer Team, HighSage Ventures, investiere, Keen Venture Partners, Samsung NEXT, Swiss Post, and Swisscom.

"Our ultimate goal to connect the unconnected or 80% of the workforce composed of non-desk workers," Beekeeper CEO and co-founder Cristian Grossmann wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing the round. "This latest round of financing gets us that much closer to our vision of connecting the world’s two billion non-desk workers through groundbreaking yet simple mobile technology."



Beekeeper's founders won pre-seed funding, training and support from Venture Kick in 2011. Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Daniel Sztutwojner (pictured above) roadshowed through China in June and July after winning a seat on Venture Leaders China 2019. The startup twice ranked at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award, coming 8th in 2017, and featured among the country's inaugural list of most-promising scale-ups.