Armada Investment AG
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Venture Fund |
| Founded 📆 | 2000 |
| Founder 👔 | Daniel Aegerter |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Zürich, Switzerland |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Members | |
Number of employees | <10 |
| 🌐 Website | armada |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Armada Investment AG is a privately held investment firm and family office headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in the year 2000 by Swiss entrepreneur and investor Daniel Aegerter, the firm manages assets across private equity, venture capital, public equities, and real estate, with a focus on backing early-stage technology companies.
History
Armada Investment was established in 2000 by Daniel S. Aegerter following the sale of his B2B e-commerce software company, Tradex Technologies, to SAP Ariba for $5.6 billion—one of the largest software acquisitions at the time.[1][2]
Investments
- SpaceX: Daniel invested in the company around 2016, while initially skeptical, his then-19-year-old son persuaded him to invest. Steve Jurvetson, who had previously invested in Tradex Technologies helped make the investment possible [3] [4]
- RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile): In August 2024, Armada co-lead the seed investment round together with Bezos Expeditions, HongShan and others. [5] RIVR was acquired by Amazon in March 2026. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.[6]
- Oklo Inc: Armada invested in all rounds from pre-seed in 2015 to pre-IPO 2024.[7][8]
- Stellos (formerly ShareP): Armada invested in the seed round following their innosuisse award grant.[9][10]
- Studsvik: In February 2025 Armada purchased a 9.9% stake in the company.[11] The fund boosted it's position to just under 30% in June 2025.[12]
Key People
Daniel Aegerter - Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman.[10]
References
- ↑ "Ariba Buys Tradex in $1.86 Billion Stock Deal". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ Reporter, By a Wall Street Journal Staff (1999-12-17). "Ariba Agrees to Acquire Tradex For About $1.86 Billion in Stock - WSJ". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Vom SpaceX-IPO würde auch ein Schweizer profitieren". Bilanz (in Deutsch). 2026-01-07. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Today SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX — the largest IPO in history. Congratulations to my son Tommy and to Steve Jurvetson, who was an important investor in TRADEX almost 30… | Daniel Aegerter | 10 comments". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ swissinfo.ch, S. W. I. (2024-08-28). "Bezos-Led Funding Round Values Swiss Robot Maker at $100 Million". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ Korosec, Kirsten (2026-03-19). "Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Oklo, an Advanced Fission Technology Company, to Go Public via Merger with AltC Acquisition Corp. | Daniel Aegerter". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Tim Draper backed me at TRADEX Series B in 1998 which was a 100x for DFJ! Since then we independently discovered two great companies: Nutmeg a 10x (I lead series A and he was seed) and OKLO where we… | Daniel Aegerter". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Innosuisse awards Enerdrape, 4K-Mems and ShareP with the Innosuisse Certificate". www.startupticker.ch. Archived from the original on 2026-03-04. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Armada Investment AG". www.armada.com. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ "Nomination Committee of Studsvik AB proposes changes to the Board of Directors". Nasdaq Company News. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
- ↑ swissinfo.ch, S. W. I. (2025-06-16). "Swiss Investor Boosts Stake in Studsvik With 'Growth Agenda'". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2026-10-06.
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