HAMMER TEAM
The “Hammer Team” is the investment vehicle of Ariel Luedi. The mission is to support software companies during their startup and growth phase. Hammer Team provides its companies with venture capital but also with expertise in different areas required to grow a company (Sales Ops, Product Management, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Tax or Branding). Ariel and his team have created a platform for those companies to communicate openly, leverage synergies and find new ways of solving challenges. Hammer Team is situated in a landmark estate in Cham, Switzerland.
THE HAMMER COMPANIES
Exit to Check Point. The leading security platform to secure your AI future
Exit to LumApps. Make frontline work easier. Connect, engage, and streamline every process with Beekeeper — your one-stop shop for frontline success.
Scandit Smart Data Capture on smart devices provides actionable insights and automates end-to-end processes by capturing data from barcodes, text, IDs and objects.
Turn Data Into Revenue. With Secure, Private, and Accurate AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale. Trusted by Central Banks and Global Financial Services.
Artificial Intelligence meets Spatial Intelligence. AI ready system of record forf spatial building data.
Our mission is to provide airports and airlines with realtime visibility of turnaround operations to help avoid delays, increase safety and reduce CO2 emissions.
On Device, privacy preserving age estimation & online safety solution based on voice, text and video/image used by digital platforms like Discord, gaming sites or online & physical Retail.
We provide the governance infrastructure that makes AI agents work reliably with your enterprise data—secure, compliant, and predictable.
Our malware search and analytics engine analyzes massive data streams at the code level to reveal similarities with known threats for incident response, threat hunting and detection.
Natural vision in Augmented Reality. Light field display enabling fully correct and healthy visual experience.
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WEM No-Code Enterprise Development & Agentic AI Orchestration Platform. Powered by No-Code. Supercharged by Agentic AI. Built for Enterprise.
gapfruit provides an OS hat empowers critical infrastructure with unmatched resilience, long-term maintainability, and minimal total cost of operation.
Enabling the digital transformation of an analog Problem. Governance, Risk & Compliance
The Distributed Order Management system that enables digital agility and profitability
Zoovu helps global brands deliver intuitive, personalized product discovery with AI search, conversational assistants, guided selling, and configuration.
Network Detection and Response (NDR) software. Monitors IT networks and raises alarm when a cyberthreat has been detected using the log data of your existing firewalls and systems. Up and running within one day.
Dizmo, the Interface of ThingsTM, connects data, services and applications into one interactive workspace, offering dynamic composition capabilities and compelling collaborative services.
The leading digital tenant management platform for more efficiency, higher yield, and improved tenant experience.
Syntheticus empowers you to leverage your data potential, while mitigating privacy risks. Share or monetise your data or ML models in a privacy preserving way.
Digital lone worker protection for iOS and Android. Professional protection for team and solo work.
Exit to payoneer. optile offers an open and provider-independent payment platform to help businesses integrate multiple payment gateways, providers, and methods on a global scale within hours
Exit to SWVL. We enable city governments, public transport operators and industry to offer new mobility services and optimise existing operations.
Exit to Dynatrace. Qumram provides a solution for 100% recording, replay and retention of all digital interactions to ensure regulatory compliance, detect fraud and improve the customer experience.
THE HAMMER PEOPLE
Ariel Lüdi
Founder
Since 2013, Ariel is investing in and coaching innovative Swiss and European IT start-up’s. His group of Portfolio companies is named after his estate: The Hammer Team. Previously he was the CEO of hybris software, the global omnichannel commerce leader. Ariel was instrumental in growing the company and enabling its successful exit with the sale to SAP in August 2013 for more than 1B USD. Prior to joining hybris, Ariel held senior positions at Salesforce.com and Oracle. He entered the realm of e-commerce in 1996 as SVP Europe at BroadVision. Ariel studied Physics at ETH in Zurich
Guillaume Garreau
COO
Guillaume is most endorsed for his Sales Operations expertise, GTM-knowledge, and Leadership. Prior to joining Hammer team, he was in charge of Operations at Hybris. Guillaume has worked previously for HP doing a variety of roles (including “Siebel” or “Salesforce.com” implementations, Channel Compensation, Marketing Funds, Sales process, or Business Analytics). Guillaume holds a Master degree in Economics from Universite de Rennes, and Master in International Management from Kalmar University.
Kees de Vos
Product & Technology Advisor
Andreas Hünerwadel
Legal Advisor, Board Member and Investor
Christian Flaccus
Brand Advisor
Michael Zips
Financial Advisor
CONTACT THE HAMMER TEAM
If you want to get in touch with us, please send an email to info@hammerteam.com
HOW TO FIND US
Hammer Team is situated in a landmark estate in Cham, Switzerland.
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