There are plenty of rich people in Switzerland.

Some have made their money in industry. Others took wise investment decisions. Many more simple did - nothing, and let their inherited wealth grow over time.

But only some of them have reached millionaire status before the age of 30.

Here is an overview of 20 (multi) millionaires in Switzerland with a focus on the enterprising natures that have got them where they’re at today.

Some information and data taken from the Handelzeitung list of the richest young people in Switzerland.

Richard Ettl

One young Swiss entrepreneur in the hundred-million franc club is Richard Ettl, whose IoT-based, temperature-controlled container business SkyCell (founded in 2012) is growing at a fantastic rate of 50% per year. Other numbers are also impressive - a staff of 250 and a yearly revenue targe of 100 million CHF. A little remembered fact - 39-year old Ettl’s SkyCell raised over 15 million USD in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) back in 2018 under the brand Smart Containers.

Thibault Bürki

At age 24, Thibault Bürki founded Haute Capital Partners and in 2022 took it public on Berner Börse where it enjoys a capitalization of over 100mn CHF and grew his own holdings to between 50 and 100mn CHF. Bürki and his team of 12 continue to grow the company, enjoying yearly growth of nearly 50%. The firm has holdings in real estate, cryptocurrencies and listed equities.

Andreas Brenner

A serial entrepreneur with over 15 different business engagements in his pocket, Andreas Brenner exited his latest larges venture, Avrios, a successful fleet management company he co-founded, with a sale to private equity firm Battery Ventures in January 2023 for approximately 200mn CHF. Now Brenner is focusing on his latest endeavour - Jua.ai, whose aim is to develop sophisticated AI models to deal with weather data. His wealth is calculated at around 20-50mn CHF

Léa Miggiano

One of the more visible figures among the young Swiss millionaires entourage, Léa Miggiano is CMO and co-founder of car subscription service Carvolution. The 29-year old Miggiano is frequently seen on TV and digital media ads promoting her company, which recently raised over 200 million CHF in a new funding round.

Jeremias Meier

It was business admin software company Bexios (founded in 2013) that made Jeremias Meier his pile of cash (estimated at 10-20mn CHF). Under his leadership with co-founders Stefan Brunner and Marcel Lenz, Bexio accumulated over 15’000 users of its SaaS-based software suite. The co-founders sold Bexio to Die Mobilär in 2018 for a reported 100mn CHF. With the money, Meier and his partners have now launched two venture funds of their own.

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Robert Plantak

With real estate being such a huge asset class in Switzerland, it is no surprise that Robert Plantak’s Crowdhouse has enjoyed great success - and made him a pile of money (10-20 million CHF). The “fractional investment” scheme has been popular among young investors who like a digital offering. Plantak has faced some hot water, however, over incorrectly-calculated management fees in the buildings owned by Crowdhouse. Having a personality as “rich” and famous as Francisco Fernandez (founder of Avaloq) on his side has also certainly helped Plantak get ahead.

Belinda Benic

The 27-year old tennis star from Flawil, broke into the WTA Top 10 in 2015 and reached place number 4 in 2020. She added a gold metal at the Tokyo Olympics to her repertoire in the same year. She recently took a break from tennis to focus on the birth of her first child in April 2024. Her accumulated earnings over the past 10 years, plus sponsorship deals brings her wealth to approximately 10-20mn CHF.

Alexander De Carvalho

A descendent of the Heineken family and a prominent figure in the GovTech and HealthTech sectors, Alexander De Carvalho made a name for himself by co-founding PUBLIC, a company focused on creating impact on the modernization of public services through technology. While CEO of PUBLIC, he oversaw the company's growth and also became involved the healthcare industry, where he co-founded Doctify and serves as Executive Chairman of Eva Health Technologies. His continues to spread influence as a non-executive board member of Heineken. His wealth is estimated at up to 3bn CHF.

Georg Polzer

The science - and data - of mobility are what have made Georg Polzer of Teralytics his (10-20) millions. With machine learning capabilities and a focus on data privacy, Polzer’s company has done well since its founding in 2012. Already it has gathered anonymous data on over 300 million cell phone users - an extremely valuable resource for data analysis. Teralytic’s investors include Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Lakestar and Atomico.

Nathalie Albin-Jacobs

Despite a privileged background as a member of the Jacobs family (of coffee and chocolate fame), Nathalie Albin-Jacobs has branched out on her own with Nübee, a healthy and cost-effective baby-food brand she launched in 2017. Her success with Nübee came in no small part thanks to prominent partnerships with leading Swiss retailers Migros and Coop. Her investment activities also include co-ownership of White Peak Capital, the family office she shares with her mother and brothers. Nathalie Albin-Jacobs total wealth is estimated at over 1.5bn CHF.

Nicolas Syz

Another family-backed young milionaire, Nicolas Syz has taken up a predictable role within the family’s institution Banque Syz & Co SA as Head of Private Banking. Within the broad realm of his family’s enteprises, Nicolas Syz has taken on various business development activities, helping propel the bank to a profit of 7.5mn CHF in 2023. Nicolas’s wealth is estimated at up to 100mn CHF.

Aline Marquand

The shy and distant daughter of Jürg Marquand, the well-known Swiss distribution king, has taken up residence in London and seems to have little to do with Switzerland, despite her continued activities in juice production, event organization and film creation with Juicebox Productions. Her wealth seems not to have suffered by her low profile as her assets are estimated to be up to 100mn CHF.

Noah Liebherr

As a student at the Zurich International School, Noah Liebherr founded ClassOwl, a user-friendly learning management system for digital learning. Hisentrepreneurial spirit is inherited from his great-grandfather, Hans Liebherr, the inventor and founder of the Liebherr Group, with its interests in various lines of machinery and equipment. Lest he be thought a lazy rich boy, Noah also works as a Client Relationship Manager at Fase Wealth, a company founded by his mother. Outside of his business ventures, Noah enjoys sports like American football and is interested in cryptocurrency.

Pierre Biver with his father Jean-Claude

Pierre Biver

What’s in a name? A lot of family history - and know-how - as it turns out for Pierre Biver. The son of legendary horological entrepreneur (and sometime business “savior”) Jean-Claude Biver, Biver the younger naturally followed in his father’s footsteps. Using the family name, Pierre set out to create ultra-exclusive watches, the first of which cost a cool 500k CHF. With a slightly more affordable line of timepieces now in production, Biver can look to add to his inherited wealth, which is estimated at up to 50mn CHF.

Granit Xhaka

A star and captain of the Swiss men’s national football team, Granit Xhaka hit payday first as a midfielder at Arsenal football club in England’s Premiere League before joining Bayer Leverkusen in 2023 where he led the club to the Bundesliga title in 2024. A native of Albania, but raised in Basel, Xhaka has not been shy on or off the pitch, also when it comes to using his wealth. His current base salary at Bayer Leverkusen is just over 5mn euro per year.

Doris Frehner

Riding the wave of renewable energy from solar and wind, Doris Frehner and her company Eturnity have built a unique software to facilitate the process of collecting, transfering and measuring energy. The co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer hasn’t made tons of money yet - but judging by the way renewables are growing, she very well could. With profitability in view next year (2025), the sky is the limit thereafter.

Stefanie Flückiger-Mangual

Education was a good start for Stefanie Flückiger-Mangual, co-founder of Tolremo. Her doctorate in molecular and translational biomedicine from ETH Zurich got her set up to start the therepeutics company in 2017 as a spinoff from her university. In 2023, Flückiger-Mangual’s Tolremo closed its Series A funding round with an investment of 34mn CHF led by BioMedPartners, giving its co-founder an estimated wealth of 5-10mn CHF.

Joel Roos

Close ties to ETH Zurich have also helped Joel Roos, whose company Vay uses software to digitize and capture (and analyze) human movement, with major use cases in fitness and sport. The firms was successful enough to be aquired by Nautilus Inc. in 2021 for a price of just over 30mn CHF. Roos has since joined venture firm QBIT Capital.

Ciril Stebler

One key for Ciril Stebler was getting started young. At age 18, he founded Velocorner, a bicycle marketplace that now counts over 400 retailers as customers. In 2023, Touring Club Switzerland took a majority stake in Velocorner, with Stebler remaining in his post as (a rich) CEO with wealth of 10-20mn CHF.

Samantha Anderson

Chemistry was Samantha Anderson’s area of study at ETH Zurich and she quite naturally turned that focus into a company with DePoly in 2021 - and into millions (5-10mn CHF) for herself. With DePoly, Anderson has developed a process to turn plastic waste into useable materials and together with two co-founders raised 12mn CHF in seed funding from - among others - BASF Venture Capital and Founderful (formerly Wingman Ventures) - after two years of company operations.

Arthur Germain

His software is used by over 2 million people in Switzerland and those numbers have translated into (at least) a 5x that number in personal wealth for Arthur Germain. His company, OneDoc - founded in 2017 - is the first online booking platform for medical appointments with partners that include Medbase (Migros group), Hirslanden, HUG, Arsanté, Magellan, and Swiss Medical Network. OneDoc counts 4 offices in Switzerland and a staff of 40 employees.

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