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Melanie Schwendimann

Senior Director Strategy @ Oviva | ex Picus Capital & McKinsey

Zurich, Zurich

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $750,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Senior Director Strategy

    2025

    Extended Chief of Staff role - as right hand to the CEO, leading our global strategic initiatives, communications, and investor engagement.

  • Chief of Staff

    2024 - 2025

    Oviva is the leading virtual clinic for weight-related conditions in Europe. We rapidly scale across CH, DE & the UK, with >900.000 patients treated & backed by Europe's leading VCs.

2022 - 2023

  • Vice President

    2023 - 2023

  • Senior Associate

    2022 - 2023

    Picus is a global, early-stage venture capital firm with >1bn USD AUM and a long-term investment philosophy. I personally focused on Healthcare & Biotech 🏥💊🚀

2020 - 2022

  • Associate

    2022 - 2022

  • Fellow

    2020 - 2022

    Worked across classical strategy, customer experience, and startup-building (“Leap”) projects. Highlights include launching a US consumer healthtech startup, scaling a European reinsurance venture, and designing an innovation platform for a Middle Eastern city.

2019 - 2020

  • Intern

    2019 - 2020

2019 - 2019

  • Intern

    2019 - 2019

2018 - 2019

  • Project Consultant

    2018 - 2019

    Design Thinking Consultant for Human-Centred Design The project resulted in a FinTech entering the F10 accelerator

2018 - 2018

  • Intern Strategy & Management

    2018 - 2018

    D2C Eyewear startup (investors incl. Eight Roads, Swiss Startup Capital)

  • Intern

    2017 - 2017

2015 - 2017

  • Assistant Head of Broker Underwriting (Ø 30%)

    2015 - 2017

2014 - 2014

  • Administrative Assistant

    2014 - 2014