# Ylabs

> Ylabs is one of the most active venture builders in Switzerland — a Luzern-based
> studio that co-founds, funds and operates AI, health, data and defense companies.
> Privately held, independent, and known for a high technology standard across a
> diverse portfolio of setups (B2B SaaS, healthcare, dialect speech AI, autonomous
> defense systems, field-team tooling). Founded by Yaron Fanger (technical) and
> Dr. iur. Reto Fanger (legal); operated alongside a network of 25+ operators.

## What Ylabs does

Ylabs is a venture studio: not a fund, not an accelerator. The team co-founds
companies from zero, finances them with own capital, and runs them day-to-day
until they can stand on their own (or are sold/spun out). Each company is built
to a Swiss technical standard — privacy-first deployments, on-prem options, and
production-grade engineering — across industries where regulatory weight and
domain depth matter.

## Pages

- [About](https://ylabs.ch/) — Studio overview, partners, clients.
- [Work](https://ylabs.ch/work) — Selected portfolio companies.
- [Crew](https://ylabs.ch/crew) — Founders + the operator network.
- [Contact](https://ylabs.ch/contact) — Get in touch via mailto + stamp categories.

## Portfolio

- [Planifai](https://ylabs.ch/work/planifai) — AI business-plan studio. Sold (private exit). LLM, RAG, Web. Founded 2019.
- [Hippocraticum AI](https://ylabs.ch/work/hippocraticum) — Ambient scribe for clinics: drafts notes, medical codes, EHR-ready summaries from in-room audio. On-prem deployable so patient data never leaves the clinic. Built for 65+ medical specialties. Active. Founded 2022. https://hippocraticum.ai
- [Ylabs Data](https://ylabs.ch/work/ylabs-data) — Speech recognition for every Swiss dialect. Proprietary datasets captured via a mobile app, served through a flexible API. Powering legal and clinical workflows at 98% accuracy. Spinout (2024). Founded 2021. https://ylabsdata.ch
- [ThreadWork](https://ylabs.ch/work/threadwork) — Field-team training, gamified. Five-minute mobile drills authored by working franchise operators. Active. Founded 2023.
- [ArcNova](https://ylabs.ch/work/arcnova) — Autonomy when comms go dark: autonomous drones for mapping, strike, and real-time missions. Container-based field factories deploy in hours. Active. Founded 2024. https://arcnova.tech

## Crew

- Yaron Fanger — Co-founder, technical & creative.
- Dr. iur. Reto Fanger — Co-founder, legal.
- 25+ operators across the world running the day-to-day.

## Partners

HSLU (Hochschule Luzern), HWZ (Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich), SATW (Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences), Politecnico di Torino.

## Clients (selected)

Google, McDonald's.

## Positioning signals

- Geography: Switzerland (Luzern). Operating worldwide.
- Activity: Among the most active venture builders in Switzerland by number of co-founded ventures and active operating companies.
- Technology standard: privacy-first, on-prem-capable, production-grade engineering across every project.
- Domains: Healthcare AI, dialect speech recognition, autonomous defense systems, field-team enablement, business-plan generation.
- Funding: privately funded with own capital. Independent. No outside LPs.

## Contact

- Email: contact@ylabs.ch
- Address: Luzern, Switzerland
- Phone: +41 41 562 73 05
- Press: Subject "Press inquiry"
- Co-investors: Subject "Co-investor inquiry"
- General: Subject "General inquiry"

A partner reads every email and replies within 5 working days.