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--> Home | Gentian Investments top of page Gentian Investments Early-stage startup financing About Us Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for. Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market. We invest exclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as Entrepreneurs, as board member or advisor. Home: About Who we are Elian and Gerhard are Entrepreneurs who jointly founded Netcentric , a global leader for Customer Experience solutions in 2012. We have grown the company to 400+ employees across Europe, before selling the company to Cognizant in October 2017. During this time, Netcentric was awarded as EMEA Partner of the year by Adobe multiple times and won large multinational clients across Europe. Elian Kool Elian started his career as a software engineer and worked as Architect for many large Customer Experience platforms before founding Netcentric in 2012, which he led as CEO until 2019. ​ ​ Elian serves as a member of the board with multiple of our portfolio companies (Sunflower Labs, Swiss Ocean Tech, Yeastup) and as president of Make Me Smile International (Switzerland), which supports Make Me Smile Kenya, a NGO for development collaboration, child care and help to help themselves and Make Me Smile Colombia, a fund

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