The former chief commercial officer at Swiss robotics scaleup ANYbotics has launched a new operator-led VC backed by more than 30 scaleup execs.

Dozens of scaleup execs back new VC to find Europe’s next decacorn
Enzo Wälchli, the former chief commercial officer at Swiss robotics scaleup ANYbotics, is general partner at Operator Circle
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