Enzo Wälchli, general partner at Operator Circle and former COO of Anybotics.

Opinion

July 2, 2026

The two bets founders are taking in physical AI

Neither approach is obviously right or wrong, and there are strong teams and real capital behind both

Enzo Wälchli

6 min read

Before launching operator-led deeptech VC Operator Circle, I spent years commercialising autonomous robots at Swiss scaleup ANYbotics and working on go-to-market (GTM) with several companies across physical AI. Spend enough time around the field and a pattern starts to show up: people are working toward the same goal in two very different ways.

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Enzo Wälchli

Enzo Wälchli is the general partner at Operator Circle, an operator VC backed by more than 30 scaleup executives which invests in deeptech companies in the Alpine Tech Corridor (Lausanne-Zurich-Munich) at Series A and B. He's also the former chief commercial officer at Swiss robotics scaleup ANYbotics, where he scaled GTM from $0 to $10m+.

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