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Lena Müller
Basel · Switzerland
I was born and raised in Basel — a city where quiet streets along the Rhine sit alongside the headquarters of some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Medicine was always part of my upbringing: my mother worked as a nurse, my father as an engineer in medical device manufacturing.
After graduating from gymnasium, I studied Biomedicine at ETH Zürich. I completed my Master's in Health Informatics at the University of Basel, returning to the city I had never truly left. I have always believed that depth matters more than range.
I start every morning with a walk along the Rhine. I read clinical journals over coffee and walk my children to school before the city wakes up. Weekends belong to the mountains, to family, to silence.
My work and my private life are not in tension — they are the same life, moving at the same pace. I measure the quality of a day not by what I produced, but by whether I was fully present in it.
I am married to Thomas, an architect I met during my student years in Zürich. We have two children — Ella, who is seven, and Niko, who is four. We live in a small house on the outskirts of Basel with a garden where I grow herbs and tomatoes. My children have taught me the most important investment principle I know: unconditional belief in potential that has not yet revealed itself.
I worked in the intensive care unit — maintaining monitoring equipment and configuring remote patient observation systems. Those four years were my real education. I saw firsthand where digital tools save lives and where they only create noise.
I built a home monitoring platform integrating wearable devices with clinical protocols for chronic patients. Within two years it was running across eight private clinics in Switzerland and Austria. The company was acquired quietly, without press releases.
While the world chased speculative JPEGs, I saw NFTs as an architecture of trust. I built a closed pilot where non-fungible tokens served as smart-contract keys for encrypted patient records. Regulators weren't ready. I folded it without noise — but it gave me a working engineer's view of decentralized science long before it became a VC talking point.
I directed the proceeds from my exit into a private venture fund focused on early-stage digital health. I work closely with each founder — not as a distant capital provider, but as an operator who has been inside the system they are trying to change.
Alpine Health Capital is not a platform, a brand, or a networking club. It is a private instrument built for a single purpose: to find founders solving real clinical problems and give them something no anonymous fund can offer — the perspective of someone who has worked inside the system they are building for.
The fund carries no public profile and no open application process. Investment decisions are made by me personally, based on deep engagement with the product, the team, and the clinical context behind it.
Wearable devices and home diagnostics for chronic patients. Care that moves from the hospital into daily life.
Decision-support tools for primary care. Not replacing the doctor — sharpening their attention.
Structured data exchange between clinics, insurers, and patients — on open standards.
Therapeutic tools with a genuine clinical evidence base — not wellness wrappers.
Alpine Health Capital is open to new investments exclusively at my personal initiative.
I reach out when I see something worth building together.
If you have this address, someone I trust thought it was worth sharing. That already means something.
Direct Email capital@lenamuller.comI respond to messages that come with a personal introduction.