The Swiss venture capital community SwissVC, founded in 2015, is repositioning itself to a smaller, structured network for full-time venture capital investors deploying capital in Switzerland. The change comes with new leadership, a board overhaul and a plan to incorporate as a non-profit association. Over 11 years, SwissVC grew into a network of more than 500 venture capital professionals across Switzerland, Europe and the US. "The old model created energy, but not enough operating leverage," said Raph Grieco, incoming lead of SwissVC. "What active investors need now is not more ambient ecosystem activity. They need sharper peer exchange, better pattern recognition, and trusted rooms where real operating questions get worked through." The repositioning centers on a system of working groups, which SwissVC calls guilds, around three areas: deal intelligence, firm architecture, and portfolio management and returns. Each guild is intended to bring together eight to 15 members through a mix of invitations and applications. Legal, tax, fund-operations and AI specialists will be brought in to work directly with the guilds. The new SwissVC is aimed first and foremost at active, deploying, full-time venture investors in Switzerland. This means the "people" in the new SwissVC are not a general audience; they are practitioners with specific operating questions, relevant pattern recognition, and a willingness to contribute to shared outputs. The model explicitly rejects passive membership inside the guild structure and treats contribution as a requirement for access to the highest-value rooms. SwissVC also plans to scale back its programming to one flagship event per year, alongside a calendar of working sessions, and to split membership options into different tiers depending on adherents’ level of contribution to the ecosystem. The community will be led by Raph Grieco, who launched UPCOMINGVC, an educational platform for aspiring venture capitalists, in 2017 and then went on