Swiss company · Martigny, Valais · since 2025

The tool that Swiss SME succession was missing.

Four entrepreneurs who have handed over their own businesses, and who build software with the precision of a Swiss workshop.

Latest release: week 44 · 2026
Each cross is a Swiss business looking for a successor.

01 · The problem

By 2030, 168,000 Swiss SMEs will change hands.

The market isn't ready: it is discreet, split between dozens of players, and people often start too late.

years: the average age of SME owners.
58
successions could fail every year.
≈ 12,000
of businesses taken over are still running five years later, compared with one in two start-ups.
95%

Sources: UBS and University of St. Gallen (CFB-HSG), “Business succession in Switzerland”, January 2026; the Confederation’s SME Portal.

The Passwang pass at Mümliswil-Ramiswil: meadows, farms and a winding road in the Solothurn Jura
Passwang, Mümliswil-Ramiswil (SO) · Photo: Sven

02 · Our answer

We orchestrate the business transfer market to make it run smoothly.

Leez brings together and coordinates several thousand businesses, buyers and the advisers who support them, to make business transfers easier. We are present in all 26 cantons, in 4 languages.

Sellers

Hand over your legacy on the best terms.

A tool that makes sure nothing is forgotten, and information that stays with you, even when you work with a partner broker.

Buyers

Take over a business successfully.

From financing to hands-on support, our tool helps you take over a business on the best possible terms.

Swiss economy

A market open to the world.

We offer foreign buyers a showcase like no other, so that our entrepreneurs find someone to carry on their legacy, even when Swiss buyers hold back.

Every route to a takeover

  • External buyer
  • Company in the same sector
  • Asset deal
  • Family
  • Managers and employees
  • In stages
  • Investor and manager
  • Buyer from abroad

What we want to avoid: bankruptcy. 12,485 businesses in 2025, nearly CHF 1.8 billion lost to creditors. A listing published in time gives the business a chance of being taken over.

Source: Federal Statistical Office, 2025; the rise is largely due to the revision of the Federal Act on Debt Collection and Bankruptcy (DEBA).

03 · Who we are

Four entrepreneurs serving people like them.

All four of us have founded, grown and then handed over at least one business. Each time, we were almost on our own at the most important moment.

We also know how to build software. So we built the tool we had been missing, and we improve it with every release.

Angelo, Jonathan, Vincent & Johan

  • Jonathan Monnay

    Co-founder, CEO

    Before Leez: Texorio, Levitation company, Jonattend Creative Product

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  • Johan Bavaud

    Co-founder, COO

    Before Leez: Tayo, Tooyoo (La Mobilière), Burgerpass, Cronodeal

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  • Vincent Mattart

    Co-founder, CTO

    Before Leez: Gold Avenue, WallForPets, Pixeleez

    LinkedIn
  • Angelo Mellone

    Co-founder, CSO

    Before Leez: Réseau Entreprendre, Swiss Toolz, Addem Media

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04 · Business model

Working with the whole industry, to serve every business owner.

We work with every broker in Switzerland, bringing them buyers for their sale mandates, and with every player in the industry. Only one segment puts us in competition: businesses worth less than CHF 250,000, a market with few players and plenty of demand.

Co-opetition: cooperation between competitors, often within a business ecosystem in which each player has a role: orchestrator, contributor or enabler. The word, a blend of “cooperation” and “competition”, was popularised in 1996 by Barry Nalebuff and Adam Brandenburger.

Sources: Wikipedia (French), “Coopétition”; Olga Wendling, “Et si vos rivaux devenaient votre moteur de croissance ?”, Bilan, 20.05.2025.

Co-opetition at Leez. Cooperation across the whole market, competition in a single segment.
Cooperation with the whole industry
Competition
0CHF 250,00010m and more

Value of the business being transferred

Under CHF 250,000Few players, plenty of demand: here we are both orchestrator and contributor, and support sellers and buyers directly to get this market moving.

From CHF 250,000Brokers run their mandates; we bring them buyers. Fiduciary firms, banks and advisers find the deals that need them.

Orchestrator

Leez designs the platform, coordinates the players and brings the buyers.

Contributors

  • Brokers
  • Fiduciary firms
  • Succession experts

They run the mandates and support sellers and buyers.

Enablers

  • Banks
  • Notaries and lawyers
  • Chambers of commerce

They finance, secure and recommend.

For every business owner

We chose this model to serve every business owner who has reached the end of the road, whatever the size of their business: no one should be left without a buyer for lack of an intermediary.

A Swiss idea

Our model draws on La Mobilière, Raiffeisen and Coop: cooperative models that succeeded by serving the whole country.

05 · Precision software

Robust enough to carry every business transfer in Switzerland, yet flexible enough to fit every story.

We work with the precision of a watchmaker and the passion of a cheesemaker to prepare and build every part of our software.

  1. Nothing superfluous.

    Every screen serves a real step in the transfer.

  2. Everything is measured.

    On mobile, three pages out of four load in under 2 seconds.

  3. Everything is logged.

    Agreements, steps, e-mails: time-stamped and kept for at least 24 months.

  4. Improved with every release.

    We adjust, we test, then we release.

The Grindelwald valley below the snow-capped peaks of the Bernese Oberland
Grindelwald (BE) · Photo: Marco Pregnolato

06 · The journal

What we release. An e-mail every Thursday.

Week 44 · 2026 · released on 30.10.2026

SME events arrive in the Thursday e-mail.

  • Every Thursday, the Thursday e-mail suggests two upcoming SME events, in your region and elsewhere in Switzerland.
  • You can sign up for the Thursday e-mail from the agenda, without creating an account.
  • From the e-mail, one click opens all the companies that joined Leez since the previous Thursday.

The Thursday e-mail

Every Thursday, the new businesses for sale and the SME events not to miss in Switzerland.

Plus our product news whenever we release something. A one-minute read, signed by the four partners.

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Media kit

Our pitch, our logo, a contact.

The pitch

Leez is the Swiss platform for business transfers. Founded in Martigny by four entrepreneurs who have handed over their own businesses, it lists more businesses for sale than any other platform in Switzerland, across all 26 cantons and in four languages. Its software, designed and built in Switzerland, guides sellers and buyers all the way to signing.

Press contact: hello@leez.ch

Downloads

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07 · Legal

Who runs Leez.

Imprint

Operator
Leez Sàrl, Rue des Prés de la Scie 7, 1920 Martigny
Commercial register
Canton of Valais · UID and VAT CHE-478.782.253