About us :
What unites us is a shared history of navigating scale—operating in massive, high-stakes markets where rigor isn’t optional. The hard-won lessons from those environments brought us together, aligning our vision and expertise under SICE Ventures to back the next generation of category-defining founders.
Philippe SIMONOT has served as a Key Account Director across international corporate environments, including his role at Diebold Nixdorf. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for managing major client accounts for multinational enterprises and publicly listed companies on stock exchanges worldwide.
With a proven track record of driving growth and sustaining high-stakes corporate partnerships across global markets, Philippe brings deep expertise in key account leadership, cross-border client management, and complex enterprise sales execution.
Robert Brice CERIVAL brings over a decade of experience navigating the complexities of the private equity and venture capital landscapes across the USA, South Korea, Vietnam, and China, delivering a global perspective to high-growth investing. His career has been defined by identifying market-shifting opportunities at the intersection of technology and consumer behavior.
Early in his career, Robert witnessed the rise of consumer tech firsthand when he met the initial team members of Musical.ly (which became TikTok before its acquisition by ByteDance), gaining invaluable insights into what it takes to build a global consumer app phenomenon.
Specializing in Seed, Series A, and early-stage investments, Robert partners with visionary founders building the next generation of industry leaders. In addition to his investment roles, he serves as a strategic advisor to tech entrepreneurs—including advising Paul Yang, CEO of Lomotif, ahead of its $150 million acquisition by ZASH Global Media.
Having operated extensively across the most dynamic tech hubs in Asia and the West, Robert actively helps portfolio companies scale across borders while navigating diverse regulatory and cultural environments. His institutional background includes serving as a Deal Flow Sourcing Partner with Eurazeo and representing Breega as Senior Advisor and China Representative, where he structured, organized, and led strategic LP engagements throughout Asia.
Verena PAPIK has spent her entire career obsessed with one question: why do people feel the way they do—and how does that shape what they buy, love, and stay loyal to?
She helped scale musical.ly (now TikTok) into a billion-dollar cultural phenomenon by understanding the emotional triggers that make people click, connect, and care. That journey led her to a simple discovery:
Voice reveals far more truth than text or video
Emotion is the missing data layer most brands have ignored
Today, Verena is the Founder & CEO of Talkalytics, an emotional-intelligence platform built on that belief. Talkalytics turns 60-second spoken feedback into deep emotional and behavioral insights so companies can:
See how people actually feel, not just what they tick in a survey
Unlock new revenue through better experiences, higher retention, and smarter sponsorship and product decisions
Design customer and fan journeys grounded in real human truth, not assumptions
Talkalytics is her primary focus and the place where she is compounding everything she has learned about growth, neuroscience, and behavior into a category-defining company.
Driven by a genuine passion for building businesses, Verena also partners with a select group of Fortune 500 and high-growth companies as a strategic advisor and fractional operator, bringing the hard-earned scars and successes of building multiple companies directly into her advisory work.
Canay Simon Yildirimer is a sucessful German-Korean serial entrepreneur and consultant with extensive experience in strategic management and corporate restructuring across Europe. Leveraging his cross-border expertise, he has spent several years navigating the dynamic economic ecosystems of Germany and Switzerland, with a strong base in Zurich.
His professional career is defined by his ability to lead organizations from their inception and guide them through industrial transformations. In August 2020, he founded and assumed the role of Managing Director for the entity that would later become AbleSix GmbH in Frankfurt. Under his leadership, the company initially focused on management consulting before pivoting toward the medical sector—a transition he successfully orchestrated prior to handing over management responsibilities in the spring of 2021.
Recognized for his managerial agility and command of complex regulatory affairs, Canay Simon Yildirimer subsequently expanded his scope of operations into Switzerland. In 2022, he established himself in the Canton of Zug—a key financial hub—where he has served as a director and managing executive for prominent management and investment firms.
