Lyfa
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Lyfa was a Basel-based zero-waste online supermarket founded in 2019 by Michael May and Lewys Thomas. It delivered around 250 grocery products in reusable packaging instead of single-use packaging, collecting empties on the next delivery to create a circular packaging loop, with next-day delivery across Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Backed by Rockstart and the Swiss Startup Group, it entered liquidation in October 2022.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Liquidation
Shareholders' resolution dated 11 Oct 2022 put Lyfa Innovations GmbH (CHE-229.313.490, Basel) into liquidation; creditor debt calls published in SHAB 20–24 Oct 2022.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Raised a pre-seed round in 2021 led by the Swiss Startup Group with Rockstart as co-investor (amount undisclosed).
- 02
Shareholders' resolution dated 11 October 2022 put Lyfa Innovations GmbH (CHE-229.313.490, Basel) into liquidation, with creditor debt calls published in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB) on 20-24 October 2022.
- 03
No quantified loss figure was disclosed in the liquidation record.