After more than 15 years running large-scale telecom operations at Swisscom, Dr. Friederike Hoffmann moved into venture capital at b2venture, where she focuses on space, defense, and other areas tied to Europe's long-term strategic independence, looking for hardware and infrastructure advantages that are hard to copy rather than software alone. Her background also includes an early career with the Quandt family foundations, board roles at Ivoclar and localsearch, work integrating direct investing with b2venture's angel network, and a PhD from the University of St. Gallen on business model innovation and organizational change—giving her a mix of operating, governance, and regulated-industry experience in areas like enterprise platforms, IoT, and 5G that shapes how she evaluates companies.