Gwendolyn Schröter comes from a family with roots in the paper industry, and she focuses her investing on materials, packaging, and circular-economy startups, often sourcing ideas directly from university research before they become typical startups. She keeps her investing pace slow on purpose, making about two new investments a year so she can work closely with each founder, and she pays particular attention to hardware and production-based companies, seeing raw materials as resources that should stay in use rather than get wasted.
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SIVentures (prev. Smart Infrastructure Ventures)
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SIVentures is a mostly privately funded seed and early-stage fund built into Leipzig's smart-infrastructure ecosystem, originally focused on Central Germany (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia) and led by former JPMorgan and BNP Paribas professionals, with two exits already from its first fund—including mementor's sale to ResMed—plus Enginsight and traide AI in its portfolio. It has since broadened from its original smart infrastructure focus to back B2B software startups across Europe, while keeping ties to energy, IT infrastructure, and AI, and drawing funding from companies, banks, family offices, founders, and funds of funds across Germany.
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