Ludolf von Schöning

Co-Founder @ Paloneo | previously VC at Laser Digital / Nomura

London, England

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Work Experience

2024

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    Imagine money was backed by nature.

2022

  • Founder & Chairman

    2022

    Paloneo is a values-aligned community of emerging entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, diplomats and financiers who committ their talent and capital to driving Europe's next renaissance.

2022 - 2023

  • Investment Principal

    2022 - 2023

    Laser Digital is the digital asset business of Nomura, the first global investment bank to launch an institutional venture fund focused on blockchain tech. While at Nomura, Ludolf worked on the inception of Laser Digital and build a portfolio of 10+ investments in web3/DeFi companies. Transactions: Allinfra (Seed), Elysium (M&A), WebN (Strategic), Ethereum Climate Platform (Pre-Seed), Libre Capital (Founding investor), Cleartoken (Founding investor), Truflation (Token sale).

2021 - 2023

  • Digital Assets Strategy Analyst

    2021 - 2023

    Part of the team that developed Nomura's digital asset strategy which resulted in the bank's recently launched crypto business, Laser Digital.

  • DJ

    2011 - 2023

    DJ at private events such as weddings and corporate events (e.g. LSE German Symposium, Amorelie Christmas Party and the Paloneo Summit).

2020 - 2022

  • Founding Member

    2020 - 2022

    Top Tier Impact is a global network of 500+ sustainability-focused entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders. In an urgent response to the pandemic, I led a strategic partnership with the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform to accelerate healthtech startups globally, and launched TTI's impact investing syndicate.

2019 - 2020

  • Blockchain Venture Development

    2019 - 2020

    Konfidio is a blockchain-focused venture studio that launched the first EU-regulated digital asset fund in 2018. I won the inoffical prize for stoicism for showing up to work with a broken bone.

2018 - 2019

  • Co-Creator

    2018 - 2019

    The Revision Summit 2018 gathered more than 1000 entrepreneurs, investors, policy-makers and philosophers to collaborate and learn how we can leverage emerging technologies to solve the world's most critical problems.

2018 - 2019

  • Business Analyst

    2018 - 2019

    amatus is an investment group focused on crypto and global impact. I originated and analysed deals for the investment arm, and co-created the cornerstone conference, REVISION.

2018 - 2019

  • Venture Capital Analyst / Scout

    2018 - 2019

    Ausum Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm focused on the intersection of blockchain technology and social impact, and the only fund in its category investing in both early-stage startups and crypto-assets. Represented the fund at industry events in Hong Kong, Berlin and New York.