Ludolf Von Schoning
Founder of Paloneo
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Chair
2022 - Current
Paloneo is a pan-European community empowering the next generation of leaders with global access to peers, capital and decision-makers. Our mission: Catalyze a new renaissance by enabling leading minds from art, science and business to collaborate across borders.
Europe Partner
2025
Seed investments in Fintech, Web3 & AI @ Republic Ventures, a US-based VC fund part of Republic Group.
Republic Crypto offers a compliant and inclusive blockchain financing and investment platform for investors seeking high growth potential.
Seed Investor
2024
Boardy is a superconnector AI who will get to know you and then introduce you to people in his network. Give him a call.
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. Transactions: Allinfra (Seed), Elysium (M&A), WebN (Strategic), Ethereum Climate Platform (Pre-Seed), Libre Capital (Founding investor), Cleartoken (Founding investor), Truflation (Token sale).
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).
Founding Member
2020 - 2022
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.
Blockchain Venture Development
2019 - 2020
Konfidio is a blockchain-focused venture studio that launched the first EU-regulated digital asset fund and security token advisory in 2018. I won the inoffical prize for stoicism for showing up to work with a broken leg.
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. The conference received 6-digit funding from amatus.
Venture 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.