Martin Scherrer
About Martin Scherrer
Martin Scherrer is a Partner and Head of Managed Funds at Redstone, a venture capital asset manager. He is based in Thalwil, Switzerland, and studied at the University of Zurich.
He began investing in 2000 as a financial analyst at Securitas Capital, Swiss Re's private equity arm. He then became an associate at Swiss Re Alternative Investments. From 2017 he was a venture partner at BlackFin Capital Partners in France, where he sourced and backed early-stage fintech and insurtech companies.
He joined Redstone as a Switzerland-based director in July 2019, and Crunchbase lists him as Partner since April 2020. On Redstone's team page he says he spent 15 years in the startup ecosystem as a founder and later as a business angel and coach, before returning to venture capital in 2019. A conference speaker profile says he has run his own startups in financial aggregation in the U.S. and Switzerland.
Scherrer describes himself as a former business angel and coach, but no public list of his personal angel investments, with years or check sizes, was found. His documented investing since 2019 is institutional, through Redstone and the corporate venture funds it manages.
No personal AI investments by Scherrer are publicly documented in the sources reviewed. Redstone's site describes its investment areas as including AI, photonics, robotics, connectivity and novel computing, but that is a firm-level statement and not a list of his deals. Founders should not assume he invests personally in AI.
At Redstone, Scherrer sets up and manages sector funds. He says he has run a VC fund focused on the transformation of the health industry. His conference profile also lists corporate venture programs managed by Redstone for corporates, including SCOR Ventures and SwissHealth Ventures. At BlackFin he focused on early-stage fintech and insurtech. He says he values data-driven analytics in venture investing. Redstone is based in Germany, with offices including Berlin, and Scherrer works from Switzerland. No personal check size or stage policy has been published.
- Heartbeat Medical: Redstone announced an investment in this patient-reported outcome measures company by SwissHealth Ventures, a corporate venture arm of CSS Versicherung that Redstone manages. Scherrer posted about the deal on LinkedIn. The year is not stated in the source.
Investing activity
Martin Scherrer is listed on Lounge as an angel investor. The deals desk records Series A and later AI rounds and seeds over $10M, so smaller checks may not show here yet.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Martin Scherrer
Is Martin Scherrer an angel investor?
He says he spent time as a business angel and coach before returning to venture capital in 2019. His current public investing role is Partner at Redstone, where he manages funds.
What does Martin Scherrer invest in?
His public track record covers health-focused venture funds, corporate venture funds managed by Redstone, and earlier fintech and insurtech at BlackFin Capital Partners. Redstone more broadly lists AI among its areas.
What is Martin Scherrer's check size?
No check size is public. Redstone manages funds for others, so any investment would likely follow the mandate of the relevant fund.
Where is Martin Scherrer based?
Crunchbase and LinkedIn list Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland. He works for Redstone, a venture capital manager with offices including Berlin.
How can founders reach Martin Scherrer?
He is active on LinkedIn, where he posts about portfolio deals and venture events. No personal website or X account was found.