Desiree Reimann

Désirée Reimann is a General Partner at Redalpine, the Swiss-rooted, pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2006. Redalpine’s team page places her on the operations team and says she oversees financial, regulatory, and legal matters for Redalpine and its funds.

Reimann joined Redalpine in 2011. While working, she completed studies in financial management at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Before joining Redalpine, she built practical experience in the financial industry.

Her earlier public XING profile lists a progression from Finance / HR at Redalpine Venture Partners AG from July 2011 to December 2013, then CFO from January 2014 onward. The current Redalpine team page now lists her title as General Partner, while other databases still reference her historical CFO role.

• Redalpine’s stated thesis is to back companies at the “confluence of software and science,” with a focus on technologies that can address major societal and economic problems.
• The firm looks for European startups with what it calls a “tech hedge”: a significant, defensible advantage that is “10x better than their competitors.”
• Early-stage Redalpine funds invest initially from pre-seed to Series A and select roughly five to ten investments per year from more than 5,000 screened opportunities.
• RAC VII, Redalpine’s $200M early-stage fund announced in August 2024, is intended to back 15-20 early-stage European startups.
• Redalpine’s current focus areas include frontier tech, healthcare, AI-native digitization, fintech infrastructure, biology, sustainability, energy, cleantech, foodtech, and mobility.
• Reimann’s role is primarily financial, regulatory, and legal oversight for the firm and its funds, so founders should not assume she is the sector lead for a specific deal unless Redalpine names her on that transaction.