Vera Schroeder
Partner at Safar Partners
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2022 - Current
2Pi is a platform technology for optical metasurfaces that offers a new class of optical components and systems.
Partner
2019
Safar Partners is a seed- to growth-stage venture fund.
Global Talent Fellow - Chemistry
2021
Open Avenues is a non-profit organization working to educate traditionally underrepresented student populations in the U.S. and inspire careers in STEM, business, and entrepreneurship. As a Global Talent Fellow at Open Avenues Foundation, I develop and lead Technology Transfer projects, helping students gain skills that are valued in spinning out technology companies from universities.
Board Member
2022
Concerto Biosciences reinvents humanity's relationship with microbes.
Raised $26,006,949.00 from Springboard Enterprises.
Board Member
2021
5x5 provides AI-powered data analytics to owners and operators of critical infrastructure.
Raised $10,375,001.00 from Safar Partners.
Board Observer
2019
Xibus Systems develops a microbiological testing solution applicable to pathogens, allergens, and spoilage organisms.
Board Member and Vice President Of Programming
2020 - 2022
Ph.D. Candidate
2014 - 2019
Advisor: Prof. Timothy M. Swager Research focused on the development of carbon nanotube-based chemical sensors.
Environmental Health & Safety Officer
2015 - 2017
- Conducted weekly safety inspections, training of laboratory members, reviewed laboratory safety policies, and acted as primary contact point between laboratory and EHS office - First contact in case of accident in laboratory
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2014 - 2015
5.112 - Prinicples of Chemical Science 5.310 - Laboratory Chemistry
Assistant Editor, Synfacts
2015 - 2017
- Served as assistant editor to screen, select, evaluate, and summarize, recent advances in the organic chemistry field for the international review journal Synfacts - Wrote 36 contributions and acted as leader of the editor team for "Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products"
Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials
2014 - 2014
"PEDOT:PSS-based hybrid materials for optoelectronics applications" under the supervision of Professor Natalie Stingelin