Principal
Refinery VenturesCheck size: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.
Peter Schmidt is part of Refinery Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Invest at the seed-to-scale transition and work hands-on with founders to establish the growth, team, and operating trajectory needed for a strong Series A.
The firm publicly emphasizes invest at the seed-to-scale transition and work hands-on with founders to establish the growth, team, and operating trajectory needed for a strong Series A.
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Peter Schmidt is Principal at Refinery Ventures, according to the firm's current official roster. To avoid mistaken identity, no unsupported prior employment, education, or portfolio attribution has been inferred.