Ciara Gumsheimer

Investment Manager

2025

Going deep on real-world problems. Spending time on supply chain, industrial tech, energy, health, and other emerging technologies. Project A is a leading early-stage investor partnering with ambitious founders from idea to scale. With €1.2b AUM, we invest €1–8m at pre-seed and seed across Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio includes companies like Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz and Quantum Systems. Through our founder-led Studio, we shape and validate bold ideas from day zero, collaborating with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics and Enapi.

Senior Associate

2024 - 2025

Investment Associate

2023 - 2024

Board Observer

2025

Board Observer

2025

Teaching Assistant

2023 - 2023

Part of the teaching team of the class "ENGIN 183c - Designing Startups to Transform Society". This course teaches entrepreneurship through the lens doing good while doing well. We explored how for-profit ventures can be designed to do well (valuations and ROI), and also do good – helping communities to become self-reliant, prosperous while confronting inequality, global climate change, food insecurity, climate change, social justice and other problems. Responsible for class coordination and grading.

Community Lead

2022 - 2023

Baby vc is a bootcamp for those who aspire to join the venture capital community. We organise a 9-week programme during which a group of aspiring VCs meet those who make venture capital, learn what it takes to break into VC, and get first-hand insights into the investment process from sourcing to post-investment support. I supported the expansion of baby vc into Germany and was Community Lead on the team organising the first German bootcamp 🇩🇪

Founder

2021 - 2022

A weekly newsletter all about the journeys of young startup founders

Investment Team

2022 - 2022

Supported the team in our investments in Growblocks and Bene Bono (Hors Normes)

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

2021 - 2021

Circula is an automated app to manage expenses and employee benefits such as meal vouchers that saves about 70% process costs in accounting. Worked on: - Customer Support: Responded to 600+ email and chat requests over the first 4 months - Customer Success and Account Management: Onboarded and managed 14 customers with a total value of 2500€MRR - Pricing: Analysed past pricing performance and competitor pricing to issue suggestions for new pricing model to increase recurring revenue - Automations: Used no-code/low-code tools, such as Integromat and Airtable, to automate recurring processes

Investment Banking Summer Analyst

2019 - 2019

Debt Capital Markets