Victoria von Schmettow
Finding strategies to solve environmental problems.
nature / startups / game theory / geoscience / climate science
A realistic dreamer.
I'm drawn to the problems people call unsolvable. The wicked ones, where the science is clear and still nothing changes.
I dream of solving them. So I don't let myself be discouraged, and I stay stubbornly optimistic that a way through exists and can be found.
That search took me from Australian national parks to Munich deep-tech startups to Oxford. Along the way I built products, validated markets and never stopped studying.
Fix what the world says can't be fixed.
since 10/2026
Master's thesis in game theory for climate justice, supervised by Prof. Michael Bonsall. Stress-testing climate justice with agent-based models and spatial game theory, to understand where the world is going.
since 06/2026
I am looking for a co-founder to build a climate-tech project too big to carry alone, and finding one is impossibly hard, even inside the startup bubble. So I built the app that might help me, and many others, find theirs: create a profile, see the builders in your ecosystem, swipe, match. ~1,000 users so far.
My four lives
Munich, mostly. Oxford for now.