Square One Foods

Square One Foods

Square One Foods was co-founded by Walter Scherb, Michael Goblirsch, and Andre Schneider as a dedicated food and food-tech venture investor backed by Spitz, one of Austria's largest food producers. The firm sits at the intersection of institutional venture capital and corporate strategic investment, unique in the German-speaking market. The firm writes tickets up to €1 million targeting early-stage and growth-stage food brands and food-tech startups across Europe. Its primary differentiator is an embedded operating partnership with Spitz, which provides portfolio companies with access to over a century and a half of R&D, production and distribution infrastructure. The team actively supports founders in negotiations with production partners, strategic rebranding and retail placement through established partnerships with leading retailers across the DACH region. The core team brings a blend of operating and strategic expertise. Partner Michael Goblirsch previously built his own FMCG startup and worked at P&G and Red Bull, while Partner Andre Schneider, an LSE accounting graduate, focuses on operational finance following a management consulting career. Walter Scherb holds a dual role as Partner and CEO of Spitz, anchoring the firm's corporate access directly into the fund's leadership. The firm's website is the sole publicly available source for its team and strategy; no AUM or fund-close data has been publicly disclosed. The structure is structurally notable for its deep integration with a single strategic LP that functions as an operating partner, a model that collapses the distance between early-stage investing and commercial validation commonly found in independent food-tech funds. This architecture gives the firm a sourcing and value-creation advantage anchored in real-world manufacturing and retail distribution, rather than purely financial engineering.