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Xandance & Partners
Werner Schünemann's Xandance & Partners connects family offices to direct deals in AgTech and sustainable aquaculture from Lake Zürich.
Xandance & Partners
Founded in 2018 by Werner Schünemann, Xandance & Partners operates from the shore of Lake Zürich as a multi-family office and fund-of-funds platform. Schünemann's prior postings — Morgan Stanley in London and Singapore, JP Morgan in Frankfurt, and a business-development role at a New York commodity macro fund — supplied the network that now feeds the firm's deal flow across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Xandance is thematically anchored in AgTech, alternative proteins, and land-based aquaculture, but the firm describes itself as industry-agnostic for companies with a proven product and a clear growth mandate. Its disclosed affiliate relationships illustrate the posture: Xandance works alongside Ospraie Management to source European opportunities in commodities and agricultural technology, and it advises on projects like Castell Salmon, a land-based salmon farm in Bavaria using Veolia's RAS2020 technology. The firm also supports cultivated-meat ventures and collaborates with specialist fund managers in forestry, aquaculture, and agricultural science. Team size and total deployment are not publicly disclosed. The only named investment professional beyond Schünemann is Seyitcan Senpinar, listed as a Junior Investment Associate. The firm's legal seat is Stäfa, Switzerland, under company number CHE-421.516.553, and its site lists general contact points for Europe, Asia, and the Americas without specifying additional office addresses. May 2026: Altss research records confirm the firm remains active in its connector and advisory role with no announced fund closes. Xandance functions less as a discretionary allocator and more as a vetting and matchmaking layer between family offices and venture-stage or growth-stage operating companies. The firm's own capital participates in the deals it sources, but the core model is a curated investment club rather than a blind-pool fund, which gives limited partners a line-of-sight into each opportunity before committing.
General information
Firm type
Multi Family Office
Year founded
2018
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Switzerland
City
Stäfa
Corporate office
Obere Chergerten 10, CH-8712 Stäfa, Switzerland
Principals
Werner Schünemann
Founder & Managing Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Xandance & Partners?
Werner Schünemann, the founder and managing partner, runs the firm. His 30-year career spans equity sales at Morgan Stanley, relationship management at JP Morgan, and business development for a multi-billion-dollar commodity macro fund. All deal sourcing and matching runs through him and a small team that includes a junior investment associate, Seyitcan Senpinar.
How does Xandance & Partners source its deal flow?
Schünemann built his network during senior institutional roles across London, Singapore, Frankfurt, and New York. Xandance uses that network to find operating companies and fund managers, mainly in AgTech, aquaculture, and alternative proteins, then puts them through a multi-stage vetting process before presenting them to family offices. The firm also maintains an explicit affiliate relationship with Ospraie Management to source European ag-commodity and AgTech opportunities.
Is Xandance a fund-of-funds or a direct-investment platform?
It operates as both. The firm selects fund opportunities — particularly in alternative proteins, forestry, and agricultural science — and also sources direct private transactions. Xandance invests its own capital alongside the family offices it advises, but the structure is closer to a curated co-investment club than a blind-pool fund.
What investment stages does Xandance typically target?
Xandance says it is industry-agnostic but favors companies that already have a finalized product, a proven business model, and a strong executive team seeking growth capital. That suggests a bias toward late-venture and growth-stage equity rather than seed or pre-revenue rounds.
How is Xandance linked to Ospraie Management and other affiliates?
Xandance publicly states it is affiliated with Ospraie Management, a New York-based commodities and AgTech investor, to support sourcing of European opportunities. It also advises specific projects such as Castell Salmon, a German land-based salmon farm using Veolia's RAS2020 technology. These affiliations give Xandance proprietary access to deals that its family-office clients might not see independently.
Does Xandance & Partners have an open fund or take outside capital?
The firm does not publish a fund structure, AUM, or deployment figures. Its model is to present discrete investment opportunities — both direct deals and fund commitments — to family offices from its network, which suggests capital is raised on a deal-by-deal basis rather than through a standing commingled vehicle.
Where does the firm maintain a physical presence?
The registered office is in Stäfa, on Lake Zürich. The website lists contact points for Europe, Asia, and the Americas, but no additional office addresses are disclosed. Werner Schünemann splits his time between Zürich and Berlin, per the firm's own biography.
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