High-Tech Grunderfonds

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH, established in 2005 and based in Bonn, Germany, is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in high-tech startups across various sectors, including information and communication technology, software, healthcare, and life sciences. The firm focuses on companies that are less than one year old and have a turnover of less than €10 million. High-Tech Gründerfonds typically invests between €0.5 million and €3 million, acquiring a minority stake of up to 25% in its portfolio companies. The firm often acts as the lead investor and provides follow-on financing, having facilitated over €2 billion in additional funding from external investors. With a commitment to nurturing innovation, it has supported the development of more than 500 startups and has successfully exited over 100 investments. The firm’s backing includes participation from various public and private entities, reflecting its role as a key player in the German startup ecosystem.

Marie Asano

Investment Manager

Michael Brandkamp Ph.D

Managing Director

Tobias Faupel

Principal

Bernd Georgen

Partner

Bernd Goergen

Partner

Gregor Haidl

Investor

Ansgar Kirchheim

Partner

Lena Krzyzak

Principal

Maurice Kügler

Investor

Klaus Lehmann

Partner

Kristin Müller

Investment Manager

Claudia Raber

Partner Relationship Management

Frank Reinecke

Partner

Romy Schnelle

Managing Director

Michael Strzyz

Investment Manager

Past deals in Austria

Innerspace

Venture Round in 2021
Innerspace GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Wattens, Austria, specializes in developing virtual reality (VR) training solutions tailored for the life science industry, particularly for cleanroom operators. The company's innovative approach, known as DeepTraining, leverages psychological principles to enhance the training experience, allowing employees to practice critical tasks in a simulated environment. This method helps deepen their understanding of production processes and refine their behavior patterns in high-stakes settings. Innerspace also provides a Training Management System (TMS) for effective enterprise-wide distribution of its training modules, along with the necessary VR hardware. By decoupling training from physical equipment, Innerspace aims to minimize errors in pharmaceutical operations, reduce training costs, and improve risk assessment, making its solutions highly beneficial for international pharmaceutical companies.

Coinpanion

Seed Round in 2021
Coinpanion is the digital crypto manager of the future for crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. It enables you to benefit from the crypto market without any prior knowledge by creating portfolios of carefully pre-selected cryptocurrencies and managing them with Coinpanion's unique automated trading algorithm.

Innerspace

Venture Round in 2020
Innerspace GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Wattens, Austria, specializes in developing virtual reality (VR) training solutions tailored for the life science industry, particularly for cleanroom operators. The company's innovative approach, known as DeepTraining, leverages psychological principles to enhance the training experience, allowing employees to practice critical tasks in a simulated environment. This method helps deepen their understanding of production processes and refine their behavior patterns in high-stakes settings. Innerspace also provides a Training Management System (TMS) for effective enterprise-wide distribution of its training modules, along with the necessary VR hardware. By decoupling training from physical equipment, Innerspace aims to minimize errors in pharmaceutical operations, reduce training costs, and improve risk assessment, making its solutions highly beneficial for international pharmaceutical companies.

Outfittery

Series B in 2014
Outfittery provides an online personal shopping service for men. OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”.Their personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of their customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. They keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide.Their service is free and the individually selected items are sent to their customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Snow & Alps

Venture Round in 2014
With Snowbon the company created the first online booking platform, which offers top deals for ski extras in the Alps. Zhanks to the unique Snow Guarantee wintersport enthusiasts can book off-season ski extras totally risk-free: should the ski resort be closed due to lack of snow, the customer will receive his money back. Snowbon offers ski passes, ski lessons and rental equipment as stand alone as well as in attractive packages for winter sports regions in Austria, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland. If you can't find an offer for you, just sign up for our free newsletter and we will keep you up to date about our best deals!

Outfittery

Series A in 2013
Outfittery provides an online personal shopping service for men. OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”.Their personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of their customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. They keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide.Their service is free and the individually selected items are sent to their customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Outfittery

Seed Round in 2012
Outfittery provides an online personal shopping service for men. OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”.Their personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of their customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. They keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide.Their service is free and the individually selected items are sent to their customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Windeln.de

Series B in 2012
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

tiramizoo

Seed Round in 2011
tiramizoo GmbH provides same day delivery (SDD) service for scheduled deliveries in metropolitan areas in Germany and Austria. The company uses Software as a Service (SaaS) to offer customized logistics solutions for individual retailers or regional trade associations. It serves online shops of electronics and consumer goods. tiramizoo GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Windeln.de

Series A in 2011
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

Windeln.de

Venture Round in 2010
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

Mister Spex

Series B in 2010
Mister Spex GmbH is an online eyewear retailer based in Berlin, Germany, specializing in a wide range of eyewear products, including prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses. Founded in 2007, the company offers over 5,000 different eyewear options from more than 60 brands, encompassing both sports labels and luxury designer brands. Mister Spex operates its own retail network in Germany and maintains online platforms in several European countries, including France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. In addition to product sales, Mister Spex provides additional services such as eye examinations and annual checks for contact lens users. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from its operations in Germany.

United Maps

Series A in 2009
United Maps strategy is to licence basemaps - from vehicle navigation market leaders like Navteq, Tele Atlas or AND – and algorithmically match them with value-added cartographic data and relevant information layers thereby conflated into new data products. United Maps generates content-rich, white-labeled, highly detailed and fully routable vector maps for mobile and pedestrian usecases. Proprietary conflation algorithms automatically match vectorized basemaps with a high degree of precision. Relevant content layers are added for mobile usecases and seamless multimodal navigation: » public transport (subway, tram, railnetworks) » pathes, walkways and trails for hiking and outdoor » precise house footprints, addresses The hyperlocal mapping products enable location-based applications, media and services for connected mobile devices, BPO, LBS and multi-modal navigation on a mobile, human scale. United Maps operates in B2B and professional services, offering white-labeled and on-demand services. Germany is scheduled for Q1/09, followed by Austria, Switzerland and a rollout of 200 larger European cities.

United Maps

Seed Round in 2008
United Maps strategy is to licence basemaps - from vehicle navigation market leaders like Navteq, Tele Atlas or AND – and algorithmically match them with value-added cartographic data and relevant information layers thereby conflated into new data products. United Maps generates content-rich, white-labeled, highly detailed and fully routable vector maps for mobile and pedestrian usecases. Proprietary conflation algorithms automatically match vectorized basemaps with a high degree of precision. Relevant content layers are added for mobile usecases and seamless multimodal navigation: » public transport (subway, tram, railnetworks) » pathes, walkways and trails for hiking and outdoor » precise house footprints, addresses The hyperlocal mapping products enable location-based applications, media and services for connected mobile devices, BPO, LBS and multi-modal navigation on a mobile, human scale. United Maps operates in B2B and professional services, offering white-labeled and on-demand services. Germany is scheduled for Q1/09, followed by Austria, Switzerland and a rollout of 200 larger European cities.
CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to run control services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.