High-Tech Gründerfonds

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Bonn, Germany, specializing in early-stage investments in high-tech startups. Established in 2005, the firm focuses on technology-driven companies across various sectors, including information and communication technology, life sciences, healthcare, automation, and cleantech. HTGF typically invests in companies that have been operational for no more than one year, aiming to contribute up to €0.6 million in initial funding and up to €3 million in follow-on financing. The firm seeks a minority stake, generally around 15%, and provides a subordinated loan convertible into equity, with deferred interest for up to four years to support liquidity. With a total investment volume of approximately €895.5 million across three funds, HTGF has successfully supported over 500 startups and attracted more than €2 billion in follow-on investments from external sources. The firm's investors include notable public and private entities, underscoring its role as a key player in fostering innovation and growth within the German startup ecosystem.

Daniela Bach

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Kay G. Balster

Senior Investment Manager

Jens Baumgärtner

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Gernot Berger

Investor

Kilian von Berlichingen

Investor

Anke Cassing

Principal

Tanja Emmerling

Partner

Caroline Fichtner

Senior Investment Manager

Yann Fiebig

Investment Manager

Alexander von Frankenberg

Managing Director and Founder

Bernd Goergen

Partner

Stefanie Grüter

Partner, Communications and Relations

Gregor Haidl

Principal / Authorised Signatory

Frank Hensel

Senior Investment Manager

Olaf Joeressen

Senior Investment Manager

Markus Kressmann

Partner

Maurice Kügler

Investment Manager

Klaus Lehmann

Senior Investment Manager

Dominik Lohle

Senior Investment Manager

Torsten Löffler

Principal ppa. - DeepTech Future Fonds

Fabian Mohr

Investor

Martin Möllmann

Investment Manager

Axel Nitsch

Investment Manager

Andreas Olmes

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Katharina Peters

Investment Manager

Tilmann Petersen

Investment Manager

Claudia Raber

Partner

Nikolaus Raupp

Investor

Frank Reinecke

Partner

Guido Schlitzer

Managing Director

Ulrich Schmitt

Principal

Romy Schnelle

Partner

Tobias Schulz

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Katharina Severin

Investment Manager

Niels Sharman

Investor

Esko Stahl

Investment Manager

Björn Sykora

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Angelika Vlachou

Partner

Johannes Weber

Principal

Marco Winzer

Partner

Julian Zachmann

Investor

Christian Ziach

Principal and Authorized Signatory

Markus Kückelhaus Ph.D

Partner, Industrial Tech Team

Past deals in iOS

Nia Health

Seed Round in 2023
Nia Health is a medical software developer focused on supporting individuals with chronic skin conditions, particularly atopic dermatitis. Its primary product, the Nia eczema app, delivers personalized, clinically validated information aimed at alleviating the burden and stigma associated with these conditions. The platform is designed to empower parents of children with eczema by providing them with effective treatment options and enhancing their confidence in managing the disease. By addressing inefficiencies in the healthcare system, Nia Health's solutions aim to lower costs while improving access to necessary medical resources for patients.

Asana Rebel

Series B in 2018
Asana Rebel offers a Yoga-inspired fitness app combining the best of Yoga and fitness. The mobile fitness App is available in six languages (DE, EN, FR, PT, ESP, IT), has been featured multiple times by Apple and Google and is rated as one of the top health and fitness apps, with an average of more than 4.6 / 5 stars. The startup was founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap and is based in Berlin.

Stocard

Series B in 2018
Stocard GmbH is a technology company that specializes in developing rewards applications for mobile devices, including iPhone and Android. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, with additional offices in Sydney, Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, Stocard offers a mobile application that allows users to store and manage their reward cards in one place. The Stocard app also enables users to browse coupons and catalogs from their preferred retailers, effectively serving as a mobile wallet. With a mission to enhance the shopping experience for over 50 million users, Stocard aims to simplify how consumers earn and redeem rewards at their favorite stores. The platform has facilitated several billion transactions at the point of sale across various international markets, including North America and Australia.

Asana Rebel

Series A in 2018
Asana Rebel offers a Yoga-inspired fitness app combining the best of Yoga and fitness. The mobile fitness App is available in six languages (DE, EN, FR, PT, ESP, IT), has been featured multiple times by Apple and Google and is rated as one of the top health and fitness apps, with an average of more than 4.6 / 5 stars. The startup was founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap and is based in Berlin.

Incapptic Connect

Seed Round in 2017
incapptic Connect is an intuitive mobile automation app release software specifically designed to enable swift digital transformations for enterprise companies. By automating the app deployment process, incapptic Connect helps global brands establish effective control of app project portfolios, save countless labor hours and accelerate app time to market. Founded in 2016 by CEO Rafael Kobylinski, incapptic Connect has been implemented by companies at the forefront of digitization. Our customers range from hidden champions to Fortune Global 500 organizations across a diverse array of industries.

Asana Rebel

Seed Round in 2016
Asana Rebel offers a Yoga-inspired fitness app combining the best of Yoga and fitness. The mobile fitness App is available in six languages (DE, EN, FR, PT, ESP, IT), has been featured multiple times by Apple and Google and is rated as one of the top health and fitness apps, with an average of more than 4.6 / 5 stars. The startup was founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap and is based in Berlin.

Predict.io

Seed Round in 2014
It is hard to engage app users. Timing is everything. Sending a push in the wrong moment gets you uninstalled. Using smartphone sensors to understand user context is difficult. The company gives developers an SDK that provides user context. The SDK is installed within minutes. It only consumes 0.2% battery per hour. It shows higher accuracy than OS embedded Activity APIs. And it works across platforms iOS, Android, Phonegap. Once activated predict.io constantly reads the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). The data is pre-processed directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized predict.io fires a "callback"​. The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback"​. Once activated we constantly read the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). We pre-process the data directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized we fire a "callback". The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback".

embraase

Venture Round in 2014
embraase - Fresh out of beta and ready to go, embraase is an easy tool for A/B testing mobile apps with a quick SDK integration that supports iOS, Android, Unity and Xamarin (iOS and Android). The intuitive dashboard allows marketers, developers, and product managers alike to manage A/B tests and personalization campaigns in real time. The platform is scalable, with pricing based on the number of end users of your app--not the number of tests running. embraase also lets you push tests live to your users, without updates to the app store first, resulting in responsive campaigns that don’t require developer or designer input or intervention.

Pylba

Angel Round in 2013
Pylba, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2012. It specializes in mobile media publishing through its flagship application, Simply News, which is recognized as one of the highest-rated news apps globally. Pylba offers a Mobile Media Publishing Platform (M2P2) that enables publishers to effectively deliver content to mobile users. Additionally, the company provides its technology to content owners through a white label App-as-a-Service model, allowing them to customize and utilize the features of Simply News under their own branding.

Stocard

Seed Round in 2012
Stocard GmbH is a technology company that specializes in developing rewards applications for mobile devices, including iPhone and Android. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, with additional offices in Sydney, Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, Stocard offers a mobile application that allows users to store and manage their reward cards in one place. The Stocard app also enables users to browse coupons and catalogs from their preferred retailers, effectively serving as a mobile wallet. With a mission to enhance the shopping experience for over 50 million users, Stocard aims to simplify how consumers earn and redeem rewards at their favorite stores. The platform has facilitated several billion transactions at the point of sale across various international markets, including North America and Australia.

Zuuka Group

Venture Round in 2012
Zuuka Group is develops an application that includes children's storybooks. Its application allows parents to provide children with entertaining and reading experience.

zuuka!

Venture Round in 2011
Zuuka! is a children application publisher that develops digital children's media for mobile devices.

Textunes

Seed Round in 2010
Textunes is a provider of an e-book platform that enables smartphone users to browse books and magazines, read excerpts, and instantly download e-books for convenient access on the go. The company focuses on electronically processing publishing content to make it widely available through mobile devices, particularly popular smartphones like the iPhone. Textunes offers publishers a cost-effective channel to distribute both text-based and interactively enhanced content. Additionally, the platform connects content to virtual social networks, enhancing its marketing potential. As a key player in the German e-reading market, Textunes also fosters an online e-book community and provides cross-platform e-book applications.

rapidrabbit

Seed Round in 2009
Rapid Rabbit is a small independent app studio based in Greifswald. The company focuses on developing innovative and engaging mobile applications, catering to diverse user needs. As an indie studio, Rapid Rabbit emphasizes creativity and originality in its projects, distinguishing itself in the competitive app development landscape. The team's commitment to quality and user experience drives their approach to creating applications that resonate with users.

Qiro

Venture Round in 2008
Qiro GmbH runs the mobile & online community Qiro. As a unique service for the handset, Qiro connects a community with a localization- and buddy finder-service as well as providing over a million static/dynamic points of interest over a backgroup of digital maps. The service answers the most frequently asked question automatically: “where are you?” Qiro continuously shows its users where they are currently located, who is near-by at that time and what is happening in that area as well as enabling the user to make low-priced contact with friends. Qiro offers business partners via its location based services an extensive and innovative level of advertising that can be distributed to customers pending on where they are about at the time. In order to receive the service, users can register via PC and download the software free of charge onto their mobile phone. Qiro is currently usable in all German mobile networks.

Qiro

Seed Round in 2007
Qiro GmbH runs the mobile & online community Qiro. As a unique service for the handset, Qiro connects a community with a localization- and buddy finder-service as well as providing over a million static/dynamic points of interest over a backgroup of digital maps. The service answers the most frequently asked question automatically: “where are you?” Qiro continuously shows its users where they are currently located, who is near-by at that time and what is happening in that area as well as enabling the user to make low-priced contact with friends. Qiro offers business partners via its location based services an extensive and innovative level of advertising that can be distributed to customers pending on where they are about at the time. In order to receive the service, users can register via PC and download the software free of charge onto their mobile phone. Qiro is currently usable in all German mobile networks.
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