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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
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Work Experience
Geschäftsführer
2023
Managing one of Europe’s leading seed investors for innovative technologies and business model with a total fund volume of around 1.4 billion €. Shaping the future of Germany’s start-up ecosystem and beyond with great enthusiasm for innovation and technology.
Partner
2008
Sourcing, negotiation, and support of investments in tech start-ups. Working closely with founders to scale and professionalize businesses and to accelerate fundraising. Leading companies to various sizes up to e.g. >250 employees, >48 m€ annual revenue, >20m active user, >2,5 Mio. App-Loads, >500k Facebook Fans. Successfully sold 10 portfolio companies, stocard to Klarna in 2021, metoda to Maxburg PE in 2020, Kiwigrid to industry consortium with LG, Innogy SE, Aqton in 2016; bab.la to Oxford Universal Press in 2015; FTAPI Software to QSC in 2014; MeinProspekt to Axel Springer in 2014; textunes to Thalia in 2011; Raumfeld to Teufel Lautsprecher in 2010. On top of responsibilities for own portfolio supervise and support >10 Investment Managers in sourcing, negotiation, financing, and sale of their portfolio companies, to date 32 Portfolio companies.
2013
Board Observer
2013
Fast and Reliable Software Storage
2014
Member of the Advisory Board
2014
International retail performance advertising company for large-scale online retailers
2021 - 2023
Chair of the Investment Committee
2021 - 2023
2020 - 2021
Board Observer
2020 - 2021
2016 - 2020
Member of the Advisory Board
2016 - 2020
Makerist is the leading marketplace for digital patterns and associated crafting and textile products for the modern creative DIY community in Europe
2013 - 2016
Member of the Advisory Board
2013 - 2016
Kiwigrid develops and operates Europe's leading Energy IoT (Internet of Things) Platform providing energy management to enable truly smart energy usage. HTGF sold its shares to industry consortium with LG, Innogy and Aqton in December 2016.
2012 - 2015
Member of the Advisory Board
2012 - 2015
The bab.la language portal helps you learn foreign languages. 32 dictionaries in 21 languages are the core product. In April 2015 bab.la was successfully sold to Oxford University Press (OUP).
2005 - 2007
Co-Founder - CSO/COO IOSONO (today Barco Audio Technology)
2005 - 2007
IOSONO is the technology leader in the area of 3D audio and provides products for audio post production, cinemas, events and entertainment. IOSONO is a spin-off of Fraunhofer Institute of Media Technology led by Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, who invented mp3 - the de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players. IOSONO was aquired by Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops networked visualization products for the Entertainment, Enterprise and Healthcare markets. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with 3,250 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.051 billion euro in 2014
2003 - 2004
Manager Business Development
2003 - 2004
Since its foundation in 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, has developed key technologies for the age of digital media. With its software solutions, IDMT is a major partner for the creative industry in Germany and the world. In the field of 3D audio and image processing, IDMT develops new immersive and interactive media formats.The institute is led by Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, who invented mp3 - the de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players.