HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds

Seqana is a developer of satellite-based software that focuses on monitoring soil organic carbon (SOC) to support nature-based climate services. The company provides an innovative, cost-effective solution for project developers, agribusinesses, NGOs, and large corporations, allowing them to obtain actionable insights into soil health and carbon sequestration practices. By leveraging remote sensing technology, Seqana enables clients to measure and understand soil carbon levels quickly and accurately, contributing to efforts in combating climate change at a global scale. Through its cutting-edge monitoring platform, Seqana supports the transition to sustainable agricultural practices and enhances the value of environmental initiatives.

Urban Ground is a managed marketplace that specializes in providing 100% occupancies on residential rental assets across Europe for both institutional and private investors. The company offers a fully digitized platform that streamlines the entire lifecycle of long-term rentals, simplifying the process for tenants to view, sign, and rent properties. By connecting landlords with tenants, Urban Ground facilitates hassle-free letting experiences, enabling working professionals, including those relocating from abroad, to find suitable homes safely and comfortably. The company has demonstrated significant growth, doubling its performance year-on-year, with projections indicating a further doubling within the next six months.

Maya Climate empowers decision-makers with data-driven insights for natural assets. Its platform automates geospatial analysis using AI, facilitating smarter site selection, investment due diligence, and portfolio management.

Founded in 2015 with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, FlyNex develops automated software solutions for industrial drone operations. Its platform enables companies to plan drone missions, collect image data, and evaluate it in their own or third-party analysis applications. FlyNex serves renowned partners across construction, energy, real estate, and aviation sectors, reducing inspection costs by up to 90% while increasing safety.

Urban Ground is a managed marketplace that specializes in providing 100% occupancies on residential rental assets across Europe for both institutional and private investors. The company offers a fully digitized platform that streamlines the entire lifecycle of long-term rentals, simplifying the process for tenants to view, sign, and rent properties. By connecting landlords with tenants, Urban Ground facilitates hassle-free letting experiences, enabling working professionals, including those relocating from abroad, to find suitable homes safely and comfortably. The company has demonstrated significant growth, doubling its performance year-on-year, with projections indicating a further doubling within the next six months.

dotscene develops advanced 3D laser scanning systems for real estate industry. Their flagship product, dotcube 600k, captures accurate data on foot, via drones, or vehicles, generating precise CAD models and true-to-scale floor plans. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.

Founded in 2016 as a spin-off of the University of Freiburg, Germany, Geospin develops a B2B SaaS solution for geo-data analysis using machine learning methods. Its software, Geospin, integrates internal company data with external factors like weather, traffic, demographics, and social media to provide insights into product/service demand by location and time. It caters to industries such as mobility, logistics, construction, smart cities, automotive, and retail.

Founded in 2015 with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, FlyNex develops automated software solutions for industrial drone operations. Its platform enables companies to plan drone missions, collect image data, and evaluate it in their own or third-party analysis applications. FlyNex serves renowned partners across construction, energy, real estate, and aviation sectors, reducing inspection costs by up to 90% while increasing safety.

Wetransform provides open source and cloud-enabled data transformation solutions focused on geospatial information. The company offers HALE, an open source desktop product for fast, interactive data transformation, along with related tools such as hale studio, hale connect, and inspire gis, which together support data modeling, project editing, and publishing services. It serves public authorities, companies, and professionals by helping maintain and implement data standards such as INSPIRE, ISO 191xx, ECH, and OGC, and by managing, securing, and monitoring web services. Wetransform also provides professional support and research data management to support versioning and branching of data. Its core technology has been developed since 2009 and is used by governmental agencies and large organizations for geospatial data workflows. The company positions itself as enabling data-driven design by simplifying data transformations and integration, offering both desktop and cloud solutions for data transformation and migration, with a focus on easy, scalable, robust, and accessible tools for geospatial work.

Enoware specializes in mobile sensor systems designed for the geothermal energy sector. The company offers a miniaturized geothermal measuring capsule that enhances the efficiency and quality of geothermal probes. Its technology allows users to access vital environmental data through an online portal and smartphone application, facilitating system monitoring, optimization, and operational safety. With over 300,000 geothermal probes currently in operation in Germany and an annual addition of 20,000 new systems, Enoware is positioned to expand its customer base and contribute to the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.

viamon GmbH is a company based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, specializing in GPS-based geo-fencing anti-theft systems specifically designed for photovoltaic (PV) plants. The company develops and markets innovative monitoring and theft protection solutions for PV modules, inverters, and high-quality goods. Its offerings include 24/7 alarm services facilitated through a control center, as well as web portals and mobile applications compatible with smartphones and tablets. viamon operates in various international markets, including Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Namibia, Chile, and the Dominican Republic, providing enhanced security for renewable energy assets and ensuring protection against theft.

p3d systems GmbH specializes in the development and distribution of advanced systems for acquiring three-dimensional environmental data. The company focuses on portable laser scanning technology, providing solutions that include terrestrial laser scanners and navigation units to capture spatial information effectively. Its offerings encompass mobile mapping, portable scanning, and 3D scanning capabilities. Additionally, p3d systems has developed a software platform that allows customers to operate their existing laser scanners in a kinematic mode, enhancing the versatility and functionality of their scanning operations. Through its innovative technology, p3d systems aims to facilitate the accurate representation of physical spaces in three dimensions.

Locr GmbH is a company based in Braunschweig, Germany, specializing in geo-based services and photo sharing. Founded in 2006, it operates an online platform that allows users to tag photos with location information through geotagging, enabling the visualization of these locations on maps and satellite images. Locr offers various geo-related products, including geo photography and geotagging software solutions, which help marketers leverage geographic data to enhance their marketing communications. By utilizing data from sources like OpenStreetMap, Locr provides personalized maps and geo-information services aimed at improving engagement and response rates for businesses and advertisers.

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 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.

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.

Locr GmbH is a company based in Braunschweig, Germany, specializing in geo-based services and photo sharing. Founded in 2006, it operates an online platform that allows users to tag photos with location information through geotagging, enabling the visualization of these locations on maps and satellite images. Locr offers various geo-related products, including geo photography and geotagging software solutions, which help marketers leverage geographic data to enhance their marketing communications. By utilizing data from sources like OpenStreetMap, Locr provides personalized maps and geo-information services aimed at improving engagement and response rates for businesses and advertisers.

Orbster is a developer and publisher of location-based mobile games. Its core platform enables players and game idea providers to create GPS-powered games without programming knowledge, targeting the growing market for location-based mobile content.

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.