HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Kay Balster

Senior Investment Manager

Jens Baumgärtner

Senior Investment Manager

Anke Cassing

Principal

Tanja Emmerling

Partner / Head HTGF Berlin

Caroline Fichtner

Senior Investment Manager

Yann Fiebig

Investment Manager

Dr. Alex von Frankenberg

Managing Director and Founder

Bernd Goergen

Partner

Frank Hensel

Senior Investment Manager

Markus Kressmann

Partner

Lena Krzyzak

Principal

Maurice Kügler

Investment Manager

Klaus Lehmann

Senior Investment Manager

Dominik Lohle

Senior Investment Manager

Curtis MacDonald

Venture Partner

Andreas Olmes

Partner

Katharina Peters

Investment Manager

Martin Pfister

Senior Investment Manager

Claudia Raber

Partner

Guido Schlitzer

Managing Director

Ulrich Schmitt

Principal

Romy Schnelle

Partner

Clemens Von Bergmann

Investment Director

Axel Nitsch

Investment Manager

Tobias Schulz

Principal

Past deals in Simulation

DeepScenario

Pre Seed Round in 2022
DeepScenario is an AI scenario engine that offers an end-to-end platform for testing and validating autonomous systems. The company specializes in providing real-time road traffic data, facilitating the development of intelligent driving solutions. By leveraging advanced analysis of aerial image data, DeepScenario enables the creation of diverse traffic scenarios. This functionality supports companies in the development, testing, and validation of their automated driving technologies. Customer inquiries are managed through multiple channels, including phone, email, and online applications, ensuring comprehensive support for clients engaged in the autonomous vehicle sector.

Valispace

Seed Round in 2022
Valispace GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Bremen, Germany, offers a browser-based engineering software platform designed to enhance productivity in the development of complex hardware products such as satellites and rockets. The platform serves as an Engineering Information Management (EIM) system, facilitating team collaboration throughout the engineering lifecycle. It supports various aspects of hardware development, including requirements management, data-driven functional design, product architecture, and detailed systems design. Valispace’s tool provides full traceability, enabling clients to manage test procedures and access information about decisions made during the development process. By streamlining dynamic engineering data, the platform helps reduce development time, improve product quality, and lower costs across projects.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2022
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH is a Karlsruhe, Germany-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties. Its technology targets sectors such as performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, addressing the challenges associated with product development in these industries. The traditional process of designing products based on functional molecules involves numerous time-consuming and costly steps, making efficient simulations crucial for reducing time-to-market and research and development costs. While conventional simulations have limitations, the company aims to leverage the capabilities of quantum computing to enhance predictive accuracy and efficiency in chemical and pharmaceutical research. Through this innovative approach, HQS Quantum Simulations seeks to improve the understanding of chemical and physical interactions, thereby facilitating faster development cycles for its clients.

SimScale

Series C in 2020
SimScale GmbH operates an engineering simulation platform that enables engineers, designers, scientists, and students to test, validate, and optimize their designs. The platform integrates various simulation tools for fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, and thermodynamics within a single user interface, allowing users to create models and simulate their applications. It facilitates the analysis of computer-aided design (CAD) models by enabling users to generate meshes, set up analyses, and evaluate results. SimScale also offers online support, training, and consulting services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including HVAC, automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, among others. Founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, SimScale provides a cloud-based simulation tool that fosters collaboration within a community of innovators, aiming to streamline the product development process.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2019
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH is a Karlsruhe, Germany-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties. Its technology targets sectors such as performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, addressing the challenges associated with product development in these industries. The traditional process of designing products based on functional molecules involves numerous time-consuming and costly steps, making efficient simulations crucial for reducing time-to-market and research and development costs. While conventional simulations have limitations, the company aims to leverage the capabilities of quantum computing to enhance predictive accuracy and efficiency in chemical and pharmaceutical research. Through this innovative approach, HQS Quantum Simulations seeks to improve the understanding of chemical and physical interactions, thereby facilitating faster development cycles for its clients.

Hofmann & Stirner

Seed Round in 2018
Hofmann & Stirner ist ein Hersteller für automatisierte Zuführsysteme mit Schwingförderern und nutzt Simulationsverfahren zu deren Entwicklung. Entsprechend unserem Leitbild EXCITED BY SCIENCE transferieren wir dazu Ergebnisse aus der Forschung in die industrielle Anwendung. Unser Anspruch ist es, dem Kunden die leistungsstärksten und flexibelsten Zuführsysteme zur Verfügung zu stellen, die den Anforderungen einer modernen Produktion mit kurzen Produktlebenszyklen und hohen Taktraten genügen. Hierfür haben wir die Zuführsysteme PARU und ROTU entwickelt. Durch Einsatz digitaler Zwillinge kann parallel zum Betrieb das reale System für neue Fördergüter vorbereitet werden. Fortlaufend erhobene Betriebsdaten halten den digitalen Zwilling auf einem aktuellen Stand und verhelfen uns zur kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung des Systems. Mit einem Zuführsystem von Hofmann & Stirner müssen Sie keine Entscheidung zwischen Zuführleistung und Flexibilität mehr treffen.

Valispace

Seed Round in 2018
Valispace GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Bremen, Germany, offers a browser-based engineering software platform designed to enhance productivity in the development of complex hardware products such as satellites and rockets. The platform serves as an Engineering Information Management (EIM) system, facilitating team collaboration throughout the engineering lifecycle. It supports various aspects of hardware development, including requirements management, data-driven functional design, product architecture, and detailed systems design. Valispace’s tool provides full traceability, enabling clients to manage test procedures and access information about decisions made during the development process. By streamlining dynamic engineering data, the platform helps reduce development time, improve product quality, and lower costs across projects.

SimScale

Venture Round in 2017
SimScale GmbH operates an engineering simulation platform that enables engineers, designers, scientists, and students to test, validate, and optimize their designs. The platform integrates various simulation tools for fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, and thermodynamics within a single user interface, allowing users to create models and simulate their applications. It facilitates the analysis of computer-aided design (CAD) models by enabling users to generate meshes, set up analyses, and evaluate results. SimScale also offers online support, training, and consulting services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including HVAC, automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, among others. Founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, SimScale provides a cloud-based simulation tool that fosters collaboration within a community of innovators, aiming to streamline the product development process.

Cevotec

Seed Round in 2016
Cevotec GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in the design and automation of carbon fiber composites and reinforcements for various industries, including aerospace, medical devices, and sports. The company utilizes its Fiber Patch Placement technology to provide manufacturers with advanced solutions for high-volume production of complex composites. Cevotec's SAMBA systems enable fully automated fiber layup, which significantly enhances production efficiency and quality by allowing the creation of intricate 3D geometries and multi-material laminates. Their technology-specific CAD-CAM software, ARTIST STUDIO, facilitates the generation of patch-based fiber laminates and automates robot programming. By transitioning from manual layup to Cevotec's systems, clients can achieve substantial cost and time savings ranging from 20% to 60%. Additionally, Cevotec offers a comprehensive service portfolio that includes customizations tailored to specific applications and development support based on finite element analysis.

SimScale

Seed Round in 2014
SimScale GmbH operates an engineering simulation platform that enables engineers, designers, scientists, and students to test, validate, and optimize their designs. The platform integrates various simulation tools for fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, and thermodynamics within a single user interface, allowing users to create models and simulate their applications. It facilitates the analysis of computer-aided design (CAD) models by enabling users to generate meshes, set up analyses, and evaluate results. SimScale also offers online support, training, and consulting services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including HVAC, automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, among others. Founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, SimScale provides a cloud-based simulation tool that fosters collaboration within a community of innovators, aiming to streamline the product development process.

SimScale

Angel Round in 2013
SimScale GmbH operates an engineering simulation platform that enables engineers, designers, scientists, and students to test, validate, and optimize their designs. The platform integrates various simulation tools for fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, and thermodynamics within a single user interface, allowing users to create models and simulate their applications. It facilitates the analysis of computer-aided design (CAD) models by enabling users to generate meshes, set up analyses, and evaluate results. SimScale also offers online support, training, and consulting services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including HVAC, automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, among others. Founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, SimScale provides a cloud-based simulation tool that fosters collaboration within a community of innovators, aiming to streamline the product development process.

SOTA SOLUTIONS GmbH

Seed Round in 2012
SOTA Solutions provides its clients with a range of IT software and solutions. SOTA Solutions’s range of solutions consist of categorization, forecasts, simulations, and optimization. Its range of applications include optimized production, production process prediction, text understanding and categorization, industry 4.0, investment decisions, and personalized webshop content. SOTA Solutions was founded in 2010 by Kolija and Annika Bailly.

Lumatix

Venture Round in 2011
Lumatix is a Germany-based company developing high-tech software solution that simulates how natural light behaves in the real world.

sim4tec

Venture Round in 2009
sim4tec provides comprehensive simulation software in the field of organic electronics for a variety of different applications. All software products come with an intuitive and user-friendly interface from which the user can quickly communicate with the calculation kernel. This enables fast learning cycles and a detailed understanding of the physical processes involved. Furthermore, developers of commercial products may benefit from a reduced time-to-market and a significant reduction of R&D costs by using our simulation software.

sim4tec

Venture Round in 2008
sim4tec provides comprehensive simulation software in the field of organic electronics for a variety of different applications. All software products come with an intuitive and user-friendly interface from which the user can quickly communicate with the calculation kernel. This enables fast learning cycles and a detailed understanding of the physical processes involved. Furthermore, developers of commercial products may benefit from a reduced time-to-market and a significant reduction of R&D costs by using our simulation software.
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