High-Tech Gründerfonds
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| Public-private partnership | |
| Industry | Private equity |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Bonn, Germany |
| Products | Venture capital, growth capital |
| Total assets | €560.5 million |
| Website | www |
The High-Tech Gründerfonds (or HTGF) is a public-private venture capital investment firm based in Bonn, Germany. High-Tech Gründerfonds is an early stage seed investor, focused on high potential high-tech start-ups. The seed financing is provided to allow start-ups to take their ideas through the prototyping phase up to the market launch. Usually High-Tech Gründerfonds invests €0.5 million in the seed stage and up to a total of €2 million per portfolio company in later rounds.
High-Tech Gründerfonds is a public–private partnership. Investors include the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the KfW Banking Group owned by the federal government, which in total provided EUR 500 M (almost 90% of the funds total volume) of capital, and twelve industrial groups of ALTANA, BASF, B. Braun, Robert Bosch, CEWE Color, Daimler, Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom, Qiagen, Innogy, Tengelmann and Carl Zeiss. In March 2012, Evonik also invested €2.5 million in the fund. High-Tech Gruenderfonds has about €560.5 million under management in two funds (€272 million HTGF I, €288.5 million HTGF II).
High-Tech Gründerfonds has approximately 250 companies in its portfolio, including Trademob, a mobile app marketing platform, 6Wunderkinder, the company behind Wunderlist and Wunderkit,fruux, a cross-platform synchronization service, AYOXXA Biosystems, a protein multiplexing company based in Cologne and Singapore, Mister Spex, a large German online retailer for glasses, plista, a recommendation platform, and SimScale, a web-based simulation platform.
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