Genow Secures €1.65M to End Fragmented Company Knowledge with Its AI Platform

• Genow raises €1.65 million in seed funding, led by HTGF, with participation from BMH and experienced angel investors. 
• AI platform Wingman already in use by major enterprise clients. Fresh capital will drive market expansion and technological advancement. 
• Wingman revolutionises knowledge management by enabling companies to build scalable, custom AI solutions that can navigate complex information landscapes with ease. 

The deep-tech startup Genow, based in Darmstadt, has successfully closed its seed funding round, raising €1.65 million. The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) led the investment, alongside BMH Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH and experienced angel investors and founders Markus Becker, Sebastian Mönnich and Dr Mario Lenz. Founded in 2023 as a spin-off from TU Darmstadt, Genow plans to use the new funding to further develop its AI-powered Knowledge Operations Platform, ‘Wingman’. This platform facilitates efficient and highly precise interaction with internal company knowledge from various data sources. 

Knowledge management remains an unsolved core challenge. 

Despite ongoing digitalisation, many organisations still struggle with inefficient access to internal knowledge. Even documented information can be difficult to retrieve as it is often scattered across multiple systems. At the same time, the retirement of experienced specialists puts valuable expertise at risk of being lost. What is needed are solutions capable of handling the complex, heterogeneous information landscapes of modern organisations and making knowledge accessible and usable across departments. 

‘Knowledge management remains one of the biggest hurdles to successful processes and decisions,’ says Sara Jourdan, CEO and co-founder of Genow. ‘Many employees spend 20 to 30 per cent of their day searching for information in unstructured data sets.’ 

AI-driven knowledge processes for every business context 

The Genow founding team spent several years conducting in-depth research at TU Darmstadt on the use of generative AI in enterprise environments. They found that traditional AI solutions often fail in everyday business settings due to a lack of context. Genow’s “Wingman” directly addresses this challenge by providing a scalable Knowledge Operations Platform which intelligently consolidates fragmented knowledge from systems such as SharePoint, Confluence, Jira and DMS solutions. This makes the knowledge accessible and usable in context. 

Wingman is already being used by leading international enterprises, helping thousands of employees to quickly access and apply internal knowledge productively. 

The platform doesn’t just understand content semantically — it also incorporates company-specific metadata, terminology and relationships, enabling highly accurate and reliable responses, even to complex queries. At the same time, it helps to identify knowledge gaps across the organisation. Companies can configure custom AI applications tailored to specific functions, such as HR, sales, compliance, customer service or engineering. The goal is to rethink knowledge management fundamentally and provide a future-proof solution for building, preserving and leveraging internal knowledge. 

The platform can be fully deployed in the customer’s own cloud environment, meeting the highest standards for data security, scalability, and control. 

‘With Genow, we are investing in a team that has developed an excellent research-based, scalable solution to one of the central problems of knowledge work,’ says Sebastian Schnell from BMH. ‘Wingman impresses with its technological depth, practical relevance, and significant market potential.’ 

Felix Assion, Investment Manager at HTGF, comments: ‘We are seeing a lot of start-up activity in this promising market, but few teams understand the needs of large corporations as well as this one. After an impressive bootstrapping phase, we are excited to see what they will achieve with these new financial opportunities.’ 

Markus Becker and Sebastian Mönnich, Business Angels: ‘The Genow founding team impressed us with their blend of technological expertise and strategic vision. With Wingman, Genow is setting new standards in corporate knowledge management, and we see great potential here for the future. We are delighted to be part of this journey.’  

The seed funding will be used to further develop the technology, particularly with regard to agent-based knowledge processes, and to support market expansion. 

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About Genow 
Genow is a deep-tech startup based in Darmstadt (Germany), empowering companies to efficiently and precisely interact with their unstructured, fragmented enterprise knowledge through its Wingman platform. The Knowledge Operations AI platform enables organisations to easily and securely scale specialised AI applications, making knowledge processes more efficient and effective by preserving and generating new knowledge. Genow was founded in 2023 by Dr. Timo Koppe, Adrian Glauben, Dr. Sara Jourdan, and Prof. Peter Buxmann. 

For more information, visit: https://www.genow.ai  

Media contact 
Genow GmbH 
Grafenstraße 19, 64283 Darmstadt 
Dr. Sara Jourdan 
media@genow.ai   

About HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds  
HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing startups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports startups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 780 startups and achieved almost 200 successful exits. HTGF has a fund volume of over 2 billion euros.  

Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capital as well as 45 companies and family offices.  For more information, please visit HTGF.de or follow us on LinkedIn.    

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High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH  
Tobias Jacob, Senior Marketing & Communications Manager   
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t.jacob@htgf.de  

About BMH 
BMH Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH is a medium-sized investment and venture capital company based in Wiesbaden. Founded in 2001, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba). BMH currently manages six investment funds totalling over 200 million euros. Technologiefonds Hessen IV (TF H IV) primarily invests in seed and Series A financing rounds, focusing on highly scalable technological business models. Since its inception, BMH has invested in over 500 companies. The company’s investment focus includes the software/analytics, fintech/insuretech, life sciences, deep tech, IoT/industrial tech and cleantech sectors. 

For more information about BMH and its funds, please visit www.bmh-hessen.de.  

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