Christian Ziach
Principal
About me
| Team | Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech |
| at HTGF since | 2017 |
| my focus | Aerospace & Defence, Deeptech |
| my background | former Officer, Aerospace Engineer, Economist |
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The aerospace engineer has been dealing with cutting-edge technologies his entire professional life and, as a Principal/Authorized Signatory at HTGF, supports start-ups in the areas of industrial IoT, software, security, space and quantum technologies. Before Christian came to HTGF in October 2017, he worked as a senior systems engineer on the international asteroid landing mission MASCOT at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and was able to gain a lot of experience in the field of agile development methods in the hardware sector. For the first 12 years of his career, he was an air force officer in the German Armed Forces, responsible for the management of complex armaments projects. In 2011, while working for the German Armed Forces, he also obtained a diploma in business and economic sciences. Christian shares his experience as a startup mentor in cooperation with the incubators of the European space organization, the Space Founders Accelerator, and advises DLR and ESA in the area of New Space.
Four questions for …
What has been your most important milestone so far?
My time in the USA and Japan expanded my horizons incredibly and gave me valuable impulses for my personal development.
What has been your biggest success?
The successful landing of a space probe on an asteroid for whose development I was responsible.
Which metaphor do you like to use to describe your job?
It’s like a kindergarten: one child is crying all the time and there’s always a lot going on.
What distinguishes the HTGF team?
Competence, passion and entrepreneurial spirit.
My success stories in the HTGF portfolio
ATMOS Space Cargo, based at Baden-Airpark in Rheinmünster, develops and builds space capsules designed to return any cargo at any scale safely back from space. The cargo their capsules are …
Reflex Aerospace was founded in 2021. The Berlin and Munich-based NewSpace start-up aims to modernise the market with high-performance satellites tailored to individual needs. Through software-based operations and service-oriented offers, …
Delft Circuits designs and manufactures i/o (cabling) solutions for cryogenic environments to operate quantum systems. These environments have stringent space-, thermal-, and electronic requirements. Our Cri/oFlex® technology is the first …
DCUBED (Deployables Cubed GmbH) develops mass-customizable, export restriction free Actuators and Deployable Structures that make advanced SmallSat & CubeSat missions possible by keeping especially the need of New Space Customers …
Spherity was founded by Dr. Carsten Stöcker und Dr. Michael Rüther in November 2017 and employs currently 11 people. Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th …
Kiutra develops fully-automatic cooling solutions for the generation of extremely low temperatures near absolute zero at -273°C. In contrast to conventional Helium based cooling methods, kiutra’s magnetic cooling technique is …
BOX ID Systems GmbH focuses on cross-location tracking and identification technology for supply chains. The company thus takes up the growing demands of its customers from the automotive sector and …
Talpasolutions brings data mining to the mining industry and enhances the operational excellence. The Analytics as a Service (AaaS) solution allows mining companies to carry out manufacturer-independent, data-based deployment and …
Guided to exit
Founded in March 2017 and based in Grenoble (France), Hprobe is a spin-off company of SPINTEC (one of the leading spintronics research laboratories worldwide) and benefit from many years of …
Valispace GmbH has developed a browser-based engineering SaaS platform that increases productivity in the development of complex hardware products. The software offers a single-source-of-truth for engineering data and thus relieves …
Coredinate is a Software-as-a-Service application, that enables service companies such as security, maintenance and cleaning services to do their work more efficiently and safer.
Recent posts
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Successful exit for HTGF: Hprobe joins Mycronic to strengthen leadership in magnetic device testing
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Dcubed secures over-subscribed Series A round investment – to scale production, pioneer in-space manufacturing, and extend U.S. footprint
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