Daniela Bach

Principal / Authorized Signatory

Daniela Bach has joined the HTGF Digital Tech Investment Team in 2018. Before transitioning into VC, she worked in various positions in media with Axel Springer and Gruner + Jahr, among other she worked as Publishing Manager for GALA and 11FREUNDE. Daniela has studied political sciences in Leipzig and holds a MSc in Finance & Strategy from Sciences Po Paris.

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Press
9. September 2024

HR Tech Startup Become.1 Secures €3.3 Million in Seed Funding to Make Employee Benefits Simple, Flexible, and Compliant

The HR tech startup become.1 has secured a total of €3.3 million in seed funding to further expand its all-in-one platform for employee benefits. Fresh equity comes from lead investor D11Z.Ventures, Haufe Group Ventures, the Start-up BW Innovation Fund managed by MBG Baden-Württemberg, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), as well as prominent business angels, including Matthias Allmendinger (Taxdoo), Sebastian Koch (formerly KPMG), and Maru Winnacker (Urania Ventures). HTGF and other busin
 
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6. August 2024

DemoSquare secures CHF 1.2 million pre-seed funding to transform global political monitoring with AI

Lausanne, Switzerland – August 6, 2024 – DemoSquare, an EPFL spinoff developing AI technologies to help companies anticipate political and regulatory changes, has secured CHF 1.2 million in pre-seed funding from Swiss and German investors. The round, led by Zurich-based QBIT Capital, will accelerate the startup’s expansion to the European markets. Co-investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), one of the leading early-stage investors in Europe, is supporting this expansion with its strong
 
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28. November 2023

PraxisEins – Strategic capital increase by HTGF and Hessen Kapital

Frankfurt am Main, 28.11.2023 – The state-supported practice network PraxisEins is receiving a further strategic capital increase from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), bmh Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen (via the Hessen Kapital I fund) and market expert investors. The Frankfurt-based company makes it easier for doctors to enter the field of outpatient care, thereby addressing the impending shortage of GPs. The new capital will be deployed to further develop the company’
 
Blog
15. September 2023

Generation Greentech: How young ideas change the world

Five quick questions for Daniela Bach, Senior Investment Manager HTGF and Christian-Hauke Poensgen, Co-Founder Maya Climate Christian-Hauke Poensgen, Co-Founder, Maya Climate and Daniela Bach, Senior Investment Manager, HTGF What is Maya Climate and why can your idea make the world a little better? Christian-Hauke Poensgen: We are a financing platform for nature-based solutions (NbS). These are some of the most efficient and scalable solutions for avoiding and reducing carbon in
 
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1. February 2023

German startup Maya Climate closes €1.2M pre-seed round to their global natural capital project financing platform to market

Funding round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, alongside Antler and high profile business angels Maya Climate’s platform will provide project financing for natural capital projects – an investment market set to grow to $100bn per annum by 2030 Pre-seed funding will be used to launch Maya Climate into the market and accelerate product development Berlin, Germany: 1st February 2023: Maya Climate, a global project financing platform for natural capital projects, has today