Dr. Andreas Olmes
Principal
About me
| Team | Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech |
| at HTGF since | 2008 |
| my focus | Product-Market-Fit & real DeepTech |
| my background | Physicist, exManaging Director, exFounder, exSales |
CV
Dr. Andreas Olmes, Principal & Authorised Signatory, has a PhD in physics from Leibniz Universität Hannover and invests in hardware-related start-ups at HTGF in the Industrial Tech Team. He has always developed companies strategically: In his first ten years in the profession, he managed the transformation of an ophthalmic surgery practice into a clinic, built his own VC-funded technology company and successfully established a pure distribution company, together with the owner, in the laser market. Currently, his diverse portfolio includes seven companies. Andreas has led numerous financing rounds and has already supported nine successful exits, including the IPO of Mister Spex in July 2021, one of HTGF’s biggest successes.
Four questions for …
What drives you?
Challenges & deep understanding.
What has been your most important milestone so far?
My own startup, which unfortunately was not so economically successful.
What inspires you outside of work?
Wakeboarding on the cable.
What fascinates you about pre-seed/seed phases?
The path to product-market fit.
My success stories in the HTGF portfolio
alteva was founded in Cologne, Germany, in 2023 by Ida Milow and Aiko Bernehed. The start-up develops innovative, ultra-lightweight and high-performance battery cells for the decarbonisation of the global transport …
PicoLAS develops, manufactures and markets innovative, efficient and cost-effective power supplies for driving diode lasers and LEDs.
Mister Spex is the largest online retailer for designer glasses in Germany. The company offers a wide variety of high quality glasses, sunglasses, sport glasses as well as contact lenses, …
EXTOLL develops its own semiconductor IP for network components as well as its own ASIC chips for high-performance computing (HPC). EXTOLL networks are direct networks that can be operated without …
Cuculus supplies and operates software solutions for the energy sector and beyond. ZONOS, our core product, is only the starting point from which we develop tailor-made solutions together with our …
Guided to exit
Multiphoton Optics develops 3D printers for the serial production of optical components with previously unattainable precision.
Nanda sells wafer inspection systems to chip manufacturer world wide. The innovative optical design allows for faster inspection speed. This reduces costs dramatically and increases yield in the production process. …
MinCell develops innovative technologies and recipes for foam-glass gravel and board production. We are aiming to be the cost leader with high quality in this segment (me-too product). Having successfully …
Luphos develops and manufactures high-precision optical sensors for quality and process control in industrial fabrication as well as metrology platforms for the quality control of high precision optics. Exit since …
Sample analysis in structural biology often suffers from weak contrast in the transmission electron microscope (TEM). The KonTEM PhazR solves this contrast problem and thus enables scientists to extract more …
Development and distribution of a software which will be installed on SIM-cards of mobiles. This software controls the quality of broadcasting networks. Furthermore costs with the optimization of the networks …
HiperScan GmbH was founded in 2006 as a spin-off of the Dresdner Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS). The innovative scanning grating technology developed at the IPMS forms the basis …
Development, manufacture and marketing of patented magnetic closure and coupler technology for a variety of applications where a high degree of comfort and function is in demand.
Cuciniale develops and markets intelligent cooking assistence systems enabling everybody to cook ingeniously easy like a Chef.
Confovis offers optical 3D measurement systems for industrial quality control of surfaces down to the nanometer range. The patented system works without moving parts and differs from the competition by …
