Gregor Haidl
Principal
About me
| Team | Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech |
| at HTGF since | 2017 |
| my focus | Industry Software & AI, Early-stage Product Management |
| my background | Mechanical Engineering, Entrepreneur, TUM Manage & More |
CV
Gregor holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Technical University of Munich and is a former Manage & More fellow of UnternehmerTUM. After several stays in China, for example at BMW Brilliance Automotive, and a one-year start-up experience, he is now a principal in the Industrial, Climate and Deep Tech Team of High-Tech Gründerfonds. His focus is on industrial software solutions in the areas of R&D, automation and energy as well as on supporting founders on their way to product-market fit.
Four questions for …
What drives you?
My curiosity & enthusiasm for technical innovations and their implementation in commercially successful products by outstanding teams.
What fascinates you about pre-seed/seed phases?
There is still no playbook, a lot of uncertainty and many pivots. It is a magical moment when teams reach product market fit for the first time.
What distinguishes the HTGF team?
We are a very diverse & unpretentious team that is passionate about new innovations & technologies and is highly committed to supporting our founding teams.
What inspires you outside of work?
I do a lot of sport, e.g. swimming or kitesurfing. In addition, my time in China has given me a passion for Asian cuisine and I cook a lot.
My success stories in the HTGF portfolio
viboo makes buildings more energy efficient through its Predictive Control as a Service platform. Rooted in extensive research at Empa and ETH Zurich, the company empowers smart thermostats with predictive …
to viboo
Spinning-off from the LASA (Learning Algorithms & Systems Laboratory) of EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the company aims to make robotics accessible to all companies. Its technology combines reinforcement …
to AICA
Gilytics, an ETH Zurich spin-off, was founded in 2017 by Stefano Grassi, Heather Pace Clark and Philippe Bieri. The company’s software, Pathfinder, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) cloud platform …
to Gilytics
Threedy commercializes its instant3D hub platform – a visual computing platform for industrial customers to translate the ever growing web of 3D, business and process data into highly responsive and …
to Threedy
Erium GmbH was founded in 2019 and is based at the “gate” technology and start-up centre in Garching near Munich. The company currently has 10 employees and is a leader …
to Erium
With Soley, industrial companies can identify and eliminate unnecessary variants, components, storage locations, purchasing processes, cost drivers, and margin eaters. With the digitized, collaborative decision-making process, companies like Viessmann, Bosch …
to Soley
As an agency for performance advertising TrackScale offers individual online and offline campaign solutions that can be measured and optimized by the unique tracking technology in real-time.
to TrackScale
Market leader in cloud-native simulation software for rapid design decisions in engineering
to SimScale
Guided to exit
Exit
memetis develops foil-based miniature actuators made of shape memory alloys (SMA). SMA are metallic alloys that seem to “remember” a certain shape by electric heating that has been trained beforehand …
to memetis
Recent posts
zum Artikel
AICA closes a Seed investment round – Bringing real-time intelligence to industrial control
zum Artikel