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Johannes Weber Principal

Johannes WeberPrincipal

About me

Team Berlin Team, Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech
at HTGF since 2020
my focus ClimateTech, DeepTech
my background Founder, Engineer, MBA

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Johannes Weber has been supporting HTGF in Berlin since November 2020 in the fields of ClimateTech, DeepTech und IndustrialTech. Johannes holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from universities in Germany and UK. He started his career as a management consultant and then spent six years building a VC-funded start-up as Co-Founder & CEO and successfully sold it to an international medical and safety technology group. The product was awarded with the German Innovation Prize and is available in more than 20 countries worldwide. Johannes brings extensive entrepreneurial experience to the collaboration with startups.

Four questions for …

What has been your most important milestone so far?

Johannes Weber

I have built a VC-financed start-up for six years and successfully sold it to a corporate group. The product is available in 20 countries.

What drives you?

Johannes Weber

Supporting visionary founders that challenge the status quo through technology, science, and highly innovative business models.

What fascinates you about pre-seed / seed phases?

Johannes Weber

Optimism, agility and execution speed.

What do you like most about your job?

Johannes Weber

To be able to pass on concrete experiences that I have made with my own startup.

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My success stories in the HTGF portfolio

6 of 500 Companies
2024

Cyclize

Baden-Württemberg
Circular Economy

Cyclize, a spin-off from the University of Stuttgart, has developed a technology to defossilize the chemical industry using mixed plastic waste and CO2 as raw materials to produce synthesis gas …

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2023

Proxima Fusion

Bavaria
Energy

Fusion will be one of the greatest breakthroughs of this century. Proxima Fusion is working to develop power plants via optimized stellarators, devices that form magnetic cages for high-energy matter. …

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2022

DeepScenario

Baden-Württemberg
AI

DeepScenario is an AI start-up that provides the world’s leading platform for training, testing, and validating autonomous systems of any kind, with a particular focus on the automotive industry. The …

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2022

syte

North Rhine-Westphalia
AI

syte 2021 was founded by the architect Matthias Zühlke and the mathematician David Nellessen. Matthias developed an interest in linking digitalisation and architecture early on. As an architect and partner …

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2021

sewts

Bavaria
Robotics / Automation

Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a …

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2021

traceless materials

Hamburg
Advanced Materials

The circular bioeconomy startup traceless materials has developed a holistically sustainable alternative for plastics and bioplastics that is fully compostable in nature, contributing to solve the global plastic pollution.

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2018

instagrid

Baden-Württemberg
Battery

instagrid is specialised in mobile off-grid batteries, driving the energy system transition for off-grid electricity, which today is still dominated by combustion engines. With its patented technology, instagrid offers the …

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2018

dotscene

Baden-Württemberg
Sensor Tech

dotscene GmbH develops hardware and software for the efficient capture of 3D models, with the special focus on mobile 3D laser scanning and mapping for indoor and outdoor environments. Our …

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2018

Resourcify

Hamburg
Circular Economy

My Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, …

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2015

NOVUM engineerING

Saxony
Battery

Novum offers through AI and a hardware module exact battery monitoring that enables 15% more capacity usage and 20% longer lifetime. The on-site instant battery characterisation enables multiple second-life use …

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Guided to exit

6 of 500 Companies
2016

bentekk

Hamburg
Exit

bentekk develops gas measurement instruments for detecting toxic pollutants in industrial applications. 10x faster measurements at lower total cost enable regulatory compliance and increase workplace safety.

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26. September 2024

Around 5 million euros for the AI-based data platform in the property sector: syte secures fresh capital in seed round

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10. April 2024

Proxima Fusion Raises €20M Seed to Accelerate Timeline to Fusion Power

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21. February 2024

ClimateTech startup Cyclize secures €5 Million in Seed Funding for revolutionary plastic recycling technology

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23. January 2024

Instagrid raises $95mn and enters the North American market

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25. September 2023

traceless materials secures €36.6 Million Series A to build first industry plant for bio-circular alternative to plastic

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9. August 2023

German robotic Start-up is Ready to Shape the Future of Automation in Textile Industry