Markus Kreßmann
Partner
About me
| Team | Digital Tech, Partner |
| at HTGF since | 2007 |
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Markus Kreßmann is a partner at HTGF and has been involved in setting up the most active and largest seed fund in Europe since 2007. He has accompanied all fund generations and helped design the HTGF Opportunity Fund as a growth vehicle.
In his role as an investor, he has successfully completed about 350 transactions across all investment phases, including 35 exits and IPOs. Markus Kreßmann actively supports his portfolio as a shareholder and board member, with a particular focus on scaling and internationalization. With NFON AG, he led a portfolio company onto the trading floor and into the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for HTGF for the first time in 2018. He also accompanied the first “Green IPO” on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Stockholm. Particularly successful exits from his portfolio include Protected Networks to SolarWinds (backed by Silver Lake Partners & Thoma Bravo / 2018), (grandcentrix to Vodafone (2019), Quentic to AMCS (backed by Insights Partners & Clearlake / 2022) and Dracoon to Kiteworks (2024). He was also responsible for exits such as Enscape to Chaos (backed by TA Associates / 2022) with the highest multiple in HTGF fund history and the Unicorn financing at Egym (2024).
Previously, Markus Kreßmann was a management consultant at a leading management and technology consultancy. He was the founder of two startups & gained Venture Capital experience early on. Markus Kreßmann holds a degree in business administration from the University of Göttingen. He has also been enthusiastic about technology topics & equity investments for around 30 years and is a private crypto & whisky investor.
My success stories in the HTGF portfolio
eddyson GmbH provides solutions for the digital exchange of documents between any two companies. Its solutions cover all EDI processes and suited specifically to answer needs of the B2B e-Commerce. …
We connect the world in Munich. In 2007 we stirred up the blue and white sky above Bavaria with an invisible cloud. A very special cloud still revolutionizing worldwide business …
enexion secures enduring energy procurement cost and risk reductions for industry and medium sized businesses. Based on the innovative IT platform, enexion implements comprehensive energy procurement solutions for clients.
enercast is a leading technology provider for weather-based artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of renewable energy. Its self-learning SaaS products deliver accurate power generation forecasts for wind and solar …
ConWeaver develops and markets solutions for dynamic linking and exchange of company-wide, heterogeneous engineering and manufacturing data spanning system, language and process boundaries.
Guided to exit
Market Logic helps companies to mitigate the risk of wasting enormous budget allocations (typically up to 10% of annual sales) by making sure marketing investments are driven by customer needs …
DRACOON is the market leader in the field of enterprise file sharing in German-speaking countries and is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in Germany. The highly secure, platform-independent …
Development of a selflearning Software which automatically places job ads target group specifically in a pool of more than 1500 jobboards. Exit in March 2015: HTGF sold its Shareholdings in …
Holistic access rights management for IT infrastructures: Visualization, analysis, recommendations, reporting and optimized administration (controlled by workflows) of access rights within different IT systems.
Propertybase is the leading cloud-computing CRM tool for real estate companies. The customer base continues to grow globally and includes real estate developers, brokers, and agents in Europe, North America, …
The Global Sourcing Platform provided by pliXos GmbH secures the quality of globally distributed software and IT services in an efficient and economic way. The customers benefit from enhanced transparency …
ondeso develops software specifically in the fields industry 4.0 and digitalisation. No matter whether the client is a production company or a machine manufacturer, a medium sized business or a …
grandcentrix is IoT Solution Provider for Smart Products, Internet of Things, Smart Home and Smart Energy. Over 200 experts in embedded development, IoT security, IoT cloud platform development and operation, …
Quentic is one of the leading solution providers of Software as a Service (SaaS) for EHSQ and ESG management. The Quentic platform comprises ten individually combinable modules and offers an …
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Successful exit for HTGF: LexisNexis expands its Intellectual Property Solutions suite with the acquisition of IPlytics
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Very successful exit for HTGF: AMCS to acquire Quentic – strong partners for a green future
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