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Romy Schnelle Managing Director

Romy Schnelle Managing Director

About me

Team Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech, Managing Directors
at HTGF since 2008

CV

Romy Schnelle has been Managing Director of the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) since May 2023. After graduating from the Technical University of Ilmenau, her enthusiasm for technological innovation led her to the business development department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT). A year later, in 2004, she entered the venture capital and start-up ecosystem. Together with mp3 inventor Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, she founded the Fraunhofer spin-off IOSONO, now Barco Audio Technologies.

In 2008, Romy moved to the investor side and joined the HTGF team. She built up a promising portfolio and successfully sold the HTGF shares. Romy supported the Digital Tech team, particularly in digital health and SaaS investments. Today, in her role as Managing Director, she is responsible for HTGF’s Industrial Tech sector (including Deep Tech and Climate Tech).

She chaired the investment committee of TX Group, one of Switzerland’s leading media companies, and serves on the advisory boards of start-ups. Her involvement includes serving as a jury member in renowned start-up competitions, as an advisor to the Quantum Computing Initiative of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Young Digital Economy NRW, and in networks for female founders and investors such as encourageventures e.V.

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My success stories in the HTGF portfolio

12 of 500 Companies
2013

Quobyte

Berlin
Cloud Services & Infrastructure

Quobyte’s software-based storage system enables enterprises of all sizes to fulfill all their storage needs with one software-defined and unified storage platform running on off-the-shelf server hardware.

To the complete profileof Quobyte
2013

makerist

Berlin
E-Commerce

Makerist is the online destination for creative hobbies – to learn in a relaxed and success-oriented way with video classes, to find daily inspiration for your next project, to order …

To the complete profileof makerist
2009

Crealytics

Berlin
Retail Intelligence

Most retailers spend a lot of money on Paid Search and Social. They see great numbers and believe their investment is paying off – that is until they switch off …

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Guided to exit

12 of 500 Companies
2010

MEINPROSPEKT

Bavaria
Exit
Marketing & AdTech

MEINPROSPEKT aims to be a “shopping-center at your finger-tips”. It contains all your favorite brands. It´s always open, it´s great big and it´s really simple. Offline and online shopping on …

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2012

FTAPI Software

Bavaria
Exit
IT-Security

FTAPI®SecuTransfer is a platform-independent software suite. Easily transfer files of any size with end-to-end encrypted across company boundaries. Main products: – revolutionary secure e-mail extension – (S)FTP/ MFTP replacement Exit …

To the complete profileof FTAPI Software
2008

Raumfeld

Berlin
Exit

Digitising music has brought many benefits – but there are also downsides. Music collections are often shared between various devices and media, which can be confusing. Furthermore, the music is …

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2010

textunes

Berlin
Exit

textunes is the leading multi-device publishing Platform for publishers’ content on Smartphones and Tablet PCs . Exit since August 2011.

To the complete profileof textunes
2009

Yatta Solutions

Hesse
Semi-Exit
Cloud Services & Infrastructure

Yatta is all about development and evolution. Founded as a developer tool company, it pivoted to digital B2B commerce—and now helps vendors monetize and sell digital products. Streamlining all aspects …

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2007

VIOSO

North Rhine-Westphalia
Exit
Optics / Photonics

VIOSO is a vendor of soft- and hardwaresolutions for projector-based large scale displays. Since its founding in the year 2007, VIOSO has established itself as a reliable, successful partner to …

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2012

Stocard

Baden-Württemberg
Exit
Retail Intelligence

Stocard’s innovative and easy-to-use app allows customers to use their smartphone as a mobile wallet for their cards. Simultaneously, it provides a very effective mobile direct marketing channel for retailers …

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2013

metoda

Bavaria
Exit
Retail Intelligence

metoda provides a tool for e-commerce participants to monitor prices, analyze the market, and optimize the profit. Retailers can also identify new products and plan inventory levels based on actual …

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2011

Kiwigrid

Saxony
Exit
Energy

Kiwigrid is an energy management system, which is connecting producers of renewable energy, consumers, storages, electric mobility and the energy grid with Microgrids. Purchaser of HTGF-Shares: AQTON SE Exit since …

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2008

bab.la

Hamburg
Exit
Productivity Tools

Multilingual language portal, including dictionaries, language quizzes, language games and a vocabulary trainer. Wiki-style approach allows users to collaborate. Exit since April 2015. Purchaser: Oxford University Press (OUP).

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20. February 2025

A brand-new corporate design for HTGF

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19. December 2024

HTGF in 2024 – a year of new records in a challenging environment plus major changes

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20. December 2023

The year in review – 2023 

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8. May 2023

High-Tech Gründerfonds expands management team: Partner Romy Schnelle made Managing Director 

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16. December 2021

Important developments to watch out for in 2022

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14. January 2021

Successful exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – UNICEPTA acquires social intelligence specialist Ubermetrics