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 HTGF since May 2023 and leads the Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech sector. She has more than 20 years of experience in the tech ecosystem and combines expertise in entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment.
After earning her degree from the Technical University of Ilmenau, she worked in business development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, where she drove technology-oriented spin-offs and commercialization projects. In 2004, together with mp3 inventor Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, she co-founded the Fraunhofer spin-off IOSONO—a pioneer in 3D audio technology.
Romy Schnelle has been part of HTGF since 2008, building a strong portfolio in deep and digital tech and executing numerous successful exits, such as the sale of stocard to Klarna. Since her promotion to Managing Director, she has been responsible for the strategic development of the Deep Tech investment division and has driven HTGF’s positioning as a public-private multistage VC platform and a leading European Deep Tech investor.
In addition, she serves on the advisory boards of startups and scale-ups, is a sought-after speaker in the startup ecosystem, a curator for the German Future Prize, and an advisor to the DLR’s Quantum Computing Initiative.
My success stories in the HTGF portfolio
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.
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 …
Guided to exit
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 …
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 …
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 …
textunes is the leading multi-device publishing Platform for publishers’ content on Smartphones and Tablet PCs . Exit since August 2011.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
