Romy Schnelle
Managing Director
About me
| Team | Industrial, Climate & Deep Tech, Managing Directors |
| at HTGF since | 2008 |
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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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