Our Exits

6 Wunderkinder Exit

6 Wunderkinder develops and distributes web-based software for different platforms that makes it easier and more effective to collaborate with each other.

Exit since May 2012.

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Alex von Frankenberg
In portfolio 16. Dec 2012 – 24. May 2012

Corimmun Exit

Corimmun is a drug-developing biotech company which focuses on personalized medicine in cardiovascular diseases. We concentrate on innovative peptide and biological drugs in indications with unmet medical needs.

Exit since June 2012.

Sector: Pharmaceuticals
HTGF-Manager: Marco Winzer
In portfolio 29. Dec 2006 – 22. Jun 2012

bitstars Exit

bitstars GmbH has developed a SaaS platform technology that enables customers to set up their own augmented reality (AR) applications. Focus was laid on very intuitive usability and joy of use. The platform enables users to create applications meeting their specific requirements with little effort. These applications can be managed and used in multiple end user devices, such as smartphones, tablets and smart glasses.

Exit since September 2016.

Sector: VR / AR
In portfolio 18. Jun 2014 – 30. Sep 2016

Dresden Silicon Exit

Exit since August 2007.

Sector: Semiconductors
In portfolio 23. Nov 2005 – 01. Aug 2007

ENTELIOS Exit

Entelios is Germany’s first Demand Response aggregator and solution provider, pooling electrical loads of commercial and industrial energy users. Entelios builds and operates „virtual power plants“. Entelios markets the aggregated capacity to grid operators or provides Demand Response services to utilities.

Exit since Feb. 2014. Purchaser: EnerNOC, Inc.

Sector: Energy
In portfolio 19. Jan 2011 – 13. Feb 2014

FTAPI Software Exit

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 since Feb. 2014. Purchaser: QSC AG.

Sector: IT-Security
HTGF-Manager: Romy Schnelle
In portfolio 04. Jan 2012 – 24. Feb 2014

Rigontec Exit

Rigontec GmbH is a preclinical biotech company developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases. Rigontec’s lead compound ImOl100 targets a novel receptor of the innate immune system, Retinoic acid Inducible Gene I (RIG-I).

Sector: Oncology
HTGF-Manager: Dr. Caroline Fichtner
In portfolio 13. Jun 2014 – 06. Sep 2017

givve Exit

givve® ia an exclusive provider of individually designed prepaid open-loop card especially for corporates based on a MasterCard®.

Sector: E-Commerce
HTGF-Manager: Jens Baumgärtner
In portfolio 13. Dec 2011 – 29. Jun 2018

KINAXO Exit

KINAXO supports pharmaceutical companies in the development of targeted drugs and predictive biomarkers for personalized healthcare.

Exit since Feb. 2011. Purchaser: Evotec AG

Sector: R&D Tools
HTGF-Manager: Dr. Caroline Fichtner
In portfolio 21. Jul 2006 – 09. Feb 2011

kinkaa Exit

kinkaa is a Meta Travel Search Engine for all relevant travel categories (flights, hotels, cars, packages and more to come) focusing on various European markets.

Exit since Sep. 2010.

Sector: Travel
In portfolio 28. Dec 2007 – 08. Sep 2010

KonTEM Exit

Sample analysis in structural biology often suffers from weak contrast in the transmission electron microscope (TEM). The KonTEM PhazR solves this contrast problem and thus enables scientists to extract more information about structure and function of cells on molecular level.

Exit since May 2014. Purchaser: FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC)

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Andreas Olmes
In portfolio 04. Apr 2012 – 02. May 2014

LUPHOS Exit

Luphos develops and manufactures high-precision optical sensors for quality and process control in industrial fabrication as well as metrology platforms for the quality control of high precision optics.

Exit since May 2014. Purchaser: AMETEK Inc. (NASDAQ: Ametek)

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Andreas Olmes
In portfolio 26. Nov 2008 – 30. May 2014

MEINPROSPEKT 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 your personal mobile device.

Exit since July 2014. Purchaser: kaufDA

HTGF-Manager: Romy Schnelle
In portfolio 07. Oct 2010 – 16. Jul 2014

MinCell Exit

MinCell develops innovative technologies and recipes for foam-glass gravel and board production. We are aiming to be the cost leader with high quality in this segment (me-too product). Having successfully finished our R&D and testing phase, we are in the process of setting up our manufacturing and distribution footprint for the European market.

Exit since August 2014.

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Andreas Olmes
In portfolio 14. Dec 2010 – 06. Aug 2014

Nanda Technologies Exit

Nanda sells wafer inspection systems to chip manufacturer world wide. The innovative optical design allows for faster inspection speed. This reduces costs dramatically and increases yield in the production process.

Exit since Nov. 2011. Purchaser: Nanometrics Inc. (Nasdaq: NANO).

Sector: Semiconductors
HTGF-Manager: Dr. Andreas Olmes
In portfolio 22. Nov 2006 – 21. Nov 2011

plista Exit

With thousands of premium websites and over 40 million monthly visitors in the DACH region alone, plista is one of the most successful recommendation and ad networks in the German-speaking market. The company has developed a high-quality recommendation technology, which is used for the delivery of personalized reader recommendations as well as for advertisements. The company, founded in 2008, provides services to partners across all of Europe from its Berlin headquarters.

Exit since Dec. 2013. Purchaser: GROUPM Germany GmbH.

In portfolio 17. Jun 2009 – 27. Dec 2013

Raumfeld 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 only available in the room containing the equipment. Raumfeld is the solution to these problems. The Raumfeld Audio System enables music to be distributed and experienced wirelessly throughout the home. Raumfeld integrates the customer’s music files and brings back the fun of listening to music by providing easy access along with first class sound quality.

Exit since Oct. 2010. Purchaser: Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH.

HTGF-Manager: Romy Schnelle
In portfolio 22. Oct 2008 – 15. Oct 2010

Terrawater Exit

Terrawater produces process water and drinking water out of Sea- and waste water. Additionally it is possible, to concentrate waste water for better disposal.

Exit since Sep. 2011. Purchaser: TAPROGGE ESACO GmbH

HTGF-Manager: Klaus Lehmann
In portfolio 10. Aug 2007 – 16. Sep 2011

tiramizoo Exit

tiramizoo.com is an online marketplace for delivery services leveraging existing courier and delivery services infrastructure in urban areas. Customers find, book and pay the ideal courier or delivery service online. Local onlineshops can offer fast and green delivery through new checkout options.

Exit since July 2013.

Sector: E-Commerce
HTGF-Manager: Curtis MacDonald
In portfolio 28. Feb 2011 – 30. Jul 2013

TM3 Exit

TM3 has developed an enterprise resource planning system (ERP-System) for small and medium-sized companies with a focus on real-time booking and inventory management. Moreover, solutions for claims management and demand forecasting based on artificial intelligence are provided.

Exit since March 2011. Purchaser: S-Refit AG

In portfolio 11. May 2010 – 03. Mar 2011

Product Value Systems 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 and competitor differentiation.

Exit since May 2010.

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HTGF-Manager: Markus Kreßmann
In portfolio 15. Jun 2006 – 21. May 2010

Vanatec Exit

Vanatec offers with OpenAccess a so-called object-relational mapping tool, which reduces the programming effort regarding data access to relational databases under .NET by 90%, by creating an application and database-independent mapping between object model and data model.

Successful exit since March 2006. Purchaser: Telerik GmbH

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Alex von Frankenberg
In portfolio 29. Mar 2006 – 08. Aug 2008

VisuMotion Exit

3D Visualisation & Imaging preferred by but not limited to autostereoscopic displays

Exit since Feb. 2010.

Sector: VR / AR
HTGF-Manager: Klaus Lehmann
In portfolio 19. Oct 2006 – 10. Feb 2010

windeln.de Exit

windeln.de is Germany largest online shop for baby care products. The store has launched in October 2010, offering now more than 17.000 different products for the daily need of babys and mothers. windeln.de features more than 200 brands – among them Pampers, HiPP, Avent, Nuk, Penaten, Milupa, Alete, MAM

Exit since January 2013.

Sector: E-Commerce
In portfolio 16. Aug 2010 – 29. Jan 2013

ZIM Plant Technology Exit

ZIM Plant Technology GmbH sells a user-friendly, long-term stable, non-invasive, telemetry-based magnet sensor technology that measures continuously the water supply of leaves of intact plants with high precision and in real time under field conditions.

Exit since Nov. 2013. Purchaser: YARA

Sector: AgTech
In portfolio 14. Dec 2010 – 15. Nov 2013

Comnovo Exit

More efficient industrial processes enabled by enhanced safety: Comnovo develops and markets a new radio-based warning system to reduce the accident risk for collisions between persons and vehicles, in particular for forklifts and wheel loaders.

HTGF-Manager: Yann Fiebig
In portfolio 30. Oct 2014 – 30. Jun 2017

Lipocalyx Exit

Lipocalyx develops transfection reagents. Our Viromers® are polymers emulating a viral mechanism for cell entry. The company provides reagents and currently establishes services for pharmaceutical applications.

Sector: R&D Tools
HTGF-Manager: Ulrike Kalapis
In portfolio 14. Jul 2011 – 07. Apr 2021

Multiphoton Optics Exit

Multiphoton Optics develops 3D printers for the serial production of optical components with previously unattainable precision.

HTGF-Manager: Dr. Andreas Olmes
In portfolio 28. Oct 2014 – 12. Mar 2021

Codetrails (Exits) Exit

Codetrails GmbH develops intelligent tools that facilitate knowledge transfer in software development teams. Using Big Data technology, they answer the question: How do I tell the machine what to do?

HTGF-Manager: Jens Baumgärtner
In portfolio 17. Nov 2015 – 13. Jun 2019

Solandeo Semi-Exit

Solandeo provides highly affordable, independent metering and power management solutions that enable the market integration of renewable energy plants. Plant operators benefit from rapid amortisation and the free choice of green energy trader.

Sector: Energy
HTGF-Manager: Klaus Lehmann
Added to portfolio 12. Jan 2015