gr nderfonds type public private partnership industry private equity founded 2005 2005 headquarters bonn germany products venture capital growth capital total assets 560.5 million website www.en.high tech gruenderfonds.de the high tech gr nderfonds or htgf is a public private venture capital investment firm based in bonn germany . high tech gr nderfonds is an early stage seed investor focused on high potential high tech start ups . 1 2 3 the seed financing is provided to allow start ups to take their ideas through the prototyping phase up to the market launch . usually high tech gr nderfonds invests 0.5 million in the seed stage and up to a total of 2 million per portfolio company in later rounds . 4 high tech gr nderfonds is a public private partnership . investors include the federal ministry of economics and technology the kfw banking group owned by the federal government which in total provided eur 500 m almost 90 % of the funds total volume of capital and twelve industrial groups of altana basf b. braun robert bosch cewe color daimler deutsche post dhl deutsche telekom qiagen innogy tengelmann and carl zeiss . in march 2012 evonik also invested 2.5 million in the fund . 5 6 high tech gruenderfonds has about 560.5 million under management in two funds 272 million htgf i 288.5 million htgf ii . 7 8 investments edit high tech gr nderfonds has approximately 250 companies in its portfolio including trademob a mobile app marketing platform 6wunderkinder the company behind wunderlist and wunderkit 9 fruux a cross platform synchronization service ayoxxa biosystems a protein multiplexing company based in cologne and singapore mister spex a large german online retailer for glasses plista a recommendation platform and simscale a web based simulation platform . references edit georg r th . interview mit einem vc high tech gr nderfonds . gr nderszene . retrieved 2012 03 30 . f rderland . regionale seedfonds unterst tzen ffentliches investment . f rderland . retrieved 2012 04 02 . vdi . regionale seedfonds unterst tzen ffentliches investment . vdi . retrieved 2012 04 02 . htgf . financing terms . htgf . retrieved 2012 03 30 . magdalena r th . evonik investiert in high tech gr nderfonds ii . gr nderszene . retrieved 2012 03 28 . evonik . evonik industries invests in high tech gr nderfonds ii . evonik . retrieved 2012 03 30 . federal government of germany . innovationsdialog bundeskanzlerin merkel k ndigt investitionszulage zur wagniskapitalfinanzierung junger innovativer unternehmen an . federal government of germany . retrieved 2012 03 28 . federal ministry of economics and technology . staatssekret r burgbacher gibt startschuss f r den high tech gr nderfonds ii . federal ministry of economics and technology . retrieved 2012 03 28 . meyer david june 18 2012 . revealed why 6wunderkinder s backers really sold up . gigaom . archived from the original on april 11 2014 . retrieved april 11 2014 . external links edit official website portfolio companies v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this german corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title high tech gr nderfonds & oldid 743234341 categories venture capital firmsprivate equity firms of europegerman company stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 17 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view