High-Tech Gründerfonds KEY CORPORATE FACTS / KPIs INVESTOR DESCRIPTION Offices Bonn High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is Germany’s most active and leading seed stage investor. We finance technology-driven companies in the fields of cleantech, robotics, drug development, chemical processes or new software. The fund is focused on investing in small companies (younger than 1 year) with a high level of Founded 2005 innovation. The company or an independent branch of it is domiciled in Germany. It must be based upon a technological innovation – significant and close to proof of concept with in-depth technological knowledge and expertise. The aim is to overcome the gap in early-stage enterprise finance and to enable the firm to obtain risk Employees 45 (of which 45 in Europe) capital. Typically, High-Tech Gründerfonds invests EUR 600,000 in the seed stage, with the potential for up to a total of EUR 2 million per portfolio company in follow-on financing. Investors in this public/private partnership include the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, as well as strategic corporate Current Fund Size €576m investors. High-Tech Gründerfonds has about EUR 576 million under management in two funds (EUR 272 million HTGFI,EUR304millionHTGFII). Use of Debt No SELECTED PORTFOLIO COMPANIES AUM N/A • Outfittery takes the pain out of shopping for men by providing the first personal shopping service for customers, who want to be dressed well, but hate shopping Target Investment Size €600k - €2m • Ubermetrics refines and filters public information from online and offline sources to help companies optimize business decisions and performance Target Geographies Germany • VMRay’s monitoring and analysis technology utilizes advanced hardware- virtualization for the analysis of malware, such as regular viruses, worms, trojans, Target Sectors Hardware, Software, Life Science spyware, but also complex and sophisticated kernel rootkits and bootkits Investment Style Active Full Portfolio • http://high-tech-gruenderfonds.de/en/#network-events Deal Structures Minority KEY CONTACTS • Dr. Alex von Frankenberg Key Investment Criteria Seed Funding • Managing Director • Email: [email protected] Website www.htgf.de/en/ • Chiara Sommer Contact Email [email protected] • Investment Manager • Email: [email protected] Contact Phone +49 228-82300-100