for founders

Sila is an entrepreneur and investor with experience scaling startups, co-founding a company builder, and launching a VC fund. Passionate about impact and action, she helps others focus on what matters and embrace the key lessons for growth and success.

Oli is passionate about innovative retail ideas and supporting young founders. He is a serial entrepreneur with previous experience at Wimdu and MyDriver.

Nico is passionate about innovative and disruptive ideas in traditional and undigitized industries. With Warehousing1 Nico and his cofounders reimagine warehouse logistics.

Antonie is passionate about healthcare and industries that are fast-paced but still extremely behind in digitalization, complex but still simple and relevant for everyone, exciting in business opportunities but still providing true social value.

Miriam’s passions are the tech industry and emotional skills, particularly people-centered leadership. Young founders benefit from her broad business experience in determining a viable market potential.

Lars is an entrepreneur, investor and coach who founded Limehome and now works as Vice President at Xentral. With his extensive experience in the startup world he is passionate about helping others succeed in their entrepreneurial ventures.

Alexander is passionate about helping startups and scale ups to achieve strong growth. After gaining experiences in the financial industry, Alexander had the privilege to develop the direct-to-consumer brand Kapten & Son in the role of CFO & CEO.

Christian has a passion for entrepreneurial work, technical innovations and marketing them for the benefit of customers. Due to this experience, his focus is on the B2B product and service business.

André is passionate about enabling organizations to create better products and services by moving them to modern IT architectures such as Cloud and Microservices.

Farhoud has expertise in Product Discovery, utilizing design and systems thinking to uncover real user needs and validate assumptions for resonant solutions. In Product Delivery, he crafts adaptable, scalable software architectures for teams of all sizes. In Company Building, he develops strategies, nurtures company culture, and establishes efficient processes to ensure the company thrives.

Oli is passionate about finance, operations and real estate development.

Christian is passionate about mentoring statups and scaleups, sharing his knowledge on international expansion, e-commerce, SaaS and general management, as well as investing into startups that he is passionate about.

Daniel is an entrepreneur with a focus on marketing and growth and is passionate about businesses solving problems.

Lucas is passionate about innovation & digitization in traditional industries and developing profitable companies. His expertise covers the areas of B2B-Sales, Sustainable Business Development and HR.

Freya is a product-builder by heart & experience who stretches the importance of strategic business-planning based on solid technology and effective marketing.

Eva is passionate about B2B SaaS, Fintech & Crypto and helping founders build great ideas from scratch. She is Co-Founder at Climatos.

Lars is a classic pioneer and loves discovering new potentials and developing them from scratch to proof of concept. His sweet spots are anything related to B2B enterprise SaaS sales and business development, especially partnerships.

Freddy has scaled SaaS data and web agency companies and loves to share his product and project management experience in high agency teams with a purpose. He is passionate about Blockchain & Crypto use cases with real-world impact.

Alex is passionate about scaling business models in terms of growing the organisation, improving processes & infrastructure, entering in new markets, measuring the KPI that really matter as well as fundraising from seed to IPO.

Florian is passionate about big visions that make the world better and helping people exceed their ambitions.

Konrad is passionate about digital marketing, b2b sales, and growing innovative businesses to success.

Tim has built and scaled IT departments of multiple startups and delivered numerous tech products around the globe. He is excited to help build great tech orgs and turn ideas into awesome products.

Friedhelm is a technology entrepreneur, serial co-founder, scale-up enthusiast and early-stage investor. Founder of 10+ technology companies, co-creating € 100+ mil. company value.

Phillip is passionate about people and scaling organizations. He is a serial entrepreneur, business angel and has been selected as "Forbes 30 under 30“.

Christoph is passionate about collaborating with smart and fast-thinking entrepreneurs who are deeply focused on their ideas. With over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, he thrives in the dynamic world of B2B for SMBs, optimizing sales, products, and HR.

Antje is responsible for the welcoming of national and international startups to Cologne. Most of the time, she functions as a network angel to offer startups a soft landing, including potential partners, bureaucratic issues, space and talents.

Wenke is responsible for organizational development and culture. She helps finding the answers that matter: The reason why we establish a company, build a brand or develop a product. She enables people to build honest, truthful and self-reliant organizations.

Christian started his path in venture capital in 2010 at the HTGF when he supported the very first finance departments of around 80 startups. This background brought him to Capnamic.

Ruben is a Cologne-based IP lawyer working in all fields of Intellectual Property law, in particular trademarks, unfair competition, copyrights, e-commerce and reputation management.

Gil currently works for the Startup Unit of KölnBusiness, the economic development company of the City of Cologne. Apart from the obvious ties to the city, they are trying to support our local startup ecosystem on all fronts.

Daniela is an early-stage investor at HTGF with a background in media.

Jörg is responsible for the support of technology-based startups in our entire business area. For over 25 year he has been accompanying young entrepreneurs with their founded companies on the way to fully existence.

Jahn is passionately committed to building sustainable premium brands from the grass root level. His expertise is a holistic entrepreneurial mindset with a deep understanding of product-market fit and brand ethos.