Andreas Olmes

Physicist | Founder | Manager | Product-Market-Fit-Enthusiast

📍 Cologne Bonn Region, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
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12
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Lead Investor
Feb 2025
Our team is building a sustainable future for humanity in which nature and our technologically advanced and equitable society thrive in unison. To enable that future, we are decarbonizing the global transportation sector. Alteva is using technology developed at the German Aerospace Center, to develop and commercialize ultralight batteries made from abundant and sustainable raw materials. Our batteries are significantly lighter, safer, and cheaper than what is currently being used for electric vehicles. Therefore, for the first time, we can offer energy storage solutions for electrified airplanes, heavy-duty trucks, construction and mining applications, and agricultural vehicles. We are targeting markets that, together, represent about 8 - 10 Gt of annual greenhouse gas emissions.
Investor
Sep 2024
Secure and intelligent private cloud solution backed by leading German seed investors. The cloudplan solution adds well known cloud storage and collaboration features to the company network as well as Workflows ans eSigning in a secure envoirment. Private Cloud Storage, Workflows, eSigning, Collaboration and connected features cover the whole lifecycle of your files in hybrid, cloud or on-premise environments. Lean deployment specifications and simplified IT tasks meet SME requirements.
Lead Investor
Nov 2021
In today’s world with increasing complexity caused by global manufacturing networks, high variety of products, manufacturers are not able to properly plan & control their production. Operaize Cognitive Operations© significantly increases effectiveness and sustainability for manufacturers through the next generation AI-powered production planning & scheduling solution. The product is shaped by combining AI-based production planning knowledge representation, analytics and optimization methods enabling high quality planning and decision making in real time.
Board Observer
Mar 2017
We provide software solutions since 2007 for the energy sector and beyond both as in-house installations or as cloud services. Our products combine cutting edge technology with in-depth market expertise and sector knowledge. The ZONOS™ IoT Platform, our core solution, enables to control millions of devices and to process their incoming data. This industrial scale IoT Platform is the basis for tailored solutions that we develop in close cooperation with our customers. Our cooperative working style is reflected in close and longstanding partnering with system integrators, device manufacturers, and software vendors. Cuculus origin and current head office in Ilmenau (Thuringia, Germany) is supplemented by a further office in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany) and in Erfurt (Thuringia, Germany) as well as by European sales offices. Our Partner Network is completed by local and global partners serving a growing customer base worldwide. This network shares our commitment to provide high quality cutting edge solutions to our customers. Cuculus is actively contributing to addressing the key challenges in the energy markets and has joined different associations to contribute to this.
Lead Investor
Oct 2015
Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) IP and interconnect technology to empower our customer’s next generation SoC connectivity. With its focus on low-latency, low-power and proven silicon availability in familiar foundry process nodes, EXTOLL is a world-wide highly requested partner for demanding IC customers.
Lead Investor
Oct 2015
Multiphoton Optics GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH, is an innovative solution provider and global manufacturer for 3D Laser Lithography Equipment for additive, subtractive and ablative manufacturing processes based on Two-Photon-Polymerization (TPP) technology. This disruptive technology enables the production of complex functional structures in micro-optics and micro-system technology, optical packaging, micro-mechanics, and biomedical engineering. The multi-user tool MPO 100 enables the high-precise production of complex functional structures with the highest throughput in one single process step. Other advantages are the resolution in the sub-micron range, the high quality of optical components, accuracy and scalability, integration into nano- and micro-fabrication processes, printing of optical components, and on-device printing: structures can be printed directly on active (LEDs, photodiodes, EELs, VCSELs) or passive (fibers, irregular substrates) components. The realization of completely new designs, the further miniaturization and the rationalization of manufacturing processes significantly accelerate the market launch of products and, thus, unlock significant cost savings for customers. Main activities: • 3D Lithography via Two-Photon Polymerization (TPP) • Optical Interconnects (OI) / Packaging • Aspheres and freeform optics • Biomedical Engineering Services • Implementation of TPP manufacturing processes • Prototyping and small series production • Construction of TPP equipment Current top technologies: Manufacture of arbitrarily shaped 3D free-form surfaces and structures over several orders of magnitude, with a focus on optical interconnects (OI), and micro-optics.
Board Member
Apr 2011
HiperScan GmbH branched off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, Dresden, in 2006 and is a successful, medium-sized technology company. With the help of scanning grating technology developed at the Fraunhofer Institute, the high-performance SGS1900 spectrometer was developed as part of further research collaborations. This established the basis for the very successful and cost-effective NIR-analysis system Apo-Ident, which is distributed in Germany and internationally. It is a near infrared spectrometer that has been specially designed for identifying raw materials in pharmacies. With this system, HiperScan is the market leader for raw material identification in German pharmacies. As one of the fastest growing technology companies, HiperScan GmbH was presented the Technology Fast 50 Award in 2015.
Board Observer
Mar 2009
Mister Spex is a fast-growing international omnichannel company and the most innovative employer in the optical industry. We combine size and power with our unique start-up DNA. We think and act visionary – and as a strong team we enjoy moving things forward and rethinking them. We offer individual career and development opportunities in a positive and supportive working environment with a high degree of flexibility. We are looking for talents with a can-do attitude and visionaries, experts as well as career changers who are interested in rethinking the optician and eyewear industry with us, actively participating in shaping it and taking on responsibility. You can find current vacancies via the following link: misterspex.com/jobs. Your personality is our strength! Founded in 2007, Mister Spex is a multi-award-winning company that has become the leading omnichannel optician in Europe. We have been at the forefront of the industry’s transformational shift, growing from a pure online player into a successful omnichannel optician with more than 6.6 million customers, 10 online shops across Europe and several physical retail stores. A digital native, technology and innovation have always been an integral part of the company’s evolution, from 2D to 3D digital frame fitting tools to intelligent browse functionalities. The focus of Mister Spex is to make eyewear purchase for customers an easy, transparent and fun shopping experience by combining a comprehensive and varied range of high-quality products with optician expertise and services through our customer service, own stores and an extensive network of partner opticians.
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Board Member
Sep 2008
Sense Inside GmbH is an internet company based out of 90 Theresienstraße, M, BY, Germany.
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2025
Lead Investor
Feb 2025
Our team is building a sustainable future for humanity in which nature and our technologically advanced and equitable society thrive in unison. To enable that future, we are decarbonizing the global transportation sector. Alteva is using technology developed at the German Aerospace Center, to develop and commercialize ultralight batteries made from abundant and sustainable raw materials. Our batteries are significantly lighter, safer, and cheaper than what is currently being used for electric vehicles. Therefore, for the first time, we can offer energy storage solutions for electrified airplanes, heavy-duty trucks, construction and mining applications, and agricultural vehicles. We are targeting markets that, together, represent about 8 - 10 Gt of annual greenhouse gas emissions.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Secure and intelligent private cloud solution backed by leading German seed investors. The cloudplan solution adds well known cloud storage and collaboration features to the company network as well as Workflows ans eSigning in a secure envoirment. Private Cloud Storage, Workflows, eSigning, Collaboration and connected features cover the whole lifecycle of your files in hybrid, cloud or on-premise environments. Lean deployment specifications and simplified IT tasks meet SME requirements.
2021
Lead Investor
Nov 2021
In today’s world with increasing complexity caused by global manufacturing networks, high variety of products, manufacturers are not able to properly plan & control their production. Operaize Cognitive Operations© significantly increases effectiveness and sustainability for manufacturers through the next generation AI-powered production planning & scheduling solution. The product is shaped by combining AI-based production planning knowledge representation, analytics and optimization methods enabling high quality planning and decision making in real time.
2017
Lead-Investor
Aug 2017
PicoLAS GmbH specializes in the development and manufacturing of power supplies for laser diodes. We offer a unique portfolio of drivers from 200 ps up to cw, to cover research, development and industrial applications.
EH-D GmbH
Lead Investor
Jul 2017
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