Christian Ziach

Principal @ HTGF | Deep Tech, Space & Defence Investor | Aerospace Engineer | Former German Air Force Officer

📍 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
VC🌍 Germany
13
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Board Member
Jun 2023
ATMOS Space Cargo designs and manufactures space capsules to return any cargo – from below 100 kg to multiple tons – from space. Our technology will offer microgravity on demand, ranging from only 3 hours to 3 months in orbit. ATMOS will enter the market with a first demonstration mission in 2025.
Board Observer
Dec 2022
Reflex Aerospace, a NewSpace startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in Munich and Berlin, offers rapid, payload-centric, dual-use, secure-by-design small satellite solutions. They apply modern manufacturing advancements to a unique design process resulting in enhanced reliability, the highest-performing core avionics in class, and improved delivery times.
Investor
Mar 2021
Delft Circuits provides quantum hardware solutions. With the Cri/oFlex® product line, we introduce an ultra-low thermal conductance and massively scalable cryogenic i/o solution, using (super)conducting circuits on flexible substrates. As a service, we design and fabricate custom-engineered (superconducting) quantum circuits and cryogenic instrumentation.
Investor
Dec 2020
At Dcubed, we enable the future of space missions with high-performance, flight-proven release mechanisms and deployable structures. From cutting-edge Release Actuators to scalable Deployable Solar Arrays and innovative Deployable Antennas, our technologies are designed for user friendliness, availability, and reliability — whether for smallsats in LEO or large missions to Moon, Mars and beyond. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, with a presence in Denver, Colorado, Dcubed serves a global space industry with off-the-shelf and customizable hardware that accelerates mission timelines and reduces cost and risk. With a proven track record across multiple space missions, we are at the forefront of In-Space Manufacturing and are proud to push the boundaries of whats possible with lightweight, compact, and efficient deployable systems. We work closely with satellite integrators, subsystem builders, space agencies, primes, and emerging players across the globe — building the enabling technologies that will power the next generation of commercial and exploration missions. 🚀 Flight heritage across commercial and institutional missions 🔩 Products: Release Mechanisms, Solar Arrays, Antennas 🛰 Applications: Earth Observation, Satcom, Science, and Exploration Dcubed: Deploy. Enable. Scale.
Investor
Feb 2020
DERMALOG JENETRIC: JOINING FORCES FOR SECURE IDENTIFICATION The acquisition of JENETRICs business operations by DERMALOG Identifications Systems GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has resulted in the formation of DERMALOG JENETRIC, a new and vital partner in the field of biometric identification. DERMALOG JENETRIC are your experts in digital fingerprint capturing. Based on our long-term experience in biometrics, we develop biometric fingerprint scanners that meet todays requirements for simplicity, mobility and a customer-friendly appearance. Our products are based on a holistic design. We focus not only on technical parameters, but much more on a noticeable simplification of fingerprint capturing for operators, users and agencies. At border controls, in local authorities, in banks, at elections - fingerprints are used everywhere today to prove identity. This new range of applications requires devices that can be used with pleasure regardless of the language, culture and education of the users. This is exactly where we invest our creativity, our know-how and our energy.
Investor
Dec 2019
Hprobe offers a 3D magnetic field wafer tester for all types of magnetic devices : - Planar and perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) - STT-MRAM - SOT-MRAM - TMR sensors - Magnetic MEMS sensors Hprobe has developed a unique patented technology of multidimensional magnetic field generator for magnetic devices and sensors wafer level characterization and testing. With our 3D generator technology, each magnetic field spatial axis is driven independently. User can apply and control the maetic field in any direction of space, as well as generate rotating fields. Visit us and have a look on our latest video at: www.hprobe.com
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Aug 2019
Our world is driving towards the Internet of Everything​ with fully autonomous machines and entirely new business processes. Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th Industrial Revolution, bringing secure identities to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities. The client focus is primarily on technical industries like pharmaceuticals, mobility and logistics. In particular, Spherity is supporting the introduction of identity solutions in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market, which is expected to have a value of over €400 billion by 2030 and 75 billion connected devices by 2025.
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May 2019
kiutra has established itself as a supplier of innovative cryogenic solutions, products and services providing ultra-low temperatures. We design and build turnkey cryostats for the development, characterization, and testing of quantum systems, as well as for their continuous operation. Our systems do not require liquid cooling media, such as rare and costly helium-3, making them fast, cost-effective, and scalable.
Investor
Dec 2018
BOX ID Systems offers a complete solution to cost effectively track & manage millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings. The system is built on a specialized software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes reliant on reusable packaging. #freighttech #digitalisierung #digitaltransformation #packaging #locationintelligence #prescriptiveananlytics #innovativelogistics #connectedlogistics #supplychainvisibility #assettracking #traceability #trackandtrace #supplychain #logisics #supplychainsoftware #sigfox
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May 2018
Valispace is a software platform that streamlines engineering data and enables collaboration between engineers and other departments. Our mission is to empower engineers to more efficiently develop complex hardware products that have the potential to transform the world. We serve all stakeholders in hardware engineering departments, including systems engineers and project managers, and offer both cloud-based and on-premises solutions for organizations of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By using Valispace, teams can view, collaborate on, and iterate on dynamic engineering data in a browser-based platform, streamlining the development process and improving efficiency.
Board Observer
May 2018
Valispace is a software platform that streamlines engineering data and enables collaboration between engineers and other departments. Our mission is to empower engineers to more efficiently develop complex hardware products that have the potential to transform the world. We serve all stakeholders in hardware engineering departments, including systems engineers and project managers, and offer both cloud-based and on-premises solutions for organizations of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By using Valispace, teams can view, collaborate on, and iterate on dynamic engineering data in a browser-based platform, streamlining the development process and improving efficiency.
Investor
May 2018
Industrial operations lose millions every year because of downtime, poor visibility, disconnected data, and slow decision making. Most fleets and heavy equipment still operate with incomplete information, siloed systems, and reactive processes. Talpasolutions helps industrial companies turn operational data into clear insights that improve reliability, increase utilization, and reduce cost. We bring machine data, telematics, and operational context together so maintenance and operations teams can act faster and with confidence. Our platform connects multi brand fleets, identifies patterns that predict failures, and delivers practical recommendations that improve performance. Whether you work in mining, construction, logistics, material handling, or heavy industry, you get one place to see what is happening across your operation. We help teams move from gut feeling to fact based decisions. This leads to fewer failures, better planning, safer operations, and measurable savings across your equipment and processes. What we deliver Higher equipment availability Reduced unplanned downtime Improved fleet utilization Clear insights from multi brand and multi system data Early failure detection and predictive alerts Better maintenance planning Return on investment from day one Who we serve Mining operators Construction companies Industrial and material handling operations Fleet managers Reliability engineers Operations directors Heavy equipment owners and rental companies Our belief Good people should not look inefficient because of poor visibility. With the right insights, every operation can perform at its best
Investor
Mar 2018
As one of the most comprehensive and innovative SaaS (Software as a Service) guard control systems for security and maintenance companies, COREDINATE offers you countless possibilities to log your work and automate your processes. Whether you want to plan patrols, document the completion of tasks, coordinate the duty roster for your employees or keep your client informed - COREDINATE offers you all this and much more. COREDINATE coordinates your daily routine!
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2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
ATMOS Space Cargo designs and manufactures space capsules to return any cargo – from below 100 kg to multiple tons – from space. Our technology will offer microgravity on demand, ranging from only 3 hours to 3 months in orbit. ATMOS will enter the market with a first demonstration mission in 2025.
2022
Board Observer
Dec 2022
Reflex Aerospace, a NewSpace startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in Munich and Berlin, offers rapid, payload-centric, dual-use, secure-by-design small satellite solutions. They apply modern manufacturing advancements to a unique design process resulting in enhanced reliability, the highest-performing core avionics in class, and improved delivery times.
Principal & Authorized Signatory
Apr 2022
HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports start-ups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed approx. 800 start-ups and successfully sold shares in 200 companies. HTGF has over 2 billion euros of fund volume. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, KfW Capital and 45 companies.
2021
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Mar 2021
Delft Circuits provides quantum hardware solutions. With the Cri/oFlex® product line, we introduce an ultra-low thermal conductance and massively scalable cryogenic i/o solution, using (super)conducting circuits on flexible substrates. As a service, we design and fabricate custom-engineered (superconducting) quantum circuits and cryogenic instrumentation.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
At Dcubed, we enable the future of space missions with high-performance, flight-proven release mechanisms and deployable structures. From cutting-edge Release Actuators to scalable Deployable Solar Arrays and innovative Deployable Antennas, our technologies are designed for user friendliness, availability, and reliability — whether for smallsats in LEO or large missions to Moon, Mars and beyond. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, with a presence in Denver, Colorado, Dcubed serves a global space industry with off-the-shelf and customizable hardware that accelerates mission timelines and reduces cost and risk. With a proven track record across multiple space missions, we are at the forefront of In-Space Manufacturing and are proud to push the boundaries of whats possible with lightweight, compact, and efficient deployable systems. We work closely with satellite integrators, subsystem builders, space agencies, primes, and emerging players across the globe — building the enabling technologies that will power the next generation of commercial and exploration missions. 🚀 Flight heritage across commercial and institutional missions 🔩 Products: Release Mechanisms, Solar Arrays, Antennas 🛰 Applications: Earth Observation, Satcom, Science, and Exploration Dcubed: Deploy. Enable. Scale.
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