Maurice Kügler

Pre-Seed & Seed VC investments at HTGF

📍 Cologne Bonn Region, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
VC🌍 Germany20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Board Member | Investor
Mar 2026
Technology that lifts the load – so humans can lead with heart. We give the people who shape education the time, energy, and resources they need, so they can focus on what truly matters. For a future-oriented, values-driven educational landscape. That is why our approximately 300 employees work every day to rethink education digitally – with systems that are intuitive, inclusive, and scalable. Our product portfolio covers all key areas: School communication, class management, digital lesson planning, school administration and AI features. Our solutions make processes more effective, collaboration easier, and foster individual growth. When every individual thrives, equal opportunities rise for all.
late stageEducation
Board Member | Investor
Apr 2025
Desk sharing for the hybrid work environment. With desk.ly, you can book and manage workspaces, meeting rooms, and parking spaces—all in one central place. desk.ly is a workplace management platform that efficiently supports hybrid working models. With the booking of desks, meeting rooms and parking spaces, desk.ly offers everything teams need to easily organise their office environment. In addition, the software enables data-driven analysis of space utilisation to help companies make the best use of their office space. Thanks to its seamless integration into existing IT infrastructures, desk.ly can be easily incorporated into everyday business life. Thanks to its intuitive use, desk.ly adapts flexibly to the individual needs of employees.
Board Observer | Investor
Dec 2024
SKY ENGINE AI is a 3D Generative AI Synthetic Data Cloud for Vision AI that generates fully annotated, synthetic data and trains vision AI algorithms at scale. The platform is architected to procedurally generate highly balanced imagery data of photorealistic environments and objects and provides advanced domain adaptation algorithms. SKY ENGINE AI platform is a tool for developers: Data Scientists, ML/Software Engineers creating computer vision projects in any industry. SKY ENGINE is #generativeAI and #visionAI company with #syntheticdata.
Board Member | Investor
Dec 2024
We believe data-driven decisions are key to a more sustainable society. To enable those decisions, wetransform makes green data more accessible and useful. Since 2014, our innovations in data harmonisation technology and easy-to-use data publication workflows have helped thousands of clients to achieve compliance to national and EU legislations. These open data standards, combined with our expertise, help create large-scale collaborations with real-world impact, such as: • Ministries ensuring scientists can innovate with clean data • Foresters receiving science-backed tools to combat the effects of climate change • Municipalities improving their local zoning to fight the housing shortage With cutting-edge developments in secure data sharing as part of our expertise, our work towards a greener, more data-driven world is only just getting started.
Board Member | Investor
Apr 2024
Stackgini is the first platform for modern IT Demand Management in medium-sized and large enterprises. Our SaaS solution reduces the workload for IT teams, promotes the reuse of existing solutions, and automates compliance checks. It brings together all teams and tools – from IT service management and enterprise architecture to compliance and procurement. The platform enhances the internal IT knowledge of its customers with millions of market data points. With the help of our proprietary AI, companies gain deep insights into their IT portfolio for intelligent, data-driven IT decisions.
Board Member | Investor
Mar 2024
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Board Member | Investor
Dec 2022
traide provides scalable technology to simplify the complexities of international commerce making it accessible to everyone. Our AI-based SaaS-solutions scales complianed customs processes in companies of all industries and sizes, while rapidly changing regulations, bans and restrictions make it almost impossible for companies to staying on top.
Board Member | Shareholder Representative
Jul 2022
We love People & Tech! DeepSkill ist die EdTech-Plattform für ganzheitliche Personalentwicklung. Wir glauben an die tiefgreifende Kraft von emotionalen Fähigkeiten. Deswegen helfen wir Mitarbeitern durch personalisierte Lernprogramme mit passgenau gematchten Coaches starke Deep Skills zu entwickeln. Um so die gesamte Organisation menschlicher, produktiver und nachhaltiger zu machen. Wir glauben daran, dass emotionale Intelligenz der Schlüssel für beruflichen Erfolg in der Zukunft ist. Dass Deep Skills wie Empathie, Kooperationsfähigkeit und mentale Stärke den Unterschied machen. Und digitales Coaching und Lernen zum lebenslangen Begleiter von Fach- und Führungskräften werden. Wir stellen den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt. Mit all seinen Stärken, Schwächen und Emotionen. Wir nutzen digitale Werkzeuge, intelligente Algorithmen und datenbasierte Wissensvermittlung, um eine menschenzentrierte Führungskultur in Unternehmen zu etablieren und eine menschlichere Arbeitswelt aktiv mitzugestalten. Unser Team besteht aus erfahrenen Coaches, Personalentwicklern und Digital-Experten. Uns eint die Leidenschaft für Deep Skills, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Technologie – und unser gemeinsames Ziel: maßgeschneidertes und tiefgreifendes Top-Coaching für alle Mitarbeiter im Unternehmen zugänglich zu machen. Unsere Datenschutzbestimmungen findet ihr unter: https://deepskill.com/datenschutz/
Board Observer | Shareholder Representative
Oct 2021
Asana Rebel is a young and growing startup committed to creating highly engaging health and fitness experiences. Our app offers a variety of yoga-inspired fitness programs crafted by experts for users of all levels, in 6 different languages worldwide. This approach to fitness is moving a huge community and is helping to shape a whole new industry. And that is just the start, as we keep exploring new ways to build positive impact on people’s lives. Our office is based in Berlin and hosts a diverse team that shares a common set of values and goals. We move fast, we grow together, and we enjoy ourselves along the journey! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A great vision needs great Rebels. Join us for the journey! Check out our career page www.asanarebel.com/jobs (initiative applications are welcome) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like more information, follow us now and find out more! https://www.instagram.com/asanarebel https://www.facebook.com/asanarebel
Board Observer | Shareholder Representative
Oct 2021
Userlane’s Digital Adoption Platform is designed to make any software application easy to use by guiding people through processes in real-time and offering on-demand support directly within applications. Userlane Analytics gives a real-time view of digital transformation progress across your organization so you can uncover and mitigate critical process risks and maximize productivity. Delve deeper into user behaviors across different applications and analyze engagement levels and in-turn optimize user experiences. Our in-app interactive guides lead users through common tasks by providing them with intuitive on-demand assistance. And creating content is just as simple. All you need is to automatically record the process by doing it yourself. This makes it extremely easy for everyone to plan, create and maintain content. Empowering your teams and users to be more efficient, regardless of the complexity and frequency of use.  Want to be a part of our mission? We are hiring! Go to https://www.userlane.com/careers to see our available opportunities.
Shareholder Representative
Aug 2020
Shore Software – Dein Partner für Friseursalons und Kosmetikstudios Verwandle dein Business mit Shore! Unsere cloudbasierte Software hilft dir, Termine zu verwalten, Kunden zu managen und dein Marketing auf das nächste Level zu bringen. Features: Online-Terminbuchung: Lass deine Kunden 24/7 Termine buchen und reduziere No-Shows mit automatischen Erinnerungen. Kundenmanagement: Alle Kundeninfos und Buchungshistorien an einem Ort. Marketing: Starte gezielte E-Mail- und SMS-Kampagnen für mehr Kundenbindung. Online-Präsenz: Erstelle eine professionelle Website und integriere Social Media. Zahlungsabwicklung: Sichere und einfache Zahlungen direkt über das Shore Kassensystem und Shore Pay. Analysen: Wichtige Einblicke in deine Geschäftsdaten für bessere Entscheidungen. Mit Shore hast du mehr Zeit für deine Kunden. Probier es jetzt aus und starte mit einer kostenlosen Demo auf www.shore.com! Impressum: https://shore.com/de/impressum/
Board Observer
Dec 2019
gridscale is an IaaS and PaaS provider headquartered in Cologne. The company stands for easy-to-use and flexible cloud technologies. gridscales’ intuitive interface design empowers people without in-depth IT knowledge to manage the IT infrastructure while a Kubernetes environment facilitates the management of cloud-native workloads. Thousands of companies, agencies and managed service providers already rely on gridscale to implement and operate their digital projects – from high-traffic webshops to complex SaaS or enterprise IT solutions. White-label options are available to resellers and with the gridscale software ‘Hybrid Core’ data centre operators themselves can become cloud providers. gridscale with its about 100 employees is led by Henrik Hasenkamp.
Board Observer | Shareholder Representative
Dec 2019
gridscale is an IaaS and PaaS provider headquartered in Cologne. The company stands for easy-to-use and flexible cloud technologies. gridscales’ intuitive interface design empowers people without in-depth IT knowledge to manage the IT infrastructure while a Kubernetes environment facilitates the management of cloud-native workloads. Thousands of companies, agencies and managed service providers already rely on gridscale to implement and operate their digital projects – from high-traffic webshops to complex SaaS or enterprise IT solutions. White-label options are available to resellers and with the gridscale software ‘Hybrid Core’ data centre operators themselves can become cloud providers. gridscale with its about 100 employees is led by Henrik Hasenkamp.
Shareholder Representative
Dec 2019
Sdui builds the operating system for digital and modern education. To simplify communication and organization in schools and daycare centers, we develop GDPR-compliant solutions that connect teachers, parents and children. Using features such as chat, video conferencing, cloud, timetable and automatic translations, our platform creates the infrastructure for digital learning. Our Purpose Empower humans to transform education for a better tomorrow Our Vision A world in which technology enables everyone to benefit from the best possible education. We believe that the future of learning is highly personalized, engaging and relevant for our every day life. Our mission We build the operating system for modern education. We simplify communication and organization to connect people and to make learning more effective and accessible worldwide. August 2021, we are the fastest growing startup in the German EdTech industry with more than 4000 schools and daycare centers reached in Europe. You want to transform education? Learn more about us and your career opportunities here: http://sdui.de/karriere
Shareholder Representative
Sep 2019
Workpath enables leaders and teams to adapt their strategic focus, organizational structures, and resources faster to the market environment. Resulting from this, organizations gain the much needed speed and adaptability to transform into agile network organizations, empowering them to sustain in today‘s complex and dynamic business and work environment. This is achieved through Workpath‘s strategic operating software consisting of workflow and analytics tools as well as an all-in-one enablement solution. Workpath is headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company is backed by industry experts with many years of experience in leadership and technology.
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2026
Board Member | Investor
Mar 2026
Technology that lifts the load – so humans can lead with heart. We give the people who shape education the time, energy, and resources they need, so they can focus on what truly matters. For a future-oriented, values-driven educational landscape. That is why our approximately 300 employees work every day to rethink education digitally – with systems that are intuitive, inclusive, and scalable. Our product portfolio covers all key areas: School communication, class management, digital lesson planning, school administration and AI features. Our solutions make processes more effective, collaboration easier, and foster individual growth. When every individual thrives, equal opportunities rise for all.
late stageEducation
2025
Board Member | Investor
Apr 2025
Desk sharing for the hybrid work environment. With desk.ly, you can book and manage workspaces, meeting rooms, and parking spaces—all in one central place. desk.ly is a workplace management platform that efficiently supports hybrid working models. With the booking of desks, meeting rooms and parking spaces, desk.ly offers everything teams need to easily organise their office environment. In addition, the software enables data-driven analysis of space utilisation to help companies make the best use of their office space. Thanks to its seamless integration into existing IT infrastructures, desk.ly can be easily incorporated into everyday business life. Thanks to its intuitive use, desk.ly adapts flexibly to the individual needs of employees.
2024
Board Observer | Investor
Dec 2024
SKY ENGINE AI is a 3D Generative AI Synthetic Data Cloud for Vision AI that generates fully annotated, synthetic data and trains vision AI algorithms at scale. The platform is architected to procedurally generate highly balanced imagery data of photorealistic environments and objects and provides advanced domain adaptation algorithms. SKY ENGINE AI platform is a tool for developers: Data Scientists, ML/Software Engineers creating computer vision projects in any industry. SKY ENGINE is #generativeAI and #visionAI company with #syntheticdata.
Board Member | Investor
Dec 2024
We believe data-driven decisions are key to a more sustainable society. To enable those decisions, wetransform makes green data more accessible and useful. Since 2014, our innovations in data harmonisation technology and easy-to-use data publication workflows have helped thousands of clients to achieve compliance to national and EU legislations. These open data standards, combined with our expertise, help create large-scale collaborations with real-world impact, such as: • Ministries ensuring scientists can innovate with clean data • Foresters receiving science-backed tools to combat the effects of climate change • Municipalities improving their local zoning to fight the housing shortage With cutting-edge developments in secure data sharing as part of our expertise, our work towards a greener, more data-driven world is only just getting started.
Board Member | Investor
Apr 2024
Stackgini is the first platform for modern IT Demand Management in medium-sized and large enterprises. Our SaaS solution reduces the workload for IT teams, promotes the reuse of existing solutions, and automates compliance checks. It brings together all teams and tools – from IT service management and enterprise architecture to compliance and procurement. The platform enhances the internal IT knowledge of its customers with millions of market data points. With the help of our proprietary AI, companies gain deep insights into their IT portfolio for intelligent, data-driven IT decisions.
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