Markus Kreßmann

VC-Investor & Partner @HTGF

📍 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2012
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Member of the Board
Mar 2012
Simplaex is the company behind Rivr, the world’s most advanced Programmatic Auction Intelligence technology. Rivr’s AI-powered library plugs into Supply Side Platforms and Ad Exchanges to transform them into the most efficient trading partner between demand and supply. https://twitter.com/Simplaex https://www.facebook.com/simplaex https://www.instagram.com/simplaexgram/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Simplaex
Member of the Board
Mar 2012
enercast is a leading technology provider for applied artificial intelligence. Its self-learning software-as-a-service products deliver accurate power forecasts for wind power and solar plants, thus enabling the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets. Based on its platform for the industrial application of artificial intelligence, enercast meshes internal and external data, identifies value-driving patterns, and consolidates them into meaningful forecasts. This allows customers in the energy and industrial sectors to unlock previously untapped business potential, fulfilling enercast’s promise: “Your Data – Your Success”. Founded in 2011, enercast has customers around the globe and is headquartered in Kassel, Germany with a staff of 30 employees. enercast GmbH is privately owned and counts innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds among its shareholders.
Member of the Board
May 2010
Real Estate & Mortgage Software Accelerating the use of collaborative technology across the entire customer journey. Propertybase is the leading global real estate and mortgage software provider with lead generation, award-winning websites, CRM, compliance-driven transaction management, mortgage business growth platform and more. Over 4,500 brands including Hawai’i Life, Nan and Co. Properties, Red Oak Realty, Forbes Global Properties and ONE Sotheby’s International Realty trust Propertybase to deliver innovative technology that scales their businesses. The Propertybase family of brands includes Propertybase, BoldLeads, BoldMortgage and Unify. For more information or to request a demo visit www.propertybase.com. Ambitious? Driven? Work for us! www.propertybase.com/jobs
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2012
Member of the Board
Mar 2012
Simplaex is the company behind Rivr, the world’s most advanced Programmatic Auction Intelligence technology. Rivr’s AI-powered library plugs into Supply Side Platforms and Ad Exchanges to transform them into the most efficient trading partner between demand and supply. https://twitter.com/Simplaex https://www.facebook.com/simplaex https://www.instagram.com/simplaexgram/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Simplaex
Member of the Board
Mar 2012
enercast is a leading technology provider for applied artificial intelligence. Its self-learning software-as-a-service products deliver accurate power forecasts for wind power and solar plants, thus enabling the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets. Based on its platform for the industrial application of artificial intelligence, enercast meshes internal and external data, identifies value-driving patterns, and consolidates them into meaningful forecasts. This allows customers in the energy and industrial sectors to unlock previously untapped business potential, fulfilling enercast’s promise: “Your Data – Your Success”. Founded in 2011, enercast has customers around the globe and is headquartered in Kassel, Germany with a staff of 30 employees. enercast GmbH is privately owned and counts innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds among its shareholders.
2010
Member of the Board
May 2010
Real Estate & Mortgage Software Accelerating the use of collaborative technology across the entire customer journey. Propertybase is the leading global real estate and mortgage software provider with lead generation, award-winning websites, CRM, compliance-driven transaction management, mortgage business growth platform and more. Over 4,500 brands including Hawai’i Life, Nan and Co. Properties, Red Oak Realty, Forbes Global Properties and ONE Sotheby’s International Realty trust Propertybase to deliver innovative technology that scales their businesses. The Propertybase family of brands includes Propertybase, BoldLeads, BoldMortgage and Unify. For more information or to request a demo visit www.propertybase.com. Ambitious? Driven? Work for us! www.propertybase.com/jobs
2007
Investment Director & Prokurist
May 2007
HTGF is one of the leading and most active VC 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. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, KfW Capital and 45 companies. Our multi-stage VC platform has over 3 billion euros of fund volume.
2001
Summer Associate / Market Strategy Trainee
2001
OTTO is the largest german online shop and one of the largest employers in Hamburg. For over 75 years, we have been constantly evolving to offer our customers the best shopping experience possible. Our channel is all about jobs, career tips, and insights into our working world. We also keep you up to date on topics that matter to us—such as tech, diversity, and sustainability. What makes OTTO special? With over 18 million items from more than 34,000 brands, over 12.2 million customers, and over 6,200 partners, OTTO is the largest german online shop. With courage, passion, and openness to change, we invest in new technologies. Always at the center: our customers and the positive shopping experience in the app and on otto.de. How do we work at OTTO? With around 6,000 employees, we are one of Hamburgs largest employers. New Work is part of our work culture. We work hybrid, i.e., both on our campus in Bramfeld and remotely from home or another mobile location, depending on the job and task. Work-life balance is important to us at OTTO. To this end, we offer various benefits such as flexitime, workation, sabbaticals, and part-time work – even in all management positions. You can find all this here on LinkedIn or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/otto_inside/ You can find more information about tech on our tech blog: https://otto.de/techblog If you have any questions about our job postings or your application, please contact the relevant person in OTTOs recruitment department. You can contact them directly here: otto.me/2nfQU8d Legal notice: https://www.otto.de/unternehmen/de/impressum/
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