Romy Schnelle

Managing Director @ HTGF & DTCF | Passionate seed & growth investor, tech enthusiast and entrepreneurship expert | Driving innovation and shaping the start-up ecosystem

📍 Cologne Bonn Region, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020
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Board Observer
Jan 2020
Stocard is a fast-growing fintech and a global leader in mobile wallets. Klarna and Stocard have joined forces to revolutionize how people shop and pay. Together, we are an ecosystem of 400+ developers working on our apps with over 125M users. Our team is ready to fast-track to the future and create the smooothest shopping experience around the world. Our innovative and intuitive free Stocard app allows millions of consumers to turn their smartphone into a mobile wallet where they add loyalty cards from their favorite stores and sign-in new ones. They access personalized communications and offers, collect rewards and can pay directly with the app. We help retailers and brands profile, engage and drive consumers to stores and e-commerce - growing sales, loyalty and advocacy, campaign after campaign, visit after visit. To create a top-notch customer-experience in our app, maximize store/web traffic and measure campaigns ROI, Stocard’s algorithms and experts analyze millions of single sourced first party data points. We also use them to advise retailers and brands on their consumers’ true loyalty, win back lapsed ones or limit churn. We strive for building facts-based partnerships with top-tier retailers, brands and media agencies. For this, we believe our people are our most important asset. Therefore, could it be in London, Mannheim, Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Sydney or Toronto, we care for a collaborative environment with strong team spirit. We want everyone to fulfill their potential, leave their footprint and be an essential part of our and our clients’ success.
Board Observer
Sep 2013
Quobyte turns commodity servers into a Data Center File System. Based on latest distributed systems technology, Quobyte delivers linear scalability, full fault tolerance, and lights-out operations – so that you can focus on your business applications and stop worrying about your storage infrastructure.
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2026
Managing Director
Feb 2026
The DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) invests up to €30 million in high-growth deep-tech and climate-tech companies in Germany and Europe. With a fund volume of €1 billion, the DTCF acts as a long-term-oriented anchor investor and bridge between investors, SMEs, and innovative high-tech startups from their early growth stage onwards.
2020
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Stocard is a fast-growing fintech and a global leader in mobile wallets. Klarna and Stocard have joined forces to revolutionize how people shop and pay. Together, we are an ecosystem of 400+ developers working on our apps with over 125M users. Our team is ready to fast-track to the future and create the smooothest shopping experience around the world. Our innovative and intuitive free Stocard app allows millions of consumers to turn their smartphone into a mobile wallet where they add loyalty cards from their favorite stores and sign-in new ones. They access personalized communications and offers, collect rewards and can pay directly with the app. We help retailers and brands profile, engage and drive consumers to stores and e-commerce - growing sales, loyalty and advocacy, campaign after campaign, visit after visit. To create a top-notch customer-experience in our app, maximize store/web traffic and measure campaigns ROI, Stocard’s algorithms and experts analyze millions of single sourced first party data points. We also use them to advise retailers and brands on their consumers’ true loyalty, win back lapsed ones or limit churn. We strive for building facts-based partnerships with top-tier retailers, brands and media agencies. For this, we believe our people are our most important asset. Therefore, could it be in London, Mannheim, Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Sydney or Toronto, we care for a collaborative environment with strong team spirit. We want everyone to fulfill their potential, leave their footprint and be an essential part of our and our clients’ success.
2013
Quobyte Inc.
Board Observer
Sep 2013
Board Observer
Sep 2013
Quobyte turns commodity servers into a Data Center File System. Based on latest distributed systems technology, Quobyte delivers linear scalability, full fault tolerance, and lights-out operations – so that you can focus on your business applications and stop worrying about your storage infrastructure.
2008
Partner
Jan 2008
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.
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