Torsten Hartmann

Managing Director bei Avantgarde Labs GmbH | Venture Builder | Early Stage Investor

📍 Greater Dresden Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
Angel investor🌍 GermanyInvested this year
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Oct 2025
Mit Startup Insider entsteht ein neues Branchenportal für die Startup-Szene in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Hier findet man Nachrichten aus allen Regionen und Industrien sowie eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Akteure und Events der deutschsprachigen Startup-Welt. Die Mission von Startup Insider ist es, Startups auf ihrem Weg zum Erfolg zu unterstützen. Wir helfen Startups und Grownups beim Knüpfen von Kontakten zu Investoren und Kunden, bei der Suche nach neuen Mitarbeitern oder durch mediale Sichtbarkeit auf Events oder Online, in Print oder Newslettern.
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May 2025
Einklang New Energy brings the energy transition closer by harmonizing companies electricity consumption with the renewable power of the sun and wind. SMEs account for more than half of Germanys electricity consumption. To establish a resilient, green, and efficient German power grid, we must enable and optimize the energy flexibility of SMEs in harmony with demand, market, and grid. We achieve that by offering SMEs holistic new energy solutions by combining the best technologies on the market in our Battery One-stop Shop, enhancing them with End-to-End services, and providing them to SMEs as a fully financed 360° package. As a constant energy partner, we support the company-specific energy transition every step of the way.
Investor | Energy Trading Analytics
Jan 2022
4D-Energy develops and deploys proprietary automated AI-based 24/7 trading systems for short-term EPEX Spot markets. We are a team of seasoned power traders, data scientists, AI specialists and software developers. Our AI-driven approach has a focus on delivering value to power trading desks, battery owners, e-mobility, wind, solar, bio, H2, aggregators, VPP and direct marketers by generating robust returns through profitable proprietary trading strategies and by bringing flexible assets to intraday power spot markets. We use machine learning and cutting edge pricing models for proprietary trading, optimizing the marketing of batteries and other flexible assets by automating power trading in the EPEX SPOT market. In this way we guaranty maximum returns for trading desks, batteries and other flexible assets. What we offer *Scalable high-performance trading environment running on Google cloud platform *Field-tested proprietary quantative trading models *Data platform for simulating new trading models on historical trading data *Automation of processes in trading desks for reducing trading costs and controlling risks. Some stats: *2+ mio. trades handled so far *4 active trading models currently handling 7.000 automated trades per day *Processing of 5 mio. order status updates and 15 mio. derived actions per day *500 bln. simulation steps for yearly profit simulations of trading models Know-how: Energy trading, Power trading, Arbitrage trading, Algorithmic trading, Algotrading, Quantitative Trading, Trading as a Service, Trading Platform, Automated Trading, Flexibility Trading, High Frequency Trading, Proprietary Trading, Managed Trading Services
Investor | Business Development and AI Strategist
Sep 2021
Fusion Bionic GmbH, located in Dresden, Germany, is a solution provider for laser-based surface functionalization. Born as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, Fusion Bionic’s commercial laser interference texturing solutions are suitable for several application areas such as enhanced biocompatibility, reduced friction, optimized surface wettability, anti-icing and anti-sticking properties, decoration as well as product protection. Our services cover the full value chain in laser-based surface functionalization, ranging from consulting and process development for advanced surface functions, delivery and integration of interference-based manufacturing solutions as well as training and support.
Experience · 9 entries
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2025
Investor
Oct 2025
Mit Startup Insider entsteht ein neues Branchenportal für die Startup-Szene in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Hier findet man Nachrichten aus allen Regionen und Industrien sowie eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Akteure und Events der deutschsprachigen Startup-Welt. Die Mission von Startup Insider ist es, Startups auf ihrem Weg zum Erfolg zu unterstützen. Wir helfen Startups und Grownups beim Knüpfen von Kontakten zu Investoren und Kunden, bei der Suche nach neuen Mitarbeitern oder durch mediale Sichtbarkeit auf Events oder Online, in Print oder Newslettern.
Investor
May 2025
Einklang New Energy brings the energy transition closer by harmonizing companies electricity consumption with the renewable power of the sun and wind. SMEs account for more than half of Germanys electricity consumption. To establish a resilient, green, and efficient German power grid, we must enable and optimize the energy flexibility of SMEs in harmony with demand, market, and grid. We achieve that by offering SMEs holistic new energy solutions by combining the best technologies on the market in our Battery One-stop Shop, enhancing them with End-to-End services, and providing them to SMEs as a fully financed 360° package. As a constant energy partner, we support the company-specific energy transition every step of the way.
2022
Investor | Energy Trading Analytics
Jan 2022
4D-Energy develops and deploys proprietary automated AI-based 24/7 trading systems for short-term EPEX Spot markets. We are a team of seasoned power traders, data scientists, AI specialists and software developers. Our AI-driven approach has a focus on delivering value to power trading desks, battery owners, e-mobility, wind, solar, bio, H2, aggregators, VPP and direct marketers by generating robust returns through profitable proprietary trading strategies and by bringing flexible assets to intraday power spot markets. We use machine learning and cutting edge pricing models for proprietary trading, optimizing the marketing of batteries and other flexible assets by automating power trading in the EPEX SPOT market. In this way we guaranty maximum returns for trading desks, batteries and other flexible assets. What we offer *Scalable high-performance trading environment running on Google cloud platform *Field-tested proprietary quantative trading models *Data platform for simulating new trading models on historical trading data *Automation of processes in trading desks for reducing trading costs and controlling risks. Some stats: *2+ mio. trades handled so far *4 active trading models currently handling 7.000 automated trades per day *Processing of 5 mio. order status updates and 15 mio. derived actions per day *500 bln. simulation steps for yearly profit simulations of trading models Know-how: Energy trading, Power trading, Arbitrage trading, Algorithmic trading, Algotrading, Quantitative Trading, Trading as a Service, Trading Platform, Automated Trading, Flexibility Trading, High Frequency Trading, Proprietary Trading, Managed Trading Services
2021
Investor | Business Development and AI Strategist
Sep 2021
Fusion Bionic GmbH, located in Dresden, Germany, is a solution provider for laser-based surface functionalization. Born as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, Fusion Bionic’s commercial laser interference texturing solutions are suitable for several application areas such as enhanced biocompatibility, reduced friction, optimized surface wettability, anti-icing and anti-sticking properties, decoration as well as product protection. Our services cover the full value chain in laser-based surface functionalization, ranging from consulting and process development for advanced surface functions, delivery and integration of interference-based manufacturing solutions as well as training and support.
2017
Board Member SIG Artificial Intelligence
Nov 2017
Bitkom is Germany’s digital association. Founded 1999 in Berlin, we represent more than 2,200 companies of the digital economy. Our membership spans more than 1,000 SMEs, including half of the 40 DAX companies over 500 startups and virtually all global players.
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