FabianGruner

I grew up around engineers and scientists. That shaped how I see technology: not as a product category, but as a set of problems waiting to be solved at scale. The founders I back aren't building better versions of what exists. They're converting decades of scientific progress into real technology with global relevance. Rockets, humanoid robots, autonomous drones, nuclear fusion, next-generation memory chips. These aren't science projects. They're the infrastructure of the next century. And defensibility in deep tech isn't just about the technology. It's about the courage to attempt what most people don't believe is possible yet, and the discipline to execute it. Those two things together are rare. But combined, the opportunity is enormous.

Fabian Gruner grew up with a mother who was a computer scientist and a father who was an engineer. This left him with a curiosity not just about what technology is, but about what it can do when pushed to its limits. He studied Business Administration and Computer Science at WHU and TU Munich, graduated top of his class, added a degree in Technology Management from CDTM and Columbia Business School, and started his career at BCG and J.P. Morgan. A chapter at Munich-based growth fund Acton Capital followed, before Fabian made a sharp detour into the operational world.

As employee number one at Foodora, he helped scale the company from a single person to 800 across 13 cities in a matter of months, building the global sales and marketing teams entirely from scratch.

When he joined HV in 2018, he brought two things with him: the analytical rigour of someone trained across the best institutions in the world, and the instinct of someone who has had to make things work under real pressure.