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Founders who have lived the problem: The strongest companies in my portfolio were built by people who spent years inside the industry they're now transforming. That kind of depth produces products people genuinely love and businesses that are nearly impossible to replicate. It's the first thing I look for in every conversation.
Construction. Logistics. Healthcare administration. Care documentation. Some of my best investments came from sectors most investors called too niche, too slow, or too unsexy. The more specific the vertical, the more interested I tend to be. Those are the markets where real willingness to pay meets almost no competition.
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General Partner
Venture | Berlin
The industries I invest in don't make headlines. Logistics, construction, healthcare, life sciences. These are massive markets where the problems are deeply understood by the people who live them every day, but barely touched by technology. That gap is where category leaders get built. Sennder reimagined road freight across Europe. Voize is transforming how caregivers document patient care through AI. Qualifyze is bringing supplier audits into the digital age for life sciences. The pattern is always the same: a founder who understood the problem before they ever thought about starting a company, and a product that users love from day one.
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Most people who want to break into venture capital apply for a job. Felix built a company. He co-founded Skive while still studying at LMU Munich, a digital learning platform that grew to more than 250,000 students across Europe before being acquired. That experience is not a line on his CV. It's the lens through which he reads every founder, every pitch, and every critical decision.
Felix graduated with distinction from both LMU Munich and LSE London, where his master's thesis examined the political power of venture capital at a time when technology, regulation, and geopolitics were still treated as separate worlds. He first walked into HV as an intern in 2013. By 2017, he was back full-time. In 2024, he was promoted to General Partner, leading HV's investments in B2B marketplaces, vertical software, and healthcare. His portfolio includes sennder, Voize, Qualifyze, Praxipal, Schüttflix, and Sdui. When he's not investing, he's climbing walls, indoors and out, or on whatever pitch, court, or field he can find.
Founders: Jakob Manz Lukas Wawrla Tim Grunow
Founded: 2018
HV Entry: 2021
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Founders: Robert Coletti Stefan Bader
Founded: 2022
HV Entry: 2022
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founders: Andreas Tussing Addy Weissbeck
Founded: 2019
HV Entry: 2021
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Richa Kaul
Founded: 2022
HV Entry: 2023
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Founders: Charlotte Rothert Daniel Marinkovic Thorsten Groß Mona Feder
Founded: 2021
HV Entry: 2025
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Maximilian Dekorsy Dr. Henry Keppler
Founded: 2022
HV Entry: 2023
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founders: Lars Giere Philip Trockels
Founded: 2019
HV Entry: 2020
Funding: Fund VII
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.felmo.de/
Founders: Abhi Arora Sanket Agarwal
Founded: 2021
HV Entry: 2023
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: San Francisco, United States of America
Website: https://www.joinfleek.com/
Founders: Bastian Krapinger-Rüther Markus Müller Hasib Samad
Founded: 2022
HV Entry: 2025
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Founders: Sebastian Würz Bastian Schätzle
Founded: 2016
HV Entry: 2017
Funding: Fund VI
HQ: Frankfurt, Germany
Website: https://www.habyt.com
Founders: Yannik Schreckenberger Sebastian Tilch Marc Tiedemann Yunus Uyargil
Founded: 2014
HV Entry: 2017
Funding: Fund VI
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.heartbeat-med.com/
Founders: Daniel Woelki Martin Graf
Founded: 2024
HV Entry: 2025
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: David Schneider Florian Hildebrand
Founded: 2017
HV Entry: 2021
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Frankfurt, Germany
Founders: Sven Gasper Phillip Mackeprang Hannes Kassens
Founded: 2024
HV Entry: 2025
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Christian Hülsewig
Founded: 2019
HV Entry: 2020
Funding: Fund VII
HQ: Gütersloh, Germany
Website: https://www.schuettflix.de
Founders: Daniel Zacharias Jan-Micha Kroll
Founded: 2018
HV Entry: 2021
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Koblenz, Germany
Founders: David Nothacker Nicolaus Schefenacker Julius Köhler
Founded: 2016
HV Entry: 2018
Funding: Fund VII
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.sennder.com/
Founders: Alexander Giesecke Nicolai Schork
Founded: 2015
HV Entry: 2020
Funding: Fund VII
HQ: Munich, Germany
Founders: Philipp Noll Robert Göbel
Founded: 2019
HV Entry: 2023
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Ion Sergis
Founded: 2022
HV Entry: 2022
Funding: Fund VIII
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website: https://www.timberhub.com/
Founders: Fabio Schmidberger Marcel Schmidberger Erik Ziegler
Founded: 2020
HV Entry: 2024
Funding: Fund IX Ventures
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Founders: Cherif Habib Anna Chif Alexis Smirnov
Founded: 2016
HV Entry: 2017
Funding: Fund VI
HQ: Montreal, Canada
