Chiara Sommer

Lived, studied and worked in London, Milan, Munich, Frankfurt, Bonn and now Berlin. Senior Investment Manager at the leading seed fund in Germany, doing software, Internet, e-commerce, digital media investments. HTGF is the most active seed stage venture capital investor in high-tech startups in Germany with total fund volume of about €900 Mio. Sourcing, evaluation, analysis, negotiation and support of investments in technology companies in the following sectors: B2B-Software, SaaS, Marketplaces, Apps, Fintech, Data, Analytics, Commerce and AdTech. Working closely with founders to set-up, professionalize and scale businesses with regards to strategy, financial planning, organizational structures and processes, marketing and sales, business model, recruiting of key personnel and fundraising. Leading companies to various sizes up to e.g. >100 employees, >20 m€ annual revenue, >2,5 Mio. App-Loads, >600k Facebook Fans Managed and completed 20+ financing rounds (Seed, Series A & B) with leading German and international VCs and many private Investors including Highland Capital, Holtzbrinck Ventures, e.ventures, Earlybird, Redalpine, BDMI, Project A, Vorwerck Ventures, UPS, Drillisch, 500Startups, German Start-up Group, Littlerock, 42cap, LaFamiglia, family offices including MCB, Alstin and various Business Angels. Own Portfolio: JUNIQE, Bitwala, POSpulse, 99chairs, Asana Rebel, Moberries, Coredinate (led the Investments) Altruja, clickworker, itembase, Semasio, skoove (already existent in the HTGF Portfolio) Exit: versus (urge.io) Sometimes I blog here: VC blog M/VC (https://medium.com/@M.VC)