Martin Weber

Founding Partner

2024 - Current

General Partner

2000 - 2024

General Partner

2010 - 2020

HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested in internet and technology companies since 2000. HV is one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth investors in Europe. More than €1 billion have been raised in multiple generations of funds. HV’s consistent approach to seek market leaders in the European tech ecosystem has resulted in more than 200 investments, including success stories such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility, SumUp and Scalable Capital. HV supports start-ups with capital between €500.000 and €50 million. This makes HV one of the few venture capitalists in Europe that can finance start-ups through all growth phases. For more than twenty years, HV has partnered with founders to support them building flagship companies, driving digital tech-innovation in the field of B2B and B2C. HV has become the leading investor in Germany and is amongst the top 5 most prominent investors in Europe by means of size, deal experience, relevance, reputation and financial achievements in its market. HV always aims to connect with entrepreneurs early on. Throughout all fund generations, HV supported them to scale companies to some of today's fastest growing European companies that have an aggregated market capitalization of around €50 billion.

General Partner / Managing Director

2000 - 2010

Managing Director at Holtzbrinck Ventures, one of the most successfull and with more than 80 investments made most actice new media venture capital companies in germany. Holtzbrinck Ventures was the corporate vc of the publishing house Georg von Holtzbrinck, one of the leading publishing houses in Germany with strong US and UK presence. In 2010 the company and team was backed by GvH and HarbourVest and got fully independent - now named as HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Adviser GmbH 50% of the portfolio companies were founded by or together with Holtzbrinck Ventures. This shows the strong entrepreneurial spirit within our company. Among the portfolio companies there were Groupon Inc, Zalando, Woooga, Parship as Europe´s leading online relationship agency, Mindmatics as leading german mobile services provider, BOL.COM as Hollands strongest online media retailer, GameDuell, Germany´s No.1. online skill gaming plattform and Audible.de as download plattform for audiobooks and StudiVZ, germanies largest website.

CFO

1999 - 2000

CFO of Netlife AG, international e-business software company for financial service providers. Company showed strong growth which lead to a successfull ipo at the german Neuer Markt. Responsible for set up of financial department, operations and listing at stock exchange.

CFO

1999 - 2000

Senior Investment Manager

1994 - 1999

Senior Investmentmanager at Bayerische Kapitalbeteiligungs GmbH, a subsidiary of Bayerische Landesbank. Company focussed on investing in and foundation of innovative companies in all sectors. Was responsible for 7 out of a total of 30 Investments. Responsible for acquisition of new investments and management through the whole life cycle to desinvestment incl. interim management during change management processes.

Credit Analyst

1992 - 1994

Credit Analyst after taking part in Dresdner Bank´s trainee programm.

Founder

1989 - 1991

Founder of publishing company focused on publications for students.