Our Founders
Our mission is to support innovative start-up teams in realizing and implementing their vision with Smart Money and we experience very closely the challenges faced by start-ups. Every company and every idea is unique and yet there are many parallels. Through our experience as an investor and partner of startups we bundle these issues and are also available at any time with our strong network.
Some of our founders are introduced here:

MASTER YOUR UNICORN
Maximilan Odendahl, Johannes Emigholz
(Silexica GmbH)
Silexica’s plan: To solve one of the biggest challenges in the electronics industry and close the growing gap between software and hardware development in multi-core processor environments. Silexica offers programming tools that help software professionals meet even the most demanding system requirements; with state-of-the-art compiler technology and full heterogeneity awareness.
- Founded 2014
- active in Aachen, Köln, San Jose, Yokohama
- Spin-off RWTH Aachen
- since 2015 in the TechVision Fonds Portfolio
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION IN TAX CONSULTING
Sven Weber, Daniel Kirch, SteffenKirchhoff und Sven Peper
(taxy.io GmbH)
Taxy.io is a startup that uses artificially intelligent software to provide the basis for automated B2B tax consulting. The goal is to create a central information hub for digital tax intelligence, which can be used by employees in finance and tax departments for recommendations for action, but can also be integrated by third-party applications (e.g. CRM or accounting software). Taxy.io was founded by four former RWTH students.
- Founded 2018
- active in Aachen, Köln
- since 2019 in the Portfolio

BIOMASS MONITORING & FEEDING IN SHAKE FLASKS & BIOREACTORS
Daniel Grünes, Jens Bayer, David Frank, Konrad Herzog (Aquila Biolabs)
aquila biolabs is a German technology start-up focusing on the development of innovative technologies for the control and analysis of bioprocesses in bioreactors and incubation shakers.
- Founded 2014
- Headquarter in Aachen, Baesweiler
- since 2015 in our Portfolio


Restore the heart. Protect the brain
Karl von Mangoldt, Conrad Rasmus, Oliver Schumacher (Protembis GmbH)
Protembis offers a simple, fast and reliable solution to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
- Founded 2015
- Headquarter in Aachen
- since 2018 in our Portfolio
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The TechVision Fund and the S-UBG Group bring together medium-sized companies and start-ups. The targeted exchange of entrepreneurial experience and innovative concepts means win-win. This is where start-ups meet their first industrial customers and medium-sized companies meet the innovators of tomorrow.