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Grazia Equity GmbH © 2016
Capital for Entrepreneurs
We are one of Germany’s most experienced start-up investors. Since 1998, we have been supporting many companies to achieve market-leading positions.
We work with our own capital, which enables us to make quick, practical and entrepreneurial decisions.
The partnership with Grazia is characterized by fairness, empathy and passion.
We love world-changing innovations. If you’re looking to be the next Snapchat, Tesla or Genentech, then you’ve come to the right place!
Success Stories
Our passion for large, disruptive topics and our readiness to take chances has led to a whole range of success stories in various fields of business.
Hans-Martin Rüter built Conergy, the pioneer in solar power
Tim Kröger and Friedrich Schwandt make statistics easily accessible and useful for anyone
Tapio Harmia solved the problem of low price production of lightweight composite materials
Dirk Graber makes buying eyewear easy and less costly and builds leading European online optician
Tobias, Jon and Ben become global market leader in the social publishing industry for movies
Behrooz Rezvani and Andrea Goldsmith take the wireless transmission of broadband information to new heights
Alec was super enthusiastic when his school friend Andreas Rüter told him that his brother Hans-Martin was setting up a solar energy company. There’s nothing like providing a solution for a globally increasing need of energy while being friendly to the environment and having enough of a natural resource. And with that, Conergy laid the foundation to transform the solar industry in 1998. We got involved immediately and brought in Angiolo Laviziano as CFO to complete the best team the solar energy sector had ever seen.
Sooner than we had anticipated, the German Renewable Energy Law was passed and nationwide funding was granted, and the boom came with it. Conergy began by developing small solar devices for domestic use and later went on to build the biggest and most spectacular commercial solar power stations. Hans-Martin gave the company a first mover advantage, he focused on sales while also contributing his technical competence and taking a hand in leadership. He not only made Conergy a market leader, but he also made it one of the fastest growing companies that Germany had ever seen.
In March 2005 we took Conergy public after shares were oversubscribed twenty-nine times. Market capitalization exceeded two billion euros in succession to make Conergy Grazia’s first unicorn.
conergy.com
Foundation 1998
Hans-Martin Rüter
Lead Investor Series Seed
Exit 2005
We celebrated one of our best VC days in November 2015 at Statista, where we had served as the only investor since day one. We visited an Internet conference in London with the company’s CEO. The business success in recent years resulted in a growing number of strategic acquisition inquiries, which brought about its meteoric rise. The company