Frank Hartmann

Tengelmann Social Ventures is an active manager which provides financing for seed capital requirements. It invests in young companies that are making a social impact and generating a positive social effect.

Tengelmann Ventures is an active manager which invests in seed- and early-stage technology companies in the e-commerce, social commerce, Internet and Web-enabling technology sectors. The firm seeks to invest in fast growing, innovative companies, partnering with management to support the idea generation process. They typically take minority shareholdings in their investee companies and prefer to act as lead investor. For co-investments, they generally take a passive role. Tengelmann Ventures provides their investee companies with infrastructure services and access to their network and expertise.