Awards and investors of HHL start-ups
HHL start-ups have received multiple awards for their activities. Some examples are:
- Wirtschaftswoche Gründer des Jahres
- KfW-Gründerchampion
- Internet Business World best start-up
- Winner RedHerring European Top 100 award
- HP Business Vision award
- Winner Weconomy award
- Entrepreneur of the year
- Winner futuresax business plan competition
- Winner ubg s-beteiligungen award for best start-up
- “Best Market" Prize at global Moot Corp business plan competition at Texas/Austin
- Winner INCAE/ MIT Media Lab business plan competition
- Winner German founders competition
- Winner futureSax business plan competition
- Venture Lounge Winner
HHL start-ups are embedded in an active entrepreneurial network. Also investors regularly are convinced of the high calibre of HHL start-up ideas and start-up teams. Among the institutions that have invested in HHL start-ups are:
- Accel Partners (http://www.accel.com/)
- Apax (http://www.apax.com)
- Bauer Media (http://www.hbv.de)
- Earlybird (http://ww.earlybird.com)
- European Founders Fund (http://www.europeanfounders.com/)
- Grazia Equity (http://www.grazia.com)
- Hasso Plattner Ventures (www.hp-ventures.com/)
- High Tech Gründerfonds (http://www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de)
- High Tech Gründerfonds Sachsen
- Hubert Burda Media (www.burda.de/)
- Index Ventures (http://www.indexventures.com/)
- Kennet Partners (http://www.kennet.com)
- Madsack Medialab (http://www.madsackmedialab.de/)
- Neuhaus Partners (http://www.technonord.de/)
- Team Europe Ventures (http://www.teameurope.net/)
- Wellington (http://www.wellington.de/)
