# HT Ventures

> HT Ventures is a VC fund backing SaaS, Software and Social Network. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.htstage.com

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## Contacts

5 contacts available for HT Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at HT Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ht-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$900k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 60% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Social Network | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 40% |
| United States | 2 | 40% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thomas Newbold | Co-Founder and Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-newbold |
| Vikas Taneja | Co-Founder and Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vikas-taneja |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| tucan.ai | At Tucan we rethink the way we do meetings. We provide a software that automatically takes meeting notes for you, analyses and even summarises them. Our aim is to enable everyone to focus on what really matters to them in meetings. |  | Seed | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| tucan.ai | At Tucan we rethink the way we do meetings. We provide a software that automatically takes meeting notes for you, analyses and even summarises them. Our aim is to enable everyone to focus on what really matters to them in meetings. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| HomeBeat.Live | HomeBeat.Live ® is a Berlin based PropTech Start-up, with focus on multi-family residential real estate. The leading B2C solution empowers individuals to drive forward the long-overdue digitalisation of their home buildings – free of charge, without any technical knowledge and live within 10 minutes.The cloud based platform is conceived as amixture of well known services like Slack™, DropBox™, ZenDesk™, WhatsApp™, Doodle™ and FaceBook™ with purpose to serve the needs of a modern multi-family building. With HomeBeat.Live, communication, transparency, cost and general efficiency are vastly improved. The platform empowers vibrant communities, 24/7 access to information and enhances safety in the building. Asset holders gain data- and platform sovereignty. Related property managers obtain access to a powerful tool which supports their activities whilst increasing customer satisfaction. HomeBeat.Live provides a win-win situation to all stakeholders.Homebeat.live GmbH was founded in 2016 by Bruno Acar and Anton Skorochod to ignite a new paradigm in property management. The freemium SAAS platform is currently available internationally, in over 6 languages, both as a web-application and as a mobile app. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| AppVirality | AppVirality is a plug-and-play growth hacking toolkit for mobile applications that helps app developers in identifying and implementing the right growth techniques, no coding required. Its referral marketing solution helps customize, launch, and automate referral campaigns for mobile apps and SaaS products. Its tools work through a softwaredevelopment kit and dashboard and customizable application referral programs to help boost a brand its app installs and engagement that enable mobile-focused companies to identify and implement the right growth techniques without having to write new code.AppVirality was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | $500K | Seed | Sep 09, 2015 |  |
| Lookery | Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks, trying to solve the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. The service makes it safe for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money inpartnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information. | $900K | Seed | Feb 07, 2008 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [wayra Germany](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayra-germany) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [India Internet Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-internet-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does HT Ventures invest in?

HT Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Social Network startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is HT Ventures's check size?

HT Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$900k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds HT Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact HT Ventures?

Public channels for HT Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at HT Ventures?

The team at HT Ventures includes Thomas Newbold (Co-Founder and Partner) and Vikas Taneja (Co-Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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