Wolfgang Heigl
Founding Partner @ NFQ Capital
Munich, Germany
Wolfgang Heigl is a seed investor at NFQ Capital in Munich focused on Travel and Tourism. Wolfgang founded NFQ back in 2002 – originally purely as a technology company to support his various ventures.He has found success as both as an entrepreneur and investor. His successes include investing in OXID in 2003, which today is the leading German Enterprise Open Source E-commerce solutions provider. He is also known as the founder ofswoodoo.de, which became the biggest flight search engine in the German speaking region and was sold in 2010 to Kayak.com. His recent investments include GetYourGuide, Kiveda and Dreamlines.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Wolfgang Heigl invests in
Stages Wolfgang Heigl invests in
Countries Wolfgang Heigl invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$2.7M
- Series A
- $2.4M–$8.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 4 (57%)
- Tourism 4 (57%)
- Leisure 2 (29%)
- E-Commerce 2 (29%)
- Transportation 2 (29%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
Country
- Germany 4 (57%)
- United States 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider. | $2.7M / Seed / Aug 07, 2024 | ||
| Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy. | $8.5M / Series A / Mar 23, 2018 | ||
| Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 08, 2017 | ||
| As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on. | $1.6M / Seed / Oct 16, 2015 | ||
| Founded in 2012, Dreamlines quickly became the biggest cruise portal in Europe. In 2013 and 2014. Dreamlines opened new offices in Amsterdam, Nice, Sao Paulo, Gold Coast and Moscow. Dreamlines is the fastest growing cruise portal worldwide and leading in the European market.With over 600 dedicated employees and operations in 12 countries on 5Continents, Dreamlines serves customers in more countries than any other cruise portal. Dreamlines is the biggest cruise OTA outside the USA and is on its way to become the global market leader for selling cruises online.Dreamlines in-house developed GDS/CRM system is the tailor-made fit for the specific cruise industry demands, improving customer satisfaction while streamlining internal processes globally. The own tour operator business is providing unique cruise packages, created by the most experienced cruise experts, exclusively available at Dreamlines. | $2.4M / Series A / Nov 01, 2012 | ||
| GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. It offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. The platform sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to many tourist attractions.GetYourGuide runs a thriving and viral businesscurating, and selling tickets for running walks and other exploration experiences for people touring different parts of the world. The business model for GetYourGuide stipulates that it does not offer its tours or activities, but rather, acts as a mediator between customers and providers. The service is free for customers, but the provider of the tour has to pay GetYourGuide a percentage of its revenue.GetYourGuide, an online customer review system, enables potential customers to assess the quality of tour providers. Additionally, the platform removes providers who consistently get bad reviews from its inventory. | $2M / Seed / Mar 07, 2012 | ||
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Co-Investors
About NFQ Capital
They see ourselves as the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs” and they take a very hands-on approach to investing. They strongly believe that the key to successful investing lies not just in finding the next outstanding internet brand – but in helping to create it. They focus on later-stage growth phases but do also seed and incubation stages.Additionally to our investment, they are supporting the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 400+ development specialists delivering company-building services including strategy, engineering, operational scaling, recruiting, business development, product delivery, and product marketing. NFQ invests globally and across industries into companies which scale through a technology.NFQ has offices in Europe and San Francisco.
NFQ Capital Contacts
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Harald Braunstein
Founding Partner and CEO
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Johannes Lenhard
Investment Manager
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Wolfgang Heigl
Founding Partner
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FAQ
What does Wolfgang Heigl invest in?
Wolfgang Heigl invests primarily in Travel, Tourism and Leisure startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Wolfgang Heigl's check size?
Wolfgang Heigl typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$2.7M at Seed and $2.4M–$8.5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wolfgang Heigl participates in.
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When did Wolfgang Heigl last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Wolfgang Heigl closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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