After a year of building product and traction in stealth, Stackgini today announces the closing of its pre-seed funding round in April 2024. The round is backed by leading early-stage investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and xdeck Ventures, along with prominent business angels from the SaaS industry, including Julius Göllner (ARRtist), Dr. Niklas Hellemann (SoSafe), Frank Piotraschke (SoSafe), and Lukas Gottschick (Pliant). Stackgini is tackling one of the biggest enterprise challenges today: modernizing IT decision-making with a data-driven, AI-powered platform.
As part of its public debut, Stackgini also reports strong demand from both DAX 40 companies and several renowned enterprise clients such as Endress+Hauser, Grünenthal, Badenova, or Louis Motorrad, all of whom are already using the solution.
IT departments manage large IT portfolios (often over 1,000 solutions), while business units submit new requirements daily. Manually coordinating these demands across departments, systems, and siloed data not only slows down decision-making but also quickly leads to unnecessary licensing costs and increased complexity in the IT landscape. Stackgini offers an alternative: a data-driven platform that helps companies efficiently assess, select, and optimize their IT landscape.
“We founded Stackgini to solve a problem every organization faces: fragmented, manual, slow IT decision-making,” says Johannes Bock, CEO and co-founder of Stackgini. “Our platform learns from existing IT stacks, contextualizes new IT demands, and proactively promotes the reuse of existing IT solutions — with the speed a modern IT requires.”
The Intelligent Co-Worker for IT Departments:
Stackgini is on a mission to modernize IT demand management. Since closing its pre-seed round in April 2024, Stackgini has been developing its SaaS platform in close collaboration with its customers. The product leverages proprietary AI to analyze internal portfolio data, IT requirements, and market data, delivering actionable IT solutions in real time. Stackgini acts as a co-worker across IT governance, enterprise architecture, and IT procurement teams.
The product has already gained the trust of leading enterprises.
Steven Waegenaer, Head of IT Governance and Strategy at Grünenthal Group, adds: “For us, Stackgini is a real game changer in demand management: we can work together with the business units at an early stage and in a data-driven manner and make well-founded decisions, thus preventing unnecessary costs and shadow IT.”
Backed by Europe’s Leading Early-Stage Investors and experienced Business Angels:
The pre-seed round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and xdeck Ventures, with participation from experienced angels including Julius Göllner, Dr. Niklas Hellemann, Frank Piotraschke, and Lukas Gottschick.
Maurice Kügler, Senior Investment Manager at HTGF, said: “We backed Stackgini because the team is taking a fresh, scalable approach to a universal enterprise pain point. With rising IT complexity and talent shortages in IT architecture and procurement, fueling IT decision-making with AI is a huge opportunity.”
Markus Gick, Managing Partner at xdeck Ventures, adds: “Stackgini has the vision, the team, and now the traction to redefine how enterprise IT decisions are made. We’re proud to support them on this journey.”
The Road Ahead:
With growing enterprise adoption, Stackgini is now focused on expanding its engineering, customer success, and go-to-market teams. The company is further deepening integrations with existing governance, procurement, and enterprise architecture systems, working toward a world where IT decisions can happen in days, not months.
“Our goal is simple: to become the AI-powered backbone of enterprise IT decision-making,” says Johannes.
About Stackgini:
Stackgini is the AI-powered co-worker for IT decision-making and demand management in medium-sized and large enterprises. Our SaaS solution reduces the workload for IT teams, promotes the reuse of existing solutions, and automates compliance checks. It brings together all teams and tools – from IT service management and enterprise architecture to compliance and procurement. The platform enhances the internal IT knowledge of its customers with millions of market data points. With the help of our proprietary AI, companies gain deep insights into their IT portfolio for intelligent, data-driven IT decisions.
About xdeck ventures:
xdeck ventures is an early-stage venture capital investor focusing on tech companies with superior solutions in process automation, applied big data / AI, and sustainability tech. xdeck ventures invests in inspiring teams with deep domain expertise and a distinctive understanding of the problem they are trying to solve. Moreover, they are looking for differentiated products or services that solve a real pain point for customers and teams who are building something significant with the spirit to walk the extra mile. As an investor at eye level, xdeck ventures empowers founders to constantly challenge their status quo by being their biggest critic and close sparring partner at the same time.
About HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds:
HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of DeepTech, IndustrialTech, ClimateTech, DigitalTech, Life Sciences, and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports start-ups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Moreover, across its funds, HTGF has over 2 billion euros under management. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 770 start-ups and achieved almost 200 successful exits.
