Dr. Heinz Raufer
After graduating from high school and finishing an apprenticeship, Dr. Heinz Raufer (*13.02.1964) earned his degree in business administration at the University of Nuremberg in 1992. He went on to complete his Phd with his doctoral dissertation focussing on document and workflow information technology.
While working on his Phd he started an Internet Service Agency named Atrada AG in 1995, which in 1998 solely specialized in internet auction tools. In 2000 the company was bought by T-Online International AG. In 2001 Mr. Raufer founded the hotel.de AG, a leading hotel online reservation service with the Internet addresses www.hotel.de (German market) and www.hotel.info (markets abroad) for both business and leisure travellers where approximately 210,000 hotels worldwide could be booked directly.
In 2006 Mr. Raufer received the German Founders Award (Deutscher Gründerpreis) and was named “German Entrepreneur of the Year” (Ernst & Young Award).
In 2011 the HRS Group acquired hotel.de AG. After 2 years of integrating the profit center hotel.de/hotel.info into the HRS Group Heinz started as a professional Business Angel to co-found and to support several other interesting and highly scalable IT and internet businesses.
Please find more information on Heinz portfolio here.
It is my passion to invest in young IT companies and to create innovative products that assert themselves in the respective market and generate growth.
Expertise in / interest in the following areas: Internet, IT, software, B2B/SaaS, scalable B2C/B2B Internet platforms
Previous experience:
– Founded and managed online auction platform Atrada AG (1998-2001)
– Hotel reservation system hotel.de/hotel.info (2001-2013)
– Business Angel (2014-today)Favourite quote: “Software is eating the world.” (Marc Andreessen)