Johanna Heise

Johanna Heise is a Limited Partner at āltitude, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in software start-ups that serve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. She is also the CEO of heise ventures, a new division of the Hannover-based media company Heise, which aims to strengthen innovation and explore new business opportunities through investments in start-ups.1

Under her leadership, heise ventures has launched initiatives to support European tech start-ups, particularly those in their early development stages. The fund's strategy includes a focus on companies that are either in the pre-founding phase or newly established, emphasizing entrepreneurship and disruption as core principles of their investment philosophy.1