Heliad AG: Heliad AG acquires Collective Ventures to provide investors
exclusive ways to access venture capital

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Heliad AG: Heliad AG acquires Collective Ventures to provide investors
exclusive ways to access venture capital

05.07.2024 / 10:10 CET/CEST
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Heliad AG acquires Collective Ventures to provide investors exclusive ways
to access venture capital

  * So far, Heliad AG shareholders have gained access to Heliad's
    later-stage VC portfolio with purchases of shares

  * By merging with Collective Ventures, Heliad is expanding its product
    portfolio to enable earlier-stage VC investments in particular to a
    broader range of investors

Germany, Frankfurt, July 5, 2024 - Heliad AG (Stock ticker A7A, ISIN
DE0001218063) is pleased to announce it has acquired Collective Ventures to
build a new generation of venture capital firm by offering investors
innovative and exclusive ways to invest in promising start ups and growth
stage firms.

Collective Ventures was founded in 2021 as a deal-by-deal venture capital
network bringing together smart money from a diversified group of
entrepreneurs, financiers, C-Level executives and most importantly friends.
Over the last years the investment firm has built a strong track record
investing in 17 companies, including firms like Nelly, Bunch, Flowers, Nuvo,
and more. Leveraging on their co-investor network, Collective Ventures not
only offers the opportunities to invest according to the co-investors'
personal preferences but also provides founders with invaluable sparring
opportunities when building their business.

Heliad AG provides shareholders with access to its later stage venture
capital portfolio through acquiring Heliad shares on the stock exchange. The
portfolio includes investments in promising firms such as Raisin, Enpal,
Clark, Finn and many more. While this gives shareholders a simple and liquid
form to access venture capital, the combination of Heliad and Collective
Ventures complements this idea. Falk Schäfers, co-CEO of Heliad AG:
"Investors
are now also able to invest directly in single venture deals according to
their personal skills and preferences. Across all its investment strategies
Heliad co-invests with and accompanies its fellow investors to collectively
work towards the best possible outcome."

Cecil Croy, co-founder of Collective Ventures: "We always believed that the
most successful venture deals can be traced back to the network you can
access and collective decision making. We have had a remarkable journey
until today and are thankful to work with such strong co-investors and
talented founders. Heliad is the right partner for our investors and
founders through its strategic mindset, strong balance sheet and
complementary team. Together we will improve the way how capital, investors
and founders eventually work together."

About Collective Ventures

Collective ventures has extensive access to high quality, early stage deal
flow. We source and invest in early stage startups and scale our own
investment by allowing co-investors to tag along. Together with
co-investors, we provide support along the entire value chain - Leveraging
our knowledge and access is the best support we can provide to entrepreneurs
in their seed and early growth stage to help them take their companies to
the next level. Find more information about us under
www.collective-ventures.de and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Heliad AG

Heliad (Stock ticker A7A, ISIN DE0001218063) is a listed investment company
with a mission to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. The company
invests in market leading companies across various verticals and regions to
power their next phase of growth. As a listed company and through our strong
team and strategic partners, Heliad can support companies pre, at and post
IPO and act as a gateway to public equity capital markets. An evergreen
structure allows Heliad to act independently of usual fund lifecycles and
provides shareholders with unique access to pre-IPO market returns without
any restrictions or limitations in terms of investment size and term
commitment. Find more information about us under www.heliad.com and follow
us on LinkedIn.

IR-Contact
Heliad AG
Tel: +49 69 719 12 80 00
E-Mail: investor-relations@heliad.com

Press-Contact
Stanij Wicaz
Redgert Comms
E-Mail: stanij.wicaz@redgertcomms.com


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   Language:       English
   Company:        Heliad AG
                   Ulmenstraße 37-39
                   60325 Frankfurt/Main
                   Germany
   Phone:          +49 (0)69 719 12 80 - 00
   Fax:            +49 (0)69 719 12 80 - 999
   E-mail:         investor-relations@heliad.com
   Internet:       www.heliad.com
   ISIN:           DE0001218063
   WKN:            121806
   Indices:        Basic Board
   Listed:         Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
                   Frankfurt (Basic Board), Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart,
                   Tradegate Exchange
   EQS News ID:    1940411

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