About us

The hiogi GmbH was founded by Björn Behrendt and Christoph Daecke in May 2007 and is backed up by well-known investors: Hasso Plattner Ventures, Media Ventures and A-Z Beteiligungen.

The team has created one of the world’s leading technologies for a Q&A crowdsourcing portal and has successfully been running www.hiogi.de in Germany for over 2 years.

The team will be happy to support you in setting up and running your own service-community. Please contact us.


  • eco Internet Award 2008 Mobile
  • Financial Times „Founder of the Week“
  • Among top 50 Start-ups at deutsche-startups.de
  • 3. winner of Netbiscuit Contest
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