German Tech Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA: Public offer for the subscription of treasury shares completed

Frankfurt am Main (pta047/27.10.2026/23:59 UTC+1)

• All 34.2 million treasury shares offered placed with GTH shareholders
• Founder and his family increase their stake from 7 % to 47 %
• Market capitalization quadrupled

Frankfurt/Main, 27 October 2026 – German Tech Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA (GTH) has fully placed the treasury shares publicly offered for subscription upon expiry of the subscription period on 27 October 2026. All 34.2 million treasury shares offered were placed with GTH shareholders.

Of these, 11.7 million shares were acquired through the exercise of subscription rights and 7.3 million shares by way of oversubscription applications. The remaining shares were assumed under a backstop order by GG Beteiligungen UG, in which the CEO and founder of GTH, Christoph Gerlinger, holds an indirect interest of just under 50 %.

As a result of the placement, the stake held by his family and their investment vehicles, increases from 7 % to 47 % of the outstanding shares. The number of outstanding shares increases from 11.4 million to 45.6 million. The Company holds 701,800 treasury shares.

The acquired offer shares will be transferred to the securities accounts specified in the share purchase applications, expected at the beginning of calendar week 45. Any amounts overpaid by shareholders will be refunded by the Company without undue delay in the course of the settlement of the offer, to the account from which the payment was made.

About German Tech Holding

German Tech Holding (GTH) is an investment company founded in 2012 and based in Frankfurt am Main.

During its active years as a leading German venture capital provider under the name German Startups Group, GTH held stakes with great success in, among others, Chrono24, Delivery Hero, Fiagon, Mister Spex, Remerge and Scalable Capital. To this day it holds investments including AuctionTech, SoundCloud and Thinksurance. Through its SaaS-based white-label solution PropNow for digital bidding and offer processes in the real estate market, AuctionTech is the European market leader.

GTH pursues opportunities in the fields of artificial intelligence and life sciences/biotech. Cognicare AI, a spin-off from GTH's investment in the company builder Softmax AI, addresses the structurally growing market for senior care facilities with highly sought-after AI applications. In the field of life science, GTH is examining an investment opportunity in Zirnostics GmbH that has presented itself and has signed a term sheet in this regard. Zirnostics is preparing a clinical trial for the approval of its disruptive tracer for PSMA-PET/CT imaging in prostate cancer, which is up to 100-fold superior to legacy tracers in terms of tumour-to-background contrast and has already been successfully clinically tested for years in several hundred patients.

Securities ID number A1MMEV

ISIN DE000A1MMEV4

Symbol GTH

Further information: germantechholding.com

Investor Relations Contact

Rosenberg Strategic Communications
Mario Groß

MC Services AG

Fotini Vogiatzi

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Emitter:	German Tech Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA Humboldtstraße 60B 60318 Frankfurt am Main Germany
Contact Person:	Investor Relations
Phone:	+49 69 348690520
E-Mail:	ir@germantechholding.com
Website:	germantechholding.com
ISIN(s):	DE000A1MMEV4 (Share)
Stock Exchange(s):	Free Market in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt (Scale), Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate BSX