Holtzbrinck is a family-owned German holding company with a strong international presence across Science, Education, Consumer Publishing, and News Media. Its science and research activities include Springer Nature and Digital Science; its education business is represented by Macmillan Learning; its consumer publishing houses include Macmillan Publishers, Pan Macmillan, and Holtzbrinck Buchverlage; and its news media activities are anchored by DIE ZEIT.

The group’s publishing portfolio comprises renowned imprints such as Nature, Palgrave, Scientific American, St. Martin’s Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Tor Publishing Group, Pan Macmillan, Fischer Verlage, and Rowohlt Verlag, alongside the ZEIT Group.

Holtzbrinck is also active in venture and growth investing through i.a. HV Capital, GSV Ventures, Insight Partners, and 468 Capital, and holds stakes in numerous digital and educational start-ups, including Dimensions, ReadCube, Overleaf, and Altmetric (Digital Science); Achieve and iClicker (Macmillan Learning).

Across its portfolio, Holtzbrinck is committed to advancing responsible AI innovations, fostering technologies that are human-centered, transparent, and aligned with academic integrity, editorial independence, and societal trust.