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The Cologne-based startup envelio provides the Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP) to grid operators for the next phase of the energy transitionThe acquisition of envelio is part of E.ON’s ambition to provide an open digital energy ecosystem In 2018 High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Demeter invested in the seed round Bonn, December 17, 2021 – High-Tech Gründerfonds sold its shares in envelio GmbH after accompanying the company for the past three years. The energy transition will onl

Hamburg, Germany, December 16, 2021 – Taxdoo, the financial compliance startup, today announced a $64M Series B round led by Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors Accel, Visionaries Club, and 20VC. Coming 11 months after the Series A round – and bringing total funding to $84M – this investment will further propel Taxdoo in building the Financial Operating System for e-commerce. With the new funds, Taxdoo is set to further expand its offering across Europe and dou

Munich, December 16, 2021 – casavi currently manages over 70,000 buildings and 1.6 million residential units, making it one of the leading PropTech platforms in the DACH region. Today the company is announcing the successful completion of its EUR 20 million Series B funding which will be used to expand the company’s product offering and accelerate growth throughout Europe. The European growth equity fund Digital+ Partners is leading the investment, alongside Wachstumsfonds Bayern managed

Potsdam, 14 December 2021 – High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Brandenburg Kapital and adesso subsidiary inQventures have joined forces to invest in Resility GmbH, a start-up dedicated to one of the most important issues of the present day: cloud security. Resility’s SaaS cloud security solution Mitigant helps companies recognise, secure and continuously track wrongly configured and insecure cloud infrastructure. Potsdam-based start-up Resility won over investors following the succes

TA completes strategic growth investments in both tech11 and Adcubum AG with the aim of developing a leading European software provider for health and P&C insuranceWürzburg-based insurtech tech11 provides a core insurance platform for P&C insurers Bonn, December 10, 2021 – tech11 GmbH has been on the market for around three years and has developed into a fast-growing provider of insurance software for property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies in Germany and Eu

New investment supports the development of new products and internationalization of business Munich, December 8, 2021 – Blickfeld, the Munich-based start-up developing breakthrough high performance and mass-producible LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensing technology, announces the extension of the company’s Series A funding to $31 million. New Future Capital (NFC), a private equity firm that provides growth capital primarily in Asia, North America, and Europe, was won as a n

Series A round led by Pontifax and includes new and existing investorsLead product is a next-generation Nectin-4 ADC designed to increase efficacy and minimize toxicityStrategy is to become a dominant ADC developer Duisburg, Germany, 7 December 2021 – Emergence Therapeutics AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody drug conjugates (ADC) for the treatment of cancers with high unmet needs, today announces that it has closed an €87 million series A financing round

Paris, France, 26 November 2021 – Less than two years after its creation and following the completion of a first seed round of funding worth €5.2M, ZE ENERGY, a French independent renewable energy producer operating hybrid solar power plants (photovoltaic and storage), announces the completion of a €40M Series B round of funding that will help bring the company to new heights. Backed by its initial investors, DEMETER, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), EverWatt and Ze Way Invest,

Munich, November 24th 2021 – To calculate and solve complex problems faster than currently possible with supercomputers, to exchange information securely against eavesdropping and to determine physical quantities such as pressure, time, position, speed and magnetic fields with unprecedented accuracy: These promises and more combined with an immense economic potential are some of the possibilities of the second generation of quantum technologies. As extremely low temperatures, close

Cologne, November, 18th 2021 – Cologne-based start-up Operaize has successfully closed a seed financing round with three investors: High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF) and NRW.BANK invest a total of 1.5 million euros in Operaize to accelerate the development of the AI-based product, drive the product market fit and to acquire new customers. Operaize provides AI-based production planning that enables manufacturers to better manage the increasing c

Great success for Nebula Biocides GmbH: Three investors decide to invest in the Greifswald-based start-up company. This brings the business a major step closer to its goal of obtaining approval for the highly effective disinfectant Sporosan® and finally placing it on the market. Greifswald, 10.11.2021 – With a total investment of 1.6 million euros, the start-up Nebula Biocides, founded in 2019, can now really take off: The approval of the novel disinfection process Sporosan® is suppo

The 2 million Euro financing round is led by Revent, further investors are High-Tech Gründerfonds and renowned business angelsThe Munich-based startup digitizes workflows in hospitals with innovative software and enables data-driven patient care Munich, November 2, 2021 – Avelios Medical, a modular software platform for the digitization of workflows in hospitals and data-driven patient care, has closed a seed funding round of 2 million Euro from Revent, High-Tech Gründerfonds

High-Tech Gründerfonds, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital and several business angels invest around 1.9 million euros in a seed financing roundanybill shapes new dimensions in the payment ecosystem and enables the transfer of digital receipts across industries through a dense network of POS software partners Munich/Regensburg, October 27, 2021 – Tech startup anybill has received seed funding of €1.9 million – High-Tech Gründerfonds and Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital as well as other

Computomics AI recommends crosses adapted to future climatic conditions Plant breeders can significantly accelerate market launch of new varieties Investment promotes innovative solutions for more sustainable agriculture Tübingen, Munich and Ludwigshafen, October 14, 2021 – BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture company of BASF Group, and Amathaon Capital, a venture capital company specializing in AgTech, are investing in the Tübingen-based bioinformati

Additional EUR 32.5 million will support clinical readiness and accelerate lead immuno-virotherapy candidates toward clinical proof-of-concept Düsseldorf, Germany, October 14, 2021 – Abalos Therapeutics announced today an extension to its Series A funding round bringing the total raised in this round to EUR 43 million (USD 50 million). The extension was led by Seventure Partners with support from Coparion, Ventura BioMed Investors and Hx Bio Ventures as well as contributions from exist

STIHL has been driving innovation in forestry and gardening for 95 years. To make it easier for customers to work with and in nature, the motor and garden tool manufacturer from Waiblingen near Stuttgart is working intensively on digital technologies. The newly formed partnership between STIHL and FlyNex is intended to support customers in forestry, gardening, and landscaping, particularly with data generated by drones. Hamburg, 10/12/2021 – FlyNex recently closed another financing rou