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Today, the digital men’s health platform Kranus Health announced a seven-figure Seed investment. HTGF, A Round Capital, Venture Basecamp and Dr. Ralph Müller are joining Kranus Health as new investors in this round. In addition to new investors, existing business angels, including Konstantin Mehl (founder Foodora + Kaia Health), have done follow-on investments in the Seed round. With the fresh capital, Kranus Health will further expand its men’s health platform and, as a next st

Ahead of the High-Tech Partnering Days, German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier stresses the importance of cooperation between founders and established companies.Alongside Family Day, the High-Tech Partnering Days are one of the two flagship events of High-Tech Gründerfonds, Germany’s most active seed stage investor.The three-day event will be held in an exclusively virtual format for the first time between 9 and 11 February. The aim is to continue to provide

After 15 years on the market, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has now financed its 600th start-up. Banxware, a software-as-a-service provider for Embedded Financial Services, secured a total of EUR 4 million as part of a seed financing round. Co-investors include UK-based FinTech investor Force over Mass, VR Ventures and several business angels from the FinTech environment. Not long after celebrating its 15-year anniversary, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has now reached another important

With 468 Capital, Deep-tech startup Natif.ai from Saarbrücken has gained another high-profile investor alongside HTGF. The Berlin-based VC of former Rocket-Internet executives will take a significant stake in the now closed seven-figure financing round. With Natif.ai, a new player finally appears on the high-tech map of Germany. The experienced founding team has now been able to attract the new leading deep-tech investor from Berlin. 468 Capital was founded by Rocket Internet executives

Proceeds will facilitate development of GeneQuine’s gene therapy pipeline for musculoskeletal disorders and vector platformLead gene therapy candidate GQ-303, a potentially disease-modifying treatment for osteoarthritis, will be advanced to Phase 1 clinical trialGene therapy program for intervertebral disc degeneration will be acceleratedCompany is expanding with additional site and staff GeneQuine Biotherapeutics GmbH, a biotech company focused on the development of gene therapy for mu

Sunvigo is the first company in Germany to offer homeowners the opportunity to use solar power from their own roof with a flexible power contract. With the investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds, Sunvigo is now expanding its market position. “Millions of homeowners in Europe want to contribute to fighting climate change with solar power from their own roofs – but they can’t find a suitable product in today’s market,” explains co-founder Dr. Michael Peters. Sunvi

Four investors are financing the further growth of i3 Membrane GmbH. High-tech venture capital investor HTGF from Bonn, Germany, and three private investors are together investing a 7 figure sum in the further development and market launch of new separation technology for biological molecules. The centerpiece for this round of financing is the construction of the company’s own production facility for membrane filters in Radeberg near Desden. The new separation technology is to be made

Germany’s innovators to take part in High-Tech Partnering Days on 9 to 11 February 2021 High-Tech Gründerfonds’ digital event to bring together experts from corporations, medium-sized firms, family-run companies and start-ups, as well as from the world of politics Notable speakers include German ministers Peter Altmaier and Jens Spahn, as well as top executives from Bosch, Lidl Digital, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Börse, Drägerwerk, Software AG and Techniker Krankenkasse 

LignoPure invented a unique approach to replace plastics through utilization of wood waste and the team just closed its seed round with HTGF, IFH and Tanovis AG to scale its own technology for the transformation of lignin – a byproduct of the pulp and paper industries and biorefineries – into tailor made particles for life science applications and accelerate its market entry. Lignin is the second most abundant natural polymer on earth but has been so far underutilized or burned f

UNICEPTA is a global full-service provider for media and marketing intelligenceBerlin-based start-up Ubermetrics has developed a content intelligence platform to meet the needs of communicators based on specially developed and trained artificial intelligenceThe two companies will now combine their AI-based technology platforms and pool their technical expertise; both brands will be maintainedUbermetrics founders Patrick Bunk and Daniel Siewert (CEO and CTO) will have a stake in the new combi

Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, has received €2.8M in a Series A investment round led by Newion, together with current investor HTGF and Seed+Speed by celebrity Carsten Maschmeyer. Online Proofing is a core process in today’s business. Companies collaborate remotely more than ever, and they produce more content than ever, thereby often dealing with regulations. This is why brands like Sharp, Sixt, dm, GroupM, Head, Ab-InBev, Lufthansa, Rabobank and Cambridge Univers

The German New Space Start-up DCUBED is now backed by the investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Interlink Ventures (ILV) , and can now scale the commercialization of its space products. DCUBED develops and sells innovative actuators and deployable structures for the rapidly growing space market. “New Space” is the name of the game, where the pace for opening up space is no longer set by space agencies alone, but increasingly by visionary companies that truely open up space

Gilytics closes CHF 1 million seed investment round with High-Tech Gründerfonds, Swiss Startup Group and Zürcher Kantonalbank to further optimize energy and transportation infrastructure projects with game changing spatial data cloud software solution. Founded in 2017 by Stefano Grassi, Heather Pace Clark, and Philippe Bieri, Gilytics is an ETH spin-off which is supported by the European Space Agency Business Incubation Center Switzerland, Venture Kick and the European Union Horizon 202

HTGF, primeCROWD and LIFTT are part of an international round for the development of “Deep learning diagnostic” which allows faster, more accurate and safer MRI analysis. Expansion into European markets will start in 2021 accompanied by a significant expansion of product portfolio  mediaire, the start-up born in Berlin in 2018 that has proprietary disruptive technologies in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), aims at international markets thanks to a joint investment m

As e-commerce continues to grow, Taxdoo is scaling to meet demand for its API-driven compliance platform for cross-border online sellersTaxdoo will triple headcount during the next 12 months and expand its go-to-market across Europe Taxdoo, the automated platform for financial compliance in e-commerce, today announced it has closed a $21 million (€17 million) Series A round of financing led by global venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing

The global market leader of automated feeding solutions Rhein-Nadel Automation GmbH (RNA) acquires Hofmann & Stirner Zuführsysteme GmbH (H&S)H&S develops innovative machine hardware in combination with SaaS solutions for digital twins and AI in the field of feeding technologyWith this strategic acquisition, RNA expands its position as global market leader and aims to revolutionize the feeding technology marketHigh-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has been invested in H&S together w