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The start-up Zolitron Technology GmbH was able to convince the High-Tech Gründerfonds with their energy autonomous and cognitive sensors. Together with the private investor Christoph Mause, founder of the e-commerce provider ecx.io – an IBM company, the Bonn-based seed stage investor joins the circle of shareholders of Zolitron Technology GmbH. Through this investment the product development and market entry will be realized. Until now, the start-up was incubated at the Ruhr-University Bo

Successful completion of Series A financing round Business angels and existing investors continue their engagement as well Funds will be used to expand innovative Soley SaaS solution Focus on product portfolio optimization and complexity management MAN and Festo among current Soley customers Soley GmbH, which specializes in innovative smart data analyses and complexity management, successfully completed a Series A financing round. New investors are BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesel

Strategic co-operation between medical technology firms and start-ups could foster more innovation within the industry and be a decisive factor in the success of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). This is particularly true in light of the increasingly complex regulatory market environment through the new EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) which came into effect almost a year ago. Which advantages start-ups could bring in with regard to this situation and what founders, investors as well a

casavi has successfully raised a seven-figure sum in an additional financing round. The Munich-based company is seeking to further advance the digitalisation of property management with its cloud-based platform. Seed investors Bayern Kapital and High-Tech Gründerfonds once again invested in the company. The financing round also saw investment from WenVest GmbH and a family office active in the property industry from the BayStartUP network. casavi is aiming to use the fresh capital to build on i

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners invests in FAZUA alongside existing investors HTGF, Bayern Kapital and business angels Notable bicycle manufacturers such as CUBE, Pinarello and Focus integrate the FAZUA drive system into their products Investment to further strengthen business growth and innovation FAZUA GmbH, a Munich-based company founded in 2013 and provider of the innovative evation drive system for e-bikes receives €6.5 million in a new financing round. Unternehmertum

On February 27, 2018, Mojin Robotics GmbH received the EUR 5,000 Fraunhofer start-up award, a joint initiative of Fraunhofer Venture and High-Tech Gründerfonds. This year’s award honors a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. Combining, among others, semantic dialog systems and artificial intelligence, the company developed a robot that simplifies different areas of life. With its unique technology, it brings the quality of life and work to a n

bookingkit, Germany's leading SaaS solution for digitalized tours and activities, into which the HTGF became the first investor in 2015, announces today that it has raised a single-digit million amount in Series B funding. Müller Medien has been acquired as a further investor. The fresh capital will be invested to maintain the rapid growth of the company and expanding its team. This round of funding was led by HTGF, Intermedia Ventures and business angel Robert Kabs, and has been joined by new

BORN2GROW Seedfonds and High-Tech Gründerfonds on board as investors Karlsruhe-based LightnTec GmbH, a developer and manufacturer of digital light and its illumination on thin film for innovative indoor and outdoor advertising spaces as well as digital lighting systems, has successfully completed an additional financing round. A seven-figure investment sum was raised and the investors include the seed fund BORN2GROW – a subsidiary of ZFHN Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn (ZFHN) – and High-Tech Grü

Additional financing round to help expand treatment offering and open the brand up to new markets Migraine app M-sense allows users to follow a personalised and mobile migraine treatment plan, and can also learn from user data. The certified medical product is Newsenselab GmbH's first application and has not only racked up around 80,000 users but also a number of investors. This is why existing partners have now increased their investments as part of an additional financing round. The company

Hamburg-based start-up eBlocker has secured a seven-figure sum in additional capital. Following the investments of Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg II and other renowned private investors, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has provided eBlocker with a further investment boost. In addition, eBlocker founder Christian Bennefeld will be taking part in the High-Tech Partnering Conference (HTPC18) on 30 January. At the conference, the Hamburg-born data protection expert will be sharing his expertise on

From basic research straight to a digital medical product: this vision has been turned into reality by neotiv. The team headed by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Chris Rehse and dementia researcher Prof. Emrah Düzel develops user-friendly apps that are able to measure the psychological effects of Alzheimer's disease in its early stage. The Magdeburg-based start-up is thus bringing the latest findings in the field of neurodegenerative disease research to mobile apps for private users, doctors and dr

The German Medical Technology Association (BVMed), venture capital firm Earlybird, BARMER, High-Tech Gründerfonds and the medtech magazine “Medtech zwo” are to hold a joint start-up day. At the “MedTech Radar Live 2018” on Mai 16th 2018 in cologne young medtech founders will have the opportunity to be introduced to established medical device companies and investors. Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, North Rhine-Westphalia minister for the economy, innovation, digitalization and energy, is the

Energy self-sufficiency for sensors and IoT devices The pioneering method of Karlsruhe-based start-up otego GmbH for the production of thermoelectric generators (TEG) has made its mark on investors. otego, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), raised a seven-figure sum in seed funding by the close of its first round of financing. Among the financing consortium are High-Tech Gründerfonds, LBBW Venture Capital GmbH and Vector Venture Capital GmbH. otego's corporate develop

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and 5 Business Angels are investing together just under 1 million euros in node.energy GmbH. The company develops software to optimize energy costs for companies with on-site power generation. The funding will be used to further develop the software and to finance the market launch in Germany. Over a million small power plants went online in Germany in the last 10 years. At first, the electricity from these plants was simply fed into the public grid and paid fo

Regional energy and telecommunications group invests seven-figure sum in HTGF III EWE AG, a regional energy and telecommunications service provider based in Oldenburg, Germany, is investing a seven-figure sum in HTGF III. Through its investment, the company will gain access to innovative tech start-ups and the fund's large network spanning the entire start-up scene. This will help the company to drive forward the issue of digitalisation, in particular, as well as to establish new business are

A so far missing piece of autonomous vehicles are cost-efficient laser-based 3D sensors, also known as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). The Munich-based startup company Blickfeld develops such sensor systems and was now able to raise EUR 3.6 million in a seed financing round from Fluxunit - OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Tengelmann Ventures, und Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars, robots, and drones, need to ‘see’ and ‘unde