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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), a venture capital investor, has injected Solandeo, a smart services company, with fresh capital to boost further growth. Solandeo’s previous success on the market won over HTGF. “We are delighted that one of Germany’s leading venture capitalists has come on board as an investor,” says Friedrich Rojahn, founder and managing director of Solandeo GmbH. “The resources that HTGF provides will help us considerably to speed up the further development of our

The online art market is growing rapidly: in the last year, the sector has expanded by 68%1, and it is expected to be worth 10 billion Euros by 2020². This growth is reflected in the marketplace for affordable art, JUNIQE, which has been growing at a rate of 60% a month since its launch in January 2014. Investors have picked up on this growth: the online art gallery has recently announced that it has received a Series A total investment of almost 5 million Euros from a new partner, Vorwerk V

Foldable and stretchable electrodes for growing neuromodulation market being developed WISE Srl, a medical device company developing next-generation implantable neuromodulation leads announces today the closing of a EUR 3 million series A financing round, led by Principia SGR, an Italian Venture Capital firm. Existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Atlante Seed and b-to-v Partners joined the round alongside with three new investors Atlante Ventures, F3F and Antares. WISE develops novel, h

With the support of its latest investor, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), qLearning has launched an online platform that enables students and teachers of any discipline to create and share their own study materials. The platform is designed to complement qLearning’s popular mobile app, which already boasts a user base of more than 80,000 students. It also ensures the company keeps up with the ever-evolving student demand for practical learning tools. The investment by HTGF completes this year�

Successful Exit for the HTGF, KFW Bankengruppe and the private investor´s consortium led by Eckard Wohlgehagen. Kongsberg Maritime AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, has acquired the remaining 90% of the shares of the Germany based underwater chemical sensors specialist Contros Systems & Solutions GmbH. Contros was established in 2006 and is based in Kiel, close to Hamburg. The company develops, produces and markets underwater sensor systems to detect dissolved gasse

Synoste Oy, a Finnish medical device company is developing a next-generation of patient friendly implants for the correction of skeletal deformations. Synoste’s proprietary technology will act as a platform for a range of long and short bone, spinal, and craniomaxilofacial applications providing solutions for millions of patients and their families across the globe. Synoste has now raised A-round financing of € 1.2 M which will be used to fund clinical trials needed for regulatory approva

FAZUA GmbH - development and sales company for the evation e-bike drive - has completed its Series A funding round successfully. Two new private investors are providing the company with a seven figure Euro sum alongside the existing shareholder High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital and a private investor. The funding is to be used to bring the series development to its conclusion. The resources available will make the construction of optimised prototypes possible along with a compreh

cytena GmbH, headquartered in Freiburg, has developed a device called single-cell printer to separate single cells. A consortium made up of a private investor and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), will provide EUR 1.1 million of seed capital. cytena GmbH will use this capital injection primarily to launch its product and to expand its marketing and distribution activities. The single-cell printer, cytena’s newest innovation, is a laboratory device that enables the gentle separation of cells.

High accuracy and a high rate of measurement rolled into one system? These combined properties are often desired yet not found in available sensors on the market. Currently, industrial users have to choose between fast and inaccurate or slow and accurate 3D-sensors. EnShape developed a sensor technique which enables full-field measurements with high accuracy and a high rate of measurement. The innovative sensor therefore allows 100 percent inline-inspection at the rate of production. High-Tech G

Oxford University Press (OUP), home of Oxford Dictionaries and the renowned Oxford English Dictionary, is pleased to announce its acquisition of the online language portal bab.la, a multilingual dictionary and translation website based in Hamburg, Germany, where language lovers gather online and use and develop translation resources for the world’s languages. The bab.la site complements Oxford’s own consumer website OxfordDictionaries.com, which over the past few years has grown and given O

OMEICOS Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class small molecule therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including atrial fibrillation (AF), today announced that it has raised EUR 6.2 million in a Series A round. Participating in the round were Vesalius Biocapital II S.A. SICAR, acting as lead; a SMS Group Company; VC Fonds Technologie Berlin; High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF); and KfW Group. As part of the financing round, the company has

In a series-A financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg, Quotas Beteiligungs GmbH and Heiko Hubertz, the Bigpoint founder, have invested jointly in Hamburg-based medical technology company Sonormed GmbH. With its Tinnitracks solution, the young company offers a therapeutic option for people affected by tinnitus. In Germany alone, three million people suffer from the bothersome ear sound. The classified medical product treats the causes of subjective, to

fos4X GmbH, developer and producer of innovative fiber optic measurement technology, expanded its investor base with Falk Strascheg Holding GmbH (FSH). FSH takes almost half of the current financing round, which secures fos4X an equity inflow of 2.3 m Euro. The other half comes from existing investors Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), UnternehmerTUM-Fonds and Dr. Schulze Holding. fos4X GmbH develops fiber optic measurement solutions, e.g. to make generation of wind energy more eff

Brings Series A total to €14.25m to advance RNA-based immunotherapeutics for cancer and viral diseases Rigontec GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases, today announces it has raised €4.8 million in a second closing of its Series A financing round from Forbion Capital Partners, a Dutch life-sciences venture capital firm, and Sunstone Capital, a Copenhagen based venture capital investor. The new

Bionic Robotics GmbH, developer and manufacturer of the bioinspired robot arm BioRob, successfully concluded an early Series A round of funding. Apart from the senior shareholder High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the managing partner of Bionic Robotics, 3 new investors being Abacus Alpha GmbH, Hessen Kapital I GmbH and RMC Dr. Reineck Management & Consulting GmbH agreed to invest a seven-digit EUR amount in the company. With the help of the capital Bionic Robotics is going to build up own