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Efficient and practical system to insulate buildings. Iso-fast GmbH, a company organized in August 2008, has developed a new system to insulate residential buildings which considerably helps saving energy and thus counteracts the continuously growing costs of heating. The system can be assembled twice as quickly as previously available systems and additionally allows for significantly thicker insulations. Buildings insulated using this system can reach the standard for passive houses and conseq

High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and SpaceTec Capital Partners jointly invest into United Maps GmbH, Munich. United Maps "fills the gaps in road networks" adding building footprints, pedestrians paths, mass transit information and relevant topical layers. United Maps produces a new generation of fully routable, highly detailled and multimodal vector maps. Basemaps known from vehicle navigation and market leaders like Navteq, Tele Atlas or AND are algorithmically matched with value added

The leading digital premium music service for club and dance music in Germany, DJTUNES.COM, receives prominent support. The company was able to win two further renowned investors with the MP3 co-inventor, Professor Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, and bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen GmbH. After the premium music service DJTUNES.COM received a seed investment from the leading German early-stage investor, High-Tech Gründerfonds, in 2006, the Bochum-based company now enters another growth stage.

Augsburg Corrmoran start-up company develops corrosion monitoring system for large combustion plants. The Corrmoran GmbH is an Augsburg University spin-off company that is specialized in analyzing corrosion in waste incineration plants. To ease the market entry of the company, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Seedfonds Bayern engage in financing the considerable initial investments. “We are very glad about this financial backing that we take as a sign of confidence in our economic success and our p

The start-up company make.tv was founded in 2007 and opens up new horizons in the web-tv sector. It enables everyone to produce their own live-show alone or in a team – without the need to invest in conventional broadcasting technology. The virtual studio is operated from the computer, user-friendly and does not require prior installation as make.tv is run by the internet browser. Thus, it is possible to broadcast shows at almost no cost – from each place in the world. “’We are looking

Manfred, Rietzler, High-Tech Gründerfonds, the Swiss based investor Mountain Super Angel AG (Open Market Frankfurt, ISIN: CH0033050961) and KfW invest in the fourth financing round in Public Solution GmbH. With its brand "Yvio" Public Solution is the leading the market for RFID based board games. "Applying industrial strength RFID technology to board games offers new possibilities for board games. Now it is possible for the games and its figures not only to interact among themselves but also

High-Tech Gründerfonds named as number one “Equity Gap Fund” at the 2008 „Investor AllStars Awards“ in London The leading European venture capital investors meet annually at the „Investor AllStars Venture Capital Awards” to celebrate the winners of ten investment categories. This year, the German based High-Tech Gründerfonds was able to claim the number one spot in the category “Equity Gap Fund of the Year” ahead of ten other nominees mainly from the UK. The jury considered

The High-Tech Gründerfonds and Sirius Seedfonds, Düsseldorf are funding together with a group of private experts in different industries the ILIAS-medical GmbH, Bochum. Due to the good reputation and professionalism the High-Tech Gründerfonds and SSFD were the 4 founders first choice. ILIAS-medical is developing the smallest artificial lung worldwide. Based on the Exist-Seed scholarship the company was founded in December 2007 in Cologne, Germany by Albert Großer, Hayat Koubaa, Philipp Maye

Regensburg-based biotech company to receive 600,000 euros venture capital for the development of novel diagnostic tools to detect infectious and autoimmune diseases Lophius Biosciences GmbH (Regensburg) has successfully closed its first financing round. High-Tech Gründerfonds (Bonn, Germany) and Bayern Kapital (Landshut, Germany) invest a total 600,000 euros in the young Biotech company. The funding will be used for the development of novel diagnostic tools for rising diseases such as tubercul

Start-up from Gera offers high-efficiency processes for purification of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients The shareholders and staff of HAPILA GmbH, a provider of sophisticated pharmaceutical and chemical development services located in Gera, are delighted to announce that the High-Tech Gründerfonds has invested in their company. “With this engagement by the HTGF, the ideal foundations have been laid to commercialize our high-tech crystallization technology” - said CEO, Dr. Uwe Müller. T

The biotech company Corimmun GmbH has successfully closed a series A financing with EUR 5 million. The company which is specialized in inflammatory mechanisms in cardiovascular diseases received seed-financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayernkapital in 2006. This current investment will enable Corimmun to develop the lead product COR-1 until proof of principle in man in phase II. The product pipeline will be further expanded and developed. COR-1 is a peptide-drug, which inhibits the au

Unique in the world: „Extend 7000“ for mobile access to industrial controls via BlackBerry SCHAD GmbH developed „Extend 7000“ – a mobile innovative SCADA system, which for the first time offers mobile and direct access (worldwide) to programmable logic controllers via BlackBerry mobile devices. The access to automation technology is realized by using public mobile networks complying with the highest security standards. Thus mobile operation of all plant functions is possible for cus

Heilbronn-based start-up develops mobile fuel cell systems as self-sufficient power supply for recreational applications. Enymotion’s fuel cell system allows spatiotemporally independent usage of electricity consumers. It uses the caloric equivalent of conventional fuel or liquid gas to provide the power. Equal-zero-emission of noise and exhaust permit the service in almost all areas of life, where other techniques are inadequate in compliance with requirements. This lightweight energy source

Sense Inside GmbH has finished its second round financing successfully during its development phase. A group of private investors certifies Sense Inside GmbH great impact on the field of medical engineering. Leading edge technology in diagnostics and therapy of teeth grinding (bruxism) developed by Sense Inside GmbH is now close to market launch. Sales and marketing as well as finalization of the product development stage are now financed. A group of private investors made a seven-digit inves

High-tech startup from Jena fixes drawbacks of LEDs Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are considered to be the lightsource of the future. Under the keword of energy efficiency they allow energy saving yet powerful lighting. However, for their operation they request for special driver circuits. Conventional LED drivers control only groups of LEDs in order not to consume too much electrical energy. Moreover, the control of temperature-, aging- and production-related fluctuations in light flux is not p

nfon AG, developer of hosted PBX solutions and provider of integrated communication solutions wins High-Tech Gründerfonds as a lead investor. The patent pending technology and its integration into a coherent marketing concept convinces High-Tech Gründerfonds of the investment. Jens Blomeyer, Director of Marketing at nfon AG comments „after a successful market launch, the planned investments into further extension of the platform and its usability will help us to extend our technical advanta