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Frank Kerim Reinecke appointed new Partner at High-Tech Gründerfonds
Bonn, 6 February 2024 – Frank Kerim Reinecke has been appointed Partner at High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), one of Europe’s leading seed investors, effective 1 January 2024. The former entrepreneur, IT consultant and initiator of a corporate venture capital unit has been working for HTGF’s Digital Tech team in Berlin since 2019.
His investments are focused on the area of B2B software, particularly fintech, blockchain and cyber security. His 12 portfolio companies include blockcha
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Cloud security start-up Resility secures multimillion-euro financing
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
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Lockbox receives Seed Money through High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF)
No waiting for deliveries anymore. A new delivery system, developed by Lockbox GmbH, allows depositing deliveries securely at the recipient’s doorstep without him having to be at home. Lockbox is the temporary “Packstation” at the recipient’s doorstep and, at the same time, a reusable packaging. The High-Tech Gruenderfonds is investing in innovation and growth of this young Berlin start up.
Lockbox, which was founded in May of 2013 by Thomas Kraker von Schwarzenfeld, is the temporary
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i3 Membrane receives 7 figure sum for development and market launch of new separation technology for biomolecules
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
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Quantum technology at the High-Tech Partnering Conference: Experience new opportunities
Many experts believe that quantum technologies will take digitalisation to a whole new level. These technologies are set to unlock more powerful measurement tools than ever before, enhance communication security and support logistics processes – and solve previously unsolvable problems with the help of their vast computing power. But what is the technology already capable of? How can it be leveraged by industry? What are its initial applications? And where do start-ups, the research sector
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refuel.green receives €1.2 million pre-seed financing for more cost-effective production of fuels from renewable electricity (e-fuels)
A total of €1.2 million in fresh capital for particularly innovative technology
refuel.green wins HTGF as lead investor for pre-seed financing
TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen and two business angels are co-investors
Team buildup and first customer project planned for 2023
Dresden, January 12, 2023 – e-fuels can make a decisive contribution to making the global economy independent of fossil crude oil and at the same time CO2-neutral and renewable. The refuel.green
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The decentralized identity and digital twin pioneer Spherity receives Seed Financing from HTGF
Berlin start-up Spherity develops decentralized identity management solutions for industrial IoT applications
Companies, machines, smart devices and algorithms are given a digital identity ("digital twins") that is verifiable and globally addressable as a "URL for everything"
These digital twins enable tamper-proof data sharing within highly complex and cross-enterprise business processes
Proven use cases in the mobility, supply chain, or pharmaceutical industries demonstrate the benefi
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LignoPure secures € 2.2 Million seed round with High-Tech Gründerfonds, Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg GmbH (IFH) and Swiss Holding Tanovis AG
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
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Galactic Start-up Receives Financial Booster for International All-in-One Solution for Amazon Sales
International at the push of a button: The German start-up SPACEGOATS from Stuttgart provides automated software to make the life of amazon-sellers a lot easier – and earns early-stage financing by German investment fund High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). E-Commerce is complex and international even worse? Not anymore – SPACEGOATS to the rescue: The start-up SPACEGOATS allows small and medium-sized companies to grow quickly and easily on international markets. The investment fund HTGF recog
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Engineering Simulation via web-browser: Earlybird invests in SimScale
Earlybird Venture Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds and BayernKapital together with a consortium of Business Angels are investing in SimScale. SimScale develops an innovative, completely web-based platform for engineering simulation.
Simulation technology (Computer Aided Engineering / CAE) enables engineers to test technical products in a virtual environment without the costly and time-consuming manufacturing of prototypes. Thus a product development process can be made faster, more cost effic
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HTGF Academy web session: Diversity for startups
The search for the best employees is increasingly challenging for startups, especially in the management sector. They have better chances if they position themselves as an attractive employer right from the start.
The following questions can help:
What specific advantages does a diverse team have, especially for young companies?
How can I reach important target groups such as women or people with a migration background with my job advertisements?
How do I create an inclusive and respectfu
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Userlane’s closed Seed-Round enhances the sales of their navigation system for software
The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests together with Commerzbank’s subsidiary main incubator and Business Angel Robert A. Kabs in the Munich-based SaaS-company Userlane. The technology developed by Userlane guides users through software like a GPS turn-by-turn navigation system. This allows every user to operate even complex software on a professional level without any previous knowledge.
Key to Userlane’s technology are interactive step-by-step guides, which can be implemented on top o
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests together with KI Kapital GmbH in newly established SAW Instruments GmbH
SAW Instruments has an innovative analysis technology for the life science markets. The company sells biosensors for research at the highest level. Such systems have already been sold to leading research facilities in Germany and Switzerland, and are being used there with great success.
SAW Instruments GmbH goes back to a research project at the center of advanced european studies and research (caesar). SAW Instruments GmbH’s technological basis is the successful combination of Surface Acoust
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VISUS Industry IT receives funding for the digital revolution in quality assurance
Gründerfonds Ruhr, NRW.BANK and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invest a seven-digit amount in VISUS Industry IT, which digitizes industrial test procedures with their test data and report management system JiveX NDT and provides a standardized archiving and distribution of the results.
Today, the processes and results in material testing, inspection and maintenance of safety-relevant components or systems are still not entirely digital.
Test results are often only available on paper or in the