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Successful Exit for Creathor Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and KfW – PerkinElmer Agrees to Acquire Viral Vector Gene Delivery Leader SIRION Biotech
SIRION Biotech, Martinsried near Munich, will continue to grow its leading position in viral vector technologies for cell and gene therapy as part of PerkinElmerThe addition of SIRION’s offerings will complement PerkinElmer’s Horizon Discovery portfolioIn 2007 High-Tech Gründerfonds, Creathor Ventures together with KfW and Bayern Kapital were the first seed investors of SIRION Biotech GmbHThe transaction is subject to regulatory approvals
Bonn, 23.06.2021 – High-Tech Gründerfonds,
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Capital for innovative drive technology
Böhner-EH receives start-up finance: The Böhner-EH GmbH company based in Franconia, southern Germany combines the best of both worlds in industrial drive engineering: it has developed an electric-hydrostatic drive (EHD) that perfectly combines the benefits of electric and hydraulic systems. Finance provided jointly by High-Tech-Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital will enable this new business to forge ahead with its product development in a targeted way and to enter into cooperative arrangements
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Cleantech Fonds by eCAPITAL invests in Smart Hydro Power GmbH
eCapital entrepreneurial Partners AG has participated in the second round of funding of Smart Hydro Power GmbH with its Cleantech Fond. In this round, the company, which develops, manufactures, sells and markets micro-hydro power plants, will receive further capital to the amount of € 2.7 million. The capital increase is earmarked for the financing of reference projects and the development of international sales and marketing. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is also involved in Smart Hydro Powe
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Graylog Completes $18 Million Growth Equity Round
Enables Company to Accelerate Product and Global Go-to-Market Investments
HOUSTON – June 24, 2021 – Graylog, a global provider of next-generation log management solutions, today announced an $18 million growth equity round led by new investor Harbert Growth Partners and co-investor Piper Sandler Merchant Banking. The round also included participation from existing investors Mercury Fund, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), and Integr8d Capital. The investment will fuel the company’s gro
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DemoSquare secures CHF 1.2 million pre-seed funding to transform global political monitoring with AI
Lausanne, Switzerland – August 6, 2024 – DemoSquare, an EPFL spinoff developing AI technologies to help companies anticipate political and regulatory changes, has secured CHF 1.2 million in pre-seed funding from Swiss and German investors. The round, led by Zurich-based QBIT Capital, will accelerate the startup’s expansion to the European markets. Co-investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), one of the leading early-stage investors in Europe, is supporting this expansion with its strong
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Real-Estate potential in a blink: SaaS start-up syte closes new seed funding for real-time land analysis
The start-up syte raises 2.6 million euros in its latest round of financing. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and four other investors from the real estate industry invested. This brings the company closer to its ambitious goal of using AI to analyse the economic and ecological potential of land throughout Germany and make it accessible to users in a digital cadastre.
Münster, 19. September 2022– Determining the development potential of land is a sought-after skill in Germany
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Gilytics Closes Seed Round with High-Tech Gründerfonds, Swiss Startup Group and Zürcher Kantonalbank to Optimize Energy Infrastructure
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
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Userlane Prepares for Global Expansion with 10 Million Euro Growth Financing
Userlane, a leading Digital Adoption Software platform, has raised 10 million euro in a new round of growth financing.The financing round was led by Five Elms Capital, a leading investor in fast growing B2B software businesses.The investment will accelerate Userlane’s expansion throughout Europe and the US over the next 12 months.
Userlane – a leading Digital Adoption Software platform – has successfully completed a 10 million euro Series B financing round led by Five Elms Capit
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Operaize receives €1.5 million in seed capital to increase production efficiency and sustainability by leveraging AI
Cologne, November, 18th 2021 – Cologne-based start-up Operaize has successfully closed a seed financing round with three investors: High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF) and NRW.BANK invest a total of 1.5 million euros in Operaize to accelerate the development of the AI-based product, drive the product market fit and to acquire new customers.
Operaize provides AI-based production planning that enables manufacturers to better manage the increasing c
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Tubulis Closes €60 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate its ADC Pipeline and Expand its Breadth of Platform Technologies
MUNICH, GERMANY, May 3, 2022 – Tubulis today announced the successful completion of a €60 million (USD $63 million) Series B financing led by Andera Partners with participation from new investors Evotec and Fund+. All existing investors also participated in the round, including Bayern Kapital (with Wachstumsfonds Bayern 2), BioMedPartners, coparion, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), OCCIDENT and Seventure Partners. The new capital will be used to advance Tubulis’ proprietary pipeline of
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Important developments to watch out for in 2022
What trends does next year have in store for us? Five High-Tech Gründerfonds Partners take a look into the crystal ball, reveal the technologies they feel will become relevant, and explain why start-ups need to focus on corporate culture and employer branding from an early stage.
Implementing good ideas very well
In 2022 we’ll be looking beyond the pandemic. If the extreme developments are able to be kept in check, we could see the economy recovering and picking up quite r
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KUKIMI secures seven-figure investment
Innovative diet program raises capital from existing investors as well as new partners
Losing weight no longer has to be associated with sacrificing good taste or flavour. KUKIMI aims to fill the gap between convenience and health. The start-up delivers fresh and tasty ready-to-eat diet meals. Convinced by the concept, investors, like the founders themselves, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), seedcamp and existing partners like Atlantic Labs, Valessa Tech and NewBorn Capital invest a seven-
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Capital for Caterna GmbH
Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) are to invest about EUR 650k in Caterna GmbH. The investment is intended to fund market entry as well as further research and development work for more applications using the telemetric treatment software in ophthalmology.
Caterna GmbH, a spin-off from TU Dresden (Dresden Technical University), develops and sells software that can be used to correct defective vision. For the first area of application, amblyopia or lazy
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Start-up Cycle GmbH synchronizes high-profile research facilities with ultrashort light pulses
The young Hamburgian high-tech company Cycle announces the conclusion of seed-financing round with participating High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), the business angel Tim Bode and the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH). The start-up develops and produces synchronization systems based on fiber-optic technology and ultra-short pulsed lasers. Cycle´s highly precise synchronization allows to shoot „movies“ of molecules in high-profile research facilities – which in turn, enables better under
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Bringing medium-sized businesses into the future together: Maschinenraum cooperates with Germany’s leading venture capitalists
Maschinenraum, the ecosystem transforming German-speaking family businesses, is allying with Germany’s leading venture capitalists (VCs). The strategic partnerships allow the now nearly 70 family-owned companies to directly engage with renowned venture capitalists and start-ups to better prepare for the future. For the cross-industry network of family businesses, the partnerships are another opportunity to jointly solve the most pressing questions and tasks of forward-looking transform
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Specialty biotech company Advanced Enzymes acquires HTGF Portfolio company evoxx technologies
The industrial biotechnology company evoxx technologies GmbH has become a part of the leading specialty biotech company Advanced Enzyme Technologies Limited. Both companies announced that they have entered into a binding agreement about the acquisition of 100% stake in evoxx technologies.
evoxx technologies is proud to announce that it will become part of the global enzyme manufacturing company Advanced Enzyme Technologies Limited. evoxx and its team of 35+ scientists & technicians across