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FLAVOR-ON-DEMAND – Startup 4GENE receives 7-digit Seed-Funding
Germany's largest seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), VC Fonds BW, Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg GmbH and Goldmann International GmbH have acquired stakes in 4GENE GmbH. The young company, based in Heilbronn with office and production facilities in Freising and Stuttgart, develops and distributes activatable flavor and fragrance precursors for cosmetics, food and industrial fragrance warning systems to its customers worldwide. The investment enables the
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Milestone Venture Capital invests seven-digit amount in the international expansion of protected-networks.com
Growth in access rights management market requires strategic expansion
protected-networks.com has begun 2011 with a new investor. Milestone Venture Capital will provide financial backing for the Berlin enterprise and help them to further develop their national and international sales and client support structure. Initial target areas will be Europe and Asia. protected-networks.com and Milestone Venture Capital are thereby responding to the steadily growing demand for the company's product
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Biograil Secures Seed 2 Funding for Oral Delivery Device for Biologics
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Jan 17th, 2022 – Biograil ApS, a Copenhagen based biotech company developing a unique oral device for delivery of biologics that would otherwise be injected, announced the closing of a Seed 2 funding of 3.2 million Euro. The Round was led by Danish Megatrend Invest a/s with strong support from other prior investors including Verve Ventures, a Swiss Investment group and Sanner Ventures, a German family office. Evonik Venture Capital participated as a new investor.
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Grandperspective GmbH secures seed financing
Making gas leaks in the chemical industry visible from kilometres away
Over 30% of major leaks of toxic of flammable industrial gases remain undetected by gas sensors. Grandperspective develops with the scanfeldTM world’s first early warning solution monitoring entire chemical parks for gas leaks. The High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF) finances this innovation in cooperation with Brandburg Kapital, DiaMedCare and various business angels.
The scanfeldTM early warning solution combines
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Snow & Alps on a growth course
Successful funding for young tourism company: Snow & Alps, operator of the largest reservation system for ski extras & outdoor activities in the Alps, today announced funding of nearly one million euros from the Bonn-based High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as from the traditional venture capital investor EXTOREL Falk F. Strascheg. The investment will be used to further intensify the rapid growth of the company and to develop new markets.
In just one year, Snow & Alps has already att
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Cooperation between ISB and High-Tech Gründerfonds
Cooperation agreement signed between ISB and High-Tech Gründerfonds. Joint participation in newly-established technology businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate with up to EUR 600,000 in the first round of funding.
New funding opportunity for innovative technology businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate in the seed phase. The cooperation agreement is designed to allow Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) in collaboration with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) of Bonn to make equity availabl
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Finding Product-Market Fit: The “n=1” rule
By Andreas Olmes (Principal / Proxy)
Co-authored by Ulrike Kalapis (Investment Manager), Yann Fiebig (Senior Investment Manager) , Gregor Haidl (Investment Manager) and Fabian Hogrebe (Investment Manager)
In a nutshell
When you start looking for product-market fit, the rule of “n = 1” prescribes that you should initially focus on exactly one single customer. By contrast, introducing personas or generic customer segments is often found misleading.
Quick wins
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Orbex Secures £40.4 Million in Series C Funding
Forres, UK, October 18, 2022 – UK-based spaceflight company Orbex has secured £40.4 million for its Series C funding round, led by a new investor, the Scottish National Investment Bank. The new round of funding will allow the company to scale up its resources as it counts down to the first vertical launch from UK soil, as well as unlocking additional funding to support future projects.
Orbex recently revealed its “Prime” rocket in its final form, making this the first full orbital
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Interior Design Tech Startup 99chairs closes seed round
99chairs is bringing aesthetical interior design to everyones home: The customer identifies his individual style, gets personal advice and eventually receives a design concept tailored to his individual needs. Subsequently, the preferred pieces from the concept can easily be ordered directly via 99chairs. HTGF and various business angels invested a high six digit amount into the interior design Tech Startup. The team will use the money to develop innovative software for both interior designers a
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High-tech firm from Singen, Germany, alongside HTGF (High-Tech Gründerfonds) and MBG co-invest: stimOS GmbH wins WEFA as strategic partner
WEFA Inotec GmbH (WEFA) – a German market leader in extrusion tooling, precision technology and CVD coatings – became a Series A investor in stimOS GmbH (stimOS), a South-Germany-based medical technology company: Despite the Covid-19 turbulent times, uncertainty and unknown entrepreneurial risks, stimOS was able to acquire substantial funding to allow further company expansion. The investment will be used to turn the patented “Mimicking Bone Technology (MBT)” into an inte
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Student team from Sasbach awarded High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) High-Tech Prize at JUGEND GRÜNDET 2020 nationwide final
Over 4,000 participants involved in 2019/20 competitionStudent team from Heimschule Lender school in Sasbach receives award
The aim: to make it easier for companies in the logistics sector to load their vehicles, ensuring that almost every vehicle is fully loaded for transport. It was with this vision in mind that Benjamin Haas, Lucas Wiedemer, Mika Schmid, Jeremias Decker and Lucas Herrmann from Heimschule Lender school came up with a business plan for the JUGEND GRÜNDET (“young f
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Computer-Aided Engineering in the age of AI: Neural Concept SA raises a seven-digit investment from Constantia New Business and HTGF
Deep learning and AI have revolutionized how images, sounds and natural language are processed. However, software for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for the development of technical products is still using traditional techniques. Neural Concept Shape is the first deep learning software solution dedicated to Computer Assisted Engineering and Design. The cloud-based simulation software allows clients to speed up development cycles, enhance product performance and reduce computational costs.
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fodjan secures Series A financing and gains new partners
Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) are investing in the fast-growing sector of smart farming. Lely Group has also agreed a strategic partnership with the company.
Dresden-based start-up fodjan is a specialist in the field of efficient feed management for livestock. The firm's smart, cloud-based software makes it possible to reduce feed costs, increase operational efficiency while also improving animal health.
After securing financing for his company,
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Vacis raises capital from Brightlands Venture Partners, HTGF, LIOF and RVO
The funding will be used for clinical evaluation of its technology;
First application in vascular access for hemodialysis, prolonging the lives of patients with no other alternatives;
The team has been expanded with seasoned biotech executives.
Every year, an estimated 300.000 hemodialysis patients worldwide die as they run out of medical alternatives. One of the main reasons for these deaths is failure of the vascular access site, the blood vessel where blood is removed, f
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Gaming fun with success guaranteed: online games provider Travian Games and northworks join forces
High-Tech Gründerfonds, DuMont Venture and bAV Consult are selling their stakes in northworks Software GmbH, thereby securing significant returns for their investors.
Travian Games GmbH has acquired the equity shares held by investors in northworks Software GmbH. Hamburg-based online games provider northworks, in which High-Tech Gründerfonds acquired a stake in 2007, develops and markets one of the world’s best and most successful football and basketball manager games; its customers n
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Humedics closes 6.3 million € financing round
Cash inflow enables for commercialization of the LiMAx test
Berlin, Germany, November 10, 2014 – Humedics GmbH, a specialist for real-time and mobile measurement of the individual liver function at the bedside of the patient, today announced the closing of a Series C financing round totaling more than 6.3 million Euro. Humedics’ business model, products and company development has attracted new international investors that will join the current private and public investors.
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