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Built on a firm belief: The greentech node.energy
“To achieve success, you need perseverance.” It’s a phrase you might hear in the world of professional sport, but it’s also true for entrepreneurs, says Matthias Karger. The former professional volleyball player is now Co-Founder and Managing Director of HTGF portfolio company node.energy. The greentech’s software-as-a-service solution helps companies with their own wind turbines and solar panels to keep on top of their administrative duties and get the most out of their power gene
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Quo vadis e-fuels? The road ahead for alternative fuels
What role will e-fuels play for the drivetrains of tomorrow? It’s a topic that is being talked about more and more in politics and across society – sometimes in a highly emotional way. After all, many believe that the use of alternative drivetrains hinges on a fundamental question: Will we ever be able to move away from the principle of using combustion engines?
The discussion at the start of the year was an important one, as it shone a spotlight on the important topic of e-fuels an
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“Financial planning is not a luxury” – Interview with Karolina Decker, CEO and founder of finmarie
How can women become financially independent and more confident in their financial decisions? This is the question addressed by Karolina Decker, CEO and founder of finmarie. finmarie is an investment platform and mobile app designed specifically for women to help them invest their money wisely and plan for the future. We spoke to Karolina Decker about how she came up with the idea of helping women with financial education, how her concept works and what tips she has for aspiring entrepreneur
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“We had to scale up the scaling process itself”: An interview with BioNTech’s Dr Oliver Hennig
How do you develop, test and produce a vaccine within an extremely short space of time to combat a disease that little is known about? BioNTech knows the answer. Dr Oliver Hennig, Senior Vice President Operations, is a part of this success story. At HTGF’s High-Tech Partnering Conference (HTPC) on 12 April 2022, he’ll be talking about his experiences during the past months. In this interview, Dr Hennig explains how he and his team went about planning and implementing the production and d
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payever makes commerce easier for everyone and closed a seed round with the leading early stage venture capital firm in Germany
Over 3.000 businesses of all types and sizes use payever solutions to run and grow - in online shops, websites, facebook or local stores. Huge banks and payment service provider like PayPal, Stripe or Santander Consumer Bank cooperate with payever. After two years the team closed their first investment round with High-Tech Gruenderfonds.
Europe´s small commerce businesses miss access to tools big businesses have in order to maximise their revenue. Especially payment is a critical factor. Whi
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HTGF welcomes Enscape GmbH, a portfolio spin-off and category leader: 71 out of the TOP100 architectural firms are customers of Enscape after only two years
Enscape™ is a leading global provider of visualization software for architects. The company spun off in 2017 as a separate company from Inreal Technologies GmbH, a HTGF portfolio company since 2012. Enscape’s real time 3D rendering plugin delivers stunning one-click design reviews.
Since the first release, Enscape has upgraded its real-time 3D rendering plugin for Autodesk® Revit® and Trimble® SketchUp®. As the world’s first real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for the
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Diamond Specialist Yorxs Successfully Concludes Financing Round
Yorxs.de, the online portal for diamonds and diamond jewelry (www.yorxs.de) founded in Munich in March 2012, concluded its seed financing at the end of 2012 with a seven-figure sum. Within the present financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) based in Bonn and K5 Ventures are also now investing in the dynamically growing diamond portal along with further business angels. The diamond specialist intends to use the newly raised equity capital to become Europe’s leading online portal for bul
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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in Freiburg-based start-up Blue Inductive
Blue Inductive GmbH develops wireless charging systems and is revolutionising power supply systems for mobile robots deployed in industrial settings.
The maintenance-free systems enable fully automatic charging – without human intervention. This solution eliminates the disadvantages associated with conventional plugs and charging contacts, thus enhancing process efficiency in logistics and production facilities.
Together with Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, VC Fonds Baden-Wuert
Charlotte Rümenapp – Junior Analystin
Charlotte joined the DeepTech Future Fund in September 2021 as a Junior Analyst. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Economics from Maastricht University with a semester abroad in Taiwan and has already dealt with the topic of Entrepreneurial Finance during her studies. She gained practical experience in the startup ecosystem through internships at biotech VC b.value AG, at Deutsche Börse Group in the Pre-IPO and Capital Markets department and in the Corporate Finance Department of the startup Africa GreenTec. She loves to spend her free time in the water on her surfboard.
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Urban Ground secures seven-figure seed investment from international investors led by HTGF
Further expansion of rental platform and development of new locations planned
Berlin, 10.08.2021 – Urban Ground provides tenants and landlords a drastically simplified rental process and has secured a fresh funding in the seven-figure range as part of its seed financing. The financing round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with investors from three continents participating in the deal overall.
Urban Ground addresses the needs of landlords and tenants offering compelling
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen invest in biotech company pluriSelect GmbH
Biotech start up pluriSelect GmbH has closed a financing round totalling 600.000 Euro with the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Technologie Gründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS). With pluriBead®, the Leipzig based biotech company introduces a unique and innovative technology platform for the rapid and gentle separation of bio molecules and cells. For the first time scientists can simultaneously isolate different types of cells and proteins in a simple one-step protocol (simultaneous multi-tar
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Notch raises €1.1m to redefine the B2B SaaS buying journey
Hamburg, 26. Juni 2023 – Notch, a Hamburg-based start-up, today announced a €1.1 million pre-seed funding round led by investors including HTGF, WestTech Ventures, APX, and several prominent angel investors like Oliver Manojlovic (VP Sales at Personio), Sebastian Johnston (Founding Partner La Famiglia), Sebastian Haas (Co-Founder of Talen.One), Christoph Zöller (Co-Founder of Instaffo), Zou Yang (Co-Founder of GoTiger), Elias Russezki (Co-Founder of deltamethod), Alexander Eitner (Co-Fo
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HTGF Academy Online-Workshop: Get ready for first in human studies – what is needed to get approval for testing in humans
Parexel in cooperation with High-Tech Gründerfonds would like to invite you to our workshop “Get ready for first in human studies – what is needed to get approval for testing in humans”.
Date: 06 Apr 2022 4-6pm CET online
Agenda:
Introduction of all Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) approx. 1hour
Major pitfalls in early (preclinical) Drug Development- reaching first in human trials
“Unbeauty” of accelerated pathways
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