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GRAVIT, the new web-based vector design tool, just launched version 3 and announces investment from HTGF
Gravit, the world’s first web-based vector design tool, just launched its third major version and announces a seed funding of six digits from the German investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The new version offers features that will allow everyone, be it a beginner or a professional, to easily create great designs — whether it’s your company’s new logo, a Facebook cover, or your next website, Gravit can help you. Gravit is free and has basic features that are catered to those who are
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Health & Life Science Venture Day
In cooperation with the Health Innovation Port, the Hamburg Investors Network and the High-Tech Gründerfonds Life Science Nord hosts the Health & Life Science Venture Day – an event that brings together investors and innovative ideas in the healthcare sector in Hamburg.
Introduced by a welcoming address from the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Dr. Peter Tschentscher, start-ups of various sizes will pitch their innovative business models in three blocks (MedT
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Noscendo
In order to successfully treat the infected patient, you have to recognize and diagnose most reliably the infecting microbe.
Noscendo changes the way infection causative microbes are identified. Through a paradigm shift we introduce by using proprietary algorithms and software harnessing next generation sequencing, we identify pathogens from cell free nucleic acids in patient samples and thereby aid intensive care clinicians in their daily task to find the right decisions, enabling a targeted an
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Sierra Sensors (Exit)
Sierra Sensors is combining state of the art label-free detection with cutting edge microfluidic sample delivery, sensor design, and automation, to supply researchers with high performance analytical biosensors.
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bab.la (Exit)
bab.la is an online language portal available in 28 languages. It offers 39 free online dictionaries and many other language-related products.
The bab.la bilingual dictionaries include millions of translations and display all the essential information expected from a dictionary, such as grammar, synonyms or pronunciation but also conjugated forms of verbs and context sentences. Usage examples are very helpful for the users to pick the translation they need and use it in a proper context.
The bab
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New Investors For avandeo The Munich-based start-up announces next financing round
Investing in growth: avandeo, the online destination for designer furniture and home accessories, has secured additional investment from LBBW Venture Capital and KfW Bankengruppe. This funding round, numbering in the high single-digit millions, is also supported by long-term investors Partech International, Mountain Super Angel and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), ensure the continued growth of the fast-rising start-up.
“The dual leadership of the company lies at the heart of this investme
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HTGF and VersoVentures invest in Cumulocity GmbH – The M2M Spin off of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
Open, application centric, free to try: The mission of Cumulocity is to make mobile machine-to-machine applications profitable for all businesses through ready-made, cloud subscription services. Finnish VersoVentures fund and HTGF invest in the experienced management team and support the spin off of NSN. NSN continues to support the M2M activities of this newly founded, dedicated company and remains strategic partner of Cumulocity.
It all began in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, CA in 2010. At
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German robotic Start-up is Ready to Shape the Future of Automation in Textile Industry
Munich, Germany, 9 August 2023 – Munich-based deep tech start-up sewts closed a €7m series A financing round with an impressive set of top tier investors on board. The funding round was dominated by international leading industrial and tech investors: Emerald Technology Ventures, CNB Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures and Nabtesco Technology Venture as new investors, as well as further contributions from existing shareholders Bayern Kapital, APEX Ventures and HTGF. With the new funding
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Over 5 Million Euros For Lindis Blood Care: Development Of A New Product For The Removal Of Tumor Cells From Surgical Blood
Clinical development of the product CATUVAB secured
CATUVAB is designed to enable tumor cell free return of autologous blood collected during a surgery without significantly altering standard surgical procedures
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Brandenburg Kapital and five private investors participated in a capital increase
Including the ILB grants from the "ProFIT" program of the European Regional Development Fund (3.3 million euros), the Company receives a total of more than 5 million
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GeneQuine Biotherapeutics Closes Seed Financing with High-Tech Gründerfonds and Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg
The Hamburg, Germany-based biotech startup GeneQuine Biotherapeutics today announced the completion of a seven-figure seed financing round. Investors are the German seed funds High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bonn and Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg. Funding will be used to perform proof-of-concept studies with the lead product - a gene therapy drug for the treatment of osteoarthritis in horses.
GeneQuine Biotherapeutics develops gene therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint d
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Artificial Intelligence against identity fraud: PXL Vision secures CHF 4.6 Million (USD 4.7 million) seed financing
Zurich, 20th May 2020 – ETH spin-off PXL Vision has developed an AI-based software platform to deliver secure, automated identity verification. The company has now received CHF 4.6 million in a seed financing round to expand its technology and grow internationally. The financing round was led by SIX Fintech Ventures. Other investors include ZKB, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Arab Bank and the experienced business angels Beat Schillig and David Studer.
Billions of personal datasets are stolen
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Berlin-based Fintech Banxware raises EUR 10m to expand its embedded Business Lending solution
Banxware is a lending-as-a-service provider for Embedded Financial Services that enables digital platforms such as marketplaces, payments providers, and other aggregators to offer embedded lending products such as white label merchant cash advance. Element Ventures, D4 Ventures and FinVC as well as Banxwares strategic partner Varengold Bank AG are new investors, joined by all of the existing
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Successful exit of High-Tech Gründerfonds – Vodafone intends the acquisition of IoT solution provider grandcentrix
With this strategic acquisition, Vodafone intends to strengthen its IoT business and its position as a partner for the digitization of the economy
grandcentrix brings the products of the German "Mittelstand" into the "Internet of Things"
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) was the only institutional investor to accompany grandcentrix
Whether cameras, washing machine, Smart Home devices, jukebox or professional tools - grandcentrix brings the products of the German "Mittelstand" into
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Maxburg Capital Partners takes over High-Tech Gründerfonds portfolio company metoda
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), together with co-investors Bayern Kapital (the venture capital company of the State of Bavaria) and TEV, has successfully sold its stake in Munich-based software firm metoda. metoda is one of the leading providers of software-as-a-service solutions for real-time market analysis in online retail. The company’s new owner is Maxburg Capital Partners. The three early stage investors had taken up a stake in metoda together with several business angels as part
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Investors banking on intelligent software for merchandise management
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital are investing more than half a million euros in the forward-looking technology of Regensburg-based TM3 Software GmbH. TM3 has developed an innovative merchandise management system for optimum control of warehouse logistics in real time. In so doing, TM3 has attainted a level of performance and functionally that was previously not available to small or medium-sized enterprises and which now offers them tremendous benefits and potential for savings.
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Second round of financing of SAW Instrument with KI Kapital, HTGF and KfW successfully completed
SAW Instruments has completed in early February its second financing round of one million EUR and is aiming to reach break-even in fiscal year 2012. "The funds will be invested in particular in the expansion of sales & marketing activities and extending our product portfolio." says Managing Director Sabine Bois.
After an extremely positive development of the company in 2010, the management is very pleased that the KfW joined as new investor. "We have worked together very well with KI and th