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Dcubed secures over-subscribed Series A round investment – to scale production, pioneer in-space manufacturing, and extend U.S. footprint
Munich, Germany, Westminster, Colorado, August 5, 2024 – Dcubed, a German NewSpace supplier, has successfully completed a Series A funding round, which was oversubscribed by 26%. This demonstrates significant market trust and investor confidence. The round attracted eight prominent investors from France, Sweden, Germany, and the U.S., including Expansion and BayBG as lead investors, alongside HTGF, Aurelia Foundry, Ventis, Rymdkapital, and Decisive Point Europe.
The funds will be strate
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akvola Technologies Secures Series A Financing Round
akvola Technologies ("Company"), a water technology company providing solutions for the removal of oils and suspended solids from hard-to-treat industrial effluents, has today announced the completion of its Series A financing round following its commercial successes in 2016. In addition to the private investors and industry experts Bruno Steis (ex-CEO of inge AG) and Detlef Taprogge (Managing Director of TAPROGGE GmbH), the investment consortium includes two new investors, VNG Innovation GmbH a
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Mobile learning start-up doinstruct closes seven-figure financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and Born2Grow
Rethinking employee training, integration, and communication: doinstruct develops a low-threshold, multilingual mobile training solution for frontline workers. The software enables companies to train their employees and service providers by smartphone, across supply chains and in any location. With its strong new partners doinstruct hopes to revolutionize in-company employee training and push ahead with product development and the expansion of the company into new sectors.
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Symphera Secures €2.4 Million in Seed Financing to revolutionize Laparoscopic Surgery
Munich-based MedTech startup Symphera, closes a successful seed financing round led by HTGF with participation from Bayern Kapital, CARMA FUND, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators, Stern Stewart Ventures, IRCAD, and expert business angels.
The company aims to streamline surgical procedures leading to greatly improved post-operative outcomes for patients.
Symphera’s mission aligns perfectly with the growing trend in the healthcare sector aimed at making operating rooms more efficie
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Fresh capital for Solandeo GmbH
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), a venture capital investor, has injected Solandeo, a smart services company, with fresh capital to boost further growth. Solandeo’s previous success on the market won over HTGF.
“We are delighted that one of Germany’s leading venture capitalists has come on board as an investor,” says Friedrich Rojahn, founder and managing director of Solandeo GmbH. “The resources that HTGF provides will help us considerably to speed up the further development of our
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in university start-up from Bochum
The start-up Zolitron Technology GmbH was able to convince the High-Tech Gründerfonds with their energy autonomous and cognitive sensors. Together with the private investor Christoph Mause, founder of the e-commerce provider ecx.io – an IBM company, the Bonn-based seed stage investor joins the circle of shareholders of Zolitron Technology GmbH. Through this investment the product development and market entry will be realized. Until now, the start-up was incubated at the Ruhr-University Bo
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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in the waiting service virtualQ®
Waiting on hold is part of many call centers. The startup virtualQ® based in Berlin and Stuttgart puts an end to waiting on hold. HTGF supports this idea with a seed funding.
Now customers do not have to wait on the phone anymore, not knowing when it is their turn. With the virtualQ® waiting service they can choose to wait virtually and hang up the phone. In addition, they can also line up with an App on their smart phone or using the Web. A push notification or text message is sent to info
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Thermoelectric generators from printing machines: fresh capital for Karlsruhe-based otego GmbH
Energy self-sufficiency for sensors and IoT devices
The pioneering method of Karlsruhe-based start-up otego GmbH for the production of thermoelectric generators (TEG) has made its mark on investors. otego, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), raised a seven-figure sum in seed funding by the close of its first round of financing. Among the financing consortium are High-Tech Gründerfonds, LBBW Venture Capital GmbH and Vector Venture Capital GmbH. otego's corporate develop
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It provides modern Cloud applications for all areas of business on a maintenance-free, scalable on premise platform with an unprecedented level of security – from data exchange to collaboration, project management, CRM, ERP and many more. As the world’s first private Cloud-App-Platform it combines the advantages of Software-as-a-Service in the Cl
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Crocus Labs raises 300.000€ on path to launch their revolutionary LED-smart lighting system for Indoor Farming
Crocus Labs, a young Startup aims to disrupt the horticulture lighting sector with novel smart LED technology. Companies’ next generation lighting solution could mean the breakthrough for sustainable and efficient Indoor Farming. Investment from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) , a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven start-ups, will enable Crocus Labs to enter the market in 2021.
Greenhouses, Indoor and Vertical Farming are widely considered to be potential sol
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Bruker takes over HTGF startup Sierra Sensors, rounding off the pharmaceutical research portfolio
Sierra Sensors’ biosensor technologies will from now on be distributed worldwide.
Thanks to its innovative, patented sensor technologies, a portfolio company in the High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF) has reached market maturity: USA’s Bruker Corporation has taken over Hamburg startup Sierra Sensors GmbH. Sierra Sensors develop and distribute biosensor-based analytical tools and materials for pharmaceutical research. In addition, the company combines innovative microfluidic (Hydrodynamic Isolat
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen support enabling human biology in vitro with an investment in Dresden start-up denovoMATRIX
denovoMATRIX develops and manufactures biomimetic coatings for stem cell culture. With its technology, the team of denovoMATRIX enables cutting edge research in the stem cell field, and aims to revolutionize cell culture processes in Life Science research. The HTGF together with TGFS are participating in the seed financing round to support the growing denovoMATRIX team, and the launch of denovoMATRIX products into the market.
In recent months, denovoMATRIX has received great feedback and supp
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Second financing round for Heppe Medical Chitosan GmbH with KI Kapital and High-Tech Gründerfonds
The latest investment will be used by Heppe Medical Chitosan GmbH (HMC+) to enlarge the marketing and sales force worldwide. HMC+ is an innovative developer and producer of pure biopolymers and nanoparticles based on chitin and chitosan.
Heppe Medical Chitosan GmbH produces pure chitin, chitosan und derivates for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry under GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) conditions. The cationic polymer chitosan is most suitable for applications in the above mentioned
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FAZUA GmbH successfully implements Series A funding round for completion of series development
FAZUA GmbH - development and sales company for the evation e-bike drive - has completed its Series A funding round successfully. Two new private investors are providing the company with a seven figure Euro sum alongside the existing shareholder High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital and a private investor.
The funding is to be used to bring the series development to its conclusion. The resources available will make the construction of optimised prototypes possible along with a compreh
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Vaccine developer Verovaccines GmbH concludes international pharma cooperation agreement
Verovaccines enters into first collaboration with an international pharmaceutical company to jointly develop a veterinary vaccine
The company was financed for the seed phase by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Business Angels and the founders as well as a seven-figure GO-Bio grant
The goal is to develop and commercialize novel, cost-effective vaccines with high safety and efficacy for animal health
The biotech start-up Verovaccines GmbH has signed the first cooperation agreement with a Japanese