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Dr. Michael Brandkamp is leaving the HTGF to establish the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
On December 31, 2019, Dr. Michael Brandkamp is leaving the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) after 14 very successful years in order to set up the new European growth fund (ECBF) as a general partner.
The European Commission has mandated the European Investment Bank (EIB) to launch this fund to close the gap in the financing of growth companies in the fields of sustainable chemistry, circular bioeconomy, blue economy and nutrition/personal care. Dr. Brandkamp's enormous experience and network will
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JobLeads launches B2C portfolio and receives additional growth capital
JobLeads met its profitability threshold at the end of 2010, prompting investors and management to provide the company with additional growth equity: around one million euros will be invested in marketing and B2C activities, an area in which the company has successfully expanded recently.
The investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Michael W. Schwetje, Andreas Hanitsch and Jan Andresen, together with the company management, provided the firm with around one million euros as part of a further fina
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Drug Response Dx Concludes First Round of Financing with Support from QIAGEN and High-Tech Gründerfonds
The Hennigsdorf firm Drug Response Dx GmbH (DRDx GmbH) successfully concluded its first round of financing with High-Tech Gründerfonds and QIAGEN. The investment will serve to develop a biomarker test kit for rheumatoid arthritis treatment guidance with so-called TNF-alpha inhibitors. The test is secured by a unique patent platform exclusively in-licensed by the Max Planck Society.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most widespread autoimmune illness in the world, affecting around 70 million p
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen are investing in innovative process measuring technology for electroplating technology
Somonic Solutions GmbH wraps up its seed financing with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS). The start-up company from Dresden launches a new type of measuring technology that will be used to measure the deposition rate under harsh industry conditions.
Themed „Safety within the process“, Somonic Solutions GmbH (www.somonic.com) will make coating processes in electroplating safer and more efficient with its newly designed measuring instrument dresor.
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Scopis finances worldwide expansion with venture capital
Scopis GmbH (www.scopis.com) announces the successful conclusion of its Series A round financing. Investors in the young medical technology company from Berlin are the VC Fonds Technologie Berlin managed by the IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (venture capital company) and the Falk Strascheg Holding (EXTOREL) as new investors as well as existing shareholders High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) and Fraunhofer Society.
"In conjunction with a financing from the ProFIT programme by the Investitionsb
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AMAL Therapeutics finalises €29 million (CHF 33.2 million) Series B round
Second closing of Series B raises €21.2 million (CHF 24.2 million)
Funding to support clinical development of lead vaccine and extension of KISIMA®
technology platform
Financing round co-led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, BioMedPartners and Helsinn
Investment Fund with VI Partners, Schroder Adveq and High-Tech Gründerfonds also
participating
AMAL Therapeutics SA (AMAL), a Swiss biotech developing peptide-based therapeutic cancer vaccines, today announces that it has completed
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Increased profits for retailers with machine learning: Pricing Startup 7Learnings closes financing round for further growth
7Learnings offers retailers a SaaS solution for machine learning-based pricing to strengthen their position against AmazonPilot phase successful: Profits and revenues increased by up to 10%Optimal pricing despite dynamic market environment during COVID-19Company receives seed financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and renowned business angels
With the help of 7Learnings’ SaaS solution, online retailers can use machine learning algorithms for intelligent pricing. The software maximiz
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Fresh Capital for famPlus GmbH
famPlus GmbH has successfully completed a first round of financing. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital and a ‘business angel’ consortium will be supporting the family services company in future. Prior market success convinced investors. The fresh infusion of capital is intended to accelerate growth and product development in the coming months.
“We are very happy to now have experienced investors and experts on board,” says Dr. Markus Solf, Managing Director and founder of
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Educate machines to read: Deep-Tech Startup Natif.ai secures seed financing
The Saarbrücken-based Deep-Tech Startup Natif.ai announces the successful closing of a seven-digit financing round with the lead investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Thanks to revolutionary AI models and a self-developed Deep-OCR, various documents can be analyzed extremely quickly, accurately and relevant data can be extracted. Natif.ai thus enables a fast and efficient way to productively bring artificial intelligence into the economy. With this financing, the founding team is investi
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Third successful Exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds during Covid-19 pandemic – incapptic Connect becomes Part of the MobileIron Family
The successful exit of a High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) portfolio company during Covid-19 pandemic shows that innovative, technology-driven startup companies from Germany continue to thrive and can become attractive M&A targets. MobileIron (NASDAQ:MOBL) a mobile security company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, has acquired incapptic Connect, a leader in mobile app release automation software based in Berlin, Germany, to accelerate the mobile app release journey for enter
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Etvas successfully closes 1M seed investment round
Hamburg-based fintech startup Etvas, that offers personalized value add services to customers of banks and insurance companies via its marketplace, secures 1M seed investment. The AI-based technology platform for value added services is already used by Sparkasse Bremen.
The seed round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, together with main incubator, Sparkasse Bremen, Plug and Play aims to support Etvas with the capital required to revolutionize the value added services market and capture the
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Successful exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – TA Associates completes investment in tech11
TA completes strategic growth investments in both tech11 and Adcubum AG with the aim of developing a leading European software provider for health and P&C insuranceWürzburg-based insurtech tech11 provides a core insurance platform for P&C insurers
Bonn, December 10, 2021 – tech11 GmbH has been on the market for around three years and has developed into a fast-growing provider of insurance software for property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies in Germany and Eu
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EWE takes up stake in Solandeo
Partnership aims at developing digital business models for the energy sector.
Oldenburg, 04 June 2021 – Oldenburg-based energy and telecommunications company EWE AG is to become a new minority shareholder in Berlin technology firm Solandeo and is the second energy company after TWL AG, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, to acquire shares in Solandeo. Solandeo GmbH is a specialist in smart metering solutions as well as in intelligent forecast and analysis products. Individual forecasts for e
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Ampler joins Kõu Mobility Group and strengthens its position in the micromobility industry
Tallinn, 17.02.2023– Ampler and Kõu Mobility Group announced today in a joint press event that the two Estonian-based companies will join forces, to strengthen their position in the micromobility industry and to continue making emotive zero-emission commuting accessible for everyone.
The two companies have signed an investment and share-swap agreement that makes Kõu Mobility Group the new majority shareholder of Ampler. Ampler will become one of the business units in the group
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enexion GmbH accelerates its international growth with new investors
enexion is aiming to step up its international growth further. In this process, it will rely on the expertise of experienced partners: working together with two investors, Armagan Özel and Tarzisius Caviezel – both experienced entrepreneurs – the Company will give its spending on international growth a major boost.
As an independent service provider for the sustained reduction and management of total energy supply costs for energy-intensive businesses, enexion manages for its custom
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Strong exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – Shell to acquire Next Kraftwerke
Shell is acquiring Next Kraftwerke to strengthen its position in the field of renewable energy tradingThe Cologne-based start-up Next Kraftwerke GmbH will obtain the necessary resources to fuel further growth and the development of complex new commercial products High-Tech Gründerfonds has been an investor in the company since its foundation in 2010The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval
Subject to regulatory approval, Shell* is to acquire 100% of the shares in Next