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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Seedfonds BW invest in the future of Desktop Infrastructures
The German cloud specialist tocario GmbH (www.tocario.com) secures the first round of funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and from the Seedfonds Baden-Württemberg. The Investment supports tocario with the market launch of the next generation of Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVD) for SMB Customers as well as Service Providers worldwide.
tocario has been founded by former employees of the industry giant Hewlett-Packard and has developed a Hosted Virtual Desktop Solution, which helps organi
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First four companies selected to participate in the German Accelerator Life Sciences program in Cambridge
During the 34th JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, the German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) announced the first four companies to participate in its Cambridge-based program. AYOXXA Biosystems, PEPperPRINT, Personal MedSystems, and Sonormed will receive support tailored towards the specific needs of each company for up to 12 months. The scope of these young German companies ranges from treating tinnitus patients with filtered music and preventing stroke via a mobile ECG app to novel platform tec
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EBS Technologies raises additional 1.1 million Euros in new round of financing
Investor group led by Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds sees strong growth potential in the neurostimulation market segment
EBS Technologies, focused on the development and commercialization of EBS Therapy for the treatment of visual field loss, has successfully launched a new round of financing by raising 1.1 million Euros. Three private investors joined the new round led by Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds which is still open to additional investors. The newly raised capital will b
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The High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in the Microstim GmbH
The High-Tech-Gründerfonds, Bonn, Germany invests 500.000 Euro in the German medical technology start-up company Microstim GmbH. The Microstim GmbH, situated in Lübeck, is developing a new, tissue-maintaining and function-preserving myostimulator needed for muscle powered cardiac assistance.
Muscle powered cardiac assist might be offered to patients who suffer from a heart insufficiency not controllable by medication. This new therapeutic approach with a nearly unlimited availability of pat
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Capital for fluorescent mini-antibodies – new benchmarks in cell research
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital are investing about EUR 400k in Chromotek GmbH. The investment is intended to fund research and development work aimed at ensuring successful market entry for chromobody technology in the field of living cell analysis.
Chromotek GmbH, an enterprise spun off from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, develops and distributes chromobody technology-based research reagents that can be used in multiple ways and are reliable; namely nanotraps and chr
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FIDURA Private Equity Fonds a new lead investor at m2p-labs
Investment in leading manufacturer of microbioreactors
Founded in 2005, m2p-labs GmbH successfully closed its financing round with FIDURA Private Equity Fonds as a new lead investor. Through a capital increase with the participation of seed investors such as the High-Tech-Gründerfonds as the biggest co-investor, FIDURA-Fonds acquired a total stake of 27.61% of m2p-labs GmbH. Their unique technology, a portfolio of renowned international customers as well as the strong growth potential of the
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POSpulse receives second funding this year – High-Tech-Gründerfonds invests in retail-analytics company POSpulse
POSpulse provides Smart Data for retailers and brands: By utilising crowdsourcing POSpulse collects data from the shopper’s perspective at the point-of-sale and provides retailers and brands with detailed analysis and optimization proposals for their POS activities. For the first time it is possible to gain extensive and comprehensive knowledge and real-time insights into the real purchasing situation at the point of sale – whether it is the exeution of shopper promotions, product placements
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High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Media Ventures ink food deal
Fooboo Holding GmbH is focused on developing mobile services for the food industry. The start-up is working on combing cooking and experience, retail and groceries in a new, unique way.
Fooboo is a company founded by Andreas von Maltzan and is focused on developing mobile services for the food industry. The existing recipe platform www.kochrezepte.de and its iOS and android apps, which von Maltzan brought into Fooboo, will serve as a basis for the start-up.
The recipe database will be spiced u
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SYNOSTE Ltd raises €5.1 million to launch its smart skeletal deformation correction technology
SYNOSTE Ltd, a Finnish medical device company creates smart solutions for patient-friendly bone-lengthening and bone-deformation correction. The company, also located in Düsseldorf, Germany has raised over five million euros to start clinical investigations and to develop new clinical applications. SYNOSTE’s patented technology platform provides the basis for further disruptive changes in the treatment of congenital, trauma- and tumour-related limb discrepancies, adult and paediatric deformit
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C-mo Medical Solutions raises €4.1 million aiming to transform cough monitoring
C-mo Medical Solutions is an award-winning start-up that is unravelling the potential of assessing cough towards improved diagnosis, treatment courses and disease management. The company has now raised 4.1€Mn in a seed round led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. This investment will allow the company to bring its innovative cough-monitoring technology to the market.
Lisbon, 1 September 2022 – C-mo Medical Solutions has announced today the closing of a 4.1€Mn seed investment roun
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Tangany: Seed financing for Munich blockchain custody startup
The High-Tech-Gründerfonds invests with well-known business angels in the Munich company Tangany. The startup offers a reliable blockchain crypto storage solution for companies. This includes the secure management of wallets in a kind of digital safe (so-called hardware security module) and the simple use and communication with various blockchains such as Ethereum, Bitcoin or the customer’s own blockchain. The solution can be integrated into any system using an interface (API). Altern
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Fraunhofer IGD spin-off Threedy secures seed funding from investors led by btov Partners
Threedy raises 1.8m euros in seed funding as it enters the market with instant3Dhub – a visual computing as a service platform for large 3D data models
Threedy is a spin-off from Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. It has now raised early-stage venture capital to commercialize its instant3Dhub platform. This platform primarily supports visualization, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, and will initially serve companie
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Successful exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – UNICEPTA acquires social intelligence specialist Ubermetrics
UNICEPTA is a global full-service provider for media and marketing intelligenceBerlin-based start-up Ubermetrics has developed a content intelligence platform to meet the needs of communicators based on specially developed and trained artificial intelligenceThe two companies will now combine their AI-based technology platforms and pool their technical expertise; both brands will be maintainedUbermetrics founders Patrick Bunk and Daniel Siewert (CEO and CTO) will have a stake in the new combi
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Innovative Pulsatile Heart Pumps for Acute Patients: NovaPump secures seven-digit Financing Round
NovaPump, one of the leading developers and medical product manufacturers of percutaneous circulatory mechanical support systems (pMCS) announced the successful closing of a series A financing round with a consortium of institutional and strategic investors.
NovaPump’s PERKAT™ (PERkutane KATheterpumpe) short term MCS for acute patients achieved important milestones within the last months. With this financing round it is possible to develop the PERKAT™ products further to the first-i
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Another successful exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – Bosch Sensortec acquires Arioso Systems
Bosch enters the attractive market segment for micro speakers. Acquisition means broader diversification of Bosch Sensortec’s portfolio.Arioso Systems is one of the world’s most innovative providers of MEMS micro speaker technology. Together with Bosch, it will leverage the full potential of its micro speakers.Dr. Alex von Frankenberg, Managing Director of High-Tech Gründerfonds: “Highly innovative start-ups provide a real business and technology boost to established companies. HTGF i