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OMEICOS Therapeutics Raises EUR 6.2 Million in Series A to Advance Lead Candidate in Atrial Fibrillation
OMEICOS Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class small molecule therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including atrial fibrillation (AF), today announced that it has raised EUR 6.2 million in a Series A round. Participating in the round were Vesalius Biocapital II S.A. SICAR, acting as lead; a SMS Group Company; VC Fonds Technologie Berlin; High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF); and KfW Group. As part of the financing round, the company has
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coramaze technologies GmbH receives € 1 million to develop an innovative medical device for the minimally invasive treatment of heart valve diseases
coramaze technologies GmbH, a German company founded and based in Essen as a spin-off from the Western German Heart Center, is developing an innovative medical device for the minimally invasive treatment of one of the most common structural heart valve diseases, mitral regurgitation. The mitramaze® valve repair system technology has been developed through a technological research project funded by the EXIST research transfer of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The compan
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Video-Content Solution StoryBox receives a 7 figure US-Dollar investment.
Munich 13. May 2020. The BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and CK Venture Capital invest a 7 figure US-Dollar investment in the Munich Start Up StoryBox. Founded in 2017 by Ben Rodrian and Rusmin Causevic the Start Up offers a Software as a Service solution that simplifies video creation for businesses. Storybox can now announce the successful completion of the Pre-Series A financing round.
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Very successful Exit for HTGF: Enscape to Merge with Chaos, Backed by TA Associates and LEA Partners
The Karlsruhe-based start-up Enscape has quickly grown, establishing its position as a leading SaaS provider for real-time rendering and design workflow technology to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industryHigh-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has been an investor in the company since it was spun off in 2017 from Inreal Technologies – a HTGF portfolio start-up since 2013The merger will create a global leader in 3D visualization and design workflow technology
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Tech start-up MetisMotion receives more than one million Euro in first investment round
Innovative technology enables ultra-light and dynamic actuators for industrial applications in robotics, aerospace and automotive industry
The Munich-based tech start-up MetisMotion has received more than one million Euro in fresh capital in its first financing round. The investors are High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), BORN2GROW Seedfonds - a subsidiary of ZFHN Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn - and SIEMENS Technology Accelerator (STA). MetisMotion's core technology includes highly dynamic and lightweig
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BDMI, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Project A Invest in Semasio
Seven-digit cash injection for Hamburg startup
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), the venture capital fund of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, Holtzbrinck Ventures and the incubator Project A have joined the High-Tech Gründerfonds in investing a seven-digit sum into Semasio GmbH. The Hamburg startup will use the funds to fuel its continued geographical expansion, and accelerate its product and technology development.
Semasio develops technology for tailoring online display advert
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Follow up investment for eyefactive
The High-Tech Gründerfonds and the MBG Schleswig-Holstein renew their investment in eyefactive GmbH. A six digit sum is provided to promote the international growth of the first app platform for professional Touchscreens.
In addition to their previous portfolio of scalable multitouch technology for interactive tables and walls eyefactive GmbH announced the world´s first app platform for large-scale touchscreens in November 2013. The apps enable users to simultaneously operate interactive co
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Taxdoo Raises $21 Million in Series A Funding, Led By Accel, to Bring Automated Compliance to European E-Commerce
As e-commerce continues to grow, Taxdoo is scaling to meet demand for its API-driven compliance platform for cross-border online sellersTaxdoo will triple headcount during the next 12 months and expand its go-to-market across Europe
Taxdoo, the automated platform for financial compliance in e-commerce, today announced it has closed a $21 million (€17 million) Series A round of financing led by global venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing
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HepaRegeniX GmbH Raises €9 million in a Series A Financing to Develop Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Liver Diseases
HepaRegeniX GmbH, a new Biotech company developing innovative treatments for liver diseases, announced today the completion of a €9 million Series A financing. The round was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund GmbH (BIVF) and Novo Seeds, and complemented by the High-Tech Gruenderfonds and coparion.
HepaRegeniX develops a new and unique therapeutic concept for the treatment of liver diseases, discovered by Prof. Lars Zender and his research group at the University Hospital Tubingen, Ger
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AudioCure Pharma GmbH secures funding of about EUR 9 million for the further development of their lead candidate, AC102, in hearing loss
AudioCure, a pharmaceutical R&D company headquartered in Germany, announces today that it has secured an A-round of about EUR 9 million from MED-EL, HTGF and private investors. MED-EL receives exclusive licensing rights and shares while existing investors increase their shares. AudioCure will use the funding to get its front-runner small molecule AC102 into Phase I clinical trials in auditory disorders including acute hearing loss and acute tinnitus. To date, there are no approved therapeuti
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qLearning launches new online platform allowing users to create their own study materials
With the support of its latest investor, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), qLearning has launched an online platform that enables students and teachers of any discipline to create and share their own study materials. The platform is designed to complement qLearning’s popular mobile app, which already boasts a user base of more than 80,000 students. It also ensures the company keeps up with the ever-evolving student demand for practical learning tools. The investment by HTGF completes this yearâ€
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Investors Realize exit VIA Trade Sale of Portfolio Company Corimmun GmbH
Following the sale of their portfolio company CorImmun GmbH to Janssen-Cilag for an undisclosed upfront payment and a contingent future clinical milestone payment, Corimmun’s investors led by MIG have realized an important return on investment.
CorImmun’s lead compound, COR-1, is a small cyclic peptide currently in early clinical development for the treatment of heart failure. COR-1 has been shown in preclinical studies to improve heart function by decreasing autoimmune, beta 1 receptor-s
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Subitec GmbH raises 4.5 m euros in second round financing
Subitec GmbH, a manufacturer of fully automated algae photobioreactors, hascloseda second round of financing. The CleantechFonds of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Fraunhofer Venture, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) [High-Tech Start-Up Fund] and KfWBankengruppe’s ERP-Startfonds [ERP Start Fund] participated in the capital increase. Subitec funds to the amount of 4.5 m euros will accrue in this round of financing. The raised capital is to be used mainly for launching bioreactors on the int
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HTGF portfolio company AYOXXA Biosystems wins new investors to close a € 9,0m Series B round
AYOXXA Biosystems GmbH, an international biotechnology company, completed a € 9,0m Series B financing round by the end of June 2014. All of the company’s existing investors (High-Tech Gründerfonds, KFW, NRW.BANK, Wellington Partners Venture Capital and private investors) took part, along with new investors b-to-v Partners AG, Creathor Venture and HR Ventures. In addition several private investors from the US and Europe, including AYOXXA employees and two of Qiagen’s founders, joined this
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Bionic Robotics GmbH sucessfully concluded an early Series A round of funding for the extension of its development and marketing activities
Bionic Robotics GmbH, developer and manufacturer of the bioinspired robot arm BioRob, successfully concluded an early Series A round of funding. Apart from the senior shareholder High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the managing partner of Bionic Robotics, 3 new investors being Abacus Alpha GmbH, Hessen Kapital I GmbH and RMC Dr. Reineck Management & Consulting GmbH agreed to invest a seven-digit EUR amount in the company.
With the help of the capital Bionic Robotics is going to build up own
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eCAPITAL and High-Tech Gruenderfonds finance high-end raw materials recycling
saperatec, an independent recycling specialist for high-tech products receives € 1 m seed capital from the seed funds „Gruenderfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen“ managed by eCAPITAL and the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Bonn. Saperatec will use these funds to build up the production in Bielefeld, Germany.
The high-tech industry relies on sufficient availability of high-tech materials, such as rare earth and noble metals. These metals are used in the electronics industry, for example for TVs,