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Accelerator activities at SAP.iO: “Creating a win-win-win situation”
Alexa Gorman is considered one of the world’s leading experts on start-ups. She began setting up a start-up program at SAP in 2017, and since May this year has been responsible for the software company’s global activities in this area in her role as Senior Vice President and Global Head SAP.iO Foundries and Intrapeneurship. In this interview, she talks about developments in the international start-up scene and SAP’s collaboration with young companies – and also reveals why the compan
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fruux secures seed round for cross-platform sync and backup solution for contacts, calendars and to-dos
Founded in December 2010, fruux GmbH is developing a solution that automatically syncs contacts, calendars and to-dos through the cloud. The seed investment by High-Tech Gründerfonds and netSTART Venture enables the company to continuously build out the technology and extend the team. This allows the product, which is already wildly successful for individual usage, to move to a full-blown solution for teams and companies.
fruux solves the problem of working with contacts, calendars and task
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Soluterials’ innovative and sustainable aluminium material revolutionises the industry – Seed investment from HTGF and business angels
Beelitz, 9 October 2023 – German start-up Soluterials has raised a seven-figure sum in the first closing of its seed round to accelerate the market launch of its innovative and sustainable high performance pure aluminium material »SoluteriAL«. SoluteriAL reduces the carbon footprint and offers superior properties compared to conventional aluminium metal or alloys, opening new opportunities for a wide range of industries. Backed by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and three business ang
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Newly founded biotech company ActiTrexx receives funding of € 3.5 million to develop cell therapy against transplant rejection
ActiTrexx GmbH, a new biotech spin-off from the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany, has successfully closed its Series A financing. A consortium led by LBBW Venture Capital GmbH with participation from MediVentures GmbH, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) invested a total of € 3.5 million.
ActiTrexx develops ATreg, activated regulatory T cells (Tregs), which are stimulated using a proprietary process, to prevent rejection r
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Energy transition startup node.energy raises 7 million euros in Series A financing
A total of four new investors are joining the company, while existing investors such as High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and renowned business angels are once again contributing fresh capital.
The four new Series A investors were selected consciously. The financing round is led by Cologne-based VC BitStone Capital, the leading PropTech fund with strong expertise in the real estate industry. As co-investors, the 10x Founders contributes extensive experience in the software-as-a-service secto
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Minister for Economics Brüderle awards EBS Technologies
Rainer Brüderle, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, today commended EBS Technologies as High-Tech Gründerfonds’ 2010 lighthouse project. The award was presented during the ‘Economy – School – Government technology dialogue’ as part of the technology initiative in Berlin.
The start-up, based in the town of Kleinmachnow, has developed a non-invasive medical product to treat patients with functional disorders following a stroke or brain trauma. Three factors were
Alexander Hölz – Senior Controller
Alexander Hölz has held the position of Investment Controller at High-Tech Gründerfonds for more than 15 years. As a business graduate, he advises start-ups on finances, reporting and controlling, as well as matters related to accounting.
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SKY ENGINE AI completes $1.2M in funding to launch Data Science industry’s first Machine Learning in Virtual Reality Platform
London, UK — August 24, 2021 — SKY ENGINE AI today announced it has closed a $1.2M financing round in July 2021 led by Movens Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds. The funding will be used to accelerate its growth and product innovation and to expand engineering to enable SKY ENGINE to further capitalize on its position as a leader in Machine Learning for Computer Vision and synthetic data platforms.
SKY ENGINE AI is a UK-based data science technology vendor that builds the industry’
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Successful exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – HTGF fund investor Evonik acquires biotech company JeNaCell
Acquisition of JeNaCell expands Evonik’s portfolio of biomaterials used in medical technologyJeNaCell to realize full potential of its innovative technology and further expand its technology portfolio with Evonik’s supportHigh-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) financed the seed round in 2012 together with the Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia (STIFT)bm|t acquired stake in JeNaCell in 2015 together with Sparkasse Jena-Saale-Holzland and HTGF fund investor Evonik Venture
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Fresh Capital for DESINO
High-Tech Gründerfonds and business angel Dieter Lorenzen finance first wheelchair with dynamic seating system.
With the completion of the first financing round the DESINO GmbH took a definite step towards attaining their objective of making the sitting more comfortable for wheelchair users. High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as business angel Dieter Lorenzen will hence forward support the project of this enterprise which was founded in Cologne in 2012. The DESINO GmbH was able to convince inv
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gestigon closes Series A financing to strengthen its market position as a leading provider of gesture control software solutions
gestigon successfully closed a series A financing. The seven-digit-USD investment was committed by two of the investors of the seed funding, HTGF and MBG-SH, as well as one of the founding shareholders and three high net worth business angels.
This series A financing shall be used to enhance the customer orientated business development in Europe and North America as well as to set up a presence in Asia. Sascha Klement, founder and CTO of gestigon, comments, “With this financing we have the po
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Orbex
OrbEx is an innovative space access company.
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agriportance secures seed funding to replace fossil natural gas with biomethane
Münster, 15.12.2022 – Biomethane start-up agriportance raises a seven-figure sum in a seed round from seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and business angels. The founding team will use the fresh money to accelerate the product’s digitalisation and its launch on the European market.
The current energy supply crisis affects the political and ecological climate. More and more people are calling for reforms and innovations because of the skyrocketing oil and gas prices.
agriportance secures seed funding to replace fossil natural gas with biomethane
Münster, 15.12.2022 – Biomethane start-up agriportance raises a seven-figure sum in a seed round from seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and business angels. The founding team will use the fresh money to accelerate the product’s digitalisation and its launch on the European market.
The current energy supply crisis affects the political and ecological climate. More and more people are calling for reforms and innovations because of the skyrocketing oil and gas prices.
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anybill raises 1.9 million euros in seed round
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital and several business angels invest around 1.9 million euros in a seed financing roundanybill shapes new dimensions in the payment ecosystem and enables the transfer of digital receipts across industries through a dense network of POS software partners
Munich/Regensburg, October 27, 2021 – Tech startup anybill has received seed funding of €1.9 million – High-Tech Gründerfonds and Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital as well as other