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Episode 1 : What have you learnt? With Miriam Mertens and Peter Goeke from DeepSkill
What have you learnt? This is a question we’re putting to company founders from our portfolio. Because if you found a start-up, run a company, make investments or work in management, you are learning something new every single day. You also have to deal with new situations. And continue to develop new skills. To cover the latter aspect, we expanded the HTGF Academy this year to offer a comprehensive programme for company founders and others. And because we firmly believe in the power o
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Product Value Systems (Exit)
Market Logic helps companies to mitigate the risk of wasting enormous budget allocations (typically up to 10% of annual sales) by making sure marketing investments are driven by customer needs and competitor differentiation.
Exit since May 2010.
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The Gap in the Value Chain of Funding Start-ups is Moving Forward
This is what usually happens. You take your car and go to the Mediterranean for your holidays. You prepare everything but you donât think about the fuel your car needs to reach your destination. Although itâs clear that your car needs additional fuel on the way, you are sure to find many stations on your journey offering enough petrol to go as far as you want.
Capital is the fuel start-ups need. However, at the time you found a growth-oriented one, you are aware that you will need further f
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3.5 million euros capital for humangrid in 2010
The growth in investors and capital for humangrid GmbH is unabated. New partners have joined this successful internet business for what is the second time already in 2010. The new investor Finance Partners CFP & Founders Investments alone has provided the Company with a further capital injection of EUR 0.5 million.
As recently as March 2010, private investors Klaus Wecken as well as his children Ina and Ferry Wecken joined the Company as shareholders. Together with the existing shareholde
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Seed capital for interactive fundraising tool
High-Tech GrĂźnderfonds, Seedfonds Bayern and Extorel are investing in Altruja.de. The online fundraising company (www.altruja.de) was established in Munich in mid March of this year, and already offers numerous aid institutions and other non-profit organisations an interactive, online fundraising tool. Highly regarded organisations such as UNESCO, Aktion Deutschland Hilft as well as many regional charities are already managing their fundraising campaigns with the help of Altrujaâs tool. Along
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QSC takes over encryption specialist FTAPI
QSC AG, the leading ICT provider for medium-sized businesses in Germany, takes over 51 per cent of the shares in the Munich based FTAPI Software GmbH, a company specializing in encrypted data exchange between business customers.
The start-up was founded in 2010 and offers a range of products around high-security transfer and storage of confidential company data. With FTAPI, files can be transferred and stored at different security levels, from an SSL download link to an end-to-end encryption.
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ATMOS Raises âŹ4M for its Breakthrough Return Capsules that Safely Deliver Any Cargo from Earthâs Orbit
ATMOS designs and manufactures return capsules, opening up the highly anticipated market for âmicrogravity on demandâ for a fraction of current market prices
The seed financing was oversubscribed, closing at âŹ4 million
Leading space tech investors High-Tech GrĂźnderfonds, the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, Seraphim, E2MC, VENTIS and another.vc all show strong support of cutting-edge space cargo return technology developed by founder Sebastian Klaus and a highly experienced team
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akirolabs Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Strategic Procurement
Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings.
The funding round was led by HTGF, OTB Ventures and D11Z. Ventures and strengthened by angel investments from industry leaders Fredrick Spalcke, Heiko Schwarz, Markus Ehrle, and Detlef Schultz.
The funds will be used to evolve akirolabs SaaS product and enhance its AI capabilities, as well as to further scale customer growth and b
akirolabs Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Strategic Procurement
Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings.
The funding round was led by HTGF, OTB Ventures and D11Z. Ventures and strengthened by angel investments from industry leaders Fredrick Spalcke, Heiko Schwarz, Markus Ehrle, and Detlef Schultz.
The funds will be used to evolve akirolabs SaaS product and enhance its AI capabilities, as well as to further scale customer growth and b
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AVIDAL Vascular GmbH Closes Seed Financing
AVIDAL Vascular GmbH, a medical device company which is focused on the development and commercialization of drug eluting balloons (DEB) today announced the closing of the seed financing round. The round was led by the High-Tech GrĂźnderfonds (HTGF), Bonn.
AVIDAL is developing a DEB technology for the intraluminal drug application in coronary arteries and peripheral vessels to treat In-Stent-Restenosis (ISR), bifurcations, small vessels, and long lesions.
Torsten Heilmann, founder and CEO expla
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start2grow Camp
The two-day event start2grow Camp is designed to support founders in the further development of their business model.
The coaches answer your questions and our investors present themselves with their different financing offers. An individual pitch training prepares you for the impressive presentation of your innovative business idea.
This training will not only pay off for you in your search for investors, but also during the start2grow jury meeting! So that you know what to expect on the final
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Cuciniale receives financing for intelligent cooking assistance systems
Cuciniale GmbH develops and markets intelligent cooking assistance systems. Financing through High-Tech GrĂźnderfonds and the investment company BAC1, which was founded by numerous business angels from the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main area specifically for this purpose, has made it possible for Cuciniale to continue to develop the technology from the prototype stage to market launch, and to selectively strengthen its team.
The cooking assistance technology developed by Cuciniale makes it possible for
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Digital therapies ready for take off
The first apps available via prescription have made it into reimbursement; the next ones are awaiting approval. Is digital medicine about to make a breakthrough in Germany? 15 months after the start of the Digital Healthcare Act, start-ups, health insurance companies, authorities and investors take stock of the situation: What are still the biggest challenges? Which business models can digital therapies offer in the long term? The current issue of the MedTech Radar publication takes a look b
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From backpack start-up to platform: The success story of HTGF fund investor FOND OF
To some, FOND OF is simply known as the backpack start-up, but the Cologne company sees itself as a platform for development, unleashing potential and personal growth. So what does that mean exactly? To find out, we asked Dr. Oliver Steinki, founder and Managing Director of the start-up, which is currently one of High-Tech GrĂźnderfonds fund investors. We spoke to him about finding the right work environments, navigating the path to creating the perfect school bag â and why you shouldnât
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HTGF invests in Skoove, Offering One Of the Worldâs First Interactive Online Piano Lessons
Fun Music Learning Web App Runs In Any Browser; Listens, Gives Live Feedback, And Adapts In Real Time
Skoove, a music learning platform that offers one of the worldâs first interactive online piano lessons, has today opened to the public. Skoove operates through any web browser to deliver a library of expertly designed, software driven lessons, controlled via connecting a keyboard or e-piano to a computer. The app gives aspiring and returning pianists real time feedback on their progress, a
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Capital for Quantum cooling â kiutra closes another financing round
Munich, November 24th 2021 – To calculate and solve complex problems faster than currently possible with supercomputers, to exchange information securely against eavesdropping and to determine physical quantities such as pressure, time, position, speed and magnetic fields with unprecedented accuracy: These promises and more combined with an immense economic potential are some of the possibilities of the second generation of quantum technologies.
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