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Proxima Fusion Raises €20M Seed to Accelerate Timeline to Fusion Power
Less than one year from its €7.5M pre-seed round, the first Max Planck fusion spin-out has delivered on its vision of simulation-enabled stellarator design.
New funding supports expansion of the world-class team in Munich and its public-private partnerships in Europe to build on existing momentum.
Proxima Fusion directly builds on €1.3B of public investment in the ground-breaking W7-X experiment in Germany.
Munich, Germany, April 10, 2024 – Proxima Fusion, the first spi
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CAVI – the revolution in online commerce
A young team of entrepreneurs from Hamburg is using inVideo technology to make online shopping and internet advertising a reality. The Munich-based investor, Kalmund Capital, has now secured long-term financing.
Imagine that you are watching a film on the internet – a new video clip of Madonna, for example. If you’re a woman, you might perhaps like the megastar’s jeans or her cool top. You would like to wear them yourself. But instead of spending a lot of time on Google & Co, you si
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“A strong signal, especially for start-ups”
High-Tech Gründerfonds is launching its fourth fund, HTGF IV, which has secured over €400 million in commitments at first closing. That makes it the seed investor’s biggest fund to date. Dr. Robert Habeck, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, recently announced the first closing of the fund at the HTGF Family Day. In this interview, HTGF Managing Directors Alex von Frankenberg and Guido Schlitzer talk about HTGF’s successful fundraising efforts and exp
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Europe’s most active seed investor: High-Tech Gründerfonds celebrates 15-year anniversary
High-Tech Gründerfonds is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. To mark the occasion, the company is starting a number of initiatives. On 15 September, a new podcast will be launched hosted by Managing Director Dr. Alex von Frankenberg and featuring 15 guests on the subjects of digitalisation and innovation. In addition, a series of online seminars for founders will be started, in which HTGF will share the knowledge it has accumulated over 15 years, during which time it has provided seed fun
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Kimeta (Exit)
Intelligent Job Search Engine, which searches job boards, recruiting agencies and company career sites for jobs. Artificial Intelligence helps identifying the best jobs.
Exit since Jan. 2015.
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Wirelane
Wirelane is a full-service technology provider in the field of electromobility. The company’s innovative technology simplifies all aspects of EV charging, starting from the search of charging stations over an app, through to payment, billing and maintenance.
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Covalo raises fresh capital to further drive sustainability and transparency in the consumer goods industry
Covalo is currently one of the world’s largest Personal Care ingredients platforms with over 70,000 listings from more than 1,000 suppliers.
Covalo is already used by formulators from more than 5,000 brands such as Lush, L’Oréal or Drunk Elephant across 140 countries.
Covalo has established strong ties with key industry associations such as COSMED in France, SKW in Switzerland, the leading fair organizer (Reed Exhibitions), as well as some of the major PLM (product life-cycle man
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kinkaa (Exit)
kinkaa is a Meta Travel Search Engine for all relevant travel categories (flights, hotels, cars, packages and more to come) focusing on various European markets.
Exit since Sep. 2010.
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Liquiverse Receives 500,000 Euro Venture Capital. High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in next generation technology displaying complex contents.
Liquiverse, software experts in visual data processing, today announced that the company has received EUR 500,000 venture capital from Bonn-based investor High-Tech Gründerfonds. The financial resources are designed to expand research and product development of visualization and interaction technologies while successfully introducing Liquiverse’s product portfolio to the market. Liquiverse develops and distributes software solutions based on Liquid Browsing®, a patented technology leveraging
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eWings.com (Exit)
B2B software for easy and fast flight booking and management. eWings.com's mission is to make it as easy as possible to find, book and manage flights via web and mobile. The ideal travel companion for the professional frequent flyer. eWings.com sorts flight itineraries by stress - weighted by cheapest price, duration and stop-overs. The top search results are the best itineraries, always. Flights are presented on a time table to identify uncomfortable flights as easy as possible. eWings.com's fo
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bookingkit Secures Multi-Million Euro Financing and Pushes Further Expansion in Europe
Series C Funding Round in mid-single-digit million euro amount
Intermedia Vermögensverwaltung and family of companies Müller Medien are once
again lead investors and seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds expands its commitment
Expansion into new European markets planned for this summer
Existing business in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France to be further developed
bookingkit achieves profitability in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time
bookingkit Secures Multi-Million Euro Financing and Pushes Further Expansion in Europe
Covalo is currently one of the world’s largest Personal Care ingredients platforms with over 70,000 listings from more than 1,000 suppliers.
Covalo is already used by formulators from more than 5,000 brands such as Lush, L’Oréal or Drunk Elephant across 140 countries.
Covalo has established strong ties with key industry associations such as COSMED in France, SKW in Switzerland, the leading fair organizer (Reed Exhibitions), as well as some of the major PLM (product life-cycle man
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Drug discovery technology start-up DyNAbind secures seed financing
DyNAbind’s Dynamic DNA-Encoded Library technology platform allows hundreds of millions of chemical structures to be simultaneously screened and optimized against a potential drug target protein. This innovation continues to be driven forward with investment from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and existing shareholder TUDAG - TU Dresden AG.
Finding a new drug candidate can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Imagine that instead of checking one
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OUTFITTERY raises 13 million EUR led by Highland Capital Partners Europe
Women-led start-up leader in cutting-edge online personal shopping site for men
Outfittery, Europe’s leading curated shopping service, has raised EUR 13 million led by Highland Capital Partners Europe with participation from existing investors including Holtzbrinck Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds, RI Digital Ventures and VC fund Kreativwirtschaft managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft. Outfittery, founded by Anna Alex and Julia Bosch only two years ago, has tran
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Cologne-based EdTech start-up DeepSkill receives seven-figure pre-seed financing, including from High-Tech Gründerfonds and Kienbaum
DeepSkill is the EdTech platform for emotional skills and holistic personnel development. The start-up uses an innovative content-building system, intelligent algorithms, and data-based knowledge transfer to develop employees in a targeted manner and achieve sustainable transformational success.The capital will be used for platform development and the expansion of the tech, sales, and content teams.With regard to the recent success, Thomas Leidinger, who played a crucial role in building the
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DTXL invests in quantum scale-up Delft Circuits in round of 6.3 M€
With this step, production will be scaled up and the company will receive support from partners in high-tech such as ASML and Philips.
Delft, 7 September 2023 – Delft Circuits has been working for a few years now on the supply of high-tech cabling for quantum computers. It has several tech giants as customers and organizations such as space agency NASA.
DTXL is a 100 M€ deep tech investment fund with leading partners such as ASML, Philips, PME pension fund and is therefore deeply r