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Rethinking employee training, integration, and communication: doinstruct develops a low-threshold, multilingual mobile training solution for frontline workers. The software enables companies to train their employees and service providers by smartphone, across supply chains and in any location. With its strong new partners doinstruct hopes to revolutionize in-company employee training and push ahead with product development and the expansion of the company into new sectors. doinstruct

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

Eindhoven/Bochum, July 12th, 2022 – Emproof B.V. successfully closed a € 2 million seed financing round, which enables the company to further develop its product range and serve customers in Europe and the USA. This financing round is led by the Dutch investment group TIIN Capital through its Dutch Security TechFund, alongside High-Tech Gründerfonds from Germany and the French venture capitalist Cyber Impact. Emproof has developed a unique technology which protects resource constrained

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

Bonn, 28 June 2022 – team.blue, a leading digital enabler for companies and entrepreneurs, announced that the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) portfolio company Raidboxes, a leading WordPress hosting provider, is joining its growing group of companies. HTGF is selling its stake after having closely supported the team led by Johannes Benz and Torben Simon Meier since 2016. team.blue supports local entrepreneurs and small businesses, enabling them to build, grow, and scale online. A

Textile recycling rethought: Innovative process enables upcycling of old clothing Aachen, 22 June 2022 – TechVision Fonds I, together with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and a business angel, are the first investors to invest in EEDEN. The startup from Moenchengladbach, Germany has developed an innovative process for the sustainable and environmentally friendly recycling of clothing and other textile products. With the financing, EEDEN plans to further expand their R&D-activitie

Kranus Health, the company behind the world’s first prescription digital therapeutic to treat erectile dysfunction, announces the successful closing of its Series A at over 6.5 million US dollars. The latest financing round increases the total funding of Kranus Health to 8 million USD, which the company collected in just 22 months after its inception. The current round was led by French health care investor Karista, Austria-based Family Office Peak Pride also joined the round. All exis

High-Tech Gründerfonds’ fourth fund has already secured more than €400 million in commitments at first closing. The volume of investment committed has clearly surpassed expectations. Second closing is scheduled to take place later this year. Forty private investors are investing in the HTGF IV fund, alongside the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), and KfW Capital. Bonn, 14 June 2022 – High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is launching its fourth fu

Hanover, June 9th, 2022 – Graswald has raised €1.25 million funding to accelerate developments of its 3D content platform for the photorealistic virtualization of nature. The seed round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) together with Lakestar and renowned business angels and affirms Graswald’s vision to provide photoreal 3D ecosystems to breathe life into the metaverse. The Hanover-based start-up has been setting new standards in the creation of natural, digital 3D wor

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Smart Infrastructure Ventures, be10x Capital and other business angels jointly invest in e-mobility startup IO-Dynamics. Flensburg, June 08, 2022 – The founding team of IO-Dynamics can be pleased about a closed financing round. The newly acquired capital will be used to establish the e-mobility software IO-ELON on the market, an intelligent charging and energy management software for the operation of electric fleets. In 2018, Johann Olsen, Nabil Im

Certivity, a Munich based Regulatory Tech (Reg Tech) Company, receives early-stage funding of EUR 1.4 million led by Earlybird UNI-X and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The startup will use the new capital to ramp up the team and drive its software and deep tech development to simplify regulatory product compliance through the lifecycle of a product.  Certivity will change the way companies work with product regulations by connecting the legal and regulatory world to the engin

Round Led by Tola Capital and Investment from CEO of Github, Startup Helps Developers Ship Secure Software Bonn, Germany — June 1, 2022— Code Intelligence, the automated security testing platform, today announces $12 million (11M€) in Series A funding led by Tola Capital. This round is joined by existing investors LBBW, OCCIDENT, Verve Ventures, HTGF and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Github. Code Intelligence helps developers ship secure code by providing a platform to find and fix secur

7Learnings has secured more than €4 Million from Ventech (lead investor), HTGF and Celonis managers in its latest funding roundSince 2019, 7Learnings offers retailers a SaaS solution for machine learning-based pricing & marketing optimizationThe software increases profits for its clients by >10% on averageThe company targets to make its software the leading platform for retail optimization of tomorrow Berlin, May 18, 2022 – The start-up was founded in 2019 by Martin Now

With its modular SaaS solution, Quentic simplifies management and reporting in the fields of environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) management and environment, social and governance (ESG).The acquisition by AMCS will further strengthen Quentic GmbH’s position as one of the leading providers of integrated software solutions in EHSQ and ESG.Together with a business angel, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) was the first investor in the company back in 2008 and has closely supported its

MUNICH, GERMANY, May 3, 2022 – Tubulis today announced the successful completion of a €60 million (USD $63 million) Series B financing led by Andera Partners with participation from new investors Evotec and Fund+. All existing investors also participated in the round, including Bayern Kapital (with Wachstumsfonds Bayern 2), BioMedPartners, coparion, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), OCCIDENT and Seventure Partners. The new capital will be used to advance Tubulis’ proprietary pipeline of

Venly, a blockchain wallet solution, surpasses 2M users to provide frictionless solutions for game publishers and ecommerce businesses worldwide. April 28th, Antwerp / Berlin—Venly, a major blockchain technology provider from Belgium, today announces it has secured over €21 million (USD$23 million) in Series A funding, led by Courtside Ventures with participation from Transcend Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Tioga Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Fortino, Plug and Play, Leadblock Partners,