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The successful exit of a High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) portfolio company during Covid-19 pandemic shows that innovative, technology-driven startup companies from Germany continue to thrive and can become attractive M&A targets. MobileIron (NASDAQ:MOBL) a mobile security company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, has acquired incapptic Connect, a leader in mobile app release automation software based in Berlin, Germany, to accelerate the mobile app release journey for enter

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Germany’s largest seed investor, together with Bayern Kapital, the venture capital company for the State of Bavaria, has invested a seven-figure sum in Munich-based IT start-up Erium as part of a seed financing round. SAR Elektronic GmbH is also on board as a co-investor. Erium’s software solution HALerium is used to model and optimise highly complex production and assembly processes using small volumes of data in a transparent and comprehensible w

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Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of Continental together with Wachstumsfonds Bayern, which is managed by Bayern Kapital, with participation of the existing investors Fluxunit –  OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, TEV (Tengelmann Ventures) and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Blickfeld will use the new financial resources to ramp up production, qualify its LiDAR sensors

As part of a two million euro seed financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in the Munich-based iATROS GmbH, along with co-investors Bayern Kapital and several business angels. iATROS, a digital health start-up, has developed a telemedicine solution, which enables data-driven treatment of cardiology patients. The target group of the iATROS solution comprises both clinics and the patients themselves. The funds of the seed round will be used to expand the company’s staff and drive th

How can digital therapies change healthcare? Which potentials exist in the fields of cardiology, diabetology and endoprosthetics? How can established companies and start-ups in the medtech sector adapt to the new healthcare and business models? These questions and more will be discussed together with experts from the medtech sector during the MedTech Radar LIVE 2020 on June 9th in Cologne. Start-ups active in one of those fields are invited to apply for the start-up pitches. A preview of the

FinLab EOS VC makes a seven-digit Euro investment into Agora Innovation GmbH. The Frankfurt-based blockchain start-up will extend its marketing and sales activities and aims to enter European and Asian markets. The access to the EOS blockchain enables the company’s reach for its market leading IVE.ONE software. Frankfurt’s Agora Innovation announced today a seven-digit pre-series A investment from FinLab EOS VC, a venture capital fund backed by Block.one, the publisher of the blo

Klaus Lehmann (48), who has already worked for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) for 14 years, has now been appointed to the post of partner with effect from April 1, 2020.  We are delighted to welcome Klaus, a highly experienced colleague, into our group of partners. Klaus has built up his own portfolio with focus on industrial technology that is well above average. Right from the very outset, he has had a significant impact on the company as a wholeDr. Alex von Frankenberg,

The High-Tech-Gründerfonds invests with well-known business angels in the Munich company Tangany. The startup offers a reliable blockchain crypto storage solution for companies. This includes the secure management of wallets in a kind of digital safe (so-called hardware security module) and the simple use and communication with various blockchains such as Ethereum, Bitcoin or the customer’s own blockchain. The solution can be integrated into any system using an interface (API). Altern

The product family Tio of the attenio GmbH is a digital cooperation platform between the planning and the assembly of industrial companies. Usually, companies print drawings and instruction on how to assemble a product and provide them on the shopfloor. This is done, though the planning and the design of the products are done in state of the art software on computers. Three typical problems are the consequences: the loss of productivity on the shop floor, assembly errors and the challenge to

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Brandenburg Kapital, R.O.I. and the Business Angel Club Berlin-Brandenburg Bet jointly invest in the start-up for marketing automation CI HUB. The Potsdam-based start-up CI HUB has already convinced numerous partners and now also investors with its software platform. In the course of the first financing round the company secures the necessary means to further implement its strategy. Under the leadership of High-Tech Gründerfonds, Brandenburg Kapital GmbH,

The school app Sdui extends its seed financing. The potential of the central communication platform, on which teachers, students and parents can exchange information in a GDPR-compliant manner, convinced High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and business angels Martin Ostermayer and Dirk Freise (blau.de, handy.de, among others) to join the seed round as new lead investors. The Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) as well as Udo Schloemer, founder and CEO of Factory Berlin, have also