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Galactic Start-up Receives Financial Booster for International All-in-One Solution for Amazon Sales
International at the push of a button: The German start-up SPACEGOATS from Stuttgart provides automated software to make the life of amazon-sellers a lot easier – and earns early-stage financing by German investment fund High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). E-Commerce is complex and international even worse? Not anymore – SPACEGOATS to the rescue: The start-up SPACEGOATS allows small and medium-sized companies to grow quickly and easily on international markets. The investment fund HTGF recog
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Battery pioneer instagrid raises €8.5m in Series A round led by SET Ventures
Delivering clean portable electric power for professionals worldwide
instagrid, the portable power company, today announced €8.5 million in Series A funding, led by SET Ventures with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds, Segnalita Ventures, and a German family office. With the funding, instagrid will expand its team, scale up production and amplify its contribution to the mobile power revolution and energy transition.
Founded in January 2018 by Dr. Sebastian Berning and Dr. An
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Hprobe, Leader in Magnetic Field Testing Announces Completion of a New Funding Round with International Investors
Hprobe, a provider of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices, today announced the completion of a new funding round driven by international investors, providing an exceptional depth of expertise, a global ecosystem of partnerships and the endorsement of industry market leaders. Hprobe has raised more than 2 million euros to support its strong international development in the field of spintronics based devices testing, such as MRAMs (Magnetic Random Access Memories)
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Digital therapy provider Selfapy receives 6 million investment: Medtech investor SHS joins in
Selfapy is Germany’s leading provider of online therapy for
mental stress and already cooperates with 16 health insurance companiesSHS expects strong impetus from the new Digital Supply Act (DVG) for digital health companies
Fifth investment of the fifth SHS fund: The Tübingen-based medical
technology and life science investor SHS Gesellschaft für
Beteiligungsmanagement has taken a stake in the Berlin-based digital
health company Selfapy GmbH as part of a capital increase. In addi
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Mental fitness for office: MINDANCE digitizes mental wellbeing in companies and receives a seven-figure sum in seed financing
Ever more companies recognize that the mental fitness status
of their employees is mission critical in achieving strategic and
operational goals. Employees who care about their mental fitness show
higher motivation, satisfaction and hence work more efficiently. First,
this leads to positive effects on the employees themselves and second it
generates considerable competitive advantages for employers.For the first time, the MINDANCE platform provides its
customers with a tailor-made pack
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Thüga SmartService takes over Start-Up Geospin
Thüga SmartService GmbH, a subsidiary of Thüga Aktiengesellschaft, takes over all shares in Geospin GmbH.
The start-up company from Freiburg offers location intelligence software solutions with a focus on Geo Machine Learning. These solutions evaluate environment and customer data with the help of artificial intelligence and self-learning algorithms. This enables companies and municipalities to objectively identify geographical success factors and to position their product and service o
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CereGate GmbH receives financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds to accelerate development of a new software platform for neuromodulation therapy
CereGate enables “Mind-Writing”, i.e. it directly transmits information to the brain
The CereGate system is successfully validated in a clinical study
Study results are currently presented during the NANS-Meeting in Las Vegas
High-Tech Gründerfonds enters with a capital increase and convertible
The financing shall accelerate development of the system for new indications in stroke rehabilitation, neuroprosthetics and computer/brain-interfacing
According to WHO more than 1
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Industry and SMEs meet innovation and start-ups
For the eleventh time, the High-Tech Partnering Conference (HTPC) will bring together industry and SMEs with innovation and financing experts
More than 300 participants and more than 150 high-tech start-ups from sectors such as software, chemistry, healthcare, mechanical engineering and energy are expected to attend the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) event on 28 January 2020
Expert workshops are held on topics such as New Work, Security Token Offerings, IoT or Accelerators
Inspirational
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HepaRegeniX GmbH secures Series B Financing in excess of €11 Mio. to advance first drug candidate to the clinic
Preclinical data demonstrate efficacy of MKK4 inhibitors in liver regeneration and experimental acute and chronic liver disease models.
HepaRegeniX GmbH, a preclinical stage company developing a novel therapy for the treatment of acute and chronic liver diseases today announced the closing of its Series B financing round in excess of €11 Mio. with contribution from all its existing investors namely Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund GmbH (BIVF), Novo Holdings A/S, the High-Tech Gründerfonds,
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VISUS Industry IT receives funding for the digital revolution in quality assurance
Gründerfonds Ruhr, NRW.BANK and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invest a seven-digit amount in VISUS Industry IT, which digitizes industrial test procedures with their test data and report management system JiveX NDT and provides a standardized archiving and distribution of the results.
Today, the processes and results in material testing, inspection and maintenance of safety-relevant components or systems are still not entirely digital.
Test results are often only available on paper or in the
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HTGF Portfolio Company: Cunesoft joins forces with Phlexglobal
The Munich-based Cunesoft GmbH, an innovative provider of cloud-based intelligent regulatory data management software and services for the life sciences industry, announced today that it has been acquired by Phlexglobal from current investors including Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds and OCCIDENT.
Phlexglobal, the leading provider of Trial Master File (TMF) software and expert services joins forces with Cunesoft, which expands the company’s portfolio of best-of-breed technologies desi
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Biograil secures seed funding for oral delivery device with potential to transform market for injectables
Biograil ApS, an innovative biotechnology company developing a unique oral device for delivery of biologics that would otherwise be injected, today announced the closing of a seed funding of 3 Million Euro (with potential to expand to 5 Million Euro). The investor Syndicate was led by the experienced German seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and included Danish Megatrend Invest a/s, Swiss Investment group as well as a Danish private healthcare investor.
The device is being developed a
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A successful start into the new year: New Growth Funding for MedTech Company Mecuris GmbH
German med-tech company Mecuris GmbH has successfully concluded a new funding round amounting to 3.6 million euros. In addition to the seed investors Bayern Kapital and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), the international investment company Mulcan, life science venture capital investor Vesalius Biocapital, and Sana Kliniken AG, one of the top five hospital chains in Germany, are once again also on board.
Clear yes from the O&P industry to digitalization
The Munich-based start-up has set out to
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Dr. Michael Brandkamp is leaving the HTGF to establish the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
On December 31, 2019, Dr. Michael Brandkamp is leaving the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) after 14 very successful years in order to set up the new European growth fund (ECBF) as a general partner.
The European Commission has mandated the European Investment Bank (EIB) to launch this fund to close the gap in the financing of growth companies in the fields of sustainable chemistry, circular bioeconomy, blue economy and nutrition/personal care. Dr. Brandkamp's enormous experience and network will
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IT security start-up deviceTRUST successfully completes its 7-digit Series A financing round
Hessen Kapital I GmbH and TF H III Technologiefonds Hessen GmbH invest together with Seed Investor High-Tech Gründerfonds in the German IT security start-up deviceTRUST. With its context-based security, deviceTRUST offers companies the secure and flexible provision of modern, digital workplaces.
“Companies want and need to provide their employees and external partners with a digital workplace that enables them to work flexibly and productively from anywhere. However, all security, compliance
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New work without burn-out: Corporate Health-Startup DearEmployee receives seven-figure funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds and IMPACT51
DearEmployee, the platform for mental health at the workplace will use the capital to further expand the scientific platform and establish a marketplace for health and human resources measures. Expansion into further European markets and the USA is also planned.
With the DearEmployee platform, companies can identify work-related stress at an early stage and derive effective prevention measures against burnout.
Henning Jakob, Co-Founder & CEO of DearEmployee GmbH explains:
"Mental stress m