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HTGF and MBG Invest in Future Cellular IoT Technologies CommSolid, the cellular IoT IP company, has completed its first funding round to provide leading edge ultra-low power solutions for the growing cellular IoT market. This market, often referred to as Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) market, demands highly optimized and easy to integrate communication solutions for the newly defined NarrowBand-IoT standard, allowing every sensor and actuator to be directly connected to the Internet. On

Creathor Venture, one of the leading European Venture Capital firms, leads a Series B financing round in CryoTherapeutics, the developer of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease. The Life Science Start-up CryoTherapeutics receives at total of € 5.2 million in the current Series B financing round from Creathor Venture as well as from the existing investors NRW.BANK, Peppermint CBF, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Getz Brothers, Kreditanstalt für W

JUNIQE, Europe’s leading marketplace for curated art from around the world, has raised €14m in an investment round led by Highland Europe, alongside previous investors Vorwerk Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Redalpine. From wall art to zeitgeist lifestyle products, JUNIQE connects artists and designers with individuals who are looking to express their personal style and passion for art. Launched in 2014, the Berlin-based startup already ships to thirteen countries across Europe, gen

MBG Baden-Württemberg and High-Tech Gründerfonds increase their shares of the immersight GmbH with investing a 6-digit amount in the german tech startup. The capital will be used for technology development and growth by immersight. immersight was founded in 2012 by students from Ulm University, who developed the roomglasses, a technology for the Virtual Reality. The Roomglasses enables to immerse completely into the virtual room as an almost real experience. Thanks to the idea of using the te

Providing the best possible rehabilitation treatment to intensive-care patients, already 24 hours after hospital admission, directly in the patient bed: ReActive Robotics aims to make intelligent robotics the standard-of care in a field that has been dominated by manual therapy. A consortium of four investors, led by MTIP MedTech Innovation Partners AG and complemented by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and TQ-Group, provides a seven-digit Series A investment to enable the development an

Booking software company bookingkit from Berlin raised a Series A financing round. Intermedia, an investment company of Media Union, which is one of the leading media groups in Germany, has joined the team of investors. In early 2015, Germany's largest early-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) as well as business angel Robert Kabs from Hamburg already participated in a Seed round. Combined, these three partners now participate in a Series A funding with an seven-digit sum to further ex

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests into the marketing technology startup AdTriba. The Hamburg based Saas-company allows Advertisers to track, control and optimize their online marketing activities across all digital marketing channels through data science and user journey analysis. The founders, János Moldvay (CEO) and Ludwig Ostrowski (CTO) have extensive experience in data science and digital marketing. With AdTriba they aim to make marketing data driven, more transparent and thus more

Munich-based Cevotec GmbH develops and sells production systems and software for the automated production of complex carbon composites (carbon fiber reinforced plastics, short: CFRP). With a fully digitized product development and an additive manufacturing process, Cevotec brings so-called Industry 4.0 technology, the smart combination of physical and digital systems, to the composites industry. It provides manufacturers with a powerful solution for the cost-efficient, high-quality series produc

The manufacturer of measurement instruments for toxic industrial gases bentekk successfully completes a seed funding round. The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) invest a six-figure sum in the Hamburg-based company. The handheld X-PID allows fast and selective measurements of carcinogenic organic compounds as benzene and increases safety at work in the oil, gas and chemical industry. The funding is used to open up the German-speaking market and to deve

The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in cooperation with the MBG and a private angel investor into the Stuttgart based software as a service provider SE.M.LABS. Marius Merle (CEO), Svend Erik Wendt (COO) und Daniel Schniepp (CTO) come from the leasing and banking industry. The software forms the link between capital goods and the billing of the financial service. By universal interfaces different goods and systems can be interconnected. With their software their customers can reduce the

The High-Tech Gründerfonds and the MBG Schleswig-Holstein renew their investment in eyefactive GmbH. A six digit sum is provided to promote the international growth of the first app platform for professional Touchscreens. In addition to their previous portfolio of scalable multitouch technology for interactive tables and walls eyefactive GmbH announced the world´s first app platform for large-scale touchscreens in November 2013. The apps enable users to simultaneously operate interactive co

Digitalisation has now become part of everyday life and the health sector is no exception. There are currently around 100,000 health apps on offer in the app stores and the billion dollar market is growing rapidly. Whether fitness, nutrition, disease diagnosis or doctor’s appointments – there’s a smartphone app for almost every aspect of health. The sixth issue of the joint media service “MedTech Radar”, published by BVMed, Earlybird Venture Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and

The Munich based Cunesoft GmbH, an innovative software provider of cloud-based regulatory master data management solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, today announced that it has successfully completed an undisclosed seven-digit series-A financing round. The participants in this new round of financing included the Swiss based lead investor Occident Group and the existing investors High-Tech-Gruenderfonds and Bayern Kapital, who also previously invested in Cunesoft in October 2014. The co

Thermosome GmbH, an emerging biopharmaceutical company, today announces the closing of its first financing round, raising net proceeds of approximately €1.9 million from funds managed by High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH and Bayern Kapital GmbH, respectively, as well as a group of private investors. This first financing round is substantially enlarged by a recently approved grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) providing additionally €2.7 million over

For almost one year, Berlin-based start-up Lockbox GmbH has been making beverage delivery for its customers as easy as possible thanks to its Trinkkiste.de service. After expanding the company’s delivery area from Berlin to Hamburg and Cologne earlier this year, Lockbox was able to secure investment capital in the high six-figures to provide further expansion of its service. The delivery area has just been expanded in March to include Hannover, Freiburg and Potsdam. Trinkkiste.de will continu

Bitwala, the easiest way for international money transfers using blockchain technology, announced today that it has raised €800k in a seed funding round including the largest German VC investment firm High-Tech-Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the leading bitcoin and blockchain investor Digital Currency Group (DCG). Traditional banking is no longer making the cut for global payments. International wire transfer options offered today are slow, expensive and complicated for everyday customers. As a sol