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Eddyson GmbH has secured a seed round from High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) for the development and marketing of their B2B connectivity solutions. Thanks to the completely new technological platform, eddyson products offer an unprecedented level of stability and performance. The standard version of the software is provided free of license fees, which will make a thing of the past the high entry prices for the electronic data interchange solutions that today constitute a hurdle for smaller comp

Cunesoft GmbH, an innovative cloud software provider for regulatory document and submission management, specialized in the pharmaceutical industry, today announced that it successfully closed an investment round with High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital. The funds will be used to further internationalize sales activities as well as to expand the software’s capabilities. Within the pharmaceutical industry, the filing of the drug submission dossier involves critical and regulated pr

With its innovative Roomglasses, ImmerSight, the technology-based startup from Ulm, obtains seed financing from High-Tech Gruenderfonds and MBG Baden-Wuerttemberg. ImmerSight will use the funds for business growth, thus establishing itself in the market sector of bathroom sales. The ImmerSight team formed 2012 at the Ulm University and invented the Roomglassess – a technology for virtual reality. The Roomglasses enable the user to totally immerge in virtual spaces thus creating an almost re

Chargepartner GmbH provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform technology that enables business customers to efficiently operate their own electric vehicle charging infrastructure. By focusing on the needs of the charge point operators as well as e-mobility service providers, Chargepartner has developed a modular service solution for the authorization, management and billing of vehicle charging procedures as well as for the management of user contracts. The solutions provided by Chargepartn

Fooboo Holding GmbH is focused on developing mobile services for the food industry. The start-up is working on combing cooking and experience, retail and groceries in a new, unique way. Fooboo is a company founded by Andreas von Maltzan and is focused on developing mobile services for the food industry. The existing recipe platform www.kochrezepte.de and its iOS and android apps, which von Maltzan brought into Fooboo, will serve as a basis for the start-up. The recipe database will be spiced u

Rigontec GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases, announces the first closing of its Series A financing round, raising €9.45 million. The round was co-led by Wellington Partners and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, and included NRW Bank and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Rigontec is developing synthetic ligands of a novel receptor of the innate immune system, Retinoic acid Inducible Gene I (RI

Three investors have joined the startup 4 Animals AlsterScience GmbH.  Innovationsstarter Fonds from Hamburg, a Business Angel from the far north and High-Tech Gründerfonds from Bonn are investing in development of biologic drugs and feed supplements for animals that improve immune function.  “Our development work focuses on drugs and treatments for pets – but also livestock – that strengthen natural immune systems in animals. Good and effective natural drugs are urgently needed. A hea

Preventicus GmbH is developing smartphone-driven solutions to capture and analyze patients' vital parameters for early preclinical risk screening of lifestyle-related illnesses. Seed funding for the Jena-based company is managed by the German High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) in Bonn and Born2Grow venture fund in Heilbronn. The capital is being provided to develop the products and portal to marketability. It is the mission of Preventicus to help make a significant contribution to preventing lif

Heliatek GmbH, the world’s leading company in the production and commercialization of organic solar films, has successfully completed its C-Financing round by raising 18 million EUR. This Round was led by AQTON SE, an investment holding of German entrepreneur Stefan Quandt, with participation of all prior investors, Bosch, BASF, Innogy Venture Capital (Innogy Venture Capital is the corporate Venture Capital arm of RWE Innogy), Wellington Partners, eCAPITAL, High-Tech Gruenderfonds and TGFS. Si

Innovative robotic products for the minimally invasive surgery medineering GmbH successfully closed its first investment round in August 2014. The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital, Born2Grow as well as a consortium of business angels will be supporting the Munich medtech company in the future. The investors were intrigued by medineering's product portfolio and its potential to optimize the workflow within  operating theatres. The investment will now be used for developing and r

The founders of the hospitality app opentabs proudly announce a successful funding round. German High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) guarantees with its investment further progress of opentabs. The vast majority will be invested in the technology, meaning the two mobile app versions (iOS and Android) and the center piece - the backend. Just recently the iOS version was updated, focusing on a better user experience ordering coffee or food to go via app. Other new features are already in the pipelin

Intensification of digital activities through advanced web shop technology REWE Digital, a company of REWE Group, has acquired commercetools, a leading technology provider of e-commerce solutions, which is known for its high-performance cloud software. Commercetools will intensify the combine-wide digital activities of REWE Group with its advanced web shop technologies, while continuing to operate on the market as an independent company. With SPHERE.IO, commercetools offers an attractive platfo

MinCell GmbH was founded in Weimar in 2010 and within the frame of a research and development project it developed innovative methods for the production of foam glass granulate and slabs for structural and civil engineering as well as lightweight aggregates for road and landscape construction. Foam glass is a high quality and ecologically sound insulating and lightweight construction material which has been on the market for decades, but as a niche product due to its relatively high price. Thank

Target Partners (www.targetpartners.de) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) have invested a seven-figure Euro amount in Quobyte Inc. in a Series A financing round (www.quobyte.com). Quobyte is headquartered in Boston (USA) with R&D in Berlin. Quobyte develops and markets the Quobyte Unified Storage Plane (USP), a software-defined storage system that runs on commodity Linux servers. Quobyte USP enables customers to build cloud infrastructures with a quality equal to the big cloud providers suc

bitstars GmbH has developed a SaaS platform technology that enables customers to set up their own augmented reality (AR) applications. By focussing on very intuitive usability the platform enables users to create applications meeting their specific requirements with little effort. These applications can be managed and used in multiple end user devices, such as smartphones, tablets and smart glasses. Through the extension of reality with virtual text and objects (augmented reality) or the creat

Innovation resulting from research in the field of pain and the clinical management of pain are the topic of Med-Tech-Radars’ fourth issue. MedTech Radar is a joint publication of BVMed (The German Medical Technology Association), Earlybird Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds. 12-15 million people in Germany alone suffer from chronic and recurring pain. Chosing the right therapy and getting the dosage right still proves a demanding task for medical professionals. Berlin-based Dolosys n