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EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENOC), a leading provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), today announced that it has acquired Entelios AG, a leading provider of demand response in Europe. This acquisition accelerates EnerNOC’s entry into continental Europe with Entelios’ strong team and existing relationships with leading grid operators, utilities, retailers, and commercial, institutional, and industrial customers. In 2010 High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) invested in Entelios. Together

Women-led start-up leader in cutting-edge online personal shopping site for men Outfittery, Europe’s leading curated shopping service, has raised EUR 13 million led by Highland Capital Partners Europe with participation from existing investors including Holtzbrinck Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds, RI Digital Ventures and VC fund Kreativwirtschaft managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft. Outfittery, founded by Anna Alex and Julia Bosch only two years ago, has tran

coramaze technologies GmbH, a German company founded and based in Essen as a spin-off from the Western German Heart Center, is developing an innovative medical device for the minimally invasive treatment of one of the most common structural heart valve diseases, mitral regurgitation. The mitramaze® valve repair system technology has been developed through a technological research project funded by the EXIST research transfer of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The compan

Right at the beginning of the new year, the company PreisAnalytics GmbH – one of the leading providers of tools in the sector of price monitoring, market analysis and product range management in e-commerce – has announced a new financing round. In addition to High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Bayern Kapital, PreisAnalytics’ data collection and data analysis software could equally convince the renowned e-commerce investor Tengelmann Ventures. The funds will be used for an increase in growth, nati

The European market volume for industrial heat treatment of metals exceeds EUR 25 bn annually. Conventional kiln furniture for industrial furnaces is typically made of metals or ceramics. This causes significant costs due to energy inefficiency, equipment downtime and wearout, and deficient products. Both metals and ceramics waste a significant share of thermal output due to their heat capacity. Furthermore, metals show strong corrosion and warping at temperatures above 750 °C (1380 °F), an

Munich-based company Whiteout Networks GmbH has closed their seed funding round with new investors High-Tech-Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Bayernkapital. Whiteout Networks develops applications and cloud services for encrypted email communication. For the first time strong encryption based on well-known standards for protecting email will be available for non-technical users. The product is based on OpenPGP and ensures a full end-to-end encryption of important messages. Encryption takes place on the

ICE Gateway integrates efficient LED-lamps with proprietary communication and control electronics for the M2M infrastructure of smart cities and outdoor facilities of industrial customers. In combination with an innovative contracting model (“Lighting-as-a-Service”), together with a big player of the telecommunications industry, ICE Gateway offers the replacement of the lamps without initial capital investment (capex free) and with an immediate reduction of operative expenditures through ene

Digital Advertising Specialist Becomes Key Part of Digital Portfolio of Companies GroupM, the world’s leading global media investment management operation, announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire plista, a digital media specialist in Germany. The announcement was made jointly by Rudiger Wanck, GroupM Global Digital COO and Chief Digital Officer EMEA, and Dr. Dominik Matyka, co-founder and Managing Director of Corporation & Business Development at plista who were supported by Cor

Successful funding for young tourism company: Snow & Alps, operator of the largest reservation system for ski extras & outdoor activities in the Alps, today announced funding of nearly one million euros from the Bonn-based High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as from the traditional venture capital investor EXTOREL Falk F. Strascheg. The investment will be used to further intensify the rapid growth of the company and to develop new markets. In just one year, Snow & Alps has already att

Germany’s new internet platform makerist offers for the first time video classes for all things handmade – knitting, sewing, crochet and more. With the Seed investment from High Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), makerist can become the destination site for e-learning in the non-academic sector. makerist Co-founders Axel Heinz and Amber Riedl have seen the trend towards Do-It-Yourself (DIY)– and its market potential. The founders saw a real need from the DIY community for high quality tutorials

Our heart beats 60 to 100 times per minute, around 42 million times per year. Disturbances of the heart’s rhythm – so called arrhythmia- occur frequently, in particular in older people. Atrial fibrillation, the most common type of arrhythmia, typically represents with irregular palpitations, often associated with shortness of breath and anxiety attacks. Today, around 5-10 million patients in Europe suffer from atrial fibrillation and this number will further increase due to the demographic d

TORCH, the official provider of commercial services for Graylog2 (www.graylog2.org); the leading open source machine data analytics tool, has secured seed funding from e.ventures, High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Hasso Plattner Ventures and Atlantic Capital Partners. The one-year old startup, founded by the creators of Graylog2, provides official support and is backing ambitious further development of the open source product. With its innovative technology aimed at major corporations, SMEs and startups,

Scopis GmbH (www.scopis.com) announces the successful conclusion of its Series A round financing. Investors in the young medical technology company from Berlin are the VC Fonds Technologie Berlin managed by the IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (venture capital company) and the Falk Strascheg Holding (EXTOREL) as new investors as well as existing shareholders High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) and Fraunhofer Society. "In conjunction with a  financing from the ProFIT programme by the Investitionsb

In a strategic move to engage in agricultural water use efficiency, Yara has acquired the German water sensor company ZIM Plant Technology GmbH. ZIM Plant Technology sells crop water sensor technology, which is mostly used in high-precision irrigation systems to improve yields and water use efficiency. “We will incorporate the knowledge and technology into Yara’s existing Crop Nutrition solutions, providing a valuable add-on for our offering to irrigated farming. This clearly improves

Synoste Oy, a Helsinki and Düsseldorf based medical device company is developing next-generation implantable devices based on their unique and proprietary technology platform. The company has now raised a seed-round of € 0.8 M to advance the development of its first product aimed at the limb lengthening market. The seed round can be increased up to € 1.2 M upon reaching certain milestones and is supported by TEKES research funding with additional approx. € 1.6 M.  High-Tech Gründerfonds

The Berlin based start-up is a B2C online designer dress and accessories rental platform for women’s special occasions. With the successful closing of the seed financing round with HTGF and two serial entrepreneur business angels, GLAMOURRENT will drive its technological development and address the immense market potential. The Shareconomy is revolutionizing consumer behavior away from ownership to a pay-as-you-live lifestyle of sensible consumption. GLAMOURRENT combines this trend with a