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High-Tech Gründerfonds and STIFT are jointly investing €700,000 in JeNaCell GmbH. The capital will be used to build up automated production in the creation of a high-performance, high-tech biomaterial. The business idea of JeNaCell GmbH, a spin-off of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, is based on a new and patented process for the continuous production of a high-performance biomaterial with natural nanostructures, which can be used for making innovative medical and cosmet

Strategic partnership with the pioneer in the field of online services for local urban deliveries Daimler has acquired a minority interest Networking of local urban mobility and transport services creates comprehensive and efficient portfolio Daimler AG has acquired a minority interest in tiramizoo GmbH, a Munich-based startup company in the field of mobility services. tiramizoo pioneered a new business segment when it launched a year ago with a fully automated online booking platform fo

2.6 million Euro financing will accelerate development of cutting-edge technology for protein analysis AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, today announces it has closed a 2.6 million Euro Series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and included NRW.BANK, HTGF - High-Tech-Gründerfonds, and private investors, Rainer Christine and Dr. Gregor Siebenkotten, both formerly executive board members and co-founders of amaxa biosystems. The f

Cooperation agreement signed between ISB and High-Tech Gründerfonds. Joint participation in newly-established technology businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate with up to EUR 600,000 in the first round of funding. New funding opportunity for innovative technology businesses in Rhineland-Palatinate in the seed phase. The cooperation agreement is designed to allow Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) in collaboration with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) of Bonn to make equity availabl

Seven-digit cash injection for Hamburg startup Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), the venture capital fund of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, Holtzbrinck Ventures and the incubator Project A have joined the High-Tech Gründerfonds in investing a seven-digit sum into Semasio GmbH. The Hamburg startup will use the funds to fuel its continued geographical expansion, and accelerate its product and technology development. Semasio develops technology for tailoring online display advert

On 1st September 2012 High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) will be moving into the recently built “brandtelf” office building in Schlegelstraße (on the corner of Willy-Brandt-Allee/Heussallee) in the midst of the Bonn government district. Here HTGF will be located in the immediate vicinity of the Federal Art and Exhibition Hall, the German House of History, the head offices of Deutsche Telekom and the UN Campus, Deutsche Welle and Post Tower. With the modern building complex architects Ursula

Following the sale of their portfolio company CorImmun GmbH to Janssen-Cilag for an undisclosed upfront payment and a contingent future clinical milestone payment, Corimmun’s investors led by MIG have realized an important return on investment. CorImmun’s lead compound, COR-1, is a small cyclic peptide currently in early clinical development for the treatment of heart failure. COR-1 has been shown in preclinical studies to improve heart function by decreasing autoimmune, beta 1 receptor-s

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) together invested around 1 million euros in the Leipzig-based software company Data Virtuality GmbH.  The funding will be used to further develop and market the company’s innovative software solutions for the automated creation of data warehouses. Data Virtuality GmbH develops and markets software which enables companies to automatically collect and process data from different data sources. Analysing data from own b

Subitec GmbH, a manufacturer of fully automated algae photobioreactors, hascloseda second round of financing. The CleantechFonds of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Fraunhofer Venture, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) [High-Tech Start-Up Fund] and KfWBankengruppe’s ERP-Startfonds [ERP Start Fund] participated in the capital increase. Subitec funds to the amount of 4.5 m euros will accrue in this round of financing. The raised capital is to be used mainly for launching bioreactors on the int

Start-up financers High-Tech Gründerfonds and the investment company of Life Science Inkubator are investing together with the TTHU [Technology Transfer Heinrich Heine University GmbH] and a private investor in the development of molecular diagnostic cancer tests. Epivios GmbH, a spin-off of the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf is receiving seed financing that will secure the further development of its platform technology. The five-member founding team works on innovative processes t

Founded in February 2012 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Topsfield is developing a novel solution that addresses the underlying problem of premature shoulder implant loosening by improving the prosthesis fixation method. This next generation shoulder replacement system extends the life of the implants and address a major unmet clinical need. These technological advances allow a significantly increased patient population, including younger and active elderly patients, to receive shoulder im

Holtzbrinck Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in Berlin-based ecommerce start-up PAUL SECRET (www.paulsecret.com). PAUL SECRET aims at taking the pain out of shopping for men. The start-up provides an innovative shopping alternative for the male customer where they are individually counselled and clothed by professional stylists. The team, which founded the company in early 2012, is already handling hundreds of happy customers. „As an e-commerce investor we see great potential in thi

High-Tech Gründerfonds invests as lead investor in KeyRocket (Veodin Software GmbH). KeyRocket is a unique trainer for keyboard shortcuts and software knowledge. The financing round enables the international distribution of KeyRocket as well as expanding the team to accelerate product development for additional applications and platforms. KeyRocket shows users time-saving keyboard shortcuts, when they use slow and inefficient mouse clicks. The shortcut hints appear as subtle pop-ups, which d

zuuka group GmbH, publishers of the iTalk entertainment apps, zuuka Comics and iStoryTime, the largest library of mobile children’s book apps, announced a financing round from High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Business Angels. This new round of funding allows zuuka to continue to expand its ongoing development and expansion within children’s mobile entertainment. The lead investors are venturecapital.de and HTGF. zuuka is a full-service provider for mobile kids’ entertainment, developing and

AudioCure Pharma concentrates on the clinical development of drug candidates in neurodegenerative disease indications with a high unmet medical need. The lead candidate is a small molecule compound for the treatment of acute and chronic hearing impairments via local, regenerative therapy of the damaged nerve cells in the inner ear. Seed financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and business angel Dr. Schumacher will enable AudioCure to develop the lead compound for the medicinal treatment of hea

t-cell Europe GmbH, a spin-off of the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, has announced the successful completion of its first round of financing, raising a total of EUR 1.45 million from Germany’s High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Constantin Bastian Leander Venture Capital GmbH, and the Brandenburg state development bank (ILB). The start-up company, located in Kleinmachnow, a suburb of Berlin, has dedicated itself since its founding in 2010 to the development and subsequent commercia