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Protectimmun GmbH has successfully closed a first financing round totalling EUR 1.3 Million. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), ELS-Fonds managed by EnjoyVenture, and KfW invest in the inno­vative approach for protection against the development of hay fever and allergic asthma together with a private investor and the team of founders. "We are very pleased to get these experienced partners on board, says Dr. Marion Kauth, CEO and co-founder of Protectimmun. "This financing enables us to rapidly

TRANSCATHETER TECHNOLOGIES GmbH, a transcatheter heart valve company that is developing TRINITY a fully repositionable device for transcatheter aortic valve implantation, announced today that it has closed a Euro 1.7 million 'Series A' financing round. Existing investors Technologie-Seed-Beteiligungsfonds Bayern GmbH & Co. KG and High-Tech Gründerfonds GmbH also participated in this funding round. New investors are Tubaflex Beteiligungs GmbH, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW), ERP-St

The Berlin-based B2B software-as-a-service company acquires High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mountain Super Angel AG as new investors. Growth and product development should pick up in the coming months with assistance and fresh capital from both new partners. Customer Alliance brings to the web the time-consuming, manual process of surveying guests in the hotel industry. Guests are now automatically surveyed after departure, the feedback is analysed for the hotelier in real time and all ratings are

Semasio received a 500K EUR seed funding by High-Tech Gruenderfonds. The company develops a demand-side targeting platform that enables customers to increase their marketing effectiveness and efficiency. Semasio GmbH is a Hamburg-based company developing a product called the User Intelligence Platform, a Software-as-a-Service proposition empowering media agencies and advertisers to build their very own database of profiles on the internet users they are commercially interested in. This User Int

Clean Mobile AG, based in Unterhaching (Munich area) today announces the completion of a B-series financing in the amount of 7.7 million Euro. The technological leader in the field of hybrid electric drives for the LEV market sells manifoldly patented drive trains through leading vehicle manufacturers to commercial and private users. The company has developed proprietary technologies around the entire drive train, including highest efficiency battery management systems, optimized drives and i

The Potsdam-based company yourTime Solutions GmbH gains High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) as investor. Capital of about € 500,000 will support new development and market entry of the 'yourMail' software solution. yourTime Solutions develops and markets software for professional, automated time and e-mail management. 'yourMail' is an initial product to be launched in 2011 that will return sovereignty to companies and their staff as well as private users over their inboxes. The growing flood

Rainer Brüderle, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, today commended EBS Technologies as High-Tech Gründerfonds’ 2010 lighthouse project. The award was presented during the ‘Economy – School – Government technology dialogue’ as part of the technology initiative   in Berlin.    The start-up, based in the town of Kleinmachnow, has developed a non-invasive medical product to treat patients with functional disorders following a stroke or brain trauma. Three factors were

TIXEL develops and markets systems and solutions for high speed and reliable data transfer over wide area networks (WAN). The IT start-up company from Hannover focuses on experienced partners for expanding its business and receives €700k venture capital from hannover innovations fonds (hif) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Conventional methods for data transfers over wide area networks based on the well-known file transfer protocol (FTP) are very sensitive to typical effects such as pack

SAW Instruments has completed in early February its second financing round of one million EUR and is aiming to reach break-even in fiscal year 2012. "The funds will be invested in particular in the expansion of sales & marketing activities and extending our product portfolio." says Managing Director Sabine Bois. After an extremely positive development of the company in 2010, the management is very pleased that the KfW joined as new investor. "We have worked together very well with KI and th

PEPperPRINT has won German Industry’s Innovation Award 2010 in the startup category. The biotech company from Heidelberg, Germany, was awarded in line of 30th German Industry’s Gala at the Congress Center Frankfurt by Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr. Annette Schavan. PEPperPRINT was selected out of more than 320 companies from all industry sectors by a committee composed of renowned leaders of German economy and sciences. Financed by High-Tech Gründerfonds, the startup com

Evotec expands its drug discovery platform with cutting-edge technologies Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire all shares in Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH, a Munich-based drug discovery alliance company supporting the development of targeted drugs. Strengthening Evotec’s position as quality leader in drug discovery The acquisition of Kinaxo confirms Evotec’s leading position as fully integrated drug discovery and

enexion is aiming to step up its international growth further. In this process, it will rely on the expertise of experienced partners: working together with two investors, Armagan Özel and Tarzisius Caviezel – both experienced entrepreneurs – the Company will give its spending on international growth a major boost.   As an independent service provider for the sustained reduction and management of total energy supply costs for energy-intensive businesses, enexion manages for its custom

saperatec, an independent recycling specialist for high-tech products receives € 1 m seed capital from the seed funds „Gruenderfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen“ managed by eCAPITAL and the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Bonn. Saperatec will use these funds to build up the production in Bielefeld, Germany. The high-tech industry relies on sufficient availability of high-tech materials, such as rare earth and noble metals. These metals are used in the electronics industry, for example for TVs,

SSP Europe is embarking on 2011 with a new investor. With the support and capital of internet24, the Bavarian company will further expand its national and international sales and marketing structures for distributors and customers. The first objective is to broaden the network of partners across Germany and business activity in Austria. SSP Europe is thereby responding to the steadily rising demand for secure online services. SSP Europe’s online security and IT services cover all IT tasks �

Entelios AG, a European energy company, today announces the successful completion of its Series A financing round. The round was led by Yellow&Blue Investment Management, a Dutch clean energy investor, and High-Tech Gründerfonds, a German venture capital investor. Established in 2010, Munich-based Entelios is the first nationwide “Demand Response” aggregator and service provider. It has since taken a market leading position. Commenting on the fundraising, Oliver Stahl, founder and CE

Dental Technology Company funded by Berlin, Germany and Dallas-based Business Angels and German Investment Funds. Natural Dental Implants (NDI), Inc. the Dallas-based subsidiary of Natural Dental Implants AG, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, today announced the closing of its series A financing in the amount of $2M to be used for commercializing the Company’s patented REPLICATE™ Non-surgical Tooth Replacement System. Participating in the round were individual angel investors including memb