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C2Call (Click-to-call) GmbH, a developer of a ground-breaking new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has received start up venture capital from High-Tech Gründerfonds and angel investors Michael Brehm – former executive director of StudiVZ – and Tapesh Sinha – Founder of Acctel Group. This investment will fund the internationalization and marketing of www.friendcaller.com, the world’s first Java browser-based VoIP suite and the popular FriendCaller iPhone apps. Developers o

Hamburg-based venture capital company Neuhaus Partners today announced that it was investing in the start-up company wwg worldwidegames GmbH, Hamburg, in conjunction with the Connected Life and Work Fund managed by T-Venture. Playnik.com, the browser games community portal developed by wwg worldwidegames GmbH, offers both proprietary browser games and games developed by its partners in the fast-growing massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) market. The investment of the two venture capital fu

With graphite based additives to substitute metals – this material innovation powers the H.C. Carbon Company located in Nuremberg. H.C. stands for High Competence in carbon, the base material of the additives. By refining and adding of the additives the enterprise makes plastics and plastic coatings more stable, gives them a substantially higher electrical and thermal conductivity and isolation ability and improves mechanical properties as well as the flowing behaviour, viscosity and wear rat

plista has successfully closed a second round of financing and launches its B2B business for personalization- und targeting-services Agitating times for the Berlin-based startup plista GmbH (www.plista.com). Despite the sluggish economic environment, plista was able to secure yet another round of financing from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de) as well as DuMont Venture (www.dumontventure.de) who, together with the existing investors, Draper Investment Company and the

MIG, Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds invest in the telephone system of the future nfon AG, developer of innovative web-based telephone systems, has closed the third major round of growth-financing with renowned investors within one year. Besides MIG fonds, as the new lead investor, the established investors Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds also participated in the financing round which closed on a high, single-digit million scale. nfon’s goal is to extend their lead on the market o

protected-networks.com wins the High-Tech Gründerfonds as lead investor with its concept for integrated access rights management on company data. High-Tech Gründerfonds is convinced of the innovative technology to visualize and optimize access rights which improves the IT security and efficiency in small and mid-sized companies. „Following promising market research, as well as the development of the prototype, we will focus the upcoming investments on the development of the software as well

United Maps GmbH announces successful closing of a seven-digit Series-A round Deploying its unique technology, United Maps GmbH optimizes quality, density and contents of vector maps. Market leading base maps from Navteq or Tele Atlas - well known from navigational devices made for vehicle traffic - are algorithmically combined and merged with supplemental cartographic data sets. The resulting new and comprehensive mapping products are perfectly fit for mobile and location based use cases. Uni

Despite a difficult economy the German eCommerce startup deal united successfully secured funds from the High-Tech Gründerfonds and sympasis innovation capital. Beginning with its start in the end of 2007, deal united grew continuously and became the European leader in the space of conversion optimization by advert-finanzed incentivations. By investing in deal united, the investors show their trust in deal united’s business model and its excellent prospects of success. Romy Schnelle, investm

High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in next generation technology for the optimisation of large scale office space allocation ReCoTech, a developer of IT-based solutions to optimise strategic large scale office space allocations receives 500,000 € start up venture capital from the High-Tech Gründerfonds. This investment will serve to finalise the market ready implementation of the existing prototype. The software developed by ReCoTech GmbH is globally unique and its functional scope distinct fro

Seed investment of 500.000 € for the specialists for simple, innovative navigation for medicine With its medical navigation systems, SP Solution Pool GmbH provides support for surgeons performing operations. These pioneering systems combine high precision and user-friendliness. SP Navigation provides a simple, integrated navigation concept that can be used in every operation and requires minimal preparation time. Thanks to its ergonomic design, system operation is intuitive and the system can

Development of a novel, repositionable biological heartvalve The newly founded medical technologies company Transcatheter Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) announces the successful closing of a seed financing round of 600.000 € with High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Seedfonds Bayern. The funds will be used for the development of a novel biological heart valve up to the proof of concept. The patented design enables the repositioning of the valve and thereby decreases the number of complication

Yatta Solutions GmbH, a specialist in model-driven software development has secured the High-Tech Günderfonds as an investor. Yatta Solutions develops and distributes UML Lab, a software development tool which offers a complete, automatic and error-free alignment of source code and models (or diagrams) for the first time ever. The model view remains the same throughout software implementation without the need for time-consuming manual maintenance of the software design. Thus the introduction of

Neuhaus Partners and High-Tech Gründerfonds have increased their shares in antispameurope. The inflow of additional capital is expected to further strengthen international growth of the Hannover based provider of managed e-mail security services. Both companies are investors into antispameurope since its first financing round in the fall of 2007. A second financing round was conducted in April of 2008. Dr. Gottfried Neuhaus, Managing Partner of Neuhaus Partners, appears pleased with the develo

Biochemical profiling services for companies in life science industry Based on its proprietary fluorescence cross correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) Intana offers highly-specific biochemical profiling services for companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical and life science industries. FCCS is an interaction analysis based on a single molecule sensitive spectroscopic approach. The technology is extremely well suited to characterize molecular interactions between active ingredients, targets and off t

With its Global Sourcing Platform, pliXos GmbH offers a solution for the industrialisation of global sourcing projects. The platform allows for quality assurance and the control of third-party software and IT services, thus reducing the costs. The pliXos approach as Software-as-a-Service – beyond company boundaries – also reduces the customer’s entry-barriers and operational costs and offers unique synergy effects. The use of established open source components compared to proprietary syste

wwg worldwidegames GmbH, the provider of the innovative browser game portal playnik.com, has received € 500,000 venture capital from the High-Tech Gründerfonds. This amount was co-financed by Oliver Jung, Torsten Oppermann and Holtzbrink Ventures. The financial resources are primarily intended for the development of new games and gaming concepts and form the expansion into core foreign markets. Agreements have already been made with a number of notable preliminary partners throughout Europe,