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maxment GmbH supports companies in increasing the return on their investments in human resource development, and in numerically proving their benefit. maxment® is a very user-friendly online software (SaaS), which via the internet is ready to use. A security server ensures a confidential treatment of the data, in line with works council requirements. Thanks to standardisation and extensive automation, the effort for training participants and personnel development managers is really low. Compani

Novel platform technology for Targeted Drug Delivery set to enable successful treatment of various infectious diseases and cancers. Rodos BioTarget GmbH [RBT] successfully closed a start-up financing round with High-Tech Gruenderfonds and hannover innovation fonds [hif]. In order to address various chronic infectious diseases and incurable cancers, RBT has developed an innovative and patented nanocarrier technology [the“TargoSphere”] that enables targeted delivery of active agents to the

RapidRabb.it, expert in software prototyping, gains the High-Tech Gründerfonds as first round investor. The RapidRabb.it GmbH develops and offers Software as a Service for the real-time collaborative visualization and optimization of web- and software user interfaces through prototyping and testing. „With the High-Tech Gründerfonds we were able to convince the ideal investor for our current situation“, says CEO Philipp Huy after finalizing the investment. „The 500,000 Euro risk capital a

Biotech start up pluriSelect GmbH has closed a financing round totalling 600.000 Euro with the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Technologie Gründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS). With pluriBead®, the Leipzig based biotech company introduces a unique and innovative technology platform for the rapid and gentle separation of bio molecules and cells. For the first time scientists can simultaneously isolate different types of cells and proteins in a simple one-step protocol (simultaneous multi-tar

AVIDAL Vascular GmbH, a medical device company which is focused on the development and commercialization of drug eluting balloons (DEB) today announced the closing of the seed financing round. The round was led by the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bonn. AVIDAL is developing a DEB technology for the intraluminal drug application in coronary arteries and peripheral vessels to treat In-Stent-Restenosis (ISR), bifurcations, small vessels, and long lesions. Torsten Heilmann, founder and CEO expla

EBS Technologies is proud to announce that seed financing has been obtained from two sources – the High-Tech Gründerfonds, a prominent German public-private investment fund for start-up companies, as well as the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg, an investment bank in the German state of Brandenburg. This funding will enable EBS Technologies to complete a randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind study as well as to conduct a second single-center phase-II study of its innovative new t

Sim4tec GmbH is a spin-off from the Technical University of Dresden and CreaPhys GmbH and is active in the area of organic electronics. Sim4tec develops and distributes software for simulation of physical processes in organic devices. The bases of the sim4tec technology were developed in the framework of successful research projects between physicians involved in the semiconductor technology at the Institute for Applied Photophysics at the Technical University of Dresden, namely Dr. Robert Nitsc

Liquiverse, software experts in visual data processing, today announced that the company has received EUR 500,000 venture capital from Bonn-based investor High-Tech Gründerfonds. The financial resources are designed to expand research and product development of visualization and interaction technologies while successfully introducing Liquiverse’s product portfolio to the market. Liquiverse develops and distributes software solutions based on Liquid Browsing®, a patented technology leveraging

The integration of data from intelligent devices such as RFID readers, industrial scales, GPS receivers, smart meters, cameras, and others into enterprise software revolutionizes business processes. Ubigrate offers software to simplify setting up such connections. The company now receives an investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds. Most processes in logistics, production and facility management happen in the physical world. However, they are only rarely integrated into enterprise software used

The High-Tech-Gründerfonds, Bonn, Germany invests 500.000 Euro in the German medical technology start-up company Microstim GmbH. The Microstim GmbH, situated in Lübeck, is developing a new, tissue-maintaining and function-preserving myostimulator needed for muscle powered cardiac assistance. Muscle powered cardiac assist might be offered to patients who suffer from a heart insufficiency not controllable by medication. This new therapeutic approach with a nearly unlimited availability of pat

A high calibre group of investors has invested in KABOA GmbH in Aschheim near Munich. High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital, together with Neuhaus Partners and Web Holding, are providing the seed capital to bring personalized and context-sensitive ads, as seen on Google and Amazon, into the offline sphere of supermarket advertising. Producers of supermarket products suffer from two problems: 75% of all new products flop and television, the most important advertising medium, reaches the w

A revolution in the near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is done by the implementation of an innovative micro scanner technology. This new technology is based on a microchip which deflects light in a reproducible manner. The already field tested and forward-looking base technology enables the fabrication of rather small, extremely rugged and very fast near-infrared spectrometers. This allows new analytical processes in food- and process analytics and quality control. As well the identification of

At the same time, High-Tech Gründerfonds sold a significant part of its interest and achieved a high single-digit multiple. End of 2008, the natural product lead-discovery company InterMed Discovery GmbH (IMD) located in Dortmund, Germany, was able to take another strategic investor on board. With its investment in IMD the Malaysian Life Science company “Biotropics Malaysia Berhad” underlines the long-term cooperation between the two companies, initiated in September 2008 with the conclu

CargoGuard GmbH offers a web-based access and control system for portable security containers. The system includes a variety of security and administration functions allowing the sender to choose who, with whom together, when and where access to transported goods is granted. CargoGuard is the most innovative security solution for enterprises demanding freedom from manipulation, theft and data protection as well as quality protection for shipments. "With CargoGuard, it is now for the first tim

The German start-up company SurgicEye GmbH offers solutions for intra-operative imaging and instrument navigation. The first product of SurgicEye implements the innovative freehand SPECT technology for detection, localization and guided biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer. This will allow surgical procedures to be more sensitive, more reliable and less invasive. In the U.S. more than 125.000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year. Approximately 90.000 of those patients

CAVI announces its new investor High-Tech Gründerfonds. The CAVI technol-ogy already received the Multimedia Founder’s Prize from the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (Germany). Thanks to CAVI’s trendsetting soft-ware, complex shopping systems can be directly integrated into online videos. Music videos now become a virtual shopping experience. Almost one year ago 22-year-old Dominik Reisig from Ingolstadt (Germany) had a ground-breaking idea upon which later on the company CAVI w