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Focus on Start-up Pitch Day: BVMed, Earlybird, High-Tech Gründerfonds and BIOCOM publish “MedTech Radar 10”
Strategic co-operation between medical technology firms and start-ups could foster more innovation within the industry and be a decisive factor in the success of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). This is particularly true in light of the increasingly complex regulatory market environment through the new EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) which came into effect almost a year ago. Which advantages start-ups could bring in with regard to this situation and what founders, investors as well a
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Kiwigrid Successfully Closes Series C Round
Innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds are selling their shareholding within this financing round
Kiwigrid, innogy, LG and AQTON Are Jointly Creating a Global Industry Platform for Energy IoT
Kiwigrid GmbH, operator of an Energy IoT industry platform, has successfully completed its third and so far its largest financing round. While AQTON SE has significantly increased its share, the company based out of Dresden attained innogy SE and LG Electronics as new investors. The exist
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Synapticon: Investment in the Future of Robotics
By investing in Synapticon GmbH, Gruibingen, a group of investors consisting of High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Seedfonds Baden-Wuerttemberg (SFBW), and the private investor Günter Lang is supporting a company in the growing market of robotics. The Synapticon GmbH team has already made a name for itself as a developer of high performance, autonomous robotics systems. With the products DYNARC and OBLAC, Synapticon GmbH is now introducing a hardware and software platform to the market that can be
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FINDIQ
FINDIQ offers the first approach to intelligently exploit the outgoing knowledge of the mechanical engineering industry. For the first time, a new type of AI integrates knowledge management and an assistance system in a service software. It takes only 20 hours to digitize the knowledge of a machine, only 6 clicks to retrieve this knowledge for the right service solution. The speed and self-learning in the application will please not only large industrial companies, but also medium-sized machine
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Industry 4.0 for carbon composites — Cevotec raises €1.75m seed financing
Munich-based Cevotec GmbH develops and sells production systems and software for the automated production of complex carbon composites (carbon fiber reinforced plastics, short: CFRP). With a fully digitized product development and an additive manufacturing process, Cevotec brings so-called Industry 4.0 technology, the smart combination of physical and digital systems, to the composites industry. It provides manufacturers with a powerful solution for the cost-efficient, high-quality series produc
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linkbird SEO management tool gains support of investors and business angels
Berlin-based SaaS firm linkbird is growing
Thanks to the innovative concept of the linkbird SaaS solution, combining aspects of SEO project management, CRM and controlling, linkbird (www.linkbird.de) was able to grow significantly in 2012. Among hundreds of others, well-known online shops, agencies and portals such as Zalando, eDarling and Expedia belong to linkbird’s customer base.
Now linkbird is receiving professional support on a consulting as well as financial basis: the High-Tech G
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Intelligent robotics – Fraunhofer start-up award 2017 for Mojin Robotics GmbH
On February 27, 2018, Mojin Robotics GmbH received the EUR 5,000 Fraunhofer start-up award, a joint initiative of Fraunhofer Venture and High-Tech Gründerfonds. This year’s award honors a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. Combining, among others, semantic dialog systems and artificial intelligence, the company developed a robot that simplifies different areas of life. With its unique technology, it brings the quality of life and work to a n
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Rigontec (Exit)
Rigontec GmbH, is a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases.
Rigontec focus on the development of synthetic ligands of a novel receptor of the innate immune system, Retinoic acid Inducible Gene I (RIG-I), which recognizes viral RNA. RNA motifs that activate RIG-I promote the destruction of diseased cells and the induction of a lasting immune memory thereby treating and preventing recurrence of disease.
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High-Tech Gründerfonds secures another successful exit – EH-D acquired by Bosch Rexroth
By taking over an extensive technology package, Bosch Rexroth will increase its range of electrically driven, servo-hydraulic compact axesEH-D is the ninth HTGF portfolio company to be acquired by a HTGF fund investorHTGF and Bayern Kapital took up stakes in EH-D in 2010 as part of a seed financing round
Bonn, 29 June 2021 – High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has achieved another successful exit, with the EH-D assets being sold to Bosch Rexroth. The company’s site will be retained,
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Kick-starting digital transformation for property management companies
So far property management and residential real estate companies have been dodging the digital transformation. Munich-based startup casavi is about to change this with their industry-optimised Software-as-a-Service platform, enabling companies to modernise their customer engagement processes.
„Just looking at Germany there are more than 20,000 companies dedicated to managing flats. This puts them in pole position in terms of the residential property market as a whole”, explains Peter Schi
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mediaire
mediaire GmbH was founded in 2018 in Berlin by experienced MRT and AI experts in order to support radiologists with innovative software solutions for the automatic diagnosis of MRT images. mediaire's solutions can be fully integrated into the internal IT infrastructure of radiology centers to ensure a smooth workflow and the highest possible protection of sensitive patient data. The first product md.Brain, which can be used for early detection and follow-up of neurodegenerative diseases, is alre
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Evotec acquires Kinaxo, Profitable Exit for Seed-Investor High-Tech Gründerfonds
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
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itembase secures investment from UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
itembase, the personal inventory platform with offices in San Francisco and Berlin (www.itembase.com), today announced a recent investment from the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, the private equity strategic investment arm of UPS (NYSE: UPS). Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
“We are excited to welcome the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund as a new investor,” said Stefan Jørgensen, founder and Chief Executive Officer of itembase. “This confirms that we are pursuing the right strate
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Solar startup Sunvigo raises €15 million in financing round with Eneco Ventures, Sparta Capital and Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB)
Sunvigo closes its next financing round with €15 million. Sparta and Eneco, which are providing the largest share of the new funding, are investing a total of €10 million together with existing investors.DKB again increased the financing volume for the PV systems by another €5 million in debt capital.In 2021, the first year after its founding, Sunvigo has grown its customer base by more than tenfold.The new capital will be used for the expansion of the Green Power Community, improve th
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Rigontec GmbH raises € 9.45 m in a first closing of a Series A financing round to advance RNA-based immunotherapeutics for cancer and viral diseases
Rigontec GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases, announces the first closing of its Series A financing round, raising €9.45 million. The round was co-led by Wellington Partners and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, and included NRW Bank and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Rigontec is developing synthetic ligands of a novel receptor of the innate immune system, Retinoic acid Inducible Gene I (RI
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Oxford Dictionaries Redefines Online Dictionary Content with Acquisition of Multilingual Online Language Portal bab.la
Oxford University Press (OUP), home of Oxford Dictionaries and the renowned Oxford English Dictionary, is pleased to announce its acquisition of the online language portal bab.la, a multilingual dictionary and translation website based in Hamburg, Germany, where language lovers gather online and use and develop translation resources for the world’s languages.
The bab.la site complements Oxford’s own consumer website OxfordDictionaries.com, which over the past few years has grown and given O