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E-Bike drive system manufacturer FAZUA receives €6.5 million in new financing round
Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners invests in FAZUA alongside existing investors HTGF, Bayern Kapital and business angels
Notable bicycle manufacturers such as CUBE, Pinarello and Focus integrate the FAZUA drive system into their products
Investment to further strengthen business growth and innovation
FAZUA GmbH, a Munich-based company founded in 2013 and provider of the innovative evation drive system for e-bikes receives €6.5 million in a new financing round. Unternehmertum
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High-Tech Gruenderfonds backs online advertising technology company Semasio
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
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Natural User Interfaces – Device control with gestures: gestigon receives seed financing
gestigon develops software to control devices without contact solely by gestures. The solution, the team and the latest development of the company convinced the High-Tech Gründerfonds and the Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein. They have jointly invested into gestigon and thereby support the international market entry of the Lübeck-based start-up.
gestigon develops solutions for gesture recognition and control on the basis of 3D cameras. The software is the only i
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LiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A financing round with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern
Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of Continental together with Wachstumsfonds Bayern, which is managed by Bayern Kapital, with participation of the existing investors Fluxunit – OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, TEV (Tengelmann Ventures) and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Blickfeld will use the new financial resources to ramp up production, qualify its LiDAR sensors
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ConWeaver GmbH Continues to Grow: Second Round of Financing Finalized with Schefter Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and Fraunhofer Venture
Bonn Investor Supports Development of Darmstadt Software Provider Starting September – Goal Is Establishment in Billion Dollar Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Market
Along with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Fraunhofer Venture, Dr. Martin U. Schefter is stepping in with his holding company Schefter Capital GmbH in the second round of financing for ConWeaver GmbH.
Dr. Schefter, an electrical engineering PhD, will use his experience as entrepreneur, management consultant, and CE
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Mental fitness for office: MINDANCE digitizes mental wellbeing in companies and receives a seven-figure sum in seed financing
Ever more companies recognize that the mental fitness status
of their employees is mission critical in achieving strategic and
operational goals. Employees who care about their mental fitness show
higher motivation, satisfaction and hence work more efficiently. First,
this leads to positive effects on the employees themselves and second it
generates considerable competitive advantages for employers.For the first time, the MINDANCE platform provides its
customers with a tailor-made pack
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2024: Trends, opportunities and challenges for founders
What trends and technologies can we expect to see in 2024? And what are the opportunities and challenges that founders will face? Our Partners Dr. Angelika Vlachou, Dr. Markus Kückelhaus and Markus Kreßmann provide an outlook, focusing on our investment fields industrial tech, life sciences & chemistry, and digital tech.
Industrial Tech, Deep Tech and Climate Tech: An outlook by Dr. Markus Kückelhaus
In the traditional industrial tech cluster, which encompasses fields such a
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Takeda Enters Collaboration and Licensing Agreement with Zedira and Dr. Falk Pharmato Develop First-in-Class Celiac Disease Therapy
Collaboration Provides Takeda an Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize ZED1227/TAK-227 in the United States and Other Countries Outside of Europe, Canada, Australia and China
Agreement Adds Third Investigational Therapy to Takeda’s Pipeline for the Potential Treatment of Celiac Disease
Osaka, Japan, and Freiburg and Darmstadt, Germany, October 20, 2022 – Takeda, Zedira and Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH today announced a collaboration and licensing agreement to develop ZED1227/T
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and BBAF Business Angels Fondsgesellschaft mbH invest in autoaid GmbH
autoaid GmbH, specialists in web-based car diagnostics and operator of the car service platform autoaid.de, has attracted High-Tech Gründerfonds and BBAF Business Angels Fondsgesellschaft mbH as investors. autoaid is developing web-based car diagnostic system for professional use in car garages. Use of the software will make it possible to dispense with the proprietary diagnostic testers in common use today.
The software solution is based on client-server technology and is connected to the veh
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EMTERIA secures a seven-digit investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds and the US investor Runa Capital to revolutionize the use of industrial operating systems in digital products
Android is the most popular OS with 2.5 billion active Android devices, available on smartphones, TVs, and even appliances. It is supported by one of the largest development communities, making it a unique tool used by consumers and businesses alike. But pure Android isn’t fitted to work in an industrial environment, where you can’t access Google Play Services, vendors’ centralized updates and have to limit the user-accessible functionality.
emteria.OS is an adapted Android operatin
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Berlin-based market intelligence start-up IPlytics successfully closes seed funding with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
The leading German start-up for market intelligence and technology trending has successfully closed its first investment round, raising a 6-digit funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds. IPlytics develops a SaaS Solution (IPlytics Platform) that connects millions of data points on relevant market activities, helping companies to make better business decisions. With just a few clicks IPlytics Platform provides answers to critical questions such as: Who is the technology leader in a market segment? W
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YOND, the innovative Gym Operating System, secures pre-seed funding from HTGF
FitTech start-up from Wiesbaden successfully closes pre-seed financing round with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Innovative Gym Operating System enables gym club chains to scale their business model.
The fresh capital will boost the young company’s innovation and growth.
Wiesbaden, Germany, 2 August 2023 – YOND, the emerging FitTech start-up with its innovative Gym Operating System, has received pre-seed funding from HTGF. The mission of the YOND team, led by foun
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The key to a successful network is empathy
HTGF Partner Claudia Raber, who is responsible for relationship management at the company, explains the art of successful networking, the amount of time that should be invested in building relationships, and why empathy is so important.
Claudia, you’ve been in charge of relationship management at HGTF for over a decade now. What does that involve exactly?
Claudia Raber: It’s been a core element of HTGF from day one. Alongside the various other benefits we provide, one of the th
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siOPTICA wins Constantia New Business as strategic Investor
Jena based siOPTICA GmbH has signed a shareholder agreement with Constantia New Business GmbH, the corporate venture capital arm of Constantia Industries AG, Vienna. With the newly won capital siOPTICA will extend its product portfolio of switchable privacy filters and also will move with its products into new markets. Currently the siOPTICA products are mainly used in ATMs and other payment terminals.
siOPTICA has specialized in the development of switchable privacy filters. The siOPTICA priva
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New Investors for Outfittery.de
The expanding market leader in curated shopping
Outfittery.de, the new e-commerce concept for men, has yet again gained notable investors for itself. Mangrove Capital Partners, RI Digital Ventures as well as the VC fund Kreativwirtschaft managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft are amongst them, having invested in the budding company at the start of this year. Not only did Outfittery.de gain new investors, but existing venture capitalists such as Holtzbrinck Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfo
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German startup convinces international investors: Seven-figure seed invest for eCommerce Business Intelligence solution minubo
minubo, the Cloud Business Intelligence solution for online shops kicks off with an international set of investors and a seven-figure seed invest: German well-known Business Angels like Alexander Bruehl, as well as Investment companies like High-Tech Gründerfond, Seedcamp Investments and US Investor Tola Capital have made their commitments.
As ecommerce companies face rapid growth, the possibility of using terabytes of data and intense spikes in demand, they require a solution that can meet