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Sächsische Investoren Roadshow
For its 25th anniversary, Sächsische Investoren Roadshow presents selected cutting-edge start-up and growth concepts “Made in Saxony” to investors from the entire DACH region. In addition to the pitch sessions, individual 1:1 meetings are also possible!
The Free State of Saxony is developing into one of the leading innovation regions in Europe. Many innovative ideas and business models are emerging here. futureSAX, the innovation platform of the Free State of Saxony, identifies and
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fos4X has a new anchor investor – Internationalization, scaling and expansion of digital business
fos4X has concluded a growth financing (Series B) of 8.2 mn Euro (USD 10 mn). Equinor, formerly Statoil, strengthens the group of shareholders
Sensor platform and digital business
Fiber optic sensor technology is the company’s nucleus from which the successful product busi-ness with its sensor platform fos4Blade was developed. fos4Blade is a modular measuring sys-tem to acquire different physical quantities of wind turbine rotor blades.
With the help of sensor data fusion, classical model-bas
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in yourTime Solutions GmbH
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
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PlanB Founder’s Competition
Starting in May, the best “green” business ideas will be sought Start-up competition PlanB Biobased.Business.Bavaria supports biobased ideas
For the fourth time already, the cleverest “green” business ideas are being sought and awarded prizes in the PlanB start-up competition. Participants have a good chance of winning one of the attractive cash and non-cash prizes. The prerequisite for participation is a business idea for biobased products, processes, technologies or ser
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New Games Publisher Formed By Industry Veterans
Neonga AG secures two million Euros in Series A funding: The successful first round of financing of the new online game publisher Neonga begins a new era in the online games market. Neonga will launch its first titles in downloadable, browser-based, Facebook and mobile games at the start of 2011.
A consortium of private and strategic investors, including the High-Tech Gründerfonds [a German venture capital company investing in high-tech companies at seed stage] and the VC Fonds Kreativwirtscha
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Holtzbrinck Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in men‘s fashion
Holtzbrinck Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in Berlin-based ecommerce start-up PAUL SECRET (www.paulsecret.com). PAUL SECRET aims at taking the pain out of shopping for men. The start-up provides an innovative shopping alternative for the male customer where they are individually counselled and clothed by professional stylists. The team, which founded the company in early 2012, is already handling hundreds of happy customers. „As an e-commerce investor we see great potential in thi
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Stuttgart Startup SE.M.LABS raises 780.000€ in seed round in order to bring breath of fresh air into the leasing market: Pay per use 4.0!
The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in cooperation with the MBG and a private angel investor into the Stuttgart based software as a service provider SE.M.LABS. Marius Merle (CEO), Svend Erik Wendt (COO) und Daniel Schniepp (CTO) come from the leasing and banking industry.
The software forms the link between capital goods and the billing of the financial service. By universal interfaces different goods and systems can be interconnected. With their software their customers can reduce the
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ZIM Plant Technology GmbH: High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in in-telligent monitoring solution to monitor the actual water requirements of plants in real time
ZIM Plant Technology's probe system makes it possible to continuously measure the water supply of plants under field conditions. Field data are supplied and evaluated in real time over the Internet using ZIM's own telemetry. Monitoring as a Service is the name of this innovative business model. Researchers and farmers use the service to irrigate when water is actually needed.
Prof. Ulrich Zimmermann, operational founder of ZIM Plant Technology GmbH, likes to compare the water pressure inside
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Fresh capital for data warehouse technology form Data Virtuality GmbH
Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) together invested around 1 million euros in the Leipzig-based software company Data Virtuality GmbH. The funding will be used to further develop and market the company’s innovative software solutions for the automated creation of data warehouses.
Data Virtuality GmbH develops and markets software which enables companies to automatically collect and process data from different data sources. Analysing data from own b
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Status quo Start-up Germany?
Interview with Dr. Alex von Frankenberg
HTGF celebrates its 15th birthday in 2020. After all these years and nearly 600 investments — what, do you think, is the state of the German startup landscape today?
Germany is in pretty good shape and has caught up extremely well in many sectors. There are now more ‘Made in Germany’ startup market leaders, including some in the high-tech sector, such as Celonis, the Munich-based process mining firm, and Bank N26, one of the most successful
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HTGF Family Day goes Berlin: A look behind the scenes
HTGF Family Day is taking place in Berlin for the first time. In this interview, Stefanie Grüter, Partner Communications & Relations at HTGF, and Event Manager Maren Breuer reveal what our guests can expect on June 11 and 12 at STATION Berlin, what highlights are planned and what innovations there are.
Maren Breuer, Relationship Manager and Stefanie Grüter, Partner Communications & Relations
Can you tell us more about the idea behind the HTGF Family Day 2024? What is
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Mikestar.com and TalentRun.com – duet rather than duel
The duel turns into a singing duet. The two online karaoke portals and former rivals Mikestar.com and TalentRun.com are merging to become a single company. Both brands are as of now under the umbrella of Mikestar GmbH. However, the two karaoke sides will remain and will continue to be available to their users in the future. The merger of these two portals now gives them a joint base of about half a million users.
Mikestar.com and TalentRun.com intend to take advantage of the merger to expand
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eWings.com receives capital for further growth
High-Tech Gründerfonds leads financing round at Berlin travel management software firm
The flight-booking software eWings.com, launched in February 2014, has taken up capital in the amount of €1.1 million in a second round of financing. The round was led by Bonn-based high-tech start-up fund High-Tech Gründerfonds. In addition, FSF Beteiligungs GmbH and Kima Ventures, as well as existing investors, participated in the financing round.
The company will use the capital injection to further s
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How the circular economy will change our world
Many companies are transforming their operations from a linear towards a more circular economy. The transformation process often takes a long time, is complex and costly. Developing and promoting the circular economy is not just beneficial for the environment, but obviously it creates the possibility of better and more sustainable access to raw materials in the long-term. It might help to reduce the dependency on international suppliers and can strengthen the own position in the v
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German Minister for Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier: “We need to build bridges of innovation between start-ups and established companies”
Ahead of the High-Tech Partnering Days, German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier stresses the importance of cooperation between founders and established companies.Alongside Family Day, the High-Tech Partnering Days are one of the two flagship events of High-Tech Gründerfonds, Germany’s most active seed stage investor.The three-day event will be held in an exclusively virtual format for the first time between 9 and 11 February. The aim is to continue to provide
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