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Measurement instrumentation specialist for wind turbines closes financing round for further scaling of business
UnternehmerTUM Fund, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and Dr. Schulze Consulting invest further in fos4X GmbH. fos4X has established itself as a provider of innovative solutions to increase the efficiency of wind turbines.
fos4X is using the advantages of fiber optic technology to make wind turbines smarter and wind energy more cost-effective. The company developed solutions to measure bending moments of wind turbine rotor blades.
fos4X has become the leading provider of fiber optic tec
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Capital for laser-based photoacoustics
High-Tech Gründerfonds and MAZ level one investing about EUR 550k in PAS-Analytik GmbH. The aim with this investment is to further develop the technology of laser-based photoacoustics and to push entry into the market for industrial and medical gas analysis.
PAS-Analytik GmbH was established in 2009 as an innovative, high-tech business spin off from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. The enterprise develops, produces and distributes spectroscopic gas sensors for industrial and medical appli
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ReActive Robotics GmbH receives Series A funding
Providing the best possible rehabilitation treatment to intensive-care patients, already 24 hours after hospital admission, directly in the patient bed: ReActive Robotics aims to make intelligent robotics the standard-of care in a field that has been dominated by manual therapy. A consortium of four investors, led by MTIP MedTech Innovation Partners AG and complemented by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and TQ-Group, provides a seven-digit Series A investment to enable the development an
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Simreka closes financing round led by HTGF with participation from the SAP.iO Fund
Simreka, simulation software that accelerates materials driven product and manufacturing process innovation using AI, today announced that it has raised a seven figure seed financing round led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) with participation from the SAP.iO Fund. Simreka has built a powerful enterprise simulation software and data service that empowers brands and manufacturers to accelerate their R&D cycles and significantly reduce their time-to-market with products that meet evolving cu
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Bio-separation goes digital – Start-up adds some excitement to mechanical separation technology –
Four investors are financing continued growth by i3 Membrane GmbH. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) in Bonn, Innovationsstarter Fonds in Hamburg, Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen mbH (MBG) in Dresden and a private US investor are investing a 7-digit Euro sum in further developing and launching new filters and separation technologies. Ultra-thin metal coatings on conventional membranes can be charged with electric current to capture charged nanoparticles such as viruses and cytoto
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AI start-up DeepScenario closes financing round to accelerate the deployment of autonomous systems
DeepScenario secures seven-digit funding from HTGF, MobilityFund, and business angels. The investment boosts DeepScenario’s mission to help customers deploy autonomous systems in less time and with less cost.
Munich, 25th October 2022– Self-driving cars and other autonomous systems are spreading rapidly across the world. Ensuring that these systems operate as intended, without posing risk to people and the world around them, is an increasingly critical need.
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Inventorum, a multi-channel-solution for local retailers
Founded in 2012, the Berlin-based startup Inventorum has successfully closed its second round of seed financing with backing from HTGF, Klingel New Media, Vogel Ventures and MCB Salt. Inventorum offers a complete digital point-of-sale solution for local retailers featuring smart tools to simultaneously manage stores more efficiently on- and offline.
Approximately 86% of local retail businesses generate sales of less than € 2m annually. These small, usually owner-managed retailers are an
Tobias Jacob – Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
Tobias Jacob joined the High-Tech Gründerfonds in March 2021. He is enthusiastic about digital topics and the creation of content tailored to specific target groups. As a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner, Tobias has extensive practical knowledge in agile methods. In his previous role, he was responsible for the B2B marketing activities at an international business consultancy. Tobias holds a master’s degree in business administration with a focus on entrepreneurial management and marketing from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
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btov Partners, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and HTGF invest in Real World Evidence and Patient-Reported Outcomes: 5 million euros for heartbeat medical
New standards for care management are set by connecting and utilising clinical data alongside data tracking patient-provided perspectives on their health status over timeFundamental trend in health care: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) and Real World Evidence (RWE)Over 200 hospital teams, registries and research institutions have registered to use the platform registered as a CE-marked medical device
The digital health start-up heartbeat medical has closed a Series A financing r
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GROUPM AGREES TO ACQUIRE GERMANY’S PLISTA
Digital Advertising Specialist Becomes Key Part of Digital Portfolio of Companies
GroupM, the world’s leading global media investment management operation, announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire plista, a digital media specialist in Germany. The announcement was made jointly by Rudiger Wanck, GroupM Global Digital COO and Chief Digital Officer EMEA, and Dr. Dominik Matyka, co-founder and Managing Director of Corporation & Business Development at plista who were supported by Cor
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Round A investment closed for Multiphoton Optics GmbH’s High-Precision 3D Lithography Platform
A consortium of investors has closed investment Round A for Multiphoton Optics GmbH’s High-Precision 3D Lithography Platform which closes the gap between classical 3D printing and optical lithography. Investors are Sack & Kiesselbach GmbH, High-Tech Gründerfonds GmbH, Bayern Kapital GmbH, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V. and a consortium of Business Angels with Dr. Ruth Houbertz, Dr. Moritz Esslinger, and Dr. Boris Neubert.
Multiphoton Optics GmbH sells standard and customized 3D Laser L
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Start-up stories: From science to business
Their first pitch deck didn’t contain a business slide. And there wasn’t any information on market potential. These were things that Dr Isabel Schellinger and Dr Uwe Raaz simply hadn’t thought of. After all, their focus was on their research, on the amazing opportunities made possible thanks to science, and on a medical solution to an aortic disorder in humans that they had developed. This is their passion and their field of expertise. Pitching to investors and founding a start-up were
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest in Lophius Biosciences
Regensburg-based biotech company to receive 600,000 euros venture capital for the development of novel diagnostic tools to detect infectious and autoimmune diseases
Lophius Biosciences GmbH (Regensburg) has successfully closed its first financing round. High-Tech Gründerfonds (Bonn, Germany) and Bayern Kapital (Landshut, Germany) invest a total 600,000 euros in the young Biotech company. The funding will be used for the development of novel diagnostic tools for rising diseases such as tubercul
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The core technologies bioDECONT® and bioCLEANä are water-based solution systems for new biocompatible disinfection and decontamination. bioDECONT in addition catalyzes safe and complete degradation of DNA and RNA. Although highly effective against microorganisms these solutions only contain non-harmful biomolecules and ingredients that are non-toxic and non-corrosive and free of organic solvents. These solutions are also used as additives to improve the properties of conve
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Battery start-up BTRY raises CHF 900,000 in pre-seed funding for the development of an innovative solid-state battery
The battery start-up is developing safe, long-lasting thin-film solid-state batteries that can be charged and discharged in one minute.
BTRY receives CHF 900,000 from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Zürcher Kantonalbank.
BTRY will use the funding to produce a first generation of products on a pilot line.
Dübendorf, Switzerland, January 18, 2024 – Battery start-up BTRY has raised CHF 900,000 in pre-seed financing. The round is led by HTGF with participa
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The 100th exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds – SolarWinds offers 8MAN a global platform for growth
The 100th successful exit for Germany's largest seed investor HTGF
8MAN was developed by the Berlin-based start-up, Protected Networks
More than one million users use the Access Rights Management solutions (ARM) of the start-up already
The listed US company SolarWinds complements its product portfolio with 8MAN and brings further technology and development expertise on board
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has successfully sold its shares in the Berlin-based start-up, Pr