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High-Tech Gründerfonds and make a startup angel fund GmbH & Co. KG invest in the Bonayou “Perfectly-Happy-Card”
With High-Tech Gründerfonds and make a startup fund GmbH & Co. KG, PL Gutscheinsysteme GmbH gains two investors for their Bonayou “Perfectly-Happy-Card”. Therewith PL Gutscheinsysteme closes the first round of funding for their non-cash gift-voucher card.
In cooperation with MasterCard and Wirecard Bank, the PL Gutscheinsysteme GmbH has developed a customizable money gift with Bonayou which is redeemable anywhere. If it is urgent the contract-free Prepaid MasterCard® issued by Wirec
Romy Schnelle – Managing Director
Romy Schnelle has been involved in the start-up ecosystem for 20 years and brings her great enthusiasm for innovation to her new role. She has worked for HTGF since 2008, latterly as Partner for Digital Tech where she and her team were responsible for around 30 investments focused on climate tech, digital health, fintech, AI and SaaS. She has already successfully sold ten companies from her own portfolio, including Stocard to Klarna and Kiwigrid to Innogy, LG Electronics and Aqton. Thanks to her extensive start-up experience and expertise in business development, fundraising and corporate finance, Schnelle has played a key role in the development of HTGF’s Industrial Tech and Digital Tech portfolios. She is also a member of the advisory boards of start-ups and chaired the Investment Committee of TX Group, one of Switzerland’s leading media companies.
Prior to joining HTGF, she worked with mp3 inventor Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg to co-found Fraunhofer spin-off IOSONO, now Barco Audio Technologies. She began her career in business development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. Schnell studied media science at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
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Earlybird UNI-X, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and a leading group of Business Angels invest in the Vision and Team behind Regulatory Tech Software Company, Certivity
Certivity, a Munich based Regulatory Tech (Reg Tech) Company, receives early-stage funding of EUR 1.4 million led by Earlybird UNI-X and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The startup will use the new capital to ramp up the team and drive its software and deep tech development to simplify regulatory product compliance through the lifecycle of a product. Certivity will change the way companies work with product regulations by connecting the legal and regulatory world to the engin
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HTGF’s 700th seed investment: Munich-based start-up oculai completes €2.5 million seed round to drive AI-based process monitoring on construction sites
ConTech start-up oculai secures €2.5 million during seed financing round
The financing round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with Bayern Kapital, Axeleo Capital, and other renowned private investors and an accelerator program also taking part
This is the 700th seed investment of High-Tech Gründerfonds
oculai is a technology for automated process and progress monitoring for construction sites
Munich, 14 March 2023- oculai has secured €2.5 millio
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Degussa Bank AG Group acquires HTGF portfolio company Munich General Insurance Services GmbH
The Munich based Startup offers insurance brokers an infrastructure for the digital control and administration of their customer portfolio.
More than 1,000 registered insurance brokers already use the platform
For PRINAS MONTAN, a company of the Degussa Group, the acquisition creates new synergies in the area of insurance brokerage.
HTGF has accompanied the Insurtech Startup since the seed round in 2015.
Through its subsidiary company PRINAS MONTAN GmbH Versicherungsver
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Computer-Brain-Interface Company CereGate Closed Series A Financing Round
The Healthtech VC Heal Capital led the round with participation of HTGF and TruVenturo
CereGate, a leading German neurostimulation company developing a software-based Computer-Brain-Interface (CBI), today announced the successful closing of a series A financing round led by the new European healthtech VC Heal Capital with participation from the existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and TruVenturo. The parties agreed to not disclose any further details of the financing round.
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Tengelmann joins deal united
Tengelmann and previous investors have invested in deal united to push ahead the expansion of the Munich-based payment specialist.
deal united, provider of the innovative payment method PAY.BY.SHOPPING, has successfully concluded a second round of financing. In addition to the lead investor Tengelmann E-Commerce Beteiligungs GmbH, the existing investors Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments in corporation with KFW Bankengruppe, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Venture Incubator have also joined th
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OMEICOS Therapeutics: Novel therapy for the treatment of atrial fibrillation
Our heart beats 60 to 100 times per minute, around 42 million times per year. Disturbances of the heart’s rhythm – so called arrhythmia- occur frequently, in particular in older people. Atrial fibrillation, the most common type of arrhythmia, typically represents with irregular palpitations, often associated with shortness of breath and anxiety attacks. Today, around 5-10 million patients in Europe suffer from atrial fibrillation and this number will further increase due to the demographic d
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EverReal Successfully Completes Seed Investment Round
Seed X Liechtenstein AG and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invest seven-figure euro amount
EverReal offers real estate companies a digital platform for renting and selling of real estate
The new capital will be invested into the further development of the platform, customer acquisition and the expansion of the team.
The two institutional venture capital companies HTGF and Seed X have invested a seven-figure euro amount in the further growth of EverReal GmbH, based in Munich. Foun
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Venture Capital: Evonik invests in SYNOSTE, a medical technology start-up in Düsseldorf and Helsinki
High-tech implant will make leg-lengthening treatment easier and less painful
New medical application with high performance polymer VESTAKEEP® PEEK from Evonik
Technology estimated to be available on the market in 2017
Evonik Industries has invested in the start-up company SYNOSTE Oy via its venture capital arm and now holds a minority share in the medical technology company based in Düsseldorf (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland). The investment was made as part of a series A round,
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Tyrolean virtual reality start-up Innerspace receives seven-figure growth financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and MAD
DeepTraining approach successfully executed in Virtual Reality technologyProducts tailored towards the Life Science industryFinancing round used for global expansionTeam in Innsbruck will be doubled to approx 50 employees
As a pioneer in education technology, Innerspace develops novel, psychologically based training solutions for highly critical applications in the life science industry. Cleanroom operators are comprehensively prepared for the key moments of their work using the DeepTrain
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Post-merger integration as a key factor for successful acquisitions
An acquisition is far from over with the signing of a contract – what then follows is the important process of integration. This is why High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is offering a think tank on this topic at the High-Tech Partnering Conference in February. The aim of the think tank is to discuss the topic with experts from different viewpoints. In this interview, Anke Caßing and Axel Nitsch, both princip
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Cyber One Businessplan-Competition
The new application phase of the CyberOne Hightech Award runs until 26 May 2020!
Till May 26, 2020, young technology start-ups from Baden-Württemberg with innovative business concepts can once again apply for the CyberOne Hightech Award. In the three categories Industrial Technologies, Life Science & Health Care and ICT & Media and Creative Industries, the finalists will each receive high cash and attractive material prizes as well as access to a unique network of potential investors an
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German Business Angels Day 2021
The congress “German Business Angels Day 2021” will take place from November 6 until November 10 and offers a packed program with more than 100 speakers – online and on site in Cologne.
On November 08, our Managing Director Dr. Alex von Frankenberg will give a keynote on the topic of “IPO”.
And all those who want to learn more about seed investments should not miss the keynote by HTGF partner Marco Winzer on November 09.
You can get more information about the agenda
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ZE Energy raises €4 Million and launches the first hybrid solar plant solution featuring energy storage capabilities
An independent renewable energy producer, ZE Energy, brings a revolution in the renewable energy sector by launching a hybrid solar plant solution that combines photovoltaics and storage and meets the needs of Continental Europe. The company’s innovative business model, growth prospects and the experience of its management team have already attracted investors as DEMETER, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), EverWatt and Ze Way Invest. The start-up has just raised €4 M in funding to ramp up i
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AMETEK, Inc. acquires German metrology specialist Luphos GmbH
On 30th May 2014, AMETEK, Inc., a publicly traded U.S. company, acquired Luphos GmbH, the German specialist in metrology and measurement technology. With this acquisition, AMETEK and its Taylor Hobson business strengthen their leading position in the field of ultra precise measurement technology.
The precise distance measurement technology developed by Luphos is based on the method of Multi-Wavelength interferometry (MWLI) and allows for the measurements of distances and positions with an acc