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FinTech SideCaps closes € 1.8 million seed financing
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) as well as strategic investors and renowned business angels jointly invest in the digital platform for large-volume equity transactions of listed SMEs.
Hamburg, August 19th, 2021 – SideCaps develops a transaction and information platform for large-volume share trading (so-called block trades) in the SME segment. The aim is to reduce market inefficiencies and thus avoid significant performance losses for professional
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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), MBG and Wayra invest EUR 800,000
AI start-up 5Analytics receives follow-up financing
5Analytics, the start-up behind Telefónica Germany's Analytical Insight Center (AIC), has secured a new round of financing from a prominent group of investors. The Stuttgart-based start-up plans to use the fresh capital to expand its team, develop its products and acquire new clients. In addition to Wayra, HTGF and MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg within the Seedfonds BW are among the investors participating
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AI-driven eCommerce is booming: emax digital helps brands optimize their Amazon business
The Munich-based analytics hub has raised EUR 1.4M in Seed funding from leading venture capitalists High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital
Munich, June 17, 2021 – emax digital just acquired High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Bayern Kapital as institutional investors in its recent round of Seed funding, while industry experts Dirk Freytag and Arndt Groth are on board as business angels. With the influx of capital, the start-up will accelerate its expansion efforts for its AI-driven r
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Venneos raises seed round of 1 million euros
Venneos GmbH is based in Stuttgart and develops a novel imaging system for the analysis of biological cells. A consortium of business angels and family offices, along with the High-Tech Gründerfonds and Max Planck Society invest in the company to develop a market-ready product and prepare the market entry of the first product generation.
Venneos, founded as a spin-off from the Max Planck Society, is developing a silicon-chip-based imaging system for the analysis of biological cells. The syst
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Telephone systems “from the cloud” – BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
Telephone systems “from the cloud” – BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
BayernLB Capital Partner is putting its money on virtual telephone systems and has concluded a banner year with its seventh investment in 2011. Founded in 2007, the Munich-based company nfon, which offers telephone systems “from the cloud”, was able to use its impressive growth story to persuade the investment company Bayerische Landesbank to join its existing investors
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest in digital cardiology clinic iATROS
As part of a two million euro seed financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in the Munich-based iATROS GmbH, along with co-investors Bayern Kapital and several business angels. iATROS, a digital health start-up, has developed a telemedicine solution, which enables data-driven treatment of cardiology patients. The target group of the iATROS solution comprises both clinics and the patients themselves. The funds of the seed round will be used to expand the company’s staff and drive th
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High-Tech Gründerfonds presents winner of the 2010 German Enterprise Award – Mister Spex is the winner in the start-ups category
The winners of this year’s German Enterprise Awards (Deutscher Unternehmer Preis) were commended in a formal ceremony held yesterday evening at the Frankfurter Opern Turm. The Mister Spex company, funded by High-Tech Gründerfonds, won in the start-ups category.
Mister Spex GmbH is Germany’s largest online retailer of branded eyewear. Over the Internet this young, rapidly growing and innovative Berlin-based e-commerce start-up offers an extensive selection of high-quality spectacles, sung
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Software company ubigrate again convinces investors
High-Tech Gründerfonds, sympasis innovation capital and KfW-Bankengruppe are investing jointly in the future of ubigrate.
ubigrate is growing successfully and has secured a significant amount of capital in a second round of financing. The software company, established in 2008 in Dresden, specialises in business activity monitoring (BAM) in production and logistics. Its products provide maximum transparency by precisely and automatically recording and evaluating process information in real time
Project business as a critical growth factor for start-ups?!
When can project revenue jeopardize the success of a start-up?
Investors want to see quantitative evidence of the demand for a product, the so-called "traction". These can be product sales, for example, but also registered and active users, etc.. Start-ups usually prove that the idea and the product can find customers and be sold on the market.
Turnover is not equal to turnover
It can always become problematic when revenues are generated from project business. Investors clearly differentiate bet
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High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Business Angel Robert Kabs invest in booking solution “bookingkit”
Berlin-based startup bookingkit successfully completed its first round of financ-ing with investments by the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) and Business Angle Robert Kabs, thereby strengthening sustainable growth in sales and product development. Altogether, both new partners invested a mid six-figure sum in the emerging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. bookingkit has set out to digitalize the entire industry of leisure businesses and to provide them with a ready-to-use, web-based software
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kaufDA acquires MeinProspekt
By acquiring MeinProspekt, kaufDA expands its reach and offerings as the retail industry's leading advertising partner for local digital brochures in Germany.
Today, consumer information portal kaufDA (www.kaufda.de) announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of the Munich company MeinProspekt (www.meinprospekt.de). kaufDA, an enterprise of the Berlin-based Bonial International Group (www.bonial.com), thereby expands its leading position regarding mobile, location-based digital catalogs
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Heliatek receives US$ 27 million to continue development of organic solar cells
Heliatek GmbH, a pioneer in the field of organic solar cells, is receiving US$ 27 million (€ 18 million) in a second round of financing under the lead of the pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners. Also participating in this round are the industrial investor Bosch and the corporate venture capital investors RWE Innogy Ventures and BASF Venture Capital, the High-Tech-Gründerfonds, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, the Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen Start-up GmbH & Co.
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Aignostics raises €5m Seed Round to advance AI-powered pathology
Aignostics, a spin-off from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health, pioneering computational pathology for pharmaceutical research and diagnostics, has announced today the closing of €5m in seed round funding. Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) led the round, with participation from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), VC Fonds Technologie der IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, and Future Capital.
Aignostics formally started out in early 2018, when r
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Capital for Recycling of High-Tech Composite Materials
saperatec GmbH, an independent recycling specialist for all types of high-tech com-posite materials, is receiving seed financing in the amount of 3.3 million € from an investor consortium consisting of eCapital entrepreneurial Partners AG, the NRW.BANK, the Business Angel Oliver F. Gosemann as well as the investors of the first round Gründerfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen and the High-Tech Gründerfonds. Amongst other things, the company will use the financial means to build a modular large demo
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Deep-Tech made in Germany: 468 Capital from Berlin joins Natif.ai as investor
With 468 Capital, Deep-tech startup Natif.ai from Saarbrücken has gained another high-profile investor alongside HTGF. The Berlin-based VC of former Rocket-Internet executives will take a significant stake in the now closed seven-figure financing round.
With Natif.ai, a new player finally appears on the high-tech map of Germany. The experienced founding team has now been able to attract the new leading deep-tech investor from Berlin. 468 Capital was founded by Rocket Internet executives
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Deep tech startup Samp raises €6M to speed up the deployment of its digital twin solution for sensitive industrial sites
Paris, 16 September 2024 — Samp, the first AI-generated digital twin solution that establishes a constant understanding of sensitive industrial sites in a matter of days, announced the closing of a 6M euro fundraising round. This strategic capital injection from tech investors Promus Ventures and Kvanted will allow the company to scale up and deploy its innovative “Shared Reality” solution internationally.
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