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Resolve Biosciences Launches New Era in Single-Cell Spatial Analysis
Company announces $24 million Series A financing and appoints Jason T. Gammack as CEO to accelerate development and commercialization of Molecular Cartography™ platform
Resolve Biosciences, the pioneer in Molecular Cartography™, announced the completion of a $24 million Series A financing round and the appointment of Co-founder Jason T. Gammack as Chief Executive Officer.
The company’s Molecular Cartography platform is a groundbreaking multi-analyte and highly multiplex spati
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Seed investor HTGF and HCS sell their stakes in Hornetsecurity GmbH to growth equity investors
Perfect exit with very substantial returns for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and HCS Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH (HCS)
Growth equity investors Providence Strategic Growth (PSG) and Verdane acquire stakes
Hornetsecurity’s leadership team to remain on board
Transaction subject to antitrust clearance
HTGF invested in Hornetsecurity back in 2007, shortly after the company was founded, while HCS came on board in 2017. The two investors were quick to foresee the increasingly imp
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Synthara, targeting breakthrough edge-AI chips with participation from a global coalition of investors and R&D partners
Synthara AG, a spin-off from the UZH-ETH Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) in Zurich, has secured seed funding and research partnerships to develop the next generation of adaptive AI processors for edge applications. The seed financing round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Edge AI chips are a specialized and rapidly growing multi-billion dollar market. Our algorithm-aware chips are designed to deliver up to 500 times better performance for the next generation of smart sen
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Klaus Lehmann appointed partner at High-Tech Gründerfonds
Klaus Lehmann (48), who has already worked for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) for 14 years, has now been appointed to the post of partner with effect from April 1, 2020.
We are delighted to welcome Klaus, a highly experienced colleague, into our group of partners. Klaus has built up his own portfolio with focus on industrial technology that is well above average. Right from the very outset, he has had a significant impact on the company as a wholeDr. Alex von Frankenberg,
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Sdui – The school app extends its seed financing to around two million euros
The school app Sdui extends its seed financing. The potential of the central communication platform, on which teachers, students and parents can exchange information in a GDPR-compliant manner, convinced High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and business angels Martin Ostermayer and Dirk Freise (blau.de, handy.de, among others) to join the seed round as new lead investors. The Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) as well as Udo Schloemer, founder and CEO of Factory Berlin, have also
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Chemistry-for-Healthcare Start-up secures seed investment from Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Belyntic, a Berlin-based chemistry-for-healthcare startup and developer of the Peptide Easy Clean (PEC) purification technology, has completed its seed financing round amounting to €1.3 million. The funding is led by the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), with the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) also climbing on board alongside business angel Till Knorr.
Belyntic's potential in the field of peptide therapeutics was immediately recognized by major industry insiders after its foundation in May 2018.
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AWAKE Mobility secures €4 million in seed financing to drive greener, more efficient bus services
Smart technology to drive greener, more efficient bus services
€4 million in fresh capital for monitoring the condition of bus fleets with the aid of AIAWAKE Mobility secures B&C Innovation Investments as lead investor as part of capital increaseCo-investors include HTGF, the founders of Flixbus, the former CEO of MAN Truck & Bus, the former President/CEO of General Motors Europe, Synapse Partners from Silicon Valley and additional angel investorsAWAKE Mobility technology alread
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Microstim successfully raised funds for the first clinical application of their heart assist system
The HCS Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the Technologiefonds MV, the High-TechGruenderfonds and the Fides Finanz-Invest invests about 500.000 EUR for the European CE-approval and the first clinical application of the Microstim muscle stimulator.
The HCS Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the Technologiefonds MV, the High-Tech Gruenderfonds and the Fides Finanz-Invest invests about 500.000 EUR for the European CE-approval and the first clinical application of the Microstim muscle stimulator.
„This new m
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MetisMotion: BORN2GROW, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Siemens Technology Accelerator invest 1.5 million Euro in second financing round
Munich-based tech start-up MetisMotion has closed its second round of financing and received a further €1.5 million in fresh capital. As with the first financing round in December 2018, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), BORN2GROW – a subsidiary of the ZFHN Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn – and the SIEMENS Technology Accelerator (STA) invested. The fresh capital will be used to prepare the market launch of the patent-protected naXture actuator platform.
MetisMotion’s core tec
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Online Fundraising made easy: Altruja supports Non-Profits EU-wide
Trend market Online donations: Growth capital for Altruja to its third anniversary
Social Fundraising made easy! That is already the slogan and mission of Nicolas Reis, Andreas Jagdhuber und Stefan Grothkopp for three years now. In March 2010 the three entrepreneurs founded Altruja GmbH. With new growth capital Altruja widens its business activities and expands to the international donation markets. The company supports with their innovative online-fundraising tools non-profit organizations, po
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Better Maps for the Geoweb – United Maps closes Series-A round
United Maps GmbH announces successful closing of a seven-digit Series-A round
Deploying its unique technology, United Maps GmbH optimizes quality, density and contents of vector maps. Market leading base maps from Navteq or Tele Atlas - well known from navigational devices made for vehicle traffic - are algorithmically combined and merged with supplemental cartographic data sets. The resulting new and comprehensive mapping products are perfectly fit for mobile and location based use cases.
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Streamlining all aspects of the digital sales and purchase process, the Yatta Platform goes above and beyond mere payments—it includes a federated IAM for user acquisition and authentication, a licensing toolbox with legal templates and a license system, vendor/user/customer backends for everything from product listing
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Markus Kressmann is Partner at High-Tech Gründerfonds. Since 2007 he collaborated in establishing Germany’s most active seed fund. Today, he is responsible for 40 investments, focusing on IoT, commerce, fintech, mobile as well as software and cloud technologies. For more than 10 years, he is an appreciated advisor and member of supervisory boards of several technical innovative and digital startups. Before joining HTGF, Markus Kressmann was a business consultant at a leading management and technology consultancy. He founded two startups and gained early experiences in venture capital. Markus Kressmann is a business graduate of University of Goettingen.
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Swiss fintech Relio secures CHF 3m in SEED round to automate compliance for complex SMEs
Relio offers SME customers a digital payment account within a short time thanks to its automated and granular compliance checking process – also for customers with more complex compliance backgrounds. The main investors in the CHF 3 million seed round include TX Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and SIX Fintech Ventures. Relio is driven by an experienced team led by Lav Odorovic, who already founded the successful SME neobank Penta in Germany.
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