HTGF portfolio companies
The core of our HTGF family
Since 2005 we have invested in more than 750 young high-tech startups. This makes us one of the leading seed investor in Europe. As a founder, you will benefit not only from our experience and expertise in technology and business development, but also from our network. Our portfolio companies form the core of our HTGF family.Our investment managers are specialized in identifying the growth and success potential of a startup early in its life cycle.
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Bionic Robotics GmbH sucessfully concluded an early Series A round of funding for the extension of its development and marketing activities
Bionic Robotics GmbH, developer and manufacturer of the bioinspired robot arm BioRob, successfully concluded an early Series A round of funding. Apart from the senior shareholder High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the managing partner of Bionic Robotics, 3 new investors being Abacus Alpha GmbH, Hessen Kapital I GmbH and RMC Dr. Reineck Management & Consulting GmbH agreed to invest a seven-digit EUR amount in the company.
With the help of the capital Bionic Robotics is going to build up own
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nfon ensures further financing of its enterprise
MIG, Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds invest in the telephone system of the future
nfon AG, developer of innovative web-based telephone systems, has closed the third major round of growth-financing with renowned investors within one year. Besides MIG fonds, as the new lead investor, the established investors Earlybird and High-Tech Gruenderfonds also participated in the financing round which closed on a high, single-digit million scale. nfon’s goal is to extend their lead on the market o
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eCAPITAL and High-Tech Gruenderfonds finance high-end raw materials recycling
saperatec, an independent recycling specialist for high-tech products receives € 1 m seed capital from the seed funds „Gruenderfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen“ managed by eCAPITAL and the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Bonn. Saperatec will use these funds to build up the production in Bielefeld, Germany.
The high-tech industry relies on sufficient availability of high-tech materials, such as rare earth and noble metals. These metals are used in the electronics industry, for example for TVs,
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High-Tech Gruenderfonds Invests in New Dental Surgery Microscope – dentaZOOM®
dentaZOOM® is a new dental surgery microscope, which in recent years has been developed by dentaZOOM GmbH from Berlin. The team of dentaZOOM GmbH managed to win a seed financing from the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) to start the serial production and worldwide marketing of this unique surgery microscope.
In order to secure the quality and safety in modern dental treatments, more than 60% of all dentists in Germany already use so-called optical magnifying tools, like for example dental loup
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Pixel Photonics, a Quantum technology spin-off from WWU Münster, raised 1.45 million euros in seed-funding from HTGF, Quantonation and business angels
Münster, 29th of March 2022 – Pixel Photonics, a start-up out of the physics department of WWU Münster founded in 2020, has raised 1.45 million euros in a seed-round from German VC fund High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), French quantum-focused VC fund Quantonation as well as the photonic industry veteran Dr. Hendrik Sabert.
Pixel Photonics develops highly scalable integrated-optical single-photon detectors that enable scaling of solutions in quantum computing, QKD and imaging among
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StartMiUp Capital Contest
On 28.04.2022 the StartMiUp Capital Contest will take place in the auditorium of the university building of the Justus-Liebig University Gießen. At the StartMiUp Capital Contest, you can expect promising start-up teams from the Justus-Liebig University Gießn, the Philipps University Marburg and the Technical University of Mittelhesse, which are in the first years of their innovative start-up. In front of a primarily regional jury of investors, the teams will pitch for possible start-up funding
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High-Tech Gründerfonds takes a stake in Dresden based sim4tec GmbH
Sim4tec GmbH is a spin-off from the Technical University of Dresden and CreaPhys GmbH and is active in the area of organic electronics. Sim4tec develops and distributes software for simulation of physical processes in organic devices. The bases of the sim4tec technology were developed in the framework of successful research projects between physicians involved in the semiconductor technology at the Institute for Applied Photophysics at the Technical University of Dresden, namely Dr. Robert Nitsc
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Automated Software Testing Platform Code Intelligence Raises $12 Million in Series A Funding
Round Led by Tola Capital and Investment from CEO of Github, Startup Helps Developers Ship Secure Software
Bonn, Germany — June 1, 2022— Code Intelligence, the automated security testing platform, today announces $12 million (11M€) in Series A funding led by Tola Capital. This round is joined by existing investors LBBW, OCCIDENT, Verve Ventures, HTGF and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Github.
Code Intelligence helps developers ship secure code by providing a platform to find and fix secur
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in SP Solution Pool GmbH
Seed investment of 500.000 € for the specialists for simple, innovative navigation for medicine
With its medical navigation systems, SP Solution Pool GmbH provides support for surgeons performing operations. These pioneering systems combine high precision and user-friendliness. SP Navigation provides a simple, integrated navigation concept that can be used in every operation and requires minimal preparation time. Thanks to its ergonomic design, system operation is intuitive and the system can
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With seed finance to a medical product ready for the market: Delphi Optics GmbH starts marketing its burns diagnosis system
With the seed investment totalling EUR 750,000, which the Lübeck-based medical technology business obtained from High-Tech Gründerfonds, KSV GmbH and Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Schleswig Holstein GmbH (MBG), Delphi Optics has developed its first product to readiness for the market.
The CS-Cam.burn optical system for diagnosing the depth of burns matured from a lab prototype to a pre-production model during the seed phase. Six well-known hospitals (Unfallklinikum Marzahn i
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Topsfield Medical GmbH announces seed financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds
Founded in February 2012 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Topsfield is developing a novel solution that addresses the underlying problem of premature shoulder implant loosening by improving the prosthesis fixation method. This next generation shoulder replacement system extends the life of the implants and address a major unmet clinical need. These technological advances allow a significantly increased patient population, including younger and active elderly patients, to receive shoulder im
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JUNIQE.com wins mass market for high-quality art in Europe
The online art market is growing rapidly: in the last year, the sector has expanded by 68%1, and it is expected to be worth 10 billion Euros by 2020². This growth is reflected in the marketplace for affordable art, JUNIQE, which has been growing at a rate of 60% a month since its launch in January 2014.
Investors have picked up on this growth: the online art gallery has recently announced that it has received a Series A total investment of almost 5 million Euros from a new partner, Vorwerk V
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tech11 receives million-dollar investment to revolutionize core insurance industry
Würzburg-based technology company tech11, which offers a digital platform for policy and claims management, secures a seven-figure investment as seed financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The technology platform supports all necessary core insurance processes in property insurance and is already being used by major insurers.
According to various industry experts, half of all German property and casualty insurance companies will replace existing legacy systems with modern softwar
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Resility
Mitigant is a product of Resility GmbH, a cloud security start-up. Resility GmbH was founded by Hasso Plattner Institute alumni Kennedy Torkura, Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana, Nils Karn and Thomas Fricke. Resility GmbH is redefining cloud security through the concept of Continuous Security Verification, which is influenced by CloudRAID, an innovative cloud security research effort from the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam. Resility GmbH aims to help companies cope with the increasing number of
Dr. Gernot Berger – Senior Investment Manager
Dr. Gernot Berger is a physicist with a strong affinity for the strategic development of companies. He was co-owner of a start-up company and contributed significantly to its success as sales, marketing and product manager. With his keen sense of market requirements and business development, he helped to establish the invention as a worldwide industry standard in optics manufacturing after the exit. Parallel to his work, he earned an Executive MBA from the Mannheim Business School in 2018, which focuses on entrepreneurship and strategic leadership. Before joining HTGF in 2019, Gernot used his strategic knowledge profitably for a medium-sized company selling high-tech B2B products in the highly competitive 3C industry with complex stakeholder structures.