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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Yatta Solutions GmbH
Yatta Solutions GmbH, a specialist in model-driven software development has secured the High-Tech Günderfonds as an investor. Yatta Solutions develops and distributes UML Lab, a software development tool which offers a complete, automatic and error-free alignment of source code and models (or diagrams) for the first time ever. The model view remains the same throughout software implementation without the need for time-consuming manual maintenance of the software design. Thus the introduction of
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casavi raises €20M Series B investment to build Europe’s leading digital property management platform
Munich, December 16, 2021 – casavi currently manages over 70,000 buildings and 1.6 million residential units, making it one of the leading PropTech platforms in the DACH region. Today the company is announcing the successful completion of its EUR 20 million Series B funding which will be used to expand the company’s product offering and accelerate growth throughout Europe. The European growth equity fund Digital+ Partners is leading the investment, alongside Wachstumsfonds Bayern managed
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LEON Mobility
LEON Mobility was founded in 2020 by two experts from the mobility industry who had clearly identified the problem of micro mobility: there is a lack of an economical and widespread charging infrastructure for sharing scooters. With XOO, LEON Mobility is building this smart charging infrastructure for sustainable micro mobility in public spaces. XOO charging points distributed across the city charge e-kick scooters and e-mopeds where the need is - efficiently, energy-saving and tidily. XOO is th
Adrian Grötsch – Senior IT Project Manager
Adrian Grötsch is Senior IT Project Manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds. He is responsible for the management of IT projects, the optimization of IT processes and the professionalization of IT project methodology.
Before joining HTGF, the qualified psychologist gained 10 years of project management experience at a well-known consulting firm. His focus was on cloud & on premise rollout projects in the HR context, both in a national and international context.
Adrian spends his free time with his family, riding his bike or working with wood.
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The GERMAN biometrics company JENETRIC GmbH enjoys confidence of its investors
Second round of financing secured after successful product launch
The investors of JENETRIC GmbH enter a second round of financing. "The whole team impressed us with their determination, with their performance and with their ambitious plans for the future. We are looking forward to accompanying the further development," says Karin Rabe, Investment Manager of bm|t, the holding company of the Free State of Thuringia. Also the Business Angel Prof. Dr. Franz Schmidt and the early-stage investor "H
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The product needs a product manager
Author: Martin Möllmann, HTGF Investment Manager
Especially at the beginning of a company’s history, resources are extremely scarce. Everybody helps out everywhere. This situation is no different in product development. While established companies can fall back on an entire structure of product managers, designers and developers, this is rarely the case for young start-ups. The technical component is often included, but the other tasks are distributed within the team or external experts are
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BioRiver Boost! 2021 | BioRiver – Life Science in Rheinland e.V.
As part of the BioRiver Boost! 2021, founders will present their technologies for the 8th time and face the questions of the expert jury. Eight selected start-up projects from biotechnology and life sciences from Germany and neighboring EU countries can be expected.
In the Reverse Pitch Session, participants will hear presentations from industry. This session will focus on the innovation fields of Scientific Bioprocessing and Evotec as well as Bayer, Qiagen and Miltenyi Biotec.
The final award c
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Berlin-based start-up incapptic Connect receives seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds
incapptic Connect closes seed round with HTGF. This start-up's unique software resolves a complex problem in the field of apps and enterprise mobility.
incapptic Connect's software simplifies the exchange of data between companies and external developers when updating apps. Each app needs to be signed with a digital corporate key before it can be published. This is akin to a sort of company signature. "To date, this has been carried out manually by IT specialists," explains Dr. Rafael Kobylin
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DCUBED
DCUBED (Deployables Cubed GmbH) develops mass-customizable, export restriction free Actuators and Deployable Structures that make advanced SmallSat & CubeSat missions possible by keeping especially the need of New Space Customers in mind.
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Venture Capital Meet & Greet: HTGF
Venture Capital Meet & Greet with Maurice Kügler from HTGF.
Register now! It’s free of charge!
Join us on 8th of December 2021 at 16:00 to get to know Maurice Kügler, investment manager at HTGF.
If you have a startup and are currently looking for venture capital funding you can also apply for a ten-minute one-on-one with HTGF.
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Rigontec Raises Additional €15M in Extended Series A to Advance Novel RIG-I Targeted Immuno-Oncology Therapeutics
Rigontec, the leader in RIG-I targeting RNA therapeutics, today announced that it has secured EUR 15 million in a third and final closing of its Series A round. The financing represents additional capital from current investors Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Forbion Capital Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), NRW.BANK, MP Healthcare Venture Management, Sunstone Capital and Wellington Partners Life Sciences. The funding will advance the ongoing development of Rigontec’s RIG-I agonist
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THE WORLD’S MOST SOPHISTICATED PRODUCT COMPARISON PLATFORM VERSUS IO CLOSES $2.8M SERIES A ROUND FROM EARLYBIRD VENTURE CAPITAL, 500 STARTUPS AND MORE
VERSUS IO, the world’s most sophisticated product comparison platform, today announced it has completed its Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. VERSUS IO enables users to compare consumer technology products like smartphones and tablets, cities and more. Using VERSUS IO, consumers are able to view results in a simple and clear format, without ‘information overload’ and ultimately allowing consumers to digest complex product data quickly and efficiently.
VERSUS IO uses
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Resourcify raises 1 Million Euro financing round
Resourcify GmbH successfully raises a 1 Million Euro finance round together with the High-Tech Gründerfonds and the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg in order to further strengthen its leading position in the digitization of recycling and waste management. With the Mein Recycling app, a cloud platform for digital waste management, Resourcify helps businesses to easily manage their waste, and recyclers to seamlessly connect with their customers online.
The company is tackling the digitisation
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LightnTec concludes additional financing round
BORN2GROW Seedfonds and High-Tech Gründerfonds on board as investors
Karlsruhe-based LightnTec GmbH, a developer and manufacturer of digital light and its illumination on thin film for innovative indoor and outdoor advertising spaces as well as digital lighting systems, has successfully completed an additional financing round. A seven-figure investment sum was raised and the investors include the seed fund BORN2GROW – a subsidiary of ZFHN Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn (ZFHN) – and High-Tech Grü
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Breakthrough for an Alternative to Crude Oil & Palm Oil: COLIPI Receives €1.8 Million Seed Funding for Further Development of CO2-Neutral Climate OilTM
The global annual demand for oil is staggering, with 4400 million tons of fossil oil and 210 million tons of vegetable oil, often sourced from palms. It is increasing, exacerbating the threat of global warming that poses a significant risk to humanity
The Hamburg-based startup COLIPI addresses this challenge with a patented Carbon Capturing & Biotransformation technology that will convert CO2 into Climate Oil. This Climate Oil is intended to have broad applications in the cosmetics a
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Fresh money for high speed data transfer technology from Hannover
TIXEL develops and markets systems and solutions for high speed and reliable data transfer over wide area networks (WAN). The IT start-up company from Hannover focuses on experienced partners for expanding its business and receives €700k venture capital from hannover innovations fonds (hif) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Conventional methods for data transfers over wide area networks based on the well-known file transfer protocol (FTP) are very sensitive to typical effects such as pack