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What have you learnt? Episode 2 with finmarie’s Rica Klitzke
What have you learnt? This is a question we’re putting to company founders from our portfolio. Because if you found a start-up, run a company, make investments or work in management, you are learning something new every single day. You also have to deal with new situations. And continue to develop new skills. To cover the latter aspect, we expanded the HTGF Academy this year to offer a comprehensive programme for company founders. And because we firmly believe in the power of peer-to-p
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Newion led a € 2.8M investment round in Filestage – with current investor HTGF and Carsten Maschmeyer’s Seed+Speed
Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, has received €2.8M in a Series A investment round led by Newion, together with current investor HTGF and Seed+Speed by celebrity Carsten Maschmeyer.
Online Proofing is a core process in today’s business. Companies collaborate remotely more than ever, and they produce more content than ever, thereby often dealing with regulations. This is why brands like Sharp, Sixt, dm, GroupM, Head, Ab-InBev, Lufthansa, Rabobank and Cambridge Univers
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Interview with Kenza Ait Si Abbou: emotional AI can read humans – even better than we can
Could machines soon be capable of understanding us better than other people? There’s a good chance they will, believes Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini. Here in Germany, the engineer is one of the most well-known experts in artificial intelligence, or AI for short. In her latest book “Menschenversteher” (Understanding humans), she explores the development of emotional AI. We sat down for a chat shortly before her keynote speech at the HTGF Family Day in May. In the interview, we talked about
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Lymphatica Medtech raises seven-digit Series A round
LYMPHATICA Medtech, a vascular medical device development start-up, closes a seven-digit financing round to advance clinical validation aiming at revolutionizing the treatment of chronic lymphoedema.
The investment round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, was joined by business angels, the EIT health (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) and existing investors, including LIVEventures. The Company also announces the appointment of Laurent Duhoux (ex VP New Technology at Edwards L
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Bitwala Raises the Biggest Ever Equity Funding for a German Blockchain Startup
Bitwala, the only crypto-first banking service in the European Economic Area, raises 13 million Euro in Series A funding round to accelerate growth and offer B2B accounts
Global Brain and Sony Financial Ventures’ jointly invest in Bitwala as partners for Bitwala’s global expansion
NKB Group, the UK-based investment and advisory firm focused on blockchain technology, is expanding its European portfolio with Bitwala
Earlybird and coparion, two existing investors, contribute half of th
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Doctorflix Secures €2 Million Seed Funding to Re-think Continuous Medical Education
Doctorflix, a next-generation e-learning platform re-thinking the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge, has announced the successful completion of a €2 million seed funding round. The funds raised will be strategically allocated for the extension of product offerings, the growth of the team, and the development of the platform, to continue the mission of simplifying and democratising medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, and industry players.
The seed round was
Dorthe Liesegang – Accountant Clerk
Dorthe Liesegang supports the accounting team at High-Tech Gründerfonds. In addition to financial accounting, she is responsible for internal accounting as well as reporting to authorities and associations. The certified accountant was previously able to gather extensive knowledge from a wide range of business areas in a private asset management company.
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Phytonics secures seven-digit investment to make solar panels glare-free and more efficient
Karlsruhe, 16. März, 2023 –Phytonics, a pioneer in the field of PV module coating, has successfully closed a seven-digit Seed funding round. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), one of Europe’s leading seed investors, EIT InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe, as well as the renowned Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and business angels are participating in the round. The new capital will be used for further development and market launch of the
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deal united completes funding round and driving internationalisation forward
deal united completed its most recent funding round with extraordinary success. Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Venture Incubator are investing a mid-seven digit amount in the Munich-based e-commerce platform. deal united supports providers of software, online games and social networks as well as shop operators in optimising their monetisation. deal united is already Europe’s leading online marketing platform for monetising digital and virtual goods and is represented in numerous Eur
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Venture capital firms High-Tech Gründerfonds and Born2Grow invest in Preventicus GmbH
Preventicus GmbH is developing smartphone-driven solutions to capture and analyze patients' vital parameters for early preclinical risk screening of lifestyle-related illnesses. Seed funding for the Jena-based company is managed by the German High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) in Bonn and Born2Grow venture fund in Heilbronn. The capital is being provided to develop the products and portal to marketability.
It is the mission of Preventicus to help make a significant contribution to preventing lif
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FAZUA GmbH, Munich: High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Bayern Kapital invest together with a Business Angel in the future of e-bike drive systems
FAZUA GmbH – a company specializing in the development and distribution of the evation drive system for e-bikes – has successfully concluded the seed stage of its financing. High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital and a Business Angel invest in the serial development of the exchangeable, light-weight and visually appealing next generation e-bike drive system: evation.
The company FAZUA GmbH is based in Munich and develops and distributes an innovative drive system for e-bikes under
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Start-up fairCamper: RV rental platform closes seven-digit seed-funding
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) and Business Angel David Majert jointly invest in the marketplace for easy and secure rental of motorhomes and campers.
fairCamper (also known as WOBI) is the portal to rent motorhomes and campers easily, cheaply and securely. In addition to the direct brokerage of motorhomes, the start-up company offers small- and medium-sized rental companies a SaaS solution including a booking engine for their own website. With this
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Simone Menne in conversation: “We need to get back to basics again”
Simone Menne is one of the most important voices on the subject of innovation in Germany. She has a really good understanding of the business landscape in this country. Having previously held roles as CFO of Lufthansa and Boehringer Ingelheim, today she is an active member of multiple supervisory boards and shares her expertise with a wide audience. She will also be the keynote speaker at High-Tech Gründerfonds’ Family Day taking place on 9 and 10 May in Bonn. Ahead of the event, we sat d
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11th edition of MedTech Radar: Focusing on the healthcare of the future
Digital and intelligent – that’s the healthcare of the future. Many medical technology companies already have promising products on offer. Artificial intelligence in particular has great potential. This eleventh edition of MedTech Radar, a joint media service of the Bundesverband Medizintechnologie (BVMed), Earlybird Venture Capital, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI), and BIOCOM AG, reports on ideas currently being developed in the fields of radiology, diagn
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NFON (Exit)
We connect the world in Munich. In 2007 we stirred up the blue and white sky above Bavaria with an invisible cloud. A very special cloud still revolutionizing worldwide business telephony to this day. We’re NFON AG, a worldwide leading provider of high-end telephone systems from the cloud. More than 150 creative, skilled and passionate employees in Munich, Mainz and over ten countries (eight other branches) throughout Europe ensure you stay talking. Whenever you want. Wherever you want. With w
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Tubulis Raises €10.7 M Series A to Advance Development of a New Generation of Antibody-Drug Conjugates
Tubulis today announced the close of a €10.7 million Series A financing round to accelerate the development of a new class of highly stable and efficient antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and to support the further growth of the company. The financing round was co-led by BioMedPartners and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) with support from Seventure Partners, coparion, Bayern Kapital, and OCCIDENT alongside significant contributions by high net worth individuals and the founders. Tubulis was s