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How doinstruct revolutionizes the training of frontline workers
Frontline workers are those who have direct contact with customers, products or machines, such as warehouse, production, care or sales staff. They are often the face and heart of a company, but also the ones with the least access to digital training and the greatest need for it. HTGF portfolio company doinstruct aims to change this with an innovative platform for training frontline staff. Based in Osnabrück, Germany, doinstruct has had an impressive growth story since 2021. We sat down with
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Deutsche Börse acquires stake in figo
DB1 Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Deutsche Börse Group, has participated in a Series B financing round for the Hamburg-based FinTech company figo GmbH and is investing a seven-digit amount for a significant minority stake. Further investors are reputable business angels from Germany. figo raised €6.8 million in total in the current financing round.
figo is a banking service provider focused on building the banking infrastructure of the future. In addition to the Banking AP
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Good feedback for “reqorder” High-Tech Gründerfonds investing 500,000 Euros
Berlin-based Software-as-a-Service company Krauttools GmbH was able to convince with its customer feedback platform, “reqorder” and is bringing High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) on board as an investor.
Krauttools GmbH develops and markets the “reqorder” customer feedback platform and is the first German provider serving this growth market with a data protection compliant solution. “reqorder” offers self-service or app-economy companies the possibility of polling customer views and t
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Lophius Biosciences closes additional financing round with current investors totaling 1.4 million EUR
Lophius Biosciences, a leading developer of novel, innovative T-cell-based diagnostic test systems, announced today closing of an additional financing round totaling 1.4 million EUR. All current financial investors, such as S-Refit, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) as well as Bayernkapital participated in this financing round. The funds will be used for the market introduction of the T-Track© CMV/EBV tests in the field of transplantation, for further development of a diagnostic test for the dif
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Textunes gains Thalia as strategic partner – exit for High-Tech Gründerfonds
High-Tech Gründerfonds has successfully sold its shares in textunes GmbH. With the purchase of textunes GmbH, Thalia is acquiring one of the leading providers of eBooks and eBook apps. With this step Thalia is setting new standards in digital reading as part of its "Smart Reading Strategy".
textunes was founded in 2009 by the three eBook enthusiasts Simon Seeger, Michael Oesterreich and Volker Oppmann as well as theCo.de AG. With financial support from High-Tech Gründerfonds the start-up ha
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg Agree on Cooperation
Technology-oriented companies being founded in Hamburg can count on two strong partners in future: High-Tech Gründerfonds and the new Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg will henceforth be working closely together. The aim is to provide joint seed financing to promising technology start-ups from the region.
Newly formed Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg invests in innovative companies in Hamburg up to the age of six years. Investment volume of EUR 12 m is provided in equal share by the City of H
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Autoloader GmbH
Autoloader GmbH has successfully completed its seed financing. High-Tech Gründerfonds has invested in the company in cooperation with the senior shareholder, Thomas Breuer / BF Consulting GmbH. The start-up company has developed a robot-based automation system, by means of which baggage handling procedures at airports, which have thus far been carried out manually all over the world, are automated.
With the support of development partners such as BF Maschinen GmbH, Framos GmbH, Sturm Maschin
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Vodafone takes over Network analysis specialist RadioOpt
The leading network provider Vodafone GmbH acquires 100 percent of the shares in Dresden based RadioOpt GmbH, a specialist for crowd based analysis of network per-formance using smartphone applications.
RadioOpt, established in 2008, is THE partner for performance data at smartphone level. For this purpose, device and network dependent data on the availability and performance of mo-bile and WLAN networks are collected anonymously around the world. This raw data is ag-gregated and processed by
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Cashwalk meets Capital Day Hessen
Nurturing the Best of the Best: A top selection of the early-stage startups from the German Entrepreneurship ecosystem
At the heart of this event lies a diligent selection of early-stage startups, handpicked from a thriving ecosystem with over 800 tech startups. For each event, a seasoned team of startup advisors and experts sift through 100+ up-and-coming startups.
The result? A constellation of the top 30 startups, each showing early traction, exhibiting growth indicators, and implying inv
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Cell Culture Made Easy – InnoCyte GmbH Finds Further Investors
InnoCyte GmbH has won three renowned investors for their cause: In a first round of financing, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), the Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft (MBG) – within the framework of the Seedfonds Baden-Württemberg – and Fraunhofer Venture have increased the capital of the young GmbH by a high six-figure amount. The goal is to push growth and further advance the technology.
InnoCyte GmbH has developed a technology that standardizes, automates, accelerates and there
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ezeep offers mobile printing for businesses and partners with Skype investor Mangrove and The Cloud
Berlin software startup ezeep has an ambitious goal: make printing easy, no matter where you are or what device you are using. The Skype investor Mangrove backs the company, and The Cloud, Europe’s biggest Wi-Fi provider, is one of ezeep’s first customers.
ezeep offers an easy and secure way to print in modern businesses. Employees can use the service to print when they are at the office or while they are on the go, either from their smartphone or tablet (both iOS and Android), or directl
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Seed funding for evalu – intelligent coaching software for athletes
Evalu is a Munich startup whose software offers athletes the opportunity to be coached at a professional level. The team of engineers, athletes, and coaches has been developing artificial intelligence software, which assesses, evaluates, and supports athletes. Recently, evalu secured seed funding with several high-profile investors from the Munich area as well as the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The startup was aided in this endeavor through the BayStartUp GmbH and the UnternehmerTUM GmbH.
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The next generation of cloud computing: IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) startup gridscale receives first seed money from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
HTGF finances gridscale GmbH with its first seed capital. gridscale was founded in September 2014, has been available on the market since November 2015 and has been financed by its founders (Michael Balser, Henrik Hasenkamp and Torsten Urbas) so far. Together they have accumulated more than 40 years of professional experience in the hosting industry. gridscale offers unique, virtual data center services that are based on the latest technological standards and are particularly user-friendly. grid
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eGym partners with Highland Capital Partners Europe to fuel growth with a $15m financing round
The German-based connected fitness company eGym is accelerating its international expansion and product development by raising $15 million from new investor Highland Capital Partners Europe. Existing investors Bayern Kapital and High-Tech Gründerfonds also participated in the round.
eGym provides connected fitness solutions to gym operators and gym members alike. The eGym product portfolio is a true mixture of hardware and software providing gym operators with granular information about thei
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HTGF portfolio company REBELLE acquires its competitor, Glamloop
Hamburg start-up consolidates market leadership in Germany
REBELLE, the website for second-hand designer fashion, has acquired its direct competitor, Glamloop. In a cash transaction, the Hamburg start-up operating as StyleRemains GmbH has purchased a 100 percent stake in ATK Shopping Solutions GmbH which operates the Glamloop website. This has consolidated REBELLE`s position as the German market leader. Glamloop's activities will be incorporated into the REBELLE brand and website. This will
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immersight receives further growth capital for Virtual Reality
MBG Baden-Württemberg and High-Tech Gründerfonds increase their shares of the immersight GmbH with investing a 6-digit amount in the german tech startup. The capital will be used for technology development and growth by immersight.
immersight was founded in 2012 by students from Ulm University, who developed the roomglasses, a technology for the Virtual Reality. The Roomglasses enables to immerse completely into the virtual room as an almost real experience. Thanks to the idea of using the te