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Hofmann & Stirner receives almost 1 million € for the digitization of feeding technology for automated manufacturing.
The HTGF and a business angel invest around 1 million € in the Hofmann & Stirner Zuführsysteme GmbH. The start-up is developing a digitally optimized feeding system which offers customers a long-term platform for all their current and future feeding tasks. The company´s vision is the completely automated development of every feeding system using artificial intelligence.
The automated, oriented supply of bulk parts for assembly is a key element for every industrial production line. Fee
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Record investment for HTGF portfolio company: EGYM receives €207 million in growth capital from new US investor Affinity Partners
Shared vision: drive digitalization of the fitness industry and connect it with the healthcare market through corporate health
This investment will allow for further expansion of EGYM Wellpass employee corporate health network
EGYM expects a profitable fiscal year in 2023
EGYM has been part of HTGF’s portfolio since 2011. The round is one of the largest in the seed investor’s portfolio
CEO Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer: “EGYM’s smart workout solutions accele
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Resourcify raises another €5 million to expand its recycling platform
Hamburg, 22.02.2022 – Resourcify, Europe’s leading digital platform for waste management and recycling, announced today the successful closing of its latest €5m funding round. This brings the total raised by the startup to over €9 million. Resourcify’s recycling platform enables companies to digitize and optimize their recycling and open up new revenue streams.
The financing round, led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Speedinvest joins them together with existing inve
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Lindis Blood Care successfully closes follow-on financing round
Funding round supported by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Brandenburg Kapital and several private investors, showing their continued commitmentFunds to be mainly used to complete ongoing REMOVE study with CATUVAB®, extend clinical program, complete CE marking procedure, start FDA market application process and support partnering activitiesCATUVAB® is a novel approach designed to be a safe and cost-effective way to reliably remove tumor cells from autologous blood
Hennigsdorf, Germa
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Bayer G4A Pitch Club
On 05.05.2022, Bayer G4A will host the Pitch Club. It provides an online space for digital health startups to pitch their solutions and get in front of digital health experts, venture capitalists, potential customers, and media. Startups have until April 22nd, 2022 at 11:59 PM CET to submit their application or until 100 applications are received. Interested start ups can register here. The event will be live streamed on G4A’s LinkedIn profile after the selection process.
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doinstruct
Rethinking employee training, integration, and communication: doinstruct develops a low-threshold, multilingual mobile training solution for frontline workers. The software enables companies to train their employees and service providers by smartphone, across supply chains and in any location. The primary goal is to offer a unique user-centric training software that can easily be implemented in companies and reaches 100% of all employees.
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A European champion for fusion: Proxima Fusion spins out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Munich, May 30th 2023 – Proxima Fusion, a fusion start-up that is designing fusion power plants based on the stellarator concept, completed its pre-seed fundraising of €7m. The fundraising is co-led by Plural and UVC Partners, and joined by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Wilbe Group.
Proxima Fusion is the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). The startup was founded by former scientists and engineers from the Max Planck IPP, MIT, and Google
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Dualyx raises €40 million to progress Treg therapies for autoimmune diseases into the clinic
Use of proceeds will enable the development of the Company’s lead autoimmune program DT-001, targeting TNFR2, as well as its pipeline of Treg candidates
Financing co-led by Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion and Andera Partners with support from existing investors
Bernard Coulie appointed as Independent Chairman with immediate effect
May 15, 2023, Ghent, Belgium – Dualyx NV, a Ghent based biotech developing next generation immune modulators, today announces that it has
Team Life Sciences & Team Chemistry
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bookingkit Receives Fresh Capital, Müller Medien on Board as New Investor
bookingkit, Germany's leading SaaS solution for digitalized tours and activities, into which the HTGF became the first investor in 2015, announces today that it has raised a single-digit million amount in Series B funding. Müller Medien has been acquired as a further investor. The fresh capital will be invested to maintain the rapid growth of the company and expanding its team.
This round of funding was led by HTGF, Intermedia Ventures and business angel Robert Kabs, and has been joined by new
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HTGF and Bayern Kapital invest in online property management platform
casavi has successfully raised a seven-figure sum in an additional financing round. The Munich-based company is seeking to further advance the digitalisation of property management with its cloud-based platform. Seed investors Bayern Kapital and High-Tech Gründerfonds once again invested in the company. The financing round also saw investment from WenVest GmbH and a family office active in the property industry from the BayStartUP network. casavi is aiming to use the fresh capital to build on i
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Hprobe, Leader in Magnetic Field Testing Announces Completion of a New Funding Round with International Investors
Hprobe, a provider of semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices, today announced the completion of a new funding round driven by international investors, providing an exceptional depth of expertise, a global ecosystem of partnerships and the endorsement of industry market leaders. Hprobe has raised more than 2 million euros to support its strong international development in the field of spintronics based devices testing, such as MRAMs (Magnetic Random Access Memories)
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in medical engineering of the future
Kumovis develops 3D printers specifically for medical technology. With its technology the team of Kumovis enables the manufacturing of individualized medical products, like patient-customized implants. The HTGF now participates in the seed financing round. This investment especially supports Kumovis‘ market launch of the innovative printers.
The founders of Kumovis have set themselves the goal of enabling the additive production of plastic implants and are developing innovative 3D printers
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EEDEN
EEDEN starts upcycling – turning textile waste into valuable ressources for new fibres. The Company developed a chemical upcycling process for textile waste, recovering its resources. In this way, new, high-quality textiles can be created again from old textiles.
Globally textiles worth 100 bill. $ get landfilled or incinerated every year, while the industry faces resource shortages and regulatory pressure due to its ecological footprint. EEDENs product, a cellulose pulp for cellulosic fibres
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TechVision Fonds I and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in textile recycling startup EEDEN
Textile recycling rethought: Innovative process enables upcycling of old clothing
Aachen, 22 June 2022 – TechVision Fonds I, together with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and a business angel, are the first investors to invest in EEDEN. The startup from Moenchengladbach, Germany has developed an innovative process for the sustainable and environmentally friendly recycling of clothing and other textile products. With the financing, EEDEN plans to further expand their R&D-activitie
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A-financing round successfully completed: Capical GmbH gains M-Invest and KfW as new investors
Capical GmbH’s positive development has persuaded M-Invest and KfW to get on board as new investors in the Braunschweig medical technology company. c · one, the world’s first capacitive ECG device has already been completed and approved; the company now plans on building up sales with the capital.
“The financing round will enable us to position c · one , approved at the beginning of 2013, on the national and international market and to build up sales.” explained Henning Böge, manag