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Vertama raises seven-figure seed funding for efficient, digital healthcare processes
Berlin, 12 July 2023 – Vertama digitises medical reporting processes in the hospital environment, transforming time-consuming manual work into efficient, partially fully automated processes. Led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Berlin Angel Fund and renowned business angels are jointly investing in the seed round of the Berlin-based start-up.
Following the philosophy of developing accessible services that can be easily implemented in existing systems as scalable products, Vertama
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Maya Climate
Maya Climate offers an innovative approach that simplifies geospatial analysis and empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions effortlessly in the area of nature-based assets. Here using geospatial data for informed decision-making has become indispensable. However, a critical challenge persists—integrating complex geospatial datasets and models into practical business workflows remains a barrier. Maya Climate introduces a user-friendly cloud assistant for geospatial automation to addres
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Kranus Health now raised a total of USD 15 million Series A funding to realize its vision of integrated care in urology
Berlin / Munich / Paris, 2th of October 2023 – Kranus Health, specializing in integrated care within urology, announces that the company is now funded with a Series A round totalling USD 15 million. The round is co-led by new investor SwissHealth Ventures and existing investor, Karista. All other existing investors including HTGF, Wenvest and A Round Capital, have also made significant follow-on investments. The new funds make Kranus Health one of the best-funded digital health startups in
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RAIDBOXES receives seed funding to shake up the German webhosting market
Backed up with an investment by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), three entrepreneurs from Münster seek to revolutionize the German webhosting market. RAIDBOXES is specialized in WordPress and offers a service that makes hosting fast, secure and more convenient.
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, powering blogs, e-commerce sites and online media. An estimated 26 percent of all websites rely on it, including the New York Times, TechCrunch and NASA. RAIDBOX
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FinMarie receives EUR 1.4 million to expand its digital finance platform for women
First financing round completedHigh-Tech Gründerfonds and wallstreet:online AG invest in FinMarieThe capital of EUR 1.4 million will be used to expand the digital finance platform
Berlin, October 07, 2021 – Berlin-based financial startup FinMarie has received early-stage funding of EUR 1.4 million. In this first round, the early-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Berlin-based wallstreet:online AG are participating.
Our mission is to make women more fin
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Demo Day – FS Accelerator Summer ’23
The Frankfurt School Accelerator Demo Day is a showcase of the second generation of startups produced under the supervision and guidance of the FS Entrepreneurship Centre. HTGF Investment Manager Max Bergmann will represent High-Tech Gründerfonds as a member of the jury.
These carefully handpicked startups are intensely trained by mentors and coaches from across the world, for 4 weeks on all business themes to refine their ideas and make them investment-ready.
Everyone is welcome to join us o
Christian Ziach – Principal / Authorized Signatory
The aerospace engineer has been dealing with cutting-edge technologies his entire professional life and, as a Principal/Authorized Signatory at HTGF, supports start-ups in the areas of industrial IoT, software, security, space and quantum technologies. Before Christian came to HTGF in October 2017, he worked as a senior systems engineer on the international asteroid landing mission MASCOT at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and was able to gain a lot of experience in the field of agile development methods in the hardware sector. For the first 12 years of his career, he was an air force officer in the German Armed Forces, responsible for the management of complex armaments projects. In 2011, while working for the German Armed Forces, he also obtained a diploma in business and economic sciences. Christian shares his experience as a startup mentor in cooperation with the incubators of the European space organization, the Space Founders Accelerator, and advises DLR and ESA in the area of New Space.
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ILIAS-medical GmbH, Bochum is funded by the High-Tech Gründerfonds and Sirius Seedfonds Düsseldorf
The High-Tech Gründerfonds and Sirius Seedfonds, Düsseldorf are funding together with a group of private experts in different industries the ILIAS-medical GmbH, Bochum. Due to the good reputation and professionalism the High-Tech Gründerfonds and SSFD were the 4 founders first choice.
ILIAS-medical is developing the smallest artificial lung worldwide. Based on the Exist-Seed scholarship the company was founded in December 2007 in Cologne, Germany by Albert Großer, Hayat Koubaa, Philipp Maye
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Amal Therapeutics SA raises seed round from Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and High-Tech Gründerfonds to develop therapeutic cancer vaccines based on its proprietary technology platform
Amal Therapeutics SA, a Geneva and Berlin-based company focusing on the development of therapeutic cancer vaccines, announced today that it has closed its seed financing round. The funds will be used to consolidate the cell-penetrating peptide based technology platform and progress the first vaccine candidate up to pre-clinical development. The investment round was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), joined by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The company also announced that it appoin
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CryoTherapeutics GmbH completes an extension to its Series A Financing Round bringing the total to €6.5 million
CryoTherapeutics GmbH (CryoTherapeutics), the developer of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease, announced today that it has completed an extension to its Series A financing round led by Peppermint Venture Partners (PVP) via its Charité Biomedical Fund with participation by existing investors NRW.BANK, Rainer Christine Asset Management GmbH, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Getz Brothers. New investor KfW also participated in the financing.
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embraase secures funding for real-time optimization of mobile apps
The Berlin-based startup embraase collects a six-digit investment from High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) and Axel Springer for its A/B testing and personalization platform for mobile apps. The capital will be used for further product development and distribution setup.
There are as much as 2.5 million mobile apps available on the digital distribution platforms of Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) while up to 7,500 new ones are released every day. The competition for the users´ attention is alrea
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Eneco Group invests in Next Kraftwerke
Dutch sustainable energy company Eneco Group has acquired a minority interest of 34% in Germany-based Next Kraftwerke, operator of one of the largest Virtual Power Plants (VPP) in Europe. The investment will allow for the further strategic expansion of Next Kraftwerke in Europe and contribute to the joint ambition of Eneco Group and Next Kraftwerke to accelerate the energy transition by means of technology, enabling more renewable and decentralized energy.
Next Kraftwerke, founded in 2009 in
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Special focus issue on innovation in pain management: BVMed, Earlybird and High-Tech Gründerfonds publish „MedTech Radar 4“
Innovation resulting from research in the field of pain and the clinical management of pain are the topic of Med-Tech-Radars’ fourth issue. MedTech Radar is a joint publication of BVMed (The German Medical Technology Association), Earlybird Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds. 12-15 million people in Germany alone suffer from chronic and recurring pain. Chosing the right therapy and getting the dosage right still proves a demanding task for medical professionals. Berlin-based Dolosys n
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opentabs receives fresh capital
The founders of the hospitality app opentabs proudly announce a successful funding round. German High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) guarantees with its investment further progress of opentabs.
The vast majority will be invested in the technology, meaning the two mobile app versions (iOS and Android) and the center piece - the backend. Just recently the iOS version was updated, focusing on a better user experience ordering coffee or food to go via app. Other new features are already in the pipelin
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Lockbox secures financing and expands across Germany with Trinkkiste.de
For almost one year, Berlin-based start-up Lockbox GmbH has been making beverage delivery for its customers as easy as possible thanks to its Trinkkiste.de service. After expanding the company’s delivery area from Berlin to Hamburg and Cologne earlier this year, Lockbox was able to secure investment capital in the high six-figures to provide further expansion of its service. The delivery area has just been expanded in March to include Hannover, Freiburg and Potsdam.
Trinkkiste.de will continu
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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest in technology for stroke prevention
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital finance Curefab to develop innovative tools to enhance early diagnosis and prevention of stroke.
In Germany alone, every year about 200.000 people are hit by a stroke. The majority of this collective suffers from severe long-term disabilities. Stroke patients occupy up to 25% of hospital long term beds. Alone the direct medical stroke related costs sum up to 7.1 billion Euros each year in Germany.
Early diagnosis in combination with appropriate th