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Legal Notice and Privacy Policy I. Legal NoticeHigh-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbHjointly represented byManaging Director Dr. Alexander von FrankenbergSchlegelstraße 253113 BonnTelephone: +49 – (0) 228 – 823001-00Fax: +49 – (0) 228 – 823000-50Email: info@high-tech-gruenderfonds.deCommercial register of the local court of Bonn HRB 13863Chairman of the Investors Advisory Board: Dr. Matthias KoehlerVAT identification number: DE281370736 Online dispute resolution Please note that, alongside More …

Fresh capital for web store windeln.de

windeln.de, Germany's largest online web store for baby products, successfully completed its Series A financing. Led by the British venture capital company DN Capital, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and a consortium of existing shareholders invested again in the company's growth. The Munich-based growth equity investor Acton Capital Partners could be gained as a new investor in this round. windeln.de was More …

High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Stuffle, the flea market app

 Second financing round within a few weeks: after SEDO founder Tim Schumacher, HTGF invests in Stuffle Eight months after being launched, Hamburg-based start-up Stuffle (https://stuffle.it) has closed its second financing round. Following SEDO founder Tim Schumacher’s six-figure investment just a few weeks before, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is now joining as well. HTGF is acquiring a minority shareholding for a mid More …

Worldwide First – Professional Real Estate Software “In the Clouds”

The developer of the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for real estate sales, Propertybase GmbH, has successfully closed their first financing package. Based on their early success and profitable track record, Propertybase has secured investments from Bayern Kapital and Neuhaus Partners, while start-up investor High-Tech Gründerfonds will support the company as lead investor. Propertybase is the first company to develop a More …

Further Omnichannel extension and international expansion: Mister Spex closes financing round of 65 million euros

Europe's leading online optician has completed a 65 million euro financing round. The Büll Family Office led the equity round with participation from existing investors (e.g. Grazia Equity, Stephan Schambach und Ehssan Dariani), while Global Growth Capital provided a senior debt facility. The company enjoyed strong growth and profitability in 2018, and the investment will enable the company to accelerate More …

PreisAnalytics GmbH, Munich: High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Bayern Kapital and Tengelmann Ventures invest in innovative solution for price monitoring, market analysis and product range management

Right at the beginning of the new year, the company PreisAnalytics GmbH – one of the leading providers of tools in the sector of price monitoring, market analysis and product range management in e-commerce – has announced a new financing round. In addition to High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Bayern Kapital, PreisAnalytics’ data collection and data analysis software could equally convince the More …

SmartChem Security Token Offering (STO): A potential blueprint for financing capital-intensive chemistry startups?

By Dr. Marie Asano, High-Tech Gründerfonds On the 27th of June 2019, Intelligent Fluids GmbH began its official fund-raising for its SmartChem (SCM) Security Token Offering (STO) seed phase. It would be to our knowledge, the first-of-its-kind STO for a chemistry startup. This is expected to have a large implication on the chemical financial landscape on how capital is raised More …

CarJump closes seed round to develop new carsharing products

High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Berlin-based startup CarJump. The funds will be used to develop new products, which will enable interconnectivity between different mobility service providers. CarJump has closed a seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds. The carsharing service provider, that trades under the name of GHM Mobile Development GmbH, has so far been publically known for its app (CarJump). The More …

How do Industrial Tech founders recognize Product-Market Fit?

By Gregor Haidl (Investment Manager) Supported by Yann Fiebig (Senior Investment Manager), Fabian Hogrebe (Analyst), Ingo Fehr (Investment Manager), Dr. Andreas Olmes (Partner) Part 1: The emotional perspective „Have I found Product-Market Fit?“ This question is particularly difficult to answer for first-time founders in early-stage start-ups. The answer has far-reaching consequences: If I don't have Product-Market Fit (yet), everything in More …

POSpulse receives second funding this year – High-Tech-Gründerfonds invests in retail-analytics company POSpulse

POSpulse provides Smart Data for retailers and brands: By utilising crowdsourcing POSpulse collects data from the shopper’s perspective at the point-of-sale and provides retailers and brands with detailed analysis and optimization proposals for their POS activities. For the first time it is possible to gain extensive and comprehensive knowledge and real-time insights into the real purchasing situation at the point More …

HTGF Seed Syte

Real-Estate potential in a blink: SaaS start-up syte closes new seed funding for real-time land analysis The start-up syte raises 2.6 million euros in its latest round of financing. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and four other investors from the real estate industry invested. This brings the company closer to its ambitious goal of using AI to analyse the economic and ecological More …

Product Management in Europe

Elias Lieberich Is Product Management the missing puzzle piece in Europe? In his daily work with early-stage Industrial Tech founders, our Principal Gregor Haidl places particular emphasis on deeply understanding the customer and defining a successful product. Effective product management is a cornerstone, vital not only for start-ups, but for companies of all sizes and industries. Gregor sat down with Elias Lieberich, More …

Immunic

Immunic Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company with a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies aimed at treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Immunic, Inc. is headquartered in New York. Its subsidiary, Immunic AG, is based in Graefelfing near Munich, Germany, where the company’s research and development activities are conducted. Additional subsidiaries are located in Halle/Saale, Germany, and Melbourne, Australia. More …

HTGF Investment Plancraft

Plancraft receives seed funding & grants to digitize the craft industry Hamburg, 7 September 2022 – In its seed financing round, the software-as-a-service start-up Plancraft receives 1.9 million euros from institutional investors as well as 200,000 euros in funding. The Hamburg-based trio of founders is using the funding to boost the marketing of its simplicity-driven invoicing software in the craft More …

EverReal Successfully Completes Seed Investment Round

Seed X Liechtenstein AG and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invest seven-figure euro amount EverReal offers real estate companies a digital platform for renting and selling of real estate The new capital will be invested into the further development of the platform, customer acquisition and the expansion of the team.   The two institutional venture capital companies HTGF and Seed X have More …