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Fitness App Reimagined: TRAIT Secures €1 Million Seed Funding for Empathetic AI Training Platform
TRAIT, the innovative training app, has raised around 1 million € in seed funding from HTGF, the angel club better ventures and other private investors. The funding will support the further development of its AI training platform, which aims to provide a more personalized and empathetic training experience for runners.
The Berlin-based start-up’s mission is to help people achieve their individual training goals and lead a more sustainably active and fulfilling life. At the heart o
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Sdui acquires FoxEducation and raises a further 21 million euros
The acquisition of FoxEducation strengthens Sdui’s position servicing over 22,000 schools and preschools in Europe. The company also raised a further 21 million euros from new and existing investors. New investor Summiteer and existing investor HV Capital leads the new financing round.
Koblenz / Vienna, 17 July 2024 – Sdui Group (“Sdui”), one of the leading providers of education technology in Europe, today announced that it has acquired digital education solut
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doinstruct raises €7.6M to address frontline-worker skills shortages
80% of the global workforce are frontline workers in industries such as food processing, logistics & warehousing, hospitality, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. Current training options are time-consuming, inefficient and not designed with workers in mind.
doinstruct’s simple, mobile-first approach is training as it should be – low-threshold, bite-sized and in the worker’s native language.
doinstruct secured €7.6M in funding led by Creandum, with participation from
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HepaRegeniX raises €15 million Series C round to advance clinical development of HRX-215 for liver regeneration
Funds to support Phase Ib clinical trial of HRX-215 in the US and an international multicenter Phase IIa clinical trial in liver regeneration
Elias Papatheodorou moves from Chair of the Board to CEO of HepaRegeniX
Dr. Linda Greenbaum joins HepaRegeniX as CMO
Tuebingen (Germany), July 10, 2024 – HepaRegeniX GmbH, a clinical stage company developing novel regenerative therapies for the treatment of acute and chronic liver diseases, today announced the closing of a Series C rou
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SciRhom Secures EUR 63 Million Series A Financing Round to Accelerate iRhom2-targeting Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases.
The upsized and oversubscribed Series A financing round will be used to drive the lead development program toward clinical proof-of-concept and to broaden the therapeutic value of the proprietary iRhom2 strategy.
Munich, Germany, July 9, 2024 – SciRhom GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of first-in-class therapeutic iRhom2 antibodies, announced today the closing of a EUR 63 million (USD 70 million) Series A financing round. The round was co-led by Andera Pa
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Yann Fiebig appointed new partner at High-Tech Gründerfonds
Deep Tech and Climate Tech expert joins the partnership of early-stage investor
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), one of the leading seed investors in Europe, has appointed Yann Fiebig as partner with effect from 1 July 2024. The engineer has been investing in Deep Tech and Climate Tech startups at HTGF since 2016. Yann recognised high-potential topics such as New Space and Quantum Technologies very early on and led pioneering investments for HTGF.
Yann Fiebig holds degrees in electrical
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DKFZ spin-off Epignostix raises €4.3m Seed round to commercialize diagnostic tumor classifier
Heidelberg Epignostix GmbH, a deeptech start-up committed to precision cancer diagnostics today announces €4.3M in seed funding. This investment will enable Heidelberg Epignostix to make a substantial leap forward in driving market development for its flagship indication for brain tumor classification.
CARMA FUND I Capital GmbH & Co KG led the round with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds, LBBW Venture Capital GmbH and Start-up BW Seed Fonds. Heidelberg Epignostix’ technol
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Towards a Greener Space Economy: ISPTech Secures €2M in Pre-Seed Funding for Innovative Spacecraft Propulsion Technology
ISPTech is building propulsion systems for spacecraft of all sizes, from small CubeSats to large satellites, that offer the highest performance and reliability at the lowest price in the market.
The rapidly growing space market has a high demand for affordable, quickly available and reliable propulsion solutions.
ISPTech’s technology is based on a key patent and more than 10 years of R&D by the two founders at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
The unique propulsion technologi