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Orbex Secures $24 Million Funding Round for UK Space Launch
New funding secures roadmap to first launch from Sutherland spaceport in ScotlandOrbex is 1st UK space-sector company to win prestigious Horizon 2020 funding
Orbex, the innovative European space launch company, has secured $24 million in a funding round led by BGF, the UK’s most active investment company, and Octopus Ventures, one of the largest VCs in Europe.
BGF and Octopus Ventures have joined existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor S.A. ̵
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Most Successful Exit in the History of High-Tech Gründerfonds – Gilead Sciences to Acquire MYR GmbH
One of the largest trade sales of a VC-financed German biotech start-up in the last 20 yearsMYR developed HepcludexTM (Bulevirtide), a first-in-class entry inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta virus (HDV). Hepcludex was conditionally approved in Europe by the EMA in July 2020 and submission for accelerated approval in the United States is anticipated by second half of 2021The acquisition builds on Gilead’s strength as a global leader in virology and liver diseases with ad
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Fraunhofer IGD spin-off Threedy secures seed funding from investors led by btov Partners
Threedy raises 1.8m euros in seed funding as it enters the market with instant3Dhub – a visual computing as a service platform for large 3D data models
Threedy is a spin-off from Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. It has now raised early-stage venture capital to commercialize its instant3Dhub platform. This platform primarily supports visualization, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, and will initially serve companie
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Hanko.io, startup for passwordless authentication, closes seed funding with investors from HTGF and PAYONE founders
The company from Kiel, Germany closes their first investment round successfully. With the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and PAYONE founders Carl Frederic Zitscher and Jan Kanieß, Hanko wins over experienced partners for innovative technology and growth. The capital will be used for further product development and the implementation of the go-to-market strategy.
For apps on smartphones and tablets biometric procedures such as Touch ID and Face ID have been established since long. In brow
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Lymphatica Medtech raises seven-digit Series A round
LYMPHATICA Medtech, a vascular medical device development start-up, closes a seven-digit financing round to advance clinical validation aiming at revolutionizing the treatment of chronic lymphoedema.
The investment round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, was joined by business angels, the EIT health (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) and existing investors, including LIVEventures. The Company also announces the appointment of Laurent Duhoux (ex VP New Technology at Edwards L
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High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in Synthara, targeting breakthrough edge-AI chips with participation from a global coalition of investors and R&D partners
Synthara AG, a spin-off from the UZH-ETH Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) in Zurich, has secured seed funding and research partnerships to develop the next generation of adaptive AI processors for edge applications. The seed financing round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Edge AI chips are a specialized and rapidly growing multi-billion dollar market. Our algorithm-aware chips are designed to deliver up to 500 times better performance for the next generation of smart sen
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Start-up fairCamper: RV rental platform closes seven-digit seed-funding
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) and Business Angel David Majert jointly invest in the marketplace for easy and secure rental of motorhomes and campers.
fairCamper (also known as WOBI) is the portal to rent motorhomes and campers easily, cheaply and securely. In addition to the direct brokerage of motorhomes, the start-up company offers small- and medium-sized rental companies a SaaS solution including a booking engine for their own website. With this
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Emergence Therapeutics Announces a Bumped-up Follow-on Seed Round Financing
Financing enables company to embark on additional targets and expand ADC technology reach
Emergence Therapeutics AG, a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody drug conjugate (ADC) immuno-therapeutics to treat high need cancers, announces that is has closed a Bumped-up Follow-on Seed Round Financing from a syndicate of leading European investors comprising Bpifrance through its InnoBio 2 fund, Gründerfonds Ruhr, Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH, High-Tech Gründerf
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FinTech troy wins HDI as new investor, existing investors strengthen their commitment
troy is investing the new funds in further optimisations of its “debt collection experience”
FinTech troy, that specialises in customer-friendly, digital debt collection, has successfully concluded its third round of financing. With Hannover Digital Investments GmbH, the venture capital company of insurance group HDI GROUP, the start-up has gained a partner from the insurance sector, which is an important sector for troy. Almost all existing investors have also increased their
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lino Biotech closes seed financing round and showcases a novel label-free biosensor platform for innovate modern drug screening
After almost a decade of initial invention and joint research on the Focal Molography technology at Roche, a leading player in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical area, and ETH Zurich as one of Europe’s most renowned research institutes, lino Biotech AG has licensed the technology to further develop and commercialize Focal Molography. The company has received 7-digit financing from lead-investors HTGF, Roche Ventures and several family offices.
This broadly patented technology offers lab
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High-Tech Gründerfonds: Successful sale of portfolio company m2p-labs GmbH to Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
Together with lead investor FIDURA, KfW Development Bank, TechVision Fonds and other co-investors, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has successfully sold its shares in m2p-labs GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of microbioreactors, to Beckman Coulter Life Sciences.
Founded in 2005, m2p-labs is a leading global manufacturer of microbioreactors. „m2p“stands for „from microreactor to process“. Using optical measuring technology and microfluidic chip technology combined with min
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Synendos Therapeutics Raises CHF 20 Million in Series A Financing
Breakthrough approach to developing safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders Financing will allow Synendos Therapeutics to complete pre-clinical development and progress lead candidate through proof of concept clinical study Supported by strong European investor syndicate co-led by Kurma Partners and Sunstone Life Science Ventures
Synendos Therapeutics (Synendos), a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecules aimed at restoring the
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Digital therapies ready for take off
The first apps available via prescription have made it into reimbursement; the next ones are awaiting approval. Is digital medicine about to make a breakthrough in Germany? 15 months after the start of the Digital Healthcare Act, start-ups, health insurance companies, authorities and investors take stock of the situation: What are still the biggest challenges? Which business models can digital therapies offer in the long term? The current issue of the MedTech Radar publication takes a look b
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Preparing for global growth: All3DP concludes another financing round
All3DP, operator of a leading global internet platform for 3D printing located in Germany, has successfully closed another financing round. This round, involving an investment volume of over EUR two million, is led by the previous investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and Deutsche Balaton AG. The new funds will flow into preparations for an international financing round in 2021. All3DP runs the Craftcloud marketplace that links customers to suitable 3D printing service providers
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Successful Internationalisation
Markus Kurch joined Crealytics as Chief Operating Officer in 2013. He was given the important task of internationalising the online marketing specialist’s business. Today, Crealytics has offices in New York, London and Berlin. In this interview, Kurch and HTGF Partner Romy Schnelle talk about their successes and setbacks and explain how the analytical approach adopted by the search engine advertising (SEA) specialist might serve as a blueprint for other founders seeking to internationa