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Guido Schlitzer is to become Managing Director of High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH effective 1 June, 2020, after having been appointed to the position by HTGF’s investor advisory board. In his current role as Chief Financial Officer, Schlitzer has been an integral part of the company’s success. The 47-year-old succeeds Dr. Michael Brandkamp, who left the company in late 2019 to set up the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund. Schlitzer will head up High-Tech Gründerfonds alongsi

Zurich, 20th May 2020 – ETH spin-off PXL Vision has developed an AI-based software platform to deliver secure, automated identity verification. The company has now received CHF 4.6 million in a seed financing round to expand its technology and grow internationally. The financing round was led by SIX Fintech Ventures. Other investors include ZKB, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Arab Bank and the experienced business angels Beat Schillig and David Studer. Billions of personal datasets are stolen

Android is the most popular OS with 2.5 billion active Android devices, available on smartphones, TVs, and even appliances. It is supported by one of the largest development communities, making it a unique tool used by consumers and businesses alike. But pure Android isn’t fitted to work in an industrial environment, where you can’t access Google Play Services, vendors’ centralized updates and have to limit the user-accessible functionality. emteria.OS is an adapted Android operatin

Munich 13. May 2020. The BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and CK Venture Capital invest a 7 figure US-Dollar investment in the Munich Start Up StoryBox. Founded in 2017 by Ben Rodrian and Rusmin Causevic the Start Up offers a Software as a Service solution that simplifies video creation for businesses. Storybox can now announce the successful completion of the Pre-Series A financing round. We want to make the documentation and explanation easie

The successful exit of a High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) portfolio company during Covid-19 pandemic shows that innovative, technology-driven startup companies from Germany continue to thrive and can become attractive M&A targets. MobileIron (NASDAQ:MOBL) a mobile security company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, has acquired incapptic Connect, a leader in mobile app release automation software based in Berlin, Germany, to accelerate the mobile app release journey for enter

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Germany’s largest seed investor, together with Bayern Kapital, the venture capital company for the State of Bavaria, has invested a seven-figure sum in Munich-based IT start-up Erium as part of a seed financing round. SAR Elektronic GmbH is also on board as a co-investor. Erium’s software solution HALerium is used to model and optimise highly complex production and assembly processes using small volumes of data in a transparent and comprehensible w

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Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of Continental together with Wachstumsfonds Bayern, which is managed by Bayern Kapital, with participation of the existing investors Fluxunit –  OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, TEV (Tengelmann Ventures) and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Blickfeld will use the new financial resources to ramp up production, qualify its LiDAR sensors

As part of a two million euro seed financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in the Munich-based iATROS GmbH, along with co-investors Bayern Kapital and several business angels. iATROS, a digital health start-up, has developed a telemedicine solution, which enables data-driven treatment of cardiology patients. The target group of the iATROS solution comprises both clinics and the patients themselves. The funds of the seed round will be used to expand the company’s staff and drive th

How can digital therapies change healthcare? Which potentials exist in the fields of cardiology, diabetology and endoprosthetics? How can established companies and start-ups in the medtech sector adapt to the new healthcare and business models? These questions and more will be discussed together with experts from the medtech sector during the MedTech Radar LIVE 2020 on June 9th in Cologne. Start-ups active in one of those fields are invited to apply for the start-up pitches. A preview of the

FinLab EOS VC makes a seven-digit Euro investment into Agora Innovation GmbH. The Frankfurt-based blockchain start-up will extend its marketing and sales activities and aims to enter European and Asian markets. The access to the EOS blockchain enables the company’s reach for its market leading IVE.ONE software. Frankfurt’s Agora Innovation announced today a seven-digit pre-series A investment from FinLab EOS VC, a venture capital fund backed by Block.one, the publisher of the blo

Klaus Lehmann (48), who has already worked for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) for 14 years, has now been appointed to the post of partner with effect from April 1, 2020.  We are delighted to welcome Klaus, a highly experienced colleague, into our group of partners. Klaus has built up his own portfolio with focus on industrial technology that is well above average. Right from the very outset, he has had a significant impact on the company as a wholeDr. Alex von Frankenberg,