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The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests together with MIG Fonds and Business Angels about 2.5 million Euro in the medical technology start-up GWA Hygiene from Stralsund
The GWA Hygiene is fighting hospital germs and thus reducing the risk of their spread. The company from Stralsund combines innovative medical technology with modern information technology. The NosoEx system developed by the startup has already successfully passed the practical test at 70 wards in 10 hospitals.
Germ transmission due to improper hand disinfection
GWA Hygiene offers hospitals and nursing homes a simple and technologically mature solution to significantly reduce the risk of spreadi
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Higher! Further! The HTGF invests in the Munich based drone startup FairFleet
Booking a complex drone flight in just 30 seconds? The one-stop-shop for drone services FairFleet makes it possible. FairFleet covers the entire value chain from flight booking to data analysis in a full-service approach. Customers benefit from an uncomplicated inquiry, fast feedback, a transparent pricing model and legal security for all bookings. From now on the HTGF is joining as co-pilot.
From DJI to home made
Modern drones have become true all-rounders in the recent years. Today, they a
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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) sells its shares in givve to the French Up group
HTGF is the first seed investor of Munich-based Fintech start-up givve to sell its shares to the French, internationally active Up group in an exit worth millions.
The startup, which was founded in 2010, will have much greater development potential in the area of financial services as a result of the sale. As the technological market leader, givve has been able to generate enormous value growth since 2016 and win well-known customers.
givve: More than 250,000 card users in German
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Orbex Secures £30 Million Funding for UK Space Launch Vehicles
Reusable Rockets to Launch Small Satellites into Orbit from UK Spaceport Using Renewable Fuel
Orbex has announced that it has secured £30 million ($39.6 million) in public and private funding for the development of orbital space launch systems.
Recently emerging from stealth mode, Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company, with subsidiaries and production facilities in Denmark and Germany. The company has received funding from two of Europe's largest venture capital funds, Sunstone Ca
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Ferroelectric Memory Company receives growth financing from eCAPITAL and HTGF
Significant boost to growing the team of a company with a high-performance, ultra-low-power non-volatile memory technology
Ferroelectric Memory Company (FMC), an enterprise that commercializes technology for disruptive non-volatile memory solutions for microcontrollers, announced today the successful closing of a € 4.6 million growth financing led by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG under participation of High-Tech Gründerfonds. The funds will enable the company with base in Dresden to
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Bruker takes over HTGF startup Sierra Sensors, rounding off the pharmaceutical research portfolio
Sierra Sensors’ biosensor technologies will from now on be distributed worldwide.
Thanks to its innovative, patented sensor technologies, a portfolio company in the High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF) has reached market maturity: USA’s Bruker Corporation has taken over Hamburg startup Sierra Sensors GmbH. Sierra Sensors develop and distribute biosensor-based analytical tools and materials for pharmaceutical research. In addition, the company combines innovative microfluidic (Hydrodynamic Isolat
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Corel Expands Graphic Design Software Portfolio with Acquisition of Gravit Designer
Web-based, vector design tool joins the Corel portfolio of applications including CorelDRAW, Painter, and PaintShop Pro
Corel Corporation announces the acquisition of Gravit Designer™, a leading cross-platform, web-based vector graphic design application. Under the purchase agreement, Corel acquired all products and technology previously owned by Gravit GmbH. Financial details were not disclosed.
Corel is pleased to welcome the Gravit® product team to its development group. The company
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Tech startup virtualQ receives seven-digit financing for customer services
The signs are set for growth. The startup virtualQ has raised growth financing. With its enterprise software solutions, the company following the vision of “a world without waiting” is one of the innovation drivers in the call center industry. Among its backers are well-known venture capital investors and experienced business angels.
Companies that focus on service quality do not waste their customers’ time by leading them through endless queues. virtualQ has recognized that and offers
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A powerful motor for innovation and the economy: High-Tech Gründerfonds makes its 500th investment
• Together with co-investor Thüga, HTGF is investing a 7-figure sum
• The 500th startup in the HTGF portfolio is machine-learning company Geospin
Shortly after the successful second closing of the third fond and the IPO of NFON – the first flotation in the portfolio – High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Thüga AG are making their 500th investment: Geospin develops software solutions for analysing geodata and, just two years after spinning-off from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Fre
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fos4X has a new anchor investor – Internationalization, scaling and expansion of digital business
fos4X has concluded a growth financing (Series B) of 8.2 mn Euro (USD 10 mn). Equinor, formerly Statoil, strengthens the group of shareholders
Sensor platform and digital business
Fiber optic sensor technology is the company’s nucleus from which the successful product busi-ness with its sensor platform fos4Blade was developed. fos4Blade is a modular measuring sys-tem to acquire different physical quantities of wind turbine rotor blades.
With the help of sensor data fusion, classical model-bas
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Geospin: seven-figure sum in seed funding for Freiburg-based machine learning software startup
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), together with Thüga AG, is investing a seven-figure sum in software startup Geospin. The University of Freiburg spin-off is developing a B2B software-as-a-service solution for the analysis of geodata using machine learning methods. The solution makes it possible to link up internal company data with external geodata to produce real time predictions of when and where clients' products or services are in demand. Geospin's clients include HTGF fund investors Thüga
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Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim invest in HTGF III
Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim’s investment fund BIVF (Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund) are investing in High-Tech Gründerfonds’ third fund, HTGF III. The investment grants the two international pharmaceutical companies access to innovative life science start-ups along with the fund’s large-scale network spanning the entire start-up landscape. High-Tech Gründerfonds, Europe’s most active seed investor, launched its third fund back in September 2017. HTGF III has a final target volume
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High-Tech Gründerfonds III: Second closing passes all expectations at 316.5 million Euro
Medium-sized enterprises in Germany are increasingly relying on innovative startups “Made in Germany” for long-term success in the market.
At today’s Family Day 2018 in Bonn, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) announced – in front of more than 1,000 participants from the German and international startup scene – the second closing of the HTGF, which amounted to 316.5 million Euros. The seed-stage investor is continuing the success story of the first two funds and surpassing expectat
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Spin-off of Neu-Ulm-based medical device producer develops drug to treat skin cancer – Zimmer BioTech expands development team
In Dr. Reinhold Gahlmann and Stuart Marcus, Neu-Ulm-based Zimmer BioTech has now hired two experts in the field of pharmaceutical development. As Head of Clinical Development, Dr. Gahlmann will be responsible for establishing and implementing the clinical development programme right through to obtaining marketing authorisation for drugs. He will be assisted in his role by Stuart Marcus, who will assume the position of Executive Consultant. In addition to their many years of experience in science
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Valispace secures €1 million seed investment from HTGF
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is investing €1 million in the start-up Valispace. Valispace is a browser-based software that enables engineers to develop satellites, rockets and other complex hardware more efficiently and cost-effectively. The company was founded by engineers Marco Witzmann, Louise Lindblad and Simon Vanden Bussche back in 2016. The three founders developed a system that performs the laborious task of data documentation so that engineers don’t have to, giving them the free