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Immunic AG (Immunic), a recently formed private start-up biotech company in Planegg-Martinsried near Munich, Germany, today announced that it has closed its Series A financing round totaling EUR 17.5 million of preferred stock financing. The financing round was led by Life Sciences Partners V Coöperatief U.A. (LSP, The Netherlands) and LifeCare Partners (LCP, Switzerland). Further participating investors were Bayern Kapital (Landshut, Germany), High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF, Bonn, Germany) and

Evaluation results for High-Tech Gründerfonds II released The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is today publishing the evaluation results for HTGF II. After being commissioned to carry out the evaluation by the BMWi, technopolis group has concluded that HTGF has positioned itself as Germany’s most important seed-financing provider by quite some distance. It boasts a highly integrated network of contacts, comprising financing partners as well as innovative start-

Rigontec, the leader in RIG-I targeting RNA therapeutics, today announced that it has secured EUR 15 million in a third and final closing of its Series A round. The financing represents additional capital from current investors Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Forbion Capital Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), NRW.BANK, MP Healthcare Venture Management, Sunstone Capital and Wellington Partners Life Sciences. The funding will advance the ongoing development of Rigontec’s RIG-I agonist

Backed up with an investment by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), three entrepreneurs from Münster seek to revolutionize the German webhosting market. RAIDBOXES is specialized in WordPress and offers a service that makes hosting fast, secure and more convenient. WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, powering blogs, e-commerce sites and online media. An estimated 26 percent of all websites rely on it, including the New York Times, TechCrunch and NASA. RAIDBOX

Creathor Venture, one of the leading European Venture Capital firms, leads a Series B financing round in CryoTherapeutics, the developer of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease. The Life Science Start-up CryoTherapeutics receives at total of € 5.2 million in the current Series B financing round from Creathor Venture as well as from the existing investors NRW.BANK, Peppermint CBF, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Getz Brothers, Kreditanstalt für W

JUNIQE, Europe’s leading marketplace for curated art from around the world, has raised €14m in an investment round led by Highland Europe, alongside previous investors Vorwerk Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Redalpine. From wall art to zeitgeist lifestyle products, JUNIQE connects artists and designers with individuals who are looking to express their personal style and passion for art. Launched in 2014, the Berlin-based startup already ships to thirteen countries across Europe, gen

MBG Baden-Württemberg and High-Tech Gründerfonds increase their shares of the immersight GmbH with investing a 6-digit amount in the german tech startup. The capital will be used for technology development and growth by immersight. immersight was founded in 2012 by students from Ulm University, who developed the roomglasses, a technology for the Virtual Reality. The Roomglasses enables to immerse completely into the virtual room as an almost real experience. Thanks to the idea of using the te

Providing the best possible rehabilitation treatment to intensive-care patients, already 24 hours after hospital admission, directly in the patient bed: ReActive Robotics aims to make intelligent robotics the standard-of care in a field that has been dominated by manual therapy. A consortium of four investors, led by MTIP MedTech Innovation Partners AG and complemented by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and TQ-Group, provides a seven-digit Series A investment to enable the development an

Booking software company bookingkit from Berlin raised a Series A financing round. Intermedia, an investment company of Media Union, which is one of the leading media groups in Germany, has joined the team of investors. In early 2015, Germany's largest early-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) as well as business angel Robert Kabs from Hamburg already participated in a Seed round. Combined, these three partners now participate in a Series A funding with an seven-digit sum to further ex

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests into the marketing technology startup AdTriba. The Hamburg based Saas-company allows Advertisers to track, control and optimize their online marketing activities across all digital marketing channels through data science and user journey analysis. The founders, János Moldvay (CEO) and Ludwig Ostrowski (CTO) have extensive experience in data science and digital marketing. With AdTriba they aim to make marketing data driven, more transparent and thus more

Munich-based Cevotec GmbH develops and sells production systems and software for the automated production of complex carbon composites (carbon fiber reinforced plastics, short: CFRP). With a fully digitized product development and an additive manufacturing process, Cevotec brings so-called Industry 4.0 technology, the smart combination of physical and digital systems, to the composites industry. It provides manufacturers with a powerful solution for the cost-efficient, high-quality series produc

The manufacturer of measurement instruments for toxic industrial gases bentekk successfully completes a seed funding round. The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) invest a six-figure sum in the Hamburg-based company. The handheld X-PID allows fast and selective measurements of carcinogenic organic compounds as benzene and increases safety at work in the oil, gas and chemical industry. The funding is used to open up the German-speaking market and to deve

The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in cooperation with the MBG and a private angel investor into the Stuttgart based software as a service provider SE.M.LABS. Marius Merle (CEO), Svend Erik Wendt (COO) und Daniel Schniepp (CTO) come from the leasing and banking industry. The software forms the link between capital goods and the billing of the financial service. By universal interfaces different goods and systems can be interconnected. With their software their customers can reduce the

The High-Tech Gründerfonds and the MBG Schleswig-Holstein renew their investment in eyefactive GmbH. A six digit sum is provided to promote the international growth of the first app platform for professional Touchscreens. In addition to their previous portfolio of scalable multitouch technology for interactive tables and walls eyefactive GmbH announced the world´s first app platform for large-scale touchscreens in November 2013. The apps enable users to simultaneously operate interactive co

Digitalisation has now become part of everyday life and the health sector is no exception. There are currently around 100,000 health apps on offer in the app stores and the billion dollar market is growing rapidly. Whether fitness, nutrition, disease diagnosis or doctor’s appointments – there’s a smartphone app for almost every aspect of health. The sixth issue of the joint media service “MedTech Radar”, published by BVMed, Earlybird Venture Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and