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Variolytics receives seven-figure seed funding for climate-neutral wastewater treatment plants
Proprietary measurement technology and AI-based process control to avoid greenhouse gases in wastewater treatment.
Seven-figure seed funding for patented measurement technology and AI-based process optimisation.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), FTTF and Dr Jörg Gebhardt as well as other angel investors are participating in the financing round.
Key technology for wastewater treatment plants to meet their climate targets.
Variolytics system (EmiCo – Emission Control) already
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Successful end to the year 2022: NewSpace satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace receives seven million euros in seed financing round
Seed financing: First closing includes investments of approx. EUR 7 million.
Bulent Altan (Investment Partner Alpine Space Ventures): “The number of satellites in space will skyrocket from 5,500 to 100,000 by 2030: this is Reflex Aerospace’s demand environment.”
Christian Ziach (Principal HTGF): “50% market growth to come from broadband satellites. Catch-up demand especially in Europe. Reflex Aerospace is perfectly positioned to leverage this market potential.”
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Crocus Labs closes a seven-figure seed investment round to build energy efficient lights designed for horticulture
Berlin, 23.11.2022 – Crocus Labs’ vision is to spark life into spaces. The team achieves this by producing the most energy-efficient full-light spectrum lighting solutions that enable a sustainable future for vertical farms and greenhouses.
With the seven-figure investment round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Brandenburg Kapital, the company will focus on R&D and bring the next generation of luminaires to the market. The round is also supported by BACB Bet. GmbH
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ESy-Labs receives seed funding to advance its automated and AI-powered platform for sustainable electrosynthesis processes
Regensburg, November 17th 2022 –In a seed financing round, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests EUR 600,000 in ESy-Labs’ proprietary platform technology. The fresh capital raised will be used to expand the technical equipment and employ additional staff to further advance the ESy screening technology.
Through the electrosynthesis of organic fine chemicals and electrolytic recycling processes it is possible to develop significantly more efficient and also new processes to mak
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FundaMental Pharma launches with EUR 10 million in Seed financing led by BGV and Thuja Capital to advance a First-in-Class neuroprotectant
Heidelberg, Germany – 17 November 2022 – FundaMental Pharma GmbH (“FundaMental”), a preclinical neuroscience company spun out of Heidelberg University, today announces that it has launched with EUR 10 million in seed financing led by BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) and Thuja Capital, with participation from other investors, including coparion and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
Built on the pioneering research of Professor Hilmar Bading and Dr. Jing Yan published in Science[1],
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How do you sell solutions to the public sector as a start-up?
Large parts of our school system are stuck in the 20th century. It’s a reality that we’ve certainly come to understand since the pandemic, if not before. Many schools found it really tough to make the switch to remote teaching, often due to a lack of digital infrastructure. HTGF portfolio company Sdui has a solution to overcome this issue, as it also targets the public sector – and mainly the bodies funding schools – in its sales. Sdui is our guest in this episode of the HTGF Start-u
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Successful exit for HTGF: LexisNexis expands its Intellectual Property Solutions suite with the acquisition of IPlytics
November 9th 2022 – LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX, today announced that it has acquired IPlytics, a leading IP intelligence company that enables the analysis of technology landscapes and competition for industries where standards and patents matter by providing access to multiple databases connecting patents, Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), standards, and technical standards contributions. The acquisition extends the vision of LexisNexis Intellectual Property Sol
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10 million euros in Pre-Series A financing round: neotiv can accelerate international product launch in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Magdeburg-based digital health company neotiv, which is working on the development of digital biomarkers for early Alzheimer’s screening, has successfully expanded its Pre-Series A financing round and raised 10 million euros. With the additional funds, neotiv is now able to drive nationwide supply of the neotivCare® app, accelerate internationalization, and fight Alzheimer’s.
Magdeburg, November 9 2022– The funding of 10 million euros is led by renowned investors Ca
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Resolve Biosciences Secures $71 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate Commercial Expansion to Meet Global Demand for Molecular Cartography™ Workflow
Funding led by Patient Square Capital follows successful launch of groundbreaking system that delivers highest-resolution view of subcellular, single-molecule, spatial biology
MONHEIM AM RHEIN, Germany – October 24, 2022 – Resolve Biosciences, the pioneer in Molecular Cartography™ technology, today announced it has secured a $71 million Series B financing. The latest round of funding was led by Patient Square Capital and included participation from EDBI, PS C
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AI start-up DeepScenario closes financing round to accelerate the deployment of autonomous systems
DeepScenario secures seven-digit funding from HTGF, MobilityFund, and business angels. The investment boosts DeepScenario’s mission to help customers deploy autonomous systems in less time and with less cost.
Munich, 25th October 2022– Self-driving cars and other autonomous systems are spreading rapidly across the world. Ensuring that these systems operate as intended, without posing risk to people and the world around them, is an increasingly critical need.
The physical world
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Aachen based semiconductor start-up InCirT closes seed round with High-Tech Gründerfonds
Aachen, 24.10.2022 – InCirT develops microchips for the next generation of mobile wireless communication such as 5G-Advanced and 6G. Their groundbreaking microchip achieves an up-to 100x higher data rate than current state-of-the-art. It is at the same time up to 10x more energy efficient and implemented in low-priced standard semiconductor technology. The investment of HTGF will be used to finance the ongoing product development and market entry.
Mobile applications of the future s
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Takeda Enters Collaboration and Licensing Agreement with Zedira and Dr. Falk Pharmato Develop First-in-Class Celiac Disease Therapy
Collaboration Provides Takeda an Exclusive License to Develop and Commercialize ZED1227/TAK-227 in the United States and Other Countries Outside of Europe, Canada, Australia and China
Agreement Adds Third Investigational Therapy to Takeda’s Pipeline for the Potential Treatment of Celiac Disease
Osaka, Japan, and Freiburg and Darmstadt, Germany, October 20, 2022 – Takeda, Zedira and Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH today announced a collaboration and licensing agreement to develop ZED1227/T
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Orbex Secures £40.4 Million in Series C Funding
Forres, UK, October 18, 2022 – UK-based spaceflight company Orbex has secured £40.4 million for its Series C funding round, led by a new investor, the Scottish National Investment Bank. The new round of funding will allow the company to scale up its resources as it counts down to the first vertical launch from UK soil, as well as unlocking additional funding to support future projects.
Orbex recently revealed its “Prime” rocket in its final form, making this the first full orbital
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Grandperspective closes Series A financing of EUR 7 million together with Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures and existing investors
Berlin/Kleinmachnow, Oktober 17th 2022 – Grandperspective, the German based company with the world’s first holistic emission monitoring system has successfully closed its Series A led by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) together with the existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Brandenburg Kapital and kineo finance.
The funding will be used to support the worldwide commercialization of Grandperspective’s scanfeld® system and for the development of new software applicati
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Samp receives €4m funding for its ‘shared reality’ solution enabling the sustainable transformation of industrial sites
French start-up Samp is disrupting the way modernisation projects for large industrial sites are managedThe team has developed an AI and 3D technology that combines existing data with 3D imagery taken from the field to create an accurate ‘digital twin’ of industrial sitesThe successful fundraising of €4 million from French and German investors will accelerate the expansion plans
Paris, 13.10.2022 – Samp raises €4m funding from investors with a strong DeepTech and industry ba
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Real-Time Monitoring of Bioprocesses: IRUBIS closes EUR 2.8m seed round led by HTGF, Verve Ventures and Ventura BioMed Investors
Biotech startup IRUBIS, has raised EUR 2.8m in a seed financing round. The round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Verve Ventures and Ventura BioMed Investors with the participation of EIC Fund, the Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a number of business angels from the biotech industry or Munich startup scene.
Munich, 6 October 2022 – IRUBIS was founded in September 2017 by Lorenz Sykora, Alexander Geißler and Anja Müller with the goal to automate the process d