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Seven-digit cash injection for Hamburg startup Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), the venture capital fund of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, Holtzbrinck Ventures and the incubator Project A have joined the High-Tech Gründerfonds in investing a seven-digit sum into Semasio GmbH. The Hamburg startup will use the funds to fuel its continued geographical expansion, and accelerate its product and technology More …

saperatec GmbH, an independent recycling specialist for all types of high-tech com-posite materials, is receiving seed financing in the amount of 3.3 million € from an investor consortium consisting of eCapital entrepreneurial Partners AG, the NRW.BANK, the Business Angel Oliver F. Gosemann as well as the investors of the first round Gründerfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen and the High-Tech Gründerfonds. Amongst other things, More …

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 More …

AI Startup – Tomorrow Things – secures €1.5m to help the manufacturing industry save money by automating system integration efforts Tomorrow Things simplifies and accelerates the complex digitalization of machines and connects them seamlessly to the industrial internet. The “Cloud Connect” solution from Tomorrow Things allows non-technical users to create digital twins of machines in minutes – a process that More …

Makerist is the online destination for creative hobbies – to learn in a relaxed and success-oriented way with video classes, to find daily inspiration for your next project, to order all the material you need, and to connect with Europe’s biggest online hobby communities.

The Berlin-based B2B software-as-a-service company acquires High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mountain Super Angel AG as new investors. Growth and product development should pick up in the coming months with assistance and fresh capital from both new partners. Customer Alliance brings to the web the time-consuming, manual process of surveying guests in the hotel industry. Guests are now automatically surveyed after departure, More …

By acquiring MeinProspekt, kaufDA expands its reach and offerings as the retail industry's leading advertising partner for local digital brochures in Germany. Today, consumer information portal kaufDA (www.kaufda.de) announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of the Munich company MeinProspekt (www.meinprospekt.de). kaufDA, an enterprise of the Berlin-based Bonial International Group (www.bonial.com), thereby expands its leading position regarding mobile, location-based More …

plista has successfully closed a second round of financing and launches its B2B business for personalization- und targeting-services Agitating times for the Berlin-based startup plista GmbH (www.plista.com). Despite the sluggish economic environment, plista was able to secure yet another round of financing from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de) as well as DuMont Venture (www.dumontventure.de) who, together with the existing investors, Draper More …

Imprint Provider Identification Responsibility for the internet presence: High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH Represented by Managing Directors Dr. Alexander von Frankenberg, Guido Schlitzer, Romy Schnelle Schlegelstraße 2 53113 Bonn Phone: +49 – (0) 228 – 823001-00 Fax: +49 – (0) 228 – 823000-50 E-Mail: info@htgf.de Commercial Register oft he Bonn Local District Court HRB 13863 Chairman of the Investors Advisory Board: Dr. More …

Founded in 2012, the Berlin-based startup Inventorum has successfully closed its second round of seed financing with backing from HTGF, Klingel New Media, Vogel Ventures and MCB Salt. Inventorum offers a complete digital point-of-sale solution for local retailers featuring smart tools to simultaneously manage stores more efficiently on- and offline. Approximately 86% of local retail businesses generate sales of less More …

Gründerszene, the online magazine, has awarded Bonn-based early phase investor High-Tech Gründerfonds the “Investor of the Decade” jury prize for the internet industry. The prestigious, 31-member selection committee consisted of journalists, successful founders and investors. The internet start-ups and founders of the 2000 to 2010 decade were also selected by the jury and the audience. The distinction was awarded to More …

The German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Technologiefonds MV, the High-Tech-Gruenderfonds and the Fides Finanz-Invest place together 1.5 Mio. EUR into the Wismar, Germany located medical technology company Microstim GmbH. In close collaboration with the Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Lübeck, Germany of the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Microstim develops a new, tissue-maintaining and function-preserving implantable muscle stimulator for muscle powered cardiac assistance. More …

The success of humangrid GmbH has persuaded both existing and new investors. The investors SeedCapital Dortmund, Prof. Dr. Conen, High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as the ERP start-up fund of the KfW bank group provided the innovative business with one million euros as recently as mid 2009. The shareholders have now, together with new private investors, Klaus Wecken and his children More …

saperatec, an independent recycling specialist for high-tech products receives € 1 m seed capital from the seed funds „Gruenderfonds Bielefeld-Ostwestfalen“ managed by eCAPITAL and the High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Bonn. Saperatec will use these funds to build up the production in Bielefeld, Germany. The high-tech industry relies on sufficient availability of high-tech materials, such as rare earth and noble metals. These More …

TORCH, the official provider of commercial services for Graylog2 (www.graylog2.org); the leading open source machine data analytics tool, has secured seed funding from e.ventures, High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Hasso Plattner Ventures and Atlantic Capital Partners. The one-year old startup, founded by the creators of Graylog2, provides official support and is backing ambitious further development of the open source product. With its innovative More …