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Zahnarzt-Helden receives seed investment for new processes in the dental market
Buying dental equipment as easy as shopping for shoes! With its independent online platform, the Bielefeld-based startup Zahnarzt-Helden does not only bring dental sales processes to the internet, but also fundamentally changes the way large dental equipment is purchased, used and technically serviced. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is financing this innovation in partnership with the ‘Technologiefonds OWL’, managed by Enjoy Venture, and several business angels as part of a seed investment i
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REWE Digital acquires e-commerce software provider commercetools GmbH
Intensification of digital activities through advanced web shop technology
REWE Digital, a company of REWE Group, has acquired commercetools, a leading technology provider of e-commerce solutions, which is known for its high-performance cloud software. Commercetools will intensify the combine-wide digital activities of REWE Group with its advanced web shop technologies, while continuing to operate on the market as an independent company. With SPHERE.IO, commercetools offers an attractive platfo
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beeOLED raises EUR 13.3m in Series A funding from world-class deep tech investors to solve the last big challenge of the OLED industry
The German deep tech startup will use the investment to further develop its innovative, high-efficiency, deep-blue emitter technology towards go-to-market-readiness.
Dresden, 23 August 2023 – beeOLED, a Dresden-based deep-tech startup, today announced it has raised EUR 13.3m for a Series A funding co-led by eCAPITAL and Innovation Industries. The round was joined by KBC Focus Fund as well as existing investors M Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, G
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Personal MedSystems GmbH wins French investor Seventure Partners, concludes series A financing round with total volume of 2.5 million EUR
Personal MedSystems GmbH, with locations in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, develops products and services for mobile healthcare. The Company is receiving growth financing in the amount of 2.5 million EUR from the French investor Seventure Partners. The capital will be used for the further development and market introduction of the company’s products.
Myocardial infarction patients with recurring angina pectoris or cardiac arrhythmia often face the question of whether or not they need to call
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PressMatrix receives 2.5 million euro in series A investment
The digital publishing providers PressMatrix (www.pressmatrix.de) successfully closed a new round of financing. In addition to existing investors HTGF, LBBW Venture and Vilitas, the Berlin based company can now call PDV Inter-Media Venture GmbH their new strategic investor. The new capital in the amount of 2.5 million euros will allow PressMatrix to reinforce its existing market leadership in Germany as well as support further international expansion. Founded in 2011, the company has steadily gr
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Flowtify
Within the European Union, all companies working with food products must provide their own complete and traceable hygiene documentation. This is almost always conducted in paper form. However, these checklists throw up a number of risks: they are easy to manipulate, the documentation is fragmented, and instructions for action often arrive far too late. The administrative burden posed by printing, distribution, collection, monitoring and archiving for two to five years presents a major strain for
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First “green IPO” – Rebelle, the online marketplace for second-hand designer fashion, goes public: Huge success for HTGF
The IPO of Rebelle on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Stockholm is the first stock market flotation with a Nasdaq Green Equity Designation in the global Nasdaq system.High-Tech Gründerfonds has held a stake in the company since October 2013, just a few months after its foundation.Alex von Frankenberg, Managing Director at HTGF: “We’ve supported the development of Rebelle right from a very early stage. The company’s rise over the years has been really quite remarkable. At HTGF,
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2024: Trends, opportunities and challenges for founders
What trends and technologies can we expect to see in 2024? And what are the opportunities and challenges that founders will face? Our Partners Dr. Angelika Vlachou, Dr. Markus Kückelhaus and Markus Kreßmann provide an outlook, focusing on our investment fields industrial tech, life sciences & chemistry, and digital tech.
Industrial Tech, Deep Tech and Climate Tech: An outlook by Dr. Markus Kückelhaus
In the traditional industrial tech cluster, which encompasses fields such a
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THE WORLD’S MOST SOPHISTICATED PRODUCT COMPARISON PLATFORM VERSUS IO CLOSES $2.8M SERIES A ROUND FROM EARLYBIRD VENTURE CAPITAL, 500 STARTUPS AND MORE
VERSUS IO, the world’s most sophisticated product comparison platform, today announced it has completed its Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. VERSUS IO enables users to compare consumer technology products like smartphones and tablets, cities and more. Using VERSUS IO, consumers are able to view results in a simple and clear format, without ‘information overload’ and ultimately allowing consumers to digest complex product data quickly and efficiently.
VERSUS IO uses
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bitstars (Exit)
bitstars GmbH has developed a SaaS platform technology that enables customers to set up their own augmented reality (AR) applications. Focus was laid on very intuitive usability and joy of use. The platform enables users to create applications meeting their specific requirements with little effort. These applications can be managed and used in multiple end user devices, such as smartphones, tablets and smart glasses.
Exit since September 2016.
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neotiv
neotiv is a spin-off of the Otto von Guericke University in the German city of Magdeburg in close collaboration with the Magdeburg site of the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). neotiv incorporates the latest scientific findings from the fields of neuroscience and dementia research into mobile software that can be used on smartphones and tablets. Our work focuses on the development of a digital assistant that can monitor and aid users' memories and provide support for patients
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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) invests in augmented reality technology from RWTH Aachen
bitstars GmbH has developed a SaaS platform technology that enables customers to set up their own augmented reality (AR) applications. By focussing on very intuitive usability the platform enables users to create applications meeting their specific requirements with little effort. These applications can be managed and used in multiple end user devices, such as smartphones, tablets and smart glasses.
Through the extension of reality with virtual text and objects (augmented reality) or the creat
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Follow up investment for eyefactive
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
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agriportance
agriportance is a Münster-based biomethane start-up that specialises in monitoring sustainability certification and buying and selling biomethane. Using greenhouse gas software, producers can create their carbon footprint on a monthly basis according to the strict requirements of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). In addition, the software provides mass balances and enables secure and easy document storage and preparation. In a fair and efficient matchmaking process, agriportance brings prod
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agriportance secures seed funding to replace fossil natural gas with biomethane
Münster, 15.12.2022 – Biomethane start-up agriportance raises a seven-figure sum in a seed round from seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and business angels. The founding team will use the fresh money to accelerate the product’s digitalisation and its launch on the European market.
The current energy supply crisis affects the political and ecological climate. More and more people are calling for reforms and innovations because of the skyrocketing oil and gas prices.
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