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Buyer is the Danish wind technology company PolyTechThe Munich startup fos4X perfectly complements the core business of the buyerSeed investors Bayern Kapital, HTGF and UVC Partners sell their sharesFor the HTGF it is the 7th successful exit during the Corona crisis The High-Tech Gründerfonds sold its shares in fos4X today. The seed investor has accompanied the company for 8 years. The buyer, PolyTech is the leading development, test, production and service company for the wind power ind

The Healthtech VC Heal Capital led the round with participation of HTGF and TruVenturo CereGate, a leading German neurostimulation company developing a software-based Computer-Brain-Interface (CBI), today announced the successful closing of a series A financing round led by the new European healthtech VC Heal Capital with participation from the existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and TruVenturo. The parties agreed to not disclose any further details of the financing round.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. To mark the occasion, the company is starting a number of initiatives. On 15 September, a new podcast will be launched hosted by Managing Director Dr. Alex von Frankenberg and featuring 15 guests on the subjects of digitalisation and innovation. In addition, a series of online seminars for founders will be started, in which HTGF will share the knowledge it has accumulated over 15 years, during which time it has provided seed fun

Aignostics, a spin-off from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health, pioneering computational pathology for pharmaceutical research and diagnostics, has announced today the closing of €5m in seed round funding. Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) led the round, with participation from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), VC Fonds Technologie der IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, and Future Capital. Aignostics formally started out in early 2018, when r

Round led by existing investors Meneldor and High-Tech GründerfondsProceeds to be used to start Phase II study with ATR-002 in moderate to severe COVID-19 and clinical development in influenza and other respiratory viral infectionsATR-002 mode of action inhibits viral propagation of respiratory RNA viruses and prevents the cytokine storm, as demonstrated in preclinical studies Atriva Therapeutics GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of host-targeting antiviral the

WEFA Inotec GmbH (WEFA) – a German market leader in extrusion tooling, precision technology and CVD coatings – became a Series A investor in stimOS GmbH (stimOS), a South-Germany-based medical technology company: Despite the Covid-19 turbulent times, uncertainty and unknown entrepreneurial risks, stimOS was able to acquire substantial funding to allow further company expansion. The investment will be used to turn the patented “Mimicking Bone Technology (MBT)” into an inte

Perfect exit with very substantial returns for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and HCS Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH (HCS) Growth equity investors Providence Strategic Growth (PSG) and Verdane acquire stakes Hornetsecurity’s leadership team to remain on board Transaction subject to antitrust clearance HTGF invested in Hornetsecurity back in 2007, shortly after the company was founded, while HCS came on board in 2017. The two investors were quick to foresee the increasingly imp

Tubulis today announced the close of a €10.7 million Series A financing round to accelerate the development of a new class of highly stable and efficient antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and to support the further growth of the company. The financing round was co-led by BioMedPartners and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) with support from Seventure Partners, coparion, Bayern Kapital, and OCCIDENT alongside significant contributions by high net worth individuals and the founders. Tubulis was s

Userlane, a leading Digital Adoption Software platform, has raised 10 million euro in a new round of growth financing.The financing round was led by Five Elms Capital, a leading investor in fast growing B2B software businesses.The investment will accelerate Userlane’s expansion throughout Europe and the US over the next 12 months. Userlane – a leading Digital Adoption Software platform – has successfully completed a 10 million euro Series B financing round led by Five Elms Capit

7Learnings offers retailers a SaaS solution for machine learning-based pricing to strengthen their position against AmazonPilot phase successful: Profits and revenues increased by up to 10%Optimal pricing despite dynamic market environment during COVID-19Company receives seed financing from High-Tech Gründerfonds and renowned business angels With the help of 7Learnings’ SaaS solution, online retailers can use machine learning algorithms for intelligent pricing. The software maximiz

Over 4,000 participants involved in 2019/20 competitionStudent team from Heimschule Lender school in Sasbach receives award The aim: to make it easier for companies in the logistics sector to load their vehicles, ensuring that almost every vehicle is fully loaded for transport. It was with this vision in mind that Benjamin Haas, Lucas Wiedemer, Mika Schmid, Jeremias Decker and Lucas Herrmann from Heimschule Lender school came up with a business plan for the JUGEND GRÜNDET (“young f

An independent renewable energy producer, ZE Energy, brings a revolution in the renewable energy sector by launching a hybrid solar plant solution that combines photovoltaics and storage and meets the needs of Continental Europe. The company’s innovative business model, growth prospects and the experience of its management team have already attracted investors as DEMETER, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), EverWatt and Ze Way Invest. The start-up has just raised €4 M in funding to ramp up i

The Munich-based technology company LOEWI has received new capital from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and a German family office in a seed financing round. The scientific spin-off of the Technical University of Munich is one of the technology leaders in the field of personalized nutrition and health and has been mainly active in competitive sports so far. Among LOEWI´s clients are teams and clubs from Tour de France and UEFA Europa League. The investment is an important step to push the

NovaPump, one of the leading developers and medical product manufacturers of percutaneous circulatory mechanical support systems (pMCS) announced the successful closing of a series A financing round with a consortium of institutional and strategic investors. NovaPump’s PERKAT™ (PERkutane KATheterpumpe) short term MCS for acute patients achieved important milestones within the last months. With this financing round it is possible to develop the PERKAT™ products further to the first-i

3D printing system developer to enter new markets, accelerate growth, and enable medical device manufacturers to leverage the full potential of high-performance polymers Kumovis, the developer of the world’s first 3D printer with clean room integration, today announced that it has raised a €3.6 million Series A funding round. In Renolit SE and Solvay Ventures, the Munich-based start-up has found two additional partners on its way to establish industrial additive manufacturing systems