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Very Successful Exit for HTGF: DRACOON joins Kiteworks
DRACOON joins Kiteworks. As part of the deal, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) will sell its shares.
HTGF was the first institutional investor in the seed round in 2010.
HTGF has actively supported DRACOON through various stages of its development, backing it on its way to becoming a leading player in the field of enterprise file sharing and collaboration.
DRACOON is a fast-growing market leader in the field of enterprise file sharing and collaboration in German-spea
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GlassFlow raises $1.1m in pre-seed funding to democratize the data streaming market
Data streaming is one of the biggest growing markets benefiting from the adoption of new technologies.
Big data, IoT, and AI generate continuous data, but organizations lack the infrastructure expertise to harness it.
The Berlin-based startup GlassFlow secured $1,1m in a pre-seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) for their streaming infrastructure solution to democratize data streaming.
Further investors include TinyVC, Roos
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Graylog Secures $39 Million Investment to Accelerate Growth and Security Product Line Expansion
HOUSTON — Oct. 31, 2023 — Graylog, the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and log management company, announced that it has secured $39 million in funding to help continue its significant growth momentum. New investor Silver Lake Waterman and existing investors Piper Sandler Merchant Banking and Harbert Growth Partners led the funding. Other existing investors such as High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) also participated in the financing round.
In the third quarter of 2023, G
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RAYDIAX secures €3.5 million in fresh capital to develop its therapy assistance computed tomography system in the fight against cancer
RAYDIAX, a Magdeburg spin-off of the STIMULATE research campus, secures a total of €3.5 million in seed funding and grants
The capital will be used to advance the development of RAYDIAX’s assistance system for image-guided, minimally invasive cancer interventions up to the pre-clinical prototype and to accelerate market development in Europe and the US
Investors in the seed round include High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), bmp Ventures with the IBG funds and experienced business a
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FarmInsect raises oversubscribed €8m Series A to commercially scale its insect farming technology
Agritech start-up FarmInsect has successfully completed an oversubscribed Series A financing round, raising a total of € 8 million.
The round was led by Sandwater with participation from Bayern Kapital, Australia’s Minderoo Foundation, and the EIC fund, with additional participation from existing investors HTGF and UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators.
The Munich-based company has developed an end-to-end, modularized solution for decentralized production of inse
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Soluterials’ innovative and sustainable aluminium material revolutionises the industry – Seed investment from HTGF and business angels
Beelitz, 9 October 2023 – German start-up Soluterials has raised a seven-figure sum in the first closing of its seed round to accelerate the market launch of its innovative and sustainable high performance pure aluminium material »SoluteriAL«. SoluteriAL reduces the carbon footprint and offers superior properties compared to conventional aluminium metal or alloys, opening new opportunities for a wide range of industries. Backed by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and three business ang
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Inovedis Announces Close of Series A Funding Round
Raises $4 Million in New Equity Funding
ALBSTADT, Germany – October 4, 2023 – Inovedis GmbH, a medical technology start-up dedicated to offering innovative solutions that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as minimizing the complexity of surgical interventions, announced the successful close of a Series A funding round totaling $4 million. This funding was supported by participation from all of Inovedis’s initial seed round investors including High-Tech Gründer
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Kranus Health now raised a total of USD 15 million Series A funding to realize its vision of integrated care in urology
Berlin / Munich / Paris, 2th of October 2023 – Kranus Health, specializing in integrated care within urology, announces that the company is now funded with a Series A round totalling USD 15 million. The round is co-led by new investor SwissHealth Ventures and existing investor, Karista. All other existing investors including HTGF, Wenvest and A Round Capital, have also made significant follow-on investments. The new funds make Kranus Health one of the best-funded digital health startups in
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traceless materials secures €36.6 Million Series A to build first industry plant for bio-circular alternative to plastic
The financing round was led by UB FIGG and SWEN CP’s Blue Ocean fund. traceless materials secures the funding to expand the production capabilities for its innovative biomaterial technology to industrial scale.
Hamburg, Germany – September 25, 2023. Bioeconomy startup traceless, which produces a natural biomaterial as an alternative to plastic, announces the completion of a €36.6 million funding round. The Series A funding round is led by private equity fund UB Forest Industry G
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Successful exit for HTGF: adivo joins Zoetis to bring the benefits of species-specific antibody therapies to pet owners worldwide
adivo’s team and platform will strengthen Zoetis’ capabilities in therapeutic antibody drug discovery for companion animals.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) was among the first investors in a seed round in 2018 together with OCCIDENT and MorphoSys AG and closely supported the successful development of adivo.
Dr. Kathrin Ladetzki-Baehs, Founder and CEO of adivo: “I look forward to seeing what our team can achieve as part of a leading organization with global reach while continuing
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viboo closes CHF 1.5m seed round to fully commercialize its predictive energy efficiency platform to decarbonize buildings
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Swisscom Ventures and Rainmaking Impact have invested CHF 1.5 million into Swiss climate tech start-up viboo.
The seed round showed strong investor interest and confidence in viboo’s innovative energy-saving solutions for buildings.
viboo will use the funding to scale up the commercialization of its proven Predictive Control as a Service platform, capitalizing on the upcoming heating season to make a significant impact in decarbonizing buildings.
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Shares by token: Investments and employee participation at the click of a mouse
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), w3fund and seed + speed as well as several business angels join Tokenize.it, a platform for token-based corporate financing and employee participation, as investors.
The total funding amounts to € 2 million.
Tokenize.it offers an innovative approach to give German private limited companies (GmbH) access to the capital market.
Goal: Expansion of the platform with new Public Offer feature
Tokenize.it founder Christoph Jentzsch has experience in bu
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DTXL invests in quantum scale-up Delft Circuits in round of 6.3 M€
With this step, production will be scaled up and the company will receive support from partners in high-tech such as ASML and Philips.
Delft, 7 September 2023 – Delft Circuits has been working for a few years now on the supply of high-tech cabling for quantum computers. It has several tech giants as customers and organizations such as space agency NASA.
DTXL is a 100 M€ deep tech investment fund with leading partners such as ASML, Philips, PME pension fund and is therefore deeply r
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Disruption in the field of incontinence: MedTech startup inContAlert raises EUR 1.5 million
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital, Carma Fund, and renowned business angels from Germany and the UK are participating in the pre-seed financing round.
The MedTech startup is developing a sensor to measure the bladder filling level for incontinence patients.
The medical device is expected to be approved in early 2024.
Bayreuth, 06.09.2023: The MedTech startup inContAlert, headquartered in Bayreuth, has successfully closed its pre-seed financing round of EUR 1.5 million in tot
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Hong Kong firm invests in Jena-based Oncgnostics GmbH
Jena, September 05, 2023. The Hong Kong-based company Grande Bio-tech Co. Ltd. is making a seven-digit Euros investment in the Jena-based diagnostic company Oncgnostics GmbH. Oncgnostics has developed the cancer diagnostic Gyntect for the reliable detection of cervical cancer. Since 2022, this test has also been distributed and utilized in collaboration with a local partner in China. Following the successful launch of Oncgnostics’ test in China, Grande Bio-tech Co. Ltd. has decided to make