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Terrawater was founded by Nicolas Heyn, Till Schlickum and Thomas Brendel in 2007. With financial support from High-Tech Gründerfonds the company was able to successfully further develop its technology for modular seawater desalinisation plants using waste heat. Since TAPROGGE ESACO’s initial investment in Terrawater in Autumn 2009, an intensive operational cooperation has developed between the [...]

Tablets, Smartphones, eReaders – the publishing industry can no longer avoid mobile devices if it plans to reach the widest audience possible with its content. Knowing this, Berlin’s PressMatrix has developed a platform that enables publishers to make their content directly available for readers via iPad, Android tablet and smartphone complete with enhanced interactive elements [...]

Humedics GmbH, a specialist for rapid and mobile measurement of the individual liver function at the bedside of the patient, today announced the closing of its first equity financing round. The Charité Biomedical Fund (CBF) managed by Peppermint VenturePartners led this round which included VC Fonds Technologie managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the ERP Startfonds of [...]

CorTec is developing a neurotechnological platform for measuring and stimulating of brain activity. With their seed investment High-Tech Gründerfonds, Seedfonds Baden-Württemberg and K & S W Invest are enabling the young company to go on with its development towards a clinical application of the platform system and to bring it to market maturity. Related Links: [...]

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 [...]

The newly founded company Lipocalyx GmbH announces the start of its development activities in the field of siRNA delivery. With the conclusion of the seed funding round, High-Tech Gründerfonds and GoodVent are helping to enable the development of transfection reagents for siRNA based on innovative polymers. Related Links: Press Release: Financing for Lipocalyx’s Innovative siRNA [...]

1000jobboersen.de has successfully completed its second round of financing. Together with lead investor Neuhaus Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Hamburg FOR Mobile co-invested, financing the Berlin-based Internet company with a single-digit million euro sum. Related Links: Press Release: Fresh growth capital for 1000jobboersen.de from Neuhaus Partners, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Hamburg FOR Mobile Investors: Neuhaus Partners High-Tech [...]

Autoloader GmbH has successfully completed its seed financing. High-Tech Gründerfonds has invested in the company in cooperation with the senior shareholder, Thomas Breuer / BF Consulting GmbH. The start-up company has developed a robot-based automation system, by means of which baggage handling procedures at airports, which have thus far been carried out manually all over [...]