HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds

🏆 #KfWCapitalAward 2024 – Glückwunsch an die Gewinner:innen! 🥳 Gestern Abend war es soweit: Der KfW Capital Award 2024 wurde in der “Bar jeder Vernunft” in Berlin verliehen. Unser Geschäftsführer Alex von Frankenberg hatte die besondere Freude, den Sonderpreis “Best Emerging Manager” an Dr. Isabella Fandrych und Maximilian A. Schwarz (Nucleus Capital) zu überreichen. Auch Juliane Hahn als “Best Female Investor” und Xavier Sarras als “Best Impact Investor” wurden ausgezeichnet. Unsere Partnerin und Head of HTGF Berlin Dr. Tanja Emmerling war Jurymitglied für den “Best Female Investor” Award. Ein großes Dankeschön an KfW Capital und alle Beteiligten für eine inspirierende Veranstaltung und die Anerkennung herausragender Leistungen in der VC- und Startup-Welt. Mehr Infos in der Pressemeldung: https://lnkd.in/g-JuKr5P Cc: Jörg Goschin, Alexander Thees, Sonja Höpfner, Theresa Bardubitzki, Dr. Tanja Emmerling, Ulrike Hinrichs, Prof. Dr. Heike Marita Hölzner © Fotos: KfW/Jonas Wresch

🌟 Turn Crisis into Opportunities! 🌟 We are excited to share this article from VentureCapital Magazin, which provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities in the German start-up scene. 🚀 Featuring perspectives from our managing director Romy Schnelle, Dr. Anna Christmann (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action), Prof. Dr. Helmut Schoenenberger (UnternehmerTUM), and Dr. Robert Richard Richter (WERK1 – the most startup-friendly place in Munich).

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that we awarded the HTGF German Deep-Tech Award to the amazing team at Nanomation during the Stage Two event, a pitch competition with spin-offs from Europe’s top universities! 🚀   The start-up Nanomation is set to revolutionize the commercial adoption of semiconducting nanomaterial circuits by solving the manufacturing challenges with their innovative circuit design software. Founder and CEO Teja Potocnik and the team have done an incredible job, and we’re excited to support them with an investment prize of €850k (pending successful due diligence and HTGF investment committee approval).   Our Senior Investment Manager Olaf Joeressen had the pleasure of handing out the award. 🏆   Congratulations to the entire Nanomation team! We can’t wait to see what you achieve next. 🌟 Cc: Malte Brettel, Prof. Dr. Stephan (Thor) Stubner, Maurice Kügler

Wir sind stolzer Unterstützer des Aktionsplans "Mehr Unternehmerinnen für den Mittelstand" des Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, um die Rahmenbedingungen zu verbessern und das Gründen für Frauen attraktiver zu machen. 💪🚀

🚀 HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds congratulates ZE ENERGY on raising €54 million from Amundi, Demeter, and Groupe SORÉGIES. 🌞🔌 Founded in 2019, ZE ENERGY has developed a hybrid solar power plant solution, combining photovoltaic energy with storage, tailored for continental Europe. The company develops, finances, constructs, and operates hybrid power plants and sells green energy to end-users or through tender offers. 💸 The funds raised by ZE ENERGY will allow the company to continue its growth over the next two years, particularly financing its expansion in Europe. Overall, ZE Energy aims to reach a portfolio of operational and ready-to-build projects exceeding 900 MW of PV and 600 MWh of storage by the end of 2026. 🗯️ Dr. Nils Lang, Investment Manager at HTGF, comments: "With increased volatility in the energy markets the approach of ZE ENERGY with a hybrid photovoltaic-battery solution excels in best allocating energy to pricing. This is a crucial lever for the manifestation of the renewable energy space and ZE ENERGY's outstanding edge in developing, financing, and operating these solutions sets new standards for the industry. Congrats to your continued success and ongoing achievements!"

📣 Calling all software founders! Do you want to receive immediate feedback from experienced VC professionals? Submit your pitchdeck and maybe you are selected for an exclusive feedback session with Maciej Lehmann, Investment Associate at Future Energy Ventures, and Stepan Kivshyk, Investment Manager at HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds. 📍: Online 📅: 28. November 🕚: 11 am ➡️ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e2qiE7HP

🚀📃 Let's solve Europe's paperwork problem! cloudsquid, an AI-Agent platform specializing in extracting and transforming unstructured data, announced a the closing of $1 million pre-seed funding. The round was led by HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and BackBone Ventures, with participation from angel investors Reetu Kainulainen (Founder Ultimate AI) and Udi Miron (VP Product Ultimate AI). 💶 The funding will accelerate Cloudsquid’s mission to tackle data extraction and integration from complex document files using Generative AI. Over 80% of enterprise data remains trapped in unstructured formats, including documents, emails, CSVs, and images. Cloudsquid addresses this challenge with a universal API capable of ingesting files in any format, transforming them into structured data, and integrating directly with downstream systems like databases, ERPs, and CRMs. 💬 Mike McCarthy, Cloudsquid co-founder and CEO, explains: “Working closely with these organizations has been eye-opening. Whole teams of people are spending the majority of their work day transferring fields from PDFs into back office systems. It’s a huge waste of potential amid Europe’s skilled labor shortage. AI can solve these legacy bottlenecks quickly, we are able to help these companies skip a few steps forward on the digitization journey immediately.” 🗨️ Björn Sykora, Principal at HTGF, said: “Cloudsquid is transforming how companies deal with their unstructured data, bringing much-needed ease of accessibility to all kinds of industries. Mike, Filip and Sangwoo are an outstanding team and we are excited to support them on their mission.” 🥳 HTGF congratulates the whole team at Cloudsquid! Get the full story by following the link in the comments 👇

🚨FINAL CALL 📣 Get your pitch decks in by 10 November to join us for Digital Health Pitch Day on 28 November in Munich. If you make the cut you get the chance to present to VCs, corporate investors and industry experts. Digital Health Pitch Day is hosted by adesso SE and coorganized by Plug and Play Tech Center and HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds. Apply now to join us in Munich! 👉 https://lnkd.in/g2JsR-g2

🧠 Let's treat Alzheimer’s Disease by activating the memory system of the brain with software! Berlin-Based neurotech start-up Nuuron secures €3.5 million in an seed financing round for the development of a digital drug. The round is led by HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and includes investors such as IBB Ventures, caesar., the Business Angel Club Berlin, other business angels and family offices. In addition, Nuuron entered a strategic partnership with RoX Health, a subsidiary of the pharma and diagnostics group Roche. 💵 Nuuron will use this funding for animal studies in collaboration with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and a clinical trial with Alzheimer’s patients at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and to advance product development. Additionally, market entry preparations start in Europe and the U.S. 🗯️ Dr. Markus Müschenich, MPH, co-founder of Nuuron, explains: “Our scientists have succeeded in hacking the neural code of memory, enabling us to develop a digital drug to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. We call it the Memory Pacemaker – an effective therapy, prescribed by doctors and reimbursed by health insurances.” 🗨️ Tilmann Petersen, Investment Manager at HTGF, adds: “Our investment in Nuuron not only opens up a completely new dimension in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, but also represents an important step into the future of medical technology. The groundbreaking eye stimulation addresses a new therapeutic target that has been unreachable until now. This technology has the potential to help millions of patients who have been inadequately treated with previous approaches. As investors, we see not only an enormous market opportunity in a large patient group, but also the chance to benefit in the long term from a real medical revolution for real digital therapies.” 👏 Congratulations to the whole team at Nuuron! Get the full story by following the link in the comments ⬇️