"Resourcify makes it easier for businesses across all industries to monitor and manage their waste and, in the process, get us closer to a net-zero waste future"

23-Feb-2022

Resourcify, Europe’s digital platform for waste management and recycling, announced the successful closing of its latest €5m funding round. This brings the total raised by the startup to over €9 million. Resourcify’s recycling platform enables companies to digitize and optimize their recycling ...

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The technology offers mobile power supply from renewable sources that is entirely disconnected from the power grid

14-Feb-2022

instagrid, a leader in high-performance mobile battery systems in the professional sector, announced today its Series B financing of approximately $33 million (€29 million). The round is being led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a U.S.-based venture capital firm investing in businesses building ...

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HQS Quantum Simulations brings in 12 million euros in series A

27-Jan-2022

HQS Quantum Simulations, Europe’s leading startup for complex quantum simulations, has concluded a series-A financing round and secured more than 12 million euros together with new research funding. As a new investor, the French quantum VC fund Quantonation is leading the financing round; with ...

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"The path for synthetic fuels is set for the aviation industry"

24-Jan-2022

Strategic investors join INERATEC to scale up the production capacities of synthetic fuels made from CO2 and “green” hydrogen towards the megaton scale. With the new shareholders from the energy, aviation and shipping sector, INERATEC is extending the setup that enables significant company ...

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kiutra closes another financing round

29-Nov-2021

To calculate and solve complex problems faster than currently possible with supercomputers, to exchange information securely against eavesdropping and to determine physical quantities such as pressure, time, position, speed and magnetic fields with unprecedented accuracy: These promises and more ...

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Operaize receives €1.5 million in seed capital

23-Nov-2021

Cologne-based start-up Operaize has successfully closed a seed financing round with three investors: High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF) and NRW.BANK invest a total of 1.5 million euros in Operaize to accelerate the development of the AI-based product, ...

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Laser micromachining with ultrashort pulse lasers

28-Jun-2021

The exit is a perfect match for High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), bringing together an international tech company with over a 100-year history and a start-up that will benefit from each other’s strengths. "For Schunk, the ultrashort-pulse laser technology represents a technological expansion that ...

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Swiss start-up Qnami closes 4.0M CHF Series A financing round

14-May-2021

Qnami announced today the closing of a 4.0M CHF (4.4M USD) Series A financing round led by Venture Capital funds Runa Capital and SIT Capital, further supported by Seed Round investors Quantonation, Verve Ventures, ZKB Start-up Finance and the High-Tech Gründerfonds. The funds will support ...

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Seed financing round for female-founded circular bioeconomy startup traceless materials

11-May-2021

The funding lays the foundation to bring an advanced natural material to market that solves the global plastic pollution. The Hamburg-based, female-founded startup traceless materials has developed a holistically sustainable alternative for plastics and bioplastics that is fully compostable in ...

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06-Apr-2021

Multiphoton Optics GmbH has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH. The pooling of development capabilities and technologies for producing microstructures further underscores the global importance of research, development and production of direct-writing ...

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