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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Grandperspective secures seed financing

23-Oct-2020

Over 30% of major leaks of toxic of flammable industrial gases remain undetected by gas sensors. Grandperspective develops with the scanfeldTM world’s first early warning solution monitoring entire chemical parks for gas leaks. The High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF) finances this innovation in ...

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High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest in IT start-up

30-Apr-2020

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) together with Bayern Kapital has invested a seven-figure sum in Munich-based IT start-up Erium as part of a seed financing round. SAR Elektronic GmbH is also on board as a co-investor. Erium’s software solution HALerium is used to model and optimise highly complex ...

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€ 1.3 million seed financing

10-Dec-2019

PANDA detects the error in the production process with the help of Artificial Intelligence and solves the biggest problems in industrial production. With the Plug & Play product DRIFT, PANDA offers an all-in-one system for minimizing plant downtimes and performance deficits in the production ...

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Swiss start-up Qnami closes 2.6M CHF seed round

14-Nov-2019

Qnami announced the closing of a CHF 2.6M (USD 2.6M) seed round led by Venture Capital fund Quantonation and further supported by investiere, ZKB Start-up Finance and the High-Tech Gründerfonds. The funds will support the market entry of Qnami’s first product, a quantum microscope for inspection ...

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22-Oct-2019

From the development of more powerful batteries to highly efficient solar cells, finding new materials with specific predefined properties is of critical importance. So far our ability to design new materials using simulation tools has been limited by the lack of sufficient computational power. ...

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13-Jun-2019

Simreka, simulation software that accelerates materials driven product and manufacturing process innovation using AI, announced that it has raised a seven figure seed financing round led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) with participation from the SAP.iO Fund. Simreka has built a powerful ...

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