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• Bonn / München - 07.05.2010 Worldwide First – Professional Real Estate Software “In the Clouds”

  The developer of the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for real estate sales, Propertybase GmbH, has successfully closed their first financing package. Based on their early success and profitable track record, Propertybase has secured investments from Bayern Kapital and Neuhaus Partners, while start-up investor High-Tech Gründerfonds will support the company as lead investor.

• Bonn - 04.05.2010 Around USD 4 m for Nanda Technologies

  Capital-E, a Belgium-based venture capital company focussing on semiconductor investments, and KfW with its ERP Start-up Fund, one of Germany’s largest venture capital funds, are investing about USD 4 m in Nanda Technologies GmbH alongside the existing shareholders. Nanda was founded in 2006 and has successfully developed a new system for high-throughput wafer inspection used in semiconductor

• Bonn / Cologne - 03.05.2010 FreiGeist Web & StartUp Conference in Cologne

  FreiGeist award to be issued for the first time - On 6 May 2010, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Thierhoff Consulting and Censet GmbH are hosting the first FreiGeist Conference at Clublounge Nord of Cologne’s RheinEnergieStadion football stadium. Founders, web entrepreneurs, business angels, students, consultants and all who are interested in start-ups, the internet and new media are invited to the

• Bonn - 27.04.2010 Cutting-edge technology meets industry

  Forward-looking alliances between start-ups and industrial companies initiated  - Around 200 high-calibre guests from business, government and the media today made their appearance at the first High-Tech Partnering Conference in Bonn. More than 50 young portfolio companies of the High-Tech Gründerfonds will be presenting their concepts for success exclusively in front of a large number of

• Bonn - 19.04.2010 Broadening collaboration between start-ups and industry

  Growth through innovation: How government and industry are to spur technology projects in Germany is a subject that about 200 high-calibre guests will discuss at High-Tech Gründerfonds’ first technology conference on 27 April in Bonn. The objective of this High-Tech Partnering Conference is to ease and facilitate portfolio companies' access to potential joint venture partners.  A select 50

• Bonn / Frankfurt am Main - 15.04.2010 High-Tech Gründerfonds invests together with KI Kapital GmbH in newly established SAW Instruments GmbH

  SAW Instruments has an innovative analysis technology for the life science markets. The company sells biosensors for research at the highest level. Such systems have already been sold to leading research facilities in Germany and Switzerland, and are being used there with great success. SAW Instruments GmbH goes back to a research project at the center of advanced european studies and research

• Bonn / Cologne - 07.04.2010 Cologne-based start-up enterprise unveils its innovative technology for the first re-closable lid, marking the 75th anniversary of the drinks can

  A new start-up business in Cologne has developed a technology for the drinks can to go, rendering it possible to make small and handy beverage packaging tightly re-closable with what is described as a “CanCap” lid. The start-up finance jointly concluded at the end of 2009 with High-Tech-Gründerfonds and Rheinland Venture Capital provided the necessary foundation to drive the project forward

• Bonn / Lübeck - 31.03.2010 With seed finance to a medical product ready for the market: Delphi Optics GmbH starts marketing its burns diagnosis system

  With the seed investment totalling EUR 750,000, which the Lübeck-based medical technology business obtained from High-Tech Gründerfonds, KSV GmbH and Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Schleswig Holstein GmbH (MBG), Delphi Optics has developed its first product to readiness for the market.   The CS-Cam.burn optical system for diagnosing the depth of burns matured from a lab prototype

• Bonn / Heidelberg - 31.03.2010 High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in PEPperPRINT’s new biochip platform

  PEPperPRINT, a spin-off of the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, is financed by High-Tech Gründerfonds with a start-up investment of 500,000 Euro. Based on an award-winning and proprietary high resolution laser printing process, PEPperPRINT provides customized peptide microarrays in a truly cost-effective manner for the first time. Combined with speed and flexibility, the resulting

• Bonn / Bochum / Düsseldorf - 31.03.2010 Successful follow-on finance for amedo Smart Tracking Solutions GmbH

  amedo Smart Tracking Solutions GmbH concludes the second round of finance led by EnjoyVenture and strengthens its management team. Amedo Smart Tracking Solutions GmbH, established in mid-2008, has received further follow-on finance from ELS Fonds, managed by EnjoyVenture Management GmbH, High-Tech Gründerfonds, the KfW banking group and new strategic investors. With Wolfgang Lubert, EnjoyVenture

• Bonn / Cologne - 30.03.2010 Successful start of GrandCentrix GmbH – Investment in next generation of “Smartphone Analytics”

  GrandCentrix attracts new investors with exciting clients, technical finesse and a managerial team with an extraordinary amount of experience. High-Tech Gründerfonds adopts a leading role on board the Cologne start-up and thereby invests in the strongly expanding “Smartphone Analytics“ technology. Smartphones and mobile computers have been the talk of the town since the Apple iPhone at

• Cologne / Bonn - 25.03.2010 RapidTainment AG and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in sevenload founders‘ Social Web Game

  UP Web Game GmbH, a United Prototype project, is happy to welcome Swiss RapidTainment AG and German High-Tech Gründerfonds as new investors and shareholders. The transaction was made public today at the company’s housewarming party in Cologne, which was attended by several hundred people from politics, media and business. Under the working title “Social Web Game” the company is currently

• Bonn / Berlin - 24.03.2010 High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in spin-off from Freie Universität Berlin and the Charité university hospital

  Humedics markets an innovative method for instantaneous measurement of liver function at the patient’s bedside.  Known as the LiMAx Test, which was developed at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin by Dr Martin Stockmann and refined into a measurement system together with Prof. Karsten Heyne of Freie Universität Berlin, is now able for the first time to precisely measure liver function.

• Bonn / Dortmund - 23.03.2010 About 3 million euros in fresh capital – more and more investors are banking on the success of humangrid

  The success of humangrid GmbH has persuaded both existing and new investors. The investors SeedCapital Dortmund, Prof. Dr. Conen, High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as the ERP start-up fund of the KfW bank group provided the innovative business with one million euros as recently as mid 2009. The shareholders have now, together with new private investors, Klaus Wecken and his children Ina and Ferry

• Bonn / Munich - 18.03.2010 Venture capital for innovative, high-end IT security solutions

  High-Tech Gründerfonds and private investors acquire stake in SSP Europe GmbH, the vendor of IT security solutions. By either partially or completely out-tasking their IT security to SSP Europe, companies receive a maximum level of IT security. The management team with experience in the IT security market already enjoys a high degree of attention on the market with its unique