High-Tech Grunderfonds

Founded in 2005, High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Bonn, Germany-headquartered private equity firm targeting seed and early stage investments in diversified sectors in Germany High-Tech Gründerfonds is a powerful engine that drives the success of high- tech startups. Armed with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and passion, the experienced team of investment managers and startup experts guide top companies on their journey from launch to success.

Marie Asano

Investment Manager

Lucille Bonnet

Senior Investment Manager

Dr. Michael Brandkamp

MD

Tanja Emmerling

Partner

Tobias Faupel

Principal

Alexander von Frankenberg

MD and Member of Executive Board

Bernd Georgen

Partner

Gregor Haidl

Investor

Frank Hensel

Principal

Simon Math

Investment Manager

Kristin Müller

Investment Manager

Axel Nitsch

Principal

Claudia Raber

Partner Relationship Management

Philipp Rittershaus

Investment Manager

Michael Strzyz

Investment Manager

941 past transactions

Datarade

Private Placement in 2019
Datarade GmbH develops software that helps data driven companies and data vendors to connect with each other. It offers service through its online platform such as, data vendor evaluation, data vendor matching, and data vendor discorvery. It serves to the corporate companies, government institution and educational institutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Orbex Space

Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry. Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from a unique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent. They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service.

playnik

Series A in 2009
Playnik publishes browser games for game developers and provides content for media companies. Its products are free-to-play browser games that monetize via premium accounts and item sales worldwide. Playnik also provides marketing solution for development studios to concentrate solely on developing new titles. It began operation on March 1, 2008 as wwg worldwidegames, with its headquarters in Münster in Germany as a subsidiary of next idea as of April 27, 2012.

Böhner-EH GmbH

Seed Round in 2010
Böhner-EH GmbH manufactures and markets electric-hydrostatic drive (EHD) that combines the benefits of electric and hydraulic systems. The product has applications in machinery and plant engineering, traffic technology as well as renewable energy technology. Böhner-EH GmbH is based in Burghaslach, Germany.

IPlytics

Series A in 2019
IPlytics GmbH develops an online based patent analytics platform to analyze organization’s market developments, technology trends, and competitive positions for patenting and standardization. Its platform integrates patent analysis, valuations, mapping, and landscaping, as well as a mapping of technology standards and products, such as an identification of standard essential patents, patent licensing terms, or patent pools. The company’s platform also facilitates decision making in the areas, such as patent positioning, patentability, investments, portfolio planning, licensing cost, standardization opportunities, emerging technologies, and new markets and alliances. In addition, it offers technology landscaping analysis, patent valuation measures, and technology watch analysis. The company serves scientific research organizations. IPlytics GmbH was founded in 2012 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Selfapy

Seed Round in 2017
Selfapy GmbH develops an online therapy program for people affected by depression. The company offers therapy related programs, such as anxiety and panic programs, depression programs, eating disorder habits, stress and mindfulness, and chronic panic programs. It delivers 3 months of therapy solutions via phone or SMS function. The company offers exercises, videos, and texts. Selfapy GmbH was formerly known as Selfapy UG. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

GILUPI

Series C in 2011
GILUPI GmbH, a Potsdam, Germany-based company that develops and produces medical devices for the in vivo isolation of rare cells out of the circulating blood.

Crealytics

Venture Round in 2010
Crealytics is a forward-thinking performance marketing agency. It works exclusively in the retail sector, offering a holistic approach to search, shopping and paid social campaigns on Google, Bing, Amazon, Pinterest, and Facebook. A 150+ person company, it prides itself on challenging assumptions about digital advertising. Crealytics breaks down the silos isolating marketing from merchandising and pricing policy. As a result, retailers can direct product ad investment to maximize profitability and Customer Lifetime Value. Proprietary technology underpins our success. Backed by an in-house team of business intelligence and data scientists, our platform removes the heavy lifting normally associated with campaign management—and elevates strategic thinking beyond basic search practices. Crealytics’ paid search campaigns occur globally – across 150 markets and in 20 languages. We have offices in London, New York and Berlin.

EXTOREL

Venture Round in 2013
EXTOLL GmbH was founded in 2011 as a spin-off of the University of Heidelberg. The spin-off process has been significantly supported by the German EXIST program. The core technologies of the company were developed at the chair of computer architecture of Dr. Ulrich Brüning, who is a co-founder. The IP has been transferred to EXTOLL GmbH. The research group has also developed a method for low-cost mass production of high-density Active Optical Cables (HD-AOC). Such HD-AOC enable signal transmission over longer distances than it would be possible with purely electrical interconnects. This IP has been exclusively licensed to EXTOLL GmbH. Consequently, EXTOLL GmbH has developed a complete product solution, necessary for interconnecting clusters with sizes ranging from a few nodes up to 64.000 nodes.

ChromoTek

Venture Round in 2010
ChromoTek GmbH develops immunologic research and detection reagent and tools for proteomics and cell biology. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.

BlueID GmbH

Venture Round in 2008
baimos technologies is the company behind award-winning BlueID technology – the digital key ring for your smartphone. Innovative products of baimos technologies enable the use of smartphones in identification, access control, authentication, secure command execution as well as in the sharing of jointly used goods by smartphone. BlueID technology integrates seamlessly into apps, backend systems and existing hardware. Solutions of baimos technologies are known to be simple, smart and secure. The origin of baimos technologies lies in the development of security technology for the automotive industry. In past years, the product portfolio has also expanded to facility management and IT. The widely recognized company cooperates with partners such as Marquardt, Emerson Network Power, eQ-3/ELV, Microsoft and noris network. The client base includes customers such as Daimler, Sixt, Pango Mobile Parking and LMU Munich.

figo

Series A in 2015
figo GmbH develops a software as a Service platform that aggregates financial data for financial institutions. It allows users to access the sources of finance, notification services, security, as well as user and customer management services. figo GmbH was founded in 2012 and is based in Hamburg, Germany. As of March 4, 2020, figo GmbH operates as a subsidiary of FinReach GmbH.

Orbster

Seed Round in 2008
Orbster is a developer and publisher of location-based games for mobile phones. The company's aim is to develop and sell successful games for the growing market in location-based content for mobile phones. The core of the online and mobile-integrated game platform allows every player and provider of game ideas to create location-based games for mobile phones with navigation functions such as GPS without programming knowledge.

WISE

Series C in 2020
WISE Srl manufactures implantable biomedical devices for applications in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, and sensors. Its supersonic cluster beam implantation technology enables to embed biocompatible, flexible, and stretchable conductive micro-electrodes in polymers, in particular elastomers for the usage in implantable medical devices. The company’s technology also produces leads for neurostimulation that are implanted in the spinal cord or brain of patients for treating neurodegenerative diseases, such as chronic pain and Parkinson’s disease. WISE Srl was founded in 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Atriva Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2017
Atriva Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company which aims to develop new antiviral therapies against different respiratory viral infections. Atriva Therapeutics completed preclinical development of ATR-002 and recently filed a request for scientific advice from a European regulatory authority to provide guidance on the executed preclinical development program and the planned ATR-002 Phase I study in healthy volunteers.

multiBIND biotec

Venture Round in 2006
multiBIND biotec GmbH develops solutions for decontamination and disinfection. Its bioDECONT. A solution for all problem associated with horizontal gene transfer and it results in to removal of genetic material (DNA/RNA) and other biomolecules such as proteins and lipids; bioCLEAN, a technology for all kind of antimicrobial and antiviral solutions. The company also develops solution related to CleanExtract, a tool for the fast determination of microbial ATP in lubricants, oil emulsions, turbid fluids, metal working fluids, paint, and other problematic solutions. multiBIND biotec GmbH was founded in 2005 and is based in Dortmund, Germany.

GameGenetics

Series A in 2012
GameGenetics is a specialist in user acquisition for free mobile and online games. The company enables game developers to market games more effectively, win relevant players and to speed up their global growth and gives international publishers access to a first-rate game portfolio. GameGenetics brings into focus sophisticated technology (RTA, Programmatic, Life Time Optimization, etc.), to offer each game developer an innovative and tailor-fit user acquisition service. GameGenetics works closely with leading publishers such as Electronic Arts, Kabam and Ubisoft. It currently has a portfolio of 1,000 high quality mobile and online games developed by 350 game developers/publishers available in 185 countries and in over 30 languages. To reach out to relevant target groups, GameGenetics has created an international distribution network comprised of more than 3,000 channel partners such as Dell and Lenovo, hundreds of gaming websites and advertising networks as Facebook, Yahoo! and Google. Through partner integrations and game advertisements, GameGenetics generates more than 100 billion worldwide ad impressions per month, leading to millions of game registrations. The international GameGenetics team includes experts from 20 nations and is headed by company CEO Jeffry van Ede.

Dolosys

Venture Round in 2013
Dolosys GmbH operates in the medical technology business and develops and produces devices for measuring of pain and pain elimination. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Spotigo

Venture Round in 2006
Spotigo GmbH is an information technology and service company in the mobile broadband market. Its broadband connection suite enables mobile broadband users to find access points easily and to connect to them. Internet service providers (ISPs) and Wireless ISPs deploy those products in order to acquire new end customers, to bind existing customers, or to convert fixed-line customers into mobile broadband customers. Spotigo operates the hotspot directory in Europe. It operates a search-service for Wifiaccess-points and distributes platform-independent software-solutions that enable Internet users to log-in at hotspots automatically. The company's products are primarily installed on mobile devices used for surfing the Internet. Its products are used by customers in the Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Spotigo was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, with an additional office in Madrid, Spain.

futalis

Seed Round in 2012
futalis GmbH provides dog food. The company offers dog owner a customized dog food based on criteria such as breed, age, weight, activity level, breeding behavior, illness, allergies, and predispositions. futalis GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Leipzig, Germany.

Pylba

Angel Round in 2013
Pylba, Inc. offers a Mobile Media Publishing Platform (M2P2) that enables publishers to deliver their content to mobile users through an application, named Simply News. It also offers its technology for content owners in a App-as-a-Service model. Pylba, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Rebelle

Series B in 2014
Rebelle is a market place for designer second hand fashion. It was founded by Cécile Gaulke, Max Schönemann and the company builder Hanse Ventures in August 2013. the company is located in Hamburg, Germany.

natif.ai

Private Placement in 2020
natif.ai is a deep-tech start-up that educates machines to solve a growing global demand of cognitive document analysis. Natif.ai provides a fast and efficient way to productively bring artificial intelligence into the economy. It was founded by a German-French team and is an official spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Northworks

Seed Round in 2007
Northworks was founded in early 2006 in Hamburg and has been dedicated to the development and operation of online sports games. They create titles with the claim to represent the reference in their genre. Here, Their games are characterized by a balanced game design, outstanding graphics and high quality.

talpasolutions GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
talpasolutions GmbH develops and offers software as a service (SaaS) platform for condition monitoring and data analysis. It provides a common ground for collaboration between mines and machine manufacturers. The company offers condition monitoring and underground orientation based on sensor data of machines. It also enables assessment of big data by predictive and prescriptive analysis through machine learning for time-critical decisions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Essen, Germany.

fos4X

Seed Round in 2012
With modern lightweight materials such as glass fiber or carbon fiber reinforced plastics higher demands on measurement technology arise. Innovative fiber optic sensors tolerate 1,000 times more load cycles and 10 times higher strain amplitudes than conventional sensors. They are significantly more compact and thus ideally suited for tasks related to material and structural testing. They offer support with their innovative measurement technology and their extensive know-how in the field of fiber optics.

eyefactive

Venture Round in 2011
eyefactive GmbH develops interactive multimedia systems with multi touch and multi motion technology. The company provides LCD systems such as multitouch displays and video walls, multitouch table alpha, multitouch terminal delta, mutitouch stele talos, multotouch hypebox, and multitouch shop window sapphire. It also offers software includes touchscreen software, and touchscreen appstore. The company's technology includes touchscreen object recognition, touchscreen SDK, and trakcking engine EVOVIS. eyefactive GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Wedel, Germany.

AYOXXA

Series A in 2012
AYOXXA is a biotech company commercializing innovative technology developed at the National University of Singapore (NUS). AYOXXA’s patented technology platform is producing a new generation of biochips – merging biology with IT. This allows the biochip to accumulate large numbers of applications – measuring multiple protein markers for cancer, allergies, cardiovascular and infectious diseases – in a single test.

Valispace

Private Placement in 2018
Valispace GmbH develops a browser-based engineering software as a service platform that increases productivity in the development of complex hardware products. Its software provides administrative, budget, interface management, documentation, designing, tracking, echnical engineering data for developing satellites, rockets, and complex hardware products. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bremen, Germany.

TolerogenixX

Seed Round in 2017
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is Germany’s most active seed stage investor. With EUR 576 million under management in two funds we provide financing for technology-driven companies active in a wide range of fields, including robotics, IoT and energy, Medtech and Biotech, chemicals and software. Investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and 18 strategic corporate investors.

Banxware

Seed Round in 2021
Banxware is a software provider for embedded financial technologies. With Banxware's solution any company can offer financial services to their customers. Those who integrate Banxware's white-label software benefit from the unique know-how of the founders team and the end-to-end approach that covers the entire value chain for financial services. Banxware's first market-ready product is an instant business lending solution that allows digital platforms, marketplaces, and payment service providers to offer loans to their merchants based on platform transaction data. The process of onboarding, verification, credit decision and payout takes less than 15 minutes. For lenders and bank partners, Banxware manages the loan throughout the entire lifecycle. The Berlin-based company was founded in 2020 by Miriam Wohlfarth, Jens Röhrborn and Fabian Heiß.

Simreka

Seed Round in 2019
Simreka empowers brands and manufacturers rapidly bring new products to market with 100x faster experiments using AI and ML. Using Simreka, materials manufacturers can accelerate innovation and new product discovery to transform supply chains for chemicals/materials that will be profitable, safer and sustainable. This acceleration is driven by our advanced technology platform (data collection, predictive- simulation, collaboration) that delivers high quality and uniquely public and proprietary data based multi-perspective decision support. By accelerating materials- and process innovation using unique technology, we improve financial performance, reduce environmental impact and brand risk for materials manufacturers and brand owners.

envelio

Series A in 2019
Envelio provides the software as a service solution Intelligent Grid Platform to assist grid operators in the next phase of the energy transition. With algorithms based on artificial intelligence and mathematical optimization, planning and operation processes in distribution grids are enabled for the integration of millions of distributed energy resources and data from smart meters. Smart Grid Technologies are fully integrated into the grid operators’ toolbox to tackle challenges in the power grid.

OakLabs GmbH

Seed Round in 2012
OakLabs is a research firm that conducts and offers a range of laboratory procedures and computing expertise to its clients. The company’s range of services consist of Biocomputing, MyArray, and gene expression. Biocomputing offers design and conceptual realization in terms of sequence analysis, genomic selection, and biomolecule simulation. MyArray services consist of XL-design development, RNA and DNA sample hybridization, and selection. OakLabs was founded in 2011 by Martina Schad.

Heliatek

Series C in 2014
Heliatek GmbH develops and manufactures organic solar films and photovoltaics cells. Its product includes HeliaSol, an organic photovoltaics (OPV) solution that can be applied to surfaces. The companys’s product is used for building, automotive, and pilot projects applications. The company serves building and construction material companies, automotive manufacturers, and suppliers. Heliatek GmbH has strategic partnerships with AGC Glass Europe, and Reckli China. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Dresden, Germany.

miRdetect

Private Placement in 2019
miRdetect GmbH develops and markets n-vitro diagnostics. Its product includes miRcontrol GCT, a test kit for the detection of testicular cancer. The company also engages in research and development of new tests to detect cancers. miRdetect GmbH was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bremen, Germany.

Orbital Express Launch Limited

Private Placement in 2018
Orbital Express Launch Limited offers orbital launch services for small satellite industry. It provides launch services, which includes Monolithic micro and mini satellite; Pico, nano and micro satellites; and TRL train payloads. The company offers deployment for pico, nano, and micro satellites in PocketQube and CubeSat formats, from 1P to 16U. Orbital Express Launch Limited was formerly known as Moonspike Limited and changed its name to Orbital Express Launch Limited in January 2016. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Forres, United Kingdom with an additional office in Hvidovre, Denmark.

bookingkit

Private Placement in 2020
bookingkit GmbH operates a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for leisure time activity provider's booking, administration, and marketing processes. The company’s web-based solution provides activity providers control over their business processes, including bookings, payments, management, channel management, service and security, administration, and sales and marketing through a single digital interface. It also operates as a neutral Global Distribution System (GDS) to provide travel agencies and marketing networks access to tours and activities in the form of a digital inventory. The company provide solutions for hop-on-hop-off tours, leisure parks, museums and attractions, tour operators, outdoor, indoor, escape rooms, city tour, sport and wellness, food and drinks, water and wind, events, and rentals. bookingkit GmbH was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Veodin

Seed Round in 2012
Veodin Software GmbH develops productivity software serving office workers worldwide. The company offers KeyRocket software that recommends keyboard shortcuts, which optimizes workflow by helping the users to integrate keyboard shortcuts. It provides shortcuts for Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word in English and German. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of August 15, 2018, Veodin Software GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Templafy ApS.

FAZUA

Series B in 2017
FAZUA specializes in developing an e-Bike drive system. Its e-Bike drive system was designed to meet sportive demands and, at the same time to create a natural feeling of non-motorized bike riding. FAZUA was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Ottobrunn, Bayern, Germany.

8sense

Seed Round in 2019
8sense is the first smart back sensor and coach for the office, combining postion and movement analysis with realtime interaction and training. Games and challenges motivates you to take care about your back before it's too late.

SKY ENGINE AI

Seed Round in 2021
About Sky Engine Sky Engine is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops innovative software solutions to improve computer vision. The company markets the Sky Engine deep learning platform, which is the next-generation of self-learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. The company was founded as a research and scientific spin-off in UK. About Sky Engine Platform The Sky Engine evolutionary AI platform for the deep learning in virtual reality is designed to overcome the complex object recognition challenges of modern machine/computer vision. It represents the future of self-learning in artificial intelligence technology, supporting efficient and cost effective workflows. Many image recognition tasks require acquisition of large amounts of data and manual data labelling. Sky Engine is designed to replace that. Sky Engine efficiently drives self-learning processes and offers advanced features for object discrimination, workflow automation and adaptive deep learning. Sky Engine is designed for tomorrow’s requirements in advanced analytics and decision support enabling AI business transformation. About Sky Engine client solutions Sky Engine creates flexible and innovative AI vision solutions tailored to customer needs and supports a wide range of industries, providing systems for a variety of data science needs, ensuring business partners get greater value from existing equipment.

opentabs

Venture Round in 2014
Die opentabs GmbH aus München hat eine Systemarchitektur bestehend aus Server, Datenbank und den Anwendungen opentabs und opentabs bizz entwickelt, die Gästen in der Gastronomie das Bestellen von Speisen und Getränken ermöglicht. Die mobile und kostenlose Anwendung opentabs ist für den Endkunden für die Betriebssystem iOS und Android erhältlich und ermöglicht das Bestellen per App in der Gastronomie via QR Code oder Sitzplatznummer.

SIRION BIOTECH

Venture Round in 2011
Viral Vector Technology as key enabler for innovative therapeutics. Viral vectors are a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into cells. This technique enables research of gene function and innovative therapeutics designed to correct defective genes and cancer. These technologies also assist in the discovery of new drug, food and cosmetic compounds. SIRION is a global leader in viral vector technology for gene modification of mammalian cells. Along with custom services, the company stands ready to outlicense its unique technologies. An initial target currently being pursued by one of SIRION's partners is a gene therapeutic for cervical cancer. The company started business in 2007 and since then has been changing the paradigm of viral vector supplies. Specifically, all commonly applied vector types are now available within a matter of weeks - adenovirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentivirus - and a full range of virus related services is at your fingertips spanning from particle production to virus driven cell modelling, all at highest titers and in quantities required for preclinical, clinical and animal testing. The company is easily accessible with presence in Munich, Tokyo, New Hampshire and Tel Aviv. Commercial arrangements range from fee-for-service over exclusive rights on single clones all the way to milestone & licensing arrangements. The business model proves successful: an annual 70% growth since 2007 and experienced in more than 500 projects for both the academic and industry sector. The company is privately held and has over the years raised funds from 8 investors both private and government. In order to support further growth and to benefit from technology development in this exciting industry, the company welcomes new investors. Please contact Management for further information about the company and its future plans.

mobileJob

Seed Round in 2015
mobileJob offers tools and solutions that enable businesses to recruit candidates and manage their recruitment process through their mobile phones. mobileJob enables businesses to advertise job opportunities through social media networks and conduct interviews through mobile phones, text messages, and online platforms. It provides businesses with tools that enable them to record, manage, and track applications and candidates. mobileJob was founded by Steffen Manes and Kai Daniels in 2014. It is based in Berlin, Germany.

Yorxs

Series A in 2013
Yorxs AG offers bulk diamonds and diamond jewelry through its online portal. It offers colored diamonds, investment diamonds, precious metals, rings, necklaces, pendants, and bracelets. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Taxdoo

Series A in 2020
Taxdoo is a startup that bills itself as a compliance platform for the digital economy. Its platform collects relevant data from marketplaces, online shops, and ERP systems on a daily basis and processes it in line with international VAT regulations, respective of financial authorities through an international network of VAT experts, which can then be transferred into financial accounting systems. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Implandata Ophthalmic Products

Private Placement in 2018
Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH, a medical device company, designs and develops medical equipment for the disease glaucoma. The company offers Eyemate, an eye pressure measurement system consists of an implantable micro sensor, responsible for pressure sensing. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Hanover, Germany.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2022
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH develops quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Draupnir Bio

Seed Round in 2019
Draupnir Bio intends to develop a new type of cholesterol-lowering medicine that prevents blood clots in the heart more effectively than the current medicine. The company is developing a platform for exploring the glycome to develop novel therapeutics, based on array technology, protein chemistry, and advanced carbohydrate chemistry. The company is able to synthesize, screen, and select highly potent and specific heparan sulfate glycomimetic drug candidates in cardiovascular, inflammatory, and infectious diseases.

CI HUB

Seed Round in 2020
CI HUB GmbH develops brand management software, iBrams for global companies. It serves social content creators, marketing enthusiasts, creative professionals, and sales managers. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Potsdam, Germany.

Blickfeld

Private Placement in 2020
Blickfeld GmbH manufactures light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors. Its product helps to survey near-infrared light to detect the shape of objects, allowing autonomous vehicles to see, and analyze the world around them. The company also develops object detection and mapping software which measures the data provided by the sensors and helps in city planning, connected mobility, real-time mapping, and usage pattern analysis. The company caters to automotive, transportation, industrial, and robotics sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Revobotik

Seed Round in 2015
REVOBOTIK nutzt die umlaufende Antriebsweise um die Leistungsfähigkeit von Delta-Robotern im Dauerbetrieb zu erhöhen. Das Wirkprinzip ist hierbei eine günstige Bewegungsübertragung und die fortlaufende Bewegung der Antriebe mit weniger Beschleunigungs- und Abbremsvorgängen. Gegenüber schwenkenden Syste­men kann somit schnell eine 50% höhere Traglast erzielt werden. Dieses Potential bietet zudem die Möglichkeit die maximalen Taktgeschwindigkeiten in der Anwendung zu erhöhen.

retest

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, retest is a software startup that will make GUI testing as simple, useful and efficient as possible. It uses the revolutionary paradigm of Difference Testing together with smart algorithms and AI to create innovative testing solutions.

UroTec

Seed Round in 2008
UroTec GmbH is a pharmaceutical company, founded in Germany in 2005. The spin-off from Dresden University of Technology develops and distributes implants from autologous cells for reconstruction of the lower urinary tract (tissue engineering).

Synthara AG

Seed Round in 2020
Synthara is a Zurich-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides system-level solutions for businesses to enhance their products or services with smart features. The company portable and wearable gadgets such as virtual reality headsets, small wireless monitoring cameras, sensor networks, have limited smart features because computing powerful algorithms cannot be run on them. Synthara IPs provide server-class performance with an extremely low energy requirement for neural networks (10 TOPs/Watt).

bitstars

Seed Round in 2014
bitstars is located in Aachen, Germany and is doing the research & development for HoloBuilder, Inc., the San Francisco-based construction technology company that designs, develops, and sells enterprise SaaS software. HoloBuilder offers reality capturing solutions for progress documentation and construction project management. Making use of 360° imagery data, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, HoloBuilder is the fastest and most insightful solution to document construction projects. HoloBuilder is being used by 59 of the largest 100 General Contractors in the United States. Its investors include Brick and Mortar Ventures, Tandem Capital, E.ON, Foundamental, and NRW.BANK.

CereGate

Private Placement in 2020
CereGate GmbH, a brain-machine interface company, develops a computer-brain-interface software platform that augments the programming of neuromodulation systems for patients enabling completely novel forms of therapy. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Hamburg, Germany with an additional office in San Diego, California.

clickworker

Series B in 2011
clickworker is an internet platform for paid crowdsourcing. As an innovative service provider, clickworker uses the know-how of qualified Internet users for the flexible and effective processing of business processes that cannot make efficient use of automation, for example in the areas of text creation, SEO texts, web research, tagging and categorization, product data management, surveys, mobile crowdsourcing and translations, Complex tasks are broken into micro jobs by clickworker. These tasks are then made available to the Cickworkers (Internet users registered at www.clickworker.com). The task is converted back into a complete project after successful processing and strict quality inspection.

VIOSO

Series B in 2010
VIOSO GmbH provides automatic digital edge-blending and geometry alignment solutions worldwide. The company’s products include VIOSO player, a professional video playback software for mapping content upon custom screen surfaces, including fulldome displays, round screens, and 3d objects; VIOSO Anyblend, an embedded warping and blending solution for visual applications like simulators, signage, and information displays, as well as performance driven interactive solutions; VIOSO Anyblend VR & SIM, a technology for military and non-commercial simulators; wings VIOSO, a media server solution for large venues, show, events, installations, and showrooms; VIOSO Servers to run multihead players, as well as warping enabled workstations and pixelprocessors; VIOSO Blackbox 4K that provides high resolution displays for simulation, visualization, live, gaming, and more; VIOSO autoalignment for video walls, digital signage, and large format rendering; and VIOSO fulldome solutions to display high resolution content in a dome. It also offers training services. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Duesseldorf, Germany.

onetool

Private Placement in 2020
onetool GmbH develops an online platform that gives access to customers for various SaaS-software solutions. The company’s platform offers software solutions for various business areas. It serves small and medium-sized businesses. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

SimScale

Series C in 2020
SimScale is a web platform that allows engineers to simulate and analyze the physical behavior of their products with a standard web browser, helping engineers to develop their products faster, easier and better. By providing instant access to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA), SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application only available to experts in large companies to a user-friendly web application accessible to any designer and engineer in the world. SimScale was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

DRACOON GmbH

Seed Round in 2010
DRACOON is market leader in the German-speaking area for enterprise file sharing. The highly secure, platform-independent file exchange software is available as cloud as well as on-premises version and has been recognized as ‘leader’. With ISO27001, EuroPriSe and ULD certifications, DRACOON complies with the highest safety standards. Company-specific branding, comprehensive role administration and Triple-Crypt security technology convince more than 400,000 users from well-known companies such as Rossmann, Helios Kliniken, Rödl & Partner and many more. Besides that DRACOON is used by OEM partners such as Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison, British Telecom or Bechtle and many more using their own branding.

Valispace

Seed Round in 2022
Valispace GmbH develops a browser-based engineering software as a service platform that increases productivity in the development of complex hardware products. Its software provides administrative, budget, interface management, documentation, designing, tracking, echnical engineering data for developing satellites, rockets, and complex hardware products. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bremen, Germany.

NFON

Seed Round in 2008
NFON AG, a Munich, Germany-based provider of outsourced telephone systems. nfon's outsourced telephone systems, called IP Centrex, are offered as a complete package from a single source. Operated by a fully redundant, high-performance computer centre and with more than 100 functions, the solution is designed to enable companies of all sizes to save up to 50% percent of the costs for a conventional phone system.

RIMASYS

Venture Round in 2017
RIMASYS is the novel approach to surgical education and MedTech R&D. They enable medical science, academia, and the industry to develop better implants, and perform more advanced therapies, operations - with the aim to increase the quality of life for patients. RIMASYS is focusing on enhancing surgical education and improving patient outcomes by deploying realistic fractures for practical skill training and medical device development.

Code Intelligence

Series A in 2022
Code Intelligence provides modern Security-Testing-Solutions using Coverage-Based-Fuzzing. Their solution decreases the amount of expert knowledge needed by setting up a continuous testing infrastructure using the newest and most modern technologies in the field of Software Testing. Based in Bonn, Germany, Code Intelligence helps leading global companies such as Bosch, Deutsche Börse Group and Deutsche Telekom to make their Software secure and reliable.

Kiutra

Venture Round in 2021
kiutra builds easy-access turn-key refrigeration solutions. Their all-electrical cooling devices combine magnetic refrigeration and closed-cycle pre-cooling to provide cryogenic temperatures cryogen-free and conveniently. Cryogenic temperatures are a key prerequisite for research and development, and many industrial applications. The Physics Department at the Technical University of Munich has a long tradition in developing novel methods and devices providing these low temperatures. kiutra is a TUM spin-off launched at the Chair for the Topology of Correlated Systems. Their team brings in more than 50 years of experience in applied low-temperature physics and cryo-engineering. kiutra is currently funded by “EXIST Transfer of Research”, a program of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy which supports excellent, research-based Startups.

Mister Spex

Series B in 2010
Mister Spex GmbH operates as an online eyewear retailer in Europe. The company offers a range of own and private label prescription and sun glasses, as well as contact lenses for various age groups. It also serves customers through a network of retail stores in Germany. Mister Spex GmbH was founded in 2007 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Kumovis

Private Placement in 2018
KUMOVIS GmbH manufactures 3D-printing systems for medical applications. Its products include KUMOVIS R1, a 3D printing system based on fused layer manufacturing for thermoplastic materials. The company offers systems designed to manufacture variety of medical products starting from prototyping up to personalized human implants. It provides 3D printer based manufacturing of industrial and medical applications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Extoll

Seed Round in 2012
EXTOLL is a privately held company that delivers cutting-edge products to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data center markets. EXTOLL products improve cluster and data center performance and reduce power consumption and TCO. EXTOLL delivers an integrated network stack consisting of hardware, software, and services. EXTOLL‘s exascale-ready interconnection technology provides market-leading performance in terms of low latency, high bandwidth, and scalability for high-performance clusters.

EverReal

Private Placement in 2019
EverReal believes real estate management and ownership should be simple, enjoyable, and that great results can be achieved from anywhere on the planet. EverReal is developing a platform for real-estate owners and professionals that makes real-time access to relevant information easy as well as driving productivity and collaboration in a simple way from anywhere.

iATROS

Seed Round in 2020
iATROS GmbH designs and develops mobile application and platform that connects cardiology patients with medical caregivers. The mobile application provides services, such as therapy and medication planning, progress tracking, ECG diagnosis, blood pressure and sugar database maintenance, consulting services with physicians, storing of health data. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Coramaze Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
coramaze technologies GmbH, a medical device company, develops a minimally invasive valve repair system for people with heart diseases. The company develops mitramaze valve repair system, a catheter-based valve that can be implanted directly into the beating heart and targets inoperable and asymptomatic patients. coramaze technologies GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Oncgnostics

Seed Round in 2012
oncgnostics GmbH develops molecular assays based on epigenetic biomarkers which allows early and reliable cancer diagnostics. It develops GynTect, which enables reliable and fast diagnosis of cervical cancer and pre-cancerous stages; and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests for screening, therapeutic decision making, and follow-up care in cancer diagnostics. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Jena, Germany.

MetisMotion

Seed Round in 2022
MetisMotion GmbH develops actuators. The company offers lightweight force optimized actuators for robotics, aviation, vehicle, and safety applications. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

CorTec

Seed Round in 2011
CorTec GmbH develops a neurotechnological device for measuring and stimulating of brain activity. It offers CorTec Brain Interchange, a brain pacemaker technology that provides treatment of neurological diseases. The company’s solutions are used for developing neurotherapies, pre clinical neuroscientific research, and clinical diagnostics and research. It also offers ready to use components, as well as custom made design solutions to suit individual needs. CorTec GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Freiburg, Germany.

Workpath

Private Placement in 2020
Workpath is the leading enterprise software provider enabling organizations to execute their strategies fast, flexible and effective in an increasingly dynamic and complex world. With simple and intuitive workflow tools Workpath engages all employees in the strategy and execution process. Its comprehensive analytics suite empowers executives to make better decisions on when to adapt focus, budgets or structures as early as possible.

reINVENT

Seed Round in 2018
reINVENT simplify all communication and planning processes for your construction project via a central digital platform.They revolutionize the hardly digitized building industry by offering a software platform to connect all major parties during and after construction. It‘s their mission to redesign all customer processes with digital solutions for communication, data transfer and documentation to generate significant cost and time savings for building contractors and project developers.

akvola Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
akvola Technologies is a German technology company specializing in water treatment. akvola designs, installs and markets package water clarification systems based on its proprietary technology akvoFloat. This innovative ceramic flotation-filtration process provides high quality water with up to 90% lower energy consumption and 20% lower footprint than state-of-the-art technologies. akvoFloat can be used in many industries, such as: - Oil&Gas: Produced Water Treatment - Seawater Desalination Pretreatment - Food&Beverage - Mining - Pharmaceutical - Pulp & Paper - Semiconductors

Enercast

Series A in 2012
enercast GmbH offers renewable energies forecasts. The company offers software-as-a-service products that delivers power forecasts for wind power and solar plants, which enables the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets. It also develops enercast city system, a dashboard that displays the predicted proportion of renewable energy from energy resources. enercast GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Kassel, Germany.

Spherity

Private Placement in 2019
Spherity GmbH develops and offers decentralized applications to empower interoperable supply chains, M2M communication, data authenticity and privacy. It combines IoT, blockchain and modern cryptography to establish data audit trails, settlement, and asset management or token streaming. Spherity GmbH was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Tubulis

Private Placement in 2020
Tubulis GmbH researches, designs, and develops protein-drug conjugates by combining proprietary novel technologies with disease-specific biology. The company develops transformative antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which helps to identify novel protein-drug combinations for therapeutic application. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Wiferion

Seed Round in 2017
Wiferion develops and provides energy systems intended for mobile robotics applications. Wiferion's innovative etaLINK technology brings contactless, inductive, wireless charging to the next level with efficiencies. The company makes innovations in several key areas of the system based on the principle of magnetic induction. Algorithms and an integrated communication link to the battery management system guarantees a gentle fast-charging process for the battery. Wiferion is able to meet customer needs in a time-efficient and cost-effective manner using a modular approach. By working with manufacturers of battery cells, it allows for long-term, high-quality, and consistent availability. Wiferion was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.

Lindis Blood Care

Venture Round in 2022
Lindis Blood Care´s mission is to optimise the outcome of cancer surgeries by developing a Medical Device to remove cancer cells from blood during cancer surgeries to enable Autologous Blood Transfusion.

Chargepartner GmbH

Seed Round in 2014
Chargepartner provides a SaaS platform technology that enables customers to operate their own electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

LINDIS Biotech GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
LINDIS Biotech GmbH develops medical device for operation of tumours of cancer from blood. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Make.TV

Venture Round in 2010
make.tv, inc. develops live video cloud platform for publishers and video creators. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington. make.tv, inc. operates as a former subsidiary of SMT - Streaming Media Technologies GmbH. As per the transaction announced on September 9, 2019, make.tv, inc. operates as a subsidiary of LTN Global Communications, Inc.

Nordantech

Venture Round in 2018
Nordantech Solutions GmbH develops online project management software. It provides Falcon, a project management software that plans and tracks the activities and financial effects of users initiatives, as well as automatically merges everything into the overall project. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Threedy

Seed Round in 2020
Threedy is a provider of an instant3Dhub platform. Threedy provides a platform for high-performance visual computing, which enables data sets of any size to be used across all application and device classes, directly connected with business data and sensors for a variety of applications.

Remind.me

Seed Round in 2018
remind me GmbH owns and operates an online portal that offers reminder and optimization services for contracts and insurances. The company's platform enables users to add their contractual information, optimize contracts, and set reminders before the expiry of contracts. It also provides online deals regarding products and services. The company serves individuals and business enterprises. remind me GmbH was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of May 5, 2020, remind me GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Versorgungsservice Taunus UG (haftungsbeschränkt).

immersight

Seed Round in 2014
immersight® develops and sells point-of-sale solutions. The most known product are the Room Glasses®, which enable the user to totally immerge in virtual spaces thus creating an almost real experience. Based on this, immersight markets the 3D-Showroom platform – a software solution for virtual exhibitions

Teambeat

Seed Round in 2014
Teambeat is browser-based online software that enables employers and employees to create, publish, and accept applications for vacation and shift plans. Companies can attain more sales, efficient workforce planning, clear vacation planning, platform independence, and more. Teambeat is based in Hamburg, Germany.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2019
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH develops quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Crocus Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Crocus Labs is developing smart LED technology for horticulture.

C2Call GmbH

Seed Round in 2009
C2Call GmbH develops video chat application in Java for desktop browser and native mobile applications for iOS and Android. The company’s product, FriendCaller, an iPhone applications enable users to start a Web phone and establish a peer-to-peer connection through various Internet browsers without prerequisite installations. It also offers FriendCaller for Android that allows users to make free video and voice calls. In addition, the company offers C2Call SDK, a technology used by the developers to integrate features such as FriendCaller in their existing or new application on mobile. The company offers its technology to session initiation protocol (SIP) providers and online communities. C2Call GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Werl, Germany.

kimeta

Seed Round in 2015
kimeta offers a search engine that enables job seekers to search and find local job opportunities. kimeta offers an application that provides its services. It enables its customers to save job applications and obtain notifications on job openings. kimeta is founded by Erik Spickschen in 2005. It is based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Volterion

Series A in 2017
Volterion GmbH manufactures and sells compact size redox flow batteries for private homes for the storage of renewable energies. The company offers redox flow stacks, redox flow modules, and redox flow systems. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

Givve

Series A in 2014
givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. Age pyramid, shortage of skilled workers, fluctuation – the labour market situation is facing various challenges. In this development, the position of the employee has changed: In the future it will be the employee who can choose their employer, and not the other way around. The attractiveness of a company decides on its success on the market – and becomes the decisive advantage in the competition with other companies. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.

United Prototype

Seed Round in 2010
United prototype is a team of developers, designers, and creative thinkers who strive to simplify, reduce and be pragmatic with projects.