The development of new types of plants can be reduced by up to ten years with the reliable diagnostic DNA markers from OakLabs. With its seed investment, High-Tech Gründerfonds enables this young company to further develop its technology and to introduce it into the market.
The OakLabs GmbH receives High-Tech Gründerfonds seed funding for intelligent breeding methods
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Aalto receives €2.3M in EU funding
The European Research Council granted Aalto University’s Academy Professor Olli Ikkala funding in the amount of €2.3 million for research on biomimetic nanomaterials. Ikkala’s group specialises in the self-assembly of macromolecules and how to make use of this process when producing functional materials.
The interests of Ikkala’s group focus on the self-assembled strong and light nanocomposite structures found in nature, such as the nacreous matter underneath seashells and biological fibres resembling silk and nanocellulose. Several strong natural materials are built from both strong parallel elements and softening and viscosifying macromolecules. All sizes of structures form to combine opposite properties: strength and viscosity.
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Tagged Nanomaterials, Nano, Funding
Polyvore Announces $14 Million in Series C Funding
Polyvore, Inc., the web’s largest fashion community site, today announced $14 million in Series C financing, led by DAG Ventures and with participation from new investors Goldman Sachs and Vivi Nevo (NV Investments). Early Polyvore investors Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners also participated in this new funding round.
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Funding, USA
BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
Telephone systems “from the cloud” – BayernLB Capital Partner joins existing investors in investing in nfon AG.
BayernLB Capital Partner is putting its money on virtual telephone systems and has concluded a banner year with its seventh investment in 2011. Founded in 2007, the Munich-based company nfon, which offers telephone systems “from the cloud”, was able to use its impressive growth story to persuade the investment company Bayerische Landesbank to join its existing investors in another financing round. The invested capital is intended to finance continued growth and expand the leading market position of the company
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Tagged High-Tech Gruenderfonds, HTGF, Krautkraemer
High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital invest in technology for improved cataract eye surgery
Eyesight & Vision GmbH, a specialist in intraoperative aberrometry equipment, has successfully completed a first round of financing with High-Tech Gründerfonds and SeedFonds Bayern. This is intended to make the patented Eyesight & Vision technology ready for market introduction.
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Tagged High-Tech Gruenderfonds, HTGF
Smartblue receives seed financing for the intelligent monitoring of photovoltaic systems
“With existing monitoring solutions of photovoltaic systems, you cannot tell whether there was a bad summer or whether the PV system had a defect,“ explains Dr. Philipp Geiger, one of smartblue’s two founders. “We want to change this, because at the end of the day, PV systems have to work perfectly to prevent the investment from losing money. But also because the contribution to the energy transformation has to be maximised.”
Smartblue’s technology detects faults in PV systems in each specific PV module and continuously records their electrical characteristics. This is unique in the market. Only in this way can true fault detection of the PV generator be carried out, which is not possible for most systems as only the inverter is monitored.
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Tagged High-Tech Gruenderfonds, HTGF
CargoGuard: Well equipped for continued growth
€3.1 m growth capital for technology leader in supply chain security
CargoGuard GmbH, based in Munich, reports the conclusion of an extremely successful financing round with four new investors: BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesllschaft, LBBW venture, FBcon and M-Investar. At the same time virtually all of the old shareholders, including High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital are increasing their shareholdings. Overall, the company founded in 2007 will receive approx. €3.1 m of growth capital that will be used to develop new products, expand the organisation and secure its technological lead.
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Tagged High-Tech Gruenderfonds, HTGF
