Dear Companists,
The renowned High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF; high-tech start-up fund) was one of the first investors of EBS, and we would now like to provide you with some details on this fund.
The High-Tech Gründerfonds is the largest and most active early-stage investor in Germany, and it invests in innovative technology start-ups headquartered in Germany. The fund provides these start-ups with the necessary seed capital and helps founders make the right decisions in company development by suggesting strategies and providing impetus.
The High-Tech Gründerfonds was founded in 2005 on the initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). In addition to the BMWi and the KfW (a German public-sector development bank), major companies such as BASF, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Daimler, Robert Bosch, and Carl Zeiss are shareholders of the fund.
The public-private partnership fund has a volume of €576m and invests in the promising future industries of "automation & electronics," "clean tech," "information and communication technology," "life sciences," and in chemical, physical, and optical technologies.
EBS is one of the flagship companies of the HTGF, and the company received an award as the fund's flagship project from former German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Rainer Brüderle in 2010.
As early as in 2008, the HTGF added EBS to its portfolio. The decision to choose EBS Technologies for the flagship award from the 220 portfolio companies of the High-Tech Gründerfonds was based on three factors:
Best regards,
The EBS Technologies team
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