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+++ #StartupTicker +++ Berlin dental care startup Denttabs is saved +++ Pet tracking growup Tractive has 1.6 million paying subscribers +++ High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF): Gregor Haidl and Nik Raupp become partners +++
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Denttabs
+++ A wonderful rescue story! The insolvent Berlin dental care startup Denttabs, which sells toothpaste tablets online and also in drugstores, has been saved. “I am still deeply touched by all the support I was able to experience and above all I would like to say THANK YOU!” writes founder Axel Kaiser on Linkedin. In November, the company, founded in 2009, slipped into bankruptcy. Kaiser and Co. drew attention to the situation via Linkedin. The loyal customers then generated around 100,000 euros in sales. “And then Mario Bergmann and his non-profit stock corporation came up with the daring idea of joining us! There has probably never been anything like this before: The viversus non-profit stock corporation issues 10,000 shares at a purchase price of 50 euros per share. That makes a total of 500,000 euros, which flow entirely to Denttabs and is available for stabilization and growth. In return, the gAG receives the corresponding shares in Denttabs,” reports Denttabs makers. A beautiful rescue story that shows how important it is to talk about difficult things. (Linkedin, Linkedin) More about Denttabs
Tractive
+++ World class from Austria! The Austrian pet tracking growup Tractive currently has an impressive 1.6 million paying subscribers. “Nevertheless, Tractive is still relatively unknown outside the pet industry. However, that could change soon. Private equity firms and strategic investors are now knocking on the door every week, says Tractive co-founder Florian Gschwandtner,” says the Handelsblatt. Tractive, which operates in the GPS tracking segment for dogs and cats, was founded in 2012 by Michael Hurnaus, Michael Lettner and Michael Tschernuth as well as Florian Gschwandtner and the other creators of the successful fitness company Runtastic. “Manager Magazin” recently reported on a possible billion-dollar sale. (Handelsblatt) More about Tractive
High-tech start-up fund (HTGF)
+++ Strong personnel! Gregor Haidl and Nik Raupp become partners with the early-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The well-known financier would like to “strengthen its investment expertise in strategically central fields” such as IndustrialTech, DeepTech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. Haidl has been working at HTGF since 2017. Raupp has been there since 2021. The billion-dollar HTGF, one of the most active early-stage investors in the country, recently announced its fifth fund. In addition, the billion-dollar state investor DeepTech & Climate Fund (DTCF), which officially launched at the beginning of 2023, is moving under the HTGF umbrella. The future of the busy investor is therefore extremely secure. More about the HTGF
acemate
+++ “Education providers are sitting on large amounts of static content that they have to modernize. This is exactly where we start by automating the transformation of content into interactive learning offerings,” says Antong Yin, founder of the AI learning platform acemate. More about acemate
Startup Radar
+++ It’s time for new startups again! Here are some very fresh companies that everyone should know. Today we introduce these young companies: zalion, wemote, Caidera, FastPal and Hinterland.camp. More on the startup radar
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