Plasmion–High-Tech Gründerfonds: investment, 201902 financing round totalling almost €1m from HTGF + BayBG + business angel

	Period	2019-02-14
	Money taker	Plasmion GmbH
	Group	Plasmion (Group)
	Money source	High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
	Group	High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) (Group)
	Product	SICRIT® ionisation technology / SICRIT® ion source
	Product 2	venture capital
	Index term	Plasmion–SEVERAL: investment, 201902 financing round almost €1m from HTGF + BayBG + business angel
	Person	Asano, Marie (European Circular Bioeconomy Fund 202111 Princiap before HTGF 201902 Investment Manager)

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH. (2/14/19). "Press Release: Plasmion’ SICRIT Sensor Technology Convinces Investors".

Plasmion has successfully completed an investment round with strong consortium. In addition to the VC partners Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft (BayBG) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), an experienced business angel from the BayStartUP network is also on board. With SICRIT®, Plasmion has developed a novel ionisation technology for mass spectrometry that not only simplifies and improves existing chemical analysis in laboratories, but has industrial applications as a highly sensitive “electronic nose” or online sensor (e.g. for explosives detection).

The Augsburg-based start-up has secured almost one million euros for the further development and marketing of its ionisation technology. The new capital will be used primarily to further expand the area of industrial sensor solutions, but also to strengthen international sales and development in the field of laboratory analysis.

A high-tech leap; innovation Made in Germany

“With the SICRIT technology Plasmion has succeeded in making a real leap forward in innovation. SICRIT enables completely new applications in the fields of chemical analysis, industrial quality control and process control that were previously technically impossible,” says BayBG investment manager Dr. Peter Graf, explaining the commitment of Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft and the other investors.

Dr. Marie Asano, Investment Manager at HTGF adds: “The SICRIT Technology is extremely promising as it offers an innovative, flexible ionization solution in the field of mass spectrometry, which will allow the establishment of a new, standard ionization technique as well as the development of a novel sensor technology for industrial applications.”

Dr. Jan-Christoph Wolf, CEO of Plasmion, is convinced: “Together with our experienced partners, we now want and are able to leverage the full potential behind our technology to enter the industrial market”.

Contact
Plasmion GmbH
Am Mittleren Moos 48
86167 Augsburg
T.: +49 821 20713355
info@plasmion.de
www.plasmion.de

About High-Tech Gründerfonds

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances technology start-ups with growth potential. With a total volume of EUR 892.5 million distributed among three funds and an international partner network, the HTGF has supported more than 500 start-ups since 2005. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts supports the young companies with know-how, entrepreneurial spirit and passion. The focus is on high-tech start-ups in the software, media and Internet industries as well as hardware, automation, healthcare, chemistry and life sciences. To date, external investors have invested more than 2 billion euros in the HTGF portfolio in around 1,400 subsequent financing rounds. In addition, the fund has successfully sold shares in more than 100 companies.

Investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, KfW, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the commercial enterprises ALTANA, BASF, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, B.Braun, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Group, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.

Contact
High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Dr. Marie Asano
Schlegelstraße 2
53113 Bonn
T.: +49 228 823 00 163
m.asano@htgf.de
www.htgf.de