Germany-based chemicals company Evonik Industries has invested €2.5m ($3m) in local seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds’ (HTGF) second fund.
HTGF now has 13 corporate venturing units as limited partners in its funds, having closed its second fund at €291m last year.
Besides Evonik, the other corporate investors are: Altana, BASF, B. Braun, Robert Bosch, CEWE Color, Daimler, Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom, Qiagen, RWE Innogy, Tengelmann and Carl Zeiss.
Alexander von Frankenberg, managing director of HTGF, said: "There is more to…