Dr. Matthias Kalbus is a venture capital investor at TGFS who combines a PhD in experimental biochemistry and over 10 years of specialized high-tech banking experience before entering venture capital. He focuses on technology-driven startups in the Dresden/Saxony region, particularly backing companies developing specialized industrial process technologies and standardization-driven Industry 4.0 solutions.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
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AI, Biotech, Deeptech / Hardware, Medtech, SaaS
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TGFS is a €124 million public-private partnership fund launched by the State of Saxony that combines EU Structural Funds, state resources, and private capital to serve as Saxony's leading start-up financier for high-tech companies headquartered in the region. The fund operates as both a structural EU instrument demonstrating equity deployment of EU funds and an anchor investor designed to crowd in private capital and business angels into early-stage Saxon tech deals across specific verticals like ICT, medical technology, and environmental technologies.
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