Friedemann Stier is an Investment Director at TGFS with over two decades of venture experience who combines an unusual real estate background with deep technical expertise across semiconductors, medtech, and hardware sectors that align with Saxony's Silicon Saxony strengths. He deliberately uses TGFS investments as signals to help traditional industries trust startups as reliable partners, while focusing on complex hardware and connectivity businesses that many software-focused VCs avoid.
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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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