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Leipzig-based deep-tech company intelligent fluids GmbH has closed a EUR 10m Series B financing round with US sustainability fund WAVE Equity Partners (Boston, USA) as lead investor.

WMS acquires a stake in Homatec Industrietechnik GmbH from Burgstädt as part of an age succession solution. In the course of the transaction, the founder and previous shareholder is leaving the company.

Together with Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS), specialty chemicals group ALTANA has participated in the financing round of SARALON GmbH.

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS), together with adesso ventures, is investing a seven-figure sum in sciendis GmbH from Leipzig.

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) increases its investment in the context of a follow-up financing of we-do.ai GmbH, Leipzig.

The FROMM Group, based in Steinhausen (Switzerland), has sold TEXPLAST GmbH and its stake in PET Recycling Team GmbH to the ALPLA Group, based in Hard (Austria). The ALPLA Group thus becomes one of the largest PET recycling companies in Germany. Following antitrust clearance of the sale, the transaction was completed on April 30, 2022. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

The ALPLA Group is a global leader in the development and production of innovative packaging systems, bottles, closures and injection-molded parts for a wide range of industries and, according to its own figures, employs around 22,100 people in its 177 production plants worldwide and achieved total sales of around EUR 4 billion in 2021.

The FROMM Group develops and produces a wide premium range of equipment, machines and consumables for strapping and wrapping a wide variety of products. According to its own figures, the company employs around 1260 people at its more than 40 locations worldwide and achieved sales of around EUR 320 million in 2021.

GRUENDELPARTNER has been advising the FROMM Group at its location in Bitterfeld-Wolfen for many years, including now on the sale of TEXPLAST and the investment in PET Recycling Team. GRUENDELPARTNER’s Corporate / M&A practise group is one of the most experienced and best staffed advisory units in Central Germany and supports investors and founders in all development stages, in particular regarding business formation, development, and financing as well as during all exit processes.

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TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen, together with Hüttenes hoch drei and Golzern Holding, is investing a seven-figure sum in Packwise GmbH from Dresden as part of a Series A round.

GRUENDELPARTNER advised FIS Informationssysteme und Consulting GmbH (FIS) on the sale of the Polish IT consulting company FIS-SST sp. z o.o. based in Gliwice to Q_PERIOR AG.