Landshut\/ Nurem\u00adberg \u2014 Bayern Kapi\u00adtal, one of the most expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced and active inves\u00adtors in the German high-tech finan\u00adcing land\u00adscape, and the seed fund BORN2GROW, which specia\u00adli\u00adzes in high-growth start-ups in pionee\u00adring tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, are jointly inves\u00adt\u00ading in trap\u00adlin\u00adked. The Nurem\u00adberg-based start-up deve\u00adlops perma\u00adnent moni\u00adto\u00adring systems and networked traps for the control and moni\u00adto\u00adring of rats, mice, insects and other pests. Seve\u00adral busi\u00adness angels are also invol\u00adved in the invest\u00adment, which totals EUR 2.3 million.<\/p>\n
trap\u00adlin\u00adked GmbH was foun\u00added in 2019 by Tim Kirch\u00adhof in Nurem\u00adberg and produ\u00adces remo\u00adtely moni\u00adto\u00adred auto\u00adma\u00adtic pest traps as well as accom\u00adpany\u00ading soft\u00adware that covers all the office work of a pest control\u00adler, from infe\u00adsta\u00adtion and treat\u00adment docu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion to deploy\u00adment route plan\u00adning and moni\u00adto\u00adring to invoi\u00adcing. The idea for the start-up matu\u00adred while the foun\u00adder was a student trai\u00adnee at a pest control company. Here Kirch\u00adhof reco\u00adgni\u00adzed the enorm\u00adous poten\u00adtial for auto\u00adma\u00adting work proces\u00adses, which lay parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly in the daily mono\u00adto\u00adnous work with trap boxes in which no catches were recorded.<\/p>\n
With the combi\u00adna\u00adtion of wire\u00adless commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion and sensor tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, trap\u00adlin\u00adked has since contri\u00adbu\u00adted signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly to the digi\u00adtiza\u00adtion of the pest control indus\u00adtry. The JERRY and TOM smart sensor modu\u00adles moni\u00adtor and docu\u00adment the condi\u00adtion of trap boxes with real-time noti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons across multi\u00adple sites, making impact traps a time- and cost-effec\u00adtive control method for pests of all kinds. This can signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly reduce food loss, the spread of dise\u00adase, and the use of contro\u00adver\u00adsial poison baits ridd\u00adled with draw\u00adbacks and risks.<\/p>\n
So far, trap\u00adlin\u00adked has sold more than 55,000 sensor modu\u00adles across Europe. The new finan\u00adcial resour\u00adces will be used to drive forward the inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adliza\u00adtion stra\u00adtegy and to expand the hard\u00adware \u2014 parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly in the areas of connec\u00adti\u00advity and arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence for auto\u00adma\u00adtic data analy\u00adsis. Another focus is on mone\u00adtiz\u00ading the in-house trap\u00adlin\u00adked software.<\/p>\n
Daniel Peli\u00adkan, CEO of trap\u00adlin\u00adked<\/strong>, comm\u00adents: \u201cThe hard\u00adware was our market entry. We have imple\u00admen\u00adted this very successfully. With the fresh capi\u00adtal, we now put the focus on soft\u00adware. Our goal is to gene\u00adrate around 1,000,000 ARR by 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n Manuel B\u00f6hrin\u00adger <\/strong>(Photo \u00a9 Manuel B\u00f6hrin\u00adger), invest\u00adment mana\u00adger of BORN2GROW<\/strong> adds: \u201cThe market poten\u00adtial in pest control is huge. We are convin\u00adced to revo\u00adlu\u00adtio\u00adnize the market for digi\u00adtal pest control toge\u00adther with the strong foun\u00adding team of traplinked.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLimi\u00adting pest effects is beco\u00adming incre\u00adasingly important and at the same time more diffi\u00adcult in the context of global warm\u00ading,\u201d comm\u00adents Monika Steger, mana\u00adging direc\u00adtor of Bayern Kapi\u00adtal<\/strong>. \u201cBy elimi\u00adna\u00adting poison bait and other toxics, trap\u00adlin\u00adked is taking a sustainable approach to working at the cutting edge here, which is why we\u2019re happy to support the company with our investment.\u201d<\/p>\n About trap\u00adlin\u00adked Gmbh About BORN2GROW About Bayern Kapital Bayern Kapi\u00adtal mana\u00adges specia\u00adli\u00adzed invest\u00adment funds with a volume of around 700 million euros. Since its foun\u00adda\u00adtion in 1995 on the initia\u00adtive of the state govern\u00adment, the wholly owned subsi\u00addiary of LfA F\u00f6rder\u00adbank Bayern has so far inves\u00adted around 400 million euros of its own equity capi\u00adtal in around 300 start-ups and scale-ups in sectors such as life scien\u00adces, soft\u00adware & IT, mate\u00adri\u00adals & new mate\u00adri\u00adals, nano\u00adtech\u00adno\u00adlogy and envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal tech\u00adno\u00adlogy. As a result, more than 8,000 jobs have been perma\u00adnently crea\u00adted in Bava\u00adria in sustainable compa\u00adnies. The active port\u00adfo\u00adlio curr\u00adently compri\u00adses over 80 companies.<\/p>\n Examp\u00adles of nume\u00adrous ground\u00adbrea\u00adking success stories that Bayern Kapi\u00adtal has been invol\u00adved in early on include EOS (today the worl\u00add\u2019s leading tech\u00adno\u00adlogy provi\u00adder in indus\u00adtrial 3D prin\u00adting of metals and plas\u00adtics), Proglove, Fazua, SimS\u00adcale, Scom\u00adpler, egym, Parcel\u00adlab, Cobrai\u00adner, Quan\u00adtum Systems, Casavi, Theva, Riskme\u00adthods, Tubu\u00adlis, Cata\u00adlym, Immu\u00adnic, Sirion and many more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Landshut\/ Nurem\u00adberg \u2014 Bayern Kapi\u00adtal, one of the most expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced and active inves\u00adtors in the German high-tech finan\u00adcing land\u00adscape, and the seed fund BORN2GROW, which specia\u00adli\u00adzes in high-growth start-ups in pionee\u00adring tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, are jointly inves\u00adt\u00ading in trap\u00adlin\u00adked. The Nure\u00adm\u00ad\u00adberg-based start-up deve\u00adlops perma\u00adnent moni\u00adto\u00adring systems and networked traps for the control and moni\u00adto\u00adring of rats, mice, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1366,1369,1373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-news-en","category-investors","category-venture-capital-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\ntrap\u00adlin\u00adked deve\u00adlops digi\u00adtal solu\u00adti\u00adons for pest control. Networked beat traps and the trap\u00adlin\u00adked app save pest control opera\u00adtors time and enable them to provide outstan\u00adding service to their custo\u00admers in all indus\u00adtries. The goal: to make stri\u00adker traps a time- and cost-effi\u00adci\u00adent control method. Curr\u00adently, the use of traps is asso\u00adcia\u00adted with high person\u00adnel costs, as they must be checked daily. This is where trap\u00adlin\u00adke\u00add\u2019s digi\u00adtal solu\u00adtion comes in: A combi\u00adna\u00adtion of wire\u00adless commu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion and sensor tech\u00adno\u00adlogy moni\u00adtors and docu\u00adments pest infe\u00adsta\u00adti\u00adons, even across multi\u00adple loca\u00adti\u00adons. www.traplinked.com<\/p>\n
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\nBORN2GROW (B2G) is a Heil\u00adbronn-based and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally active seed fund that focu\u00adses on invest\u00adments in high-growth start\u00adups in forward-looking tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies such as Life Scien\u00adces, Clean\u00adTech, Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence & Machine Lear\u00adning, IoT, Hard\u00adware & Robo\u00adtics, and Soft\u00adware. B2G was foun\u00added in 2013 and supports its port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies with capi\u00adtal, know-how and its exten\u00adsive network. Since its incep\u00adtion, the fund has actively supported more than 25 port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies. B2G works toge\u00adther with other VC funds and busi\u00adness angels. B2G is a subsi\u00addiary of ZFHN Zukunfts\u00adfonds Heil\u00adbronn, a family office that focu\u00adses on networ\u00adking acti\u00advi\u00adties and invest\u00adments in the Heil\u00adbronn-Fran\u00adken region. In this context, the coope\u00adra\u00adtion between natio\u00adnal and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal start-ups and medium-sized compa\u00adnies from the region is inten\u00adsi\u00adfied. www.born2grow.de<\/p>\n
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\nBayern Kapi\u00adtal GmbH, based in Lands\u00adhut, is the venture\/growth capi\u00adtal company of the Free State of Bava\u00adria. It accom\u00adpa\u00adnies inno\u00adva\u00adtive high-tech compa\u00adnies in the Free State through various growth phases, from seed to later stage, with equity capi\u00adtal in the amount of 0.25 to 25 million euros. Bayern Kapi\u00adtal often fills gaps in the VC sector in proven consor\u00adtium constel\u00adla\u00adti\u00adons with private inves\u00adtors (busi\u00adness angels, family offices and corpo\u00adrate ventures).<\/p>\n
\nwww.bayernkapital.de<\/p>\n