{"id":5096,"date":"2019-09-10T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/v4\/2020\/10\/08\/successful-financing-for-thueringen-technology-start-up-ifesca\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:53:30","slug":"successful-financing-for-thueringen-technology-start-up-ifesca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2019-en\/successful-financing-for-thueringen-technology-start-up-ifesca\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful financing for Th\u00fcringen Technology Start-up ifesca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One year ago ifesca closed its series A round with 2.5 Mio. Euro. Now, the fast-grow\u00ading com\u00adpany suc\u00adcess\u00adfully com\u00adpleted a first clos\u00ading of its series B round with a 2.0 Mio Euro financ\u00ading. The cap\u00adi\u00adtal will sup\u00adport the company\u00b4s fur\u00adther growth includ\u00ading geo\u00adgraphic expan\u00adsion out\u00adside of the DACH region, where the com\u00adpany has so far been focused.<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8849\" style=\"width: 980px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8849 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/v4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"980\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-848x566.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ifesca-NEU.jpg 1321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ifesca founders: Clemens Kie\u00dfhauer, Andreas Reuter, and Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Ritter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ifesca\u00b4s AI-based plat\u00adform AIVA offers intel\u00adli\u00adgent cloud ser\u00advices for indus\u00adtrial and energy com\u00adpa\u00adnies aim\u00ading to bet\u00adter pre\u00addict their energy needs. The core of the sys\u00adtem is a pre\u00addic\u00adtion sys\u00adtem that allows a near real-time auto\u00admated fore\u00adcast of elec\u00adtric\u00adity, gas, heat, and water demand. These fore\u00adcasts allow indus\u00adtrial and energy com\u00adpa\u00adnies to opti\u00admize their pur\u00adchases and pro\u00adduc\u00adtion of these resources. A closer match\u00ading of pur\u00adchas\u00ading and pro\u00adduc\u00adtion with demand equates to sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant sav\u00adings for ifesca customers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>bm|t, beteili\u00adgungs\u00adman\u00adage\u00adment th\u00fcrin\u00adgen, led the round with its growth cap\u00adi\u00adtal fund. Along with bm|t, sev\u00aderal promi\u00adnent busi\u00adness angels invested in the round, includ\u00ading Peter Worsch and Kai Romberg.<\/p>\n<p>Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Rit\u00adter, Andreas, Reuter and Clemens Kie\u00dfhauer founded ifesca GmbH in 2016&nbsp;in Ilme\u00adnau, Th\u00fcringen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ifesca is an IoT com\u00adpany and focuses on dig\u00adi\u00adtal ser\u00advices for the energy indus\u00adtry with its ifesca.AIVA platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}