Highline receives money from High-Tech Gründerfonds

With its industrial printers, the Fraunhofer spin-off wants to make the production of solar cells more efficient, among other things. With the fresh capital, the start-up wants to launch a field test this year.

Freiburg-based tech start-up Highline is receiving a total of 1.2 million euros from prominent backers. Half of the money comes from the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and half from the Fraunhofer Technologie Transferfonds (FTT).

Highline develops high-precision industrial printers that are currently used in solar cell production, for example. The Freiburg-based company's product can be used to metallize surfaces in a single pass, i.e. in the case of solar cells, to coat them with silver.

"Based on this round of financing and together with our industrial partners, we will be able to introduce the technology to the photovoltaic market via a field test in 2021," says Highline co-founder and managing director Marian Breitenbücher.

Highline is a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. The company started operations in early 2020 and currently has 13 employees. "From my point of view, the technical level already achieved and the strengths of the team form a

excellent basis for a successful and sustainable market launch," said Olaf Joeressen, investment manager at HTGF, on the occasion of the funding.