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THELKIN AG

THELKIN was founded in June 2010 to develop and market advanced mechanical testing equipment that is solely based on servo-electric actuators. After six ...

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Chemistry

Innosyn B.V.

InnoSyn offers a team of passionate & experienced problem solvers, applying innovative and cost-efficient technologies such as flow chemistry, bio- and ...

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Chemical Engineering

MAGMENT UG

Magnetizable concretes: Innovative concrete material created from cement and recycled magnetic particles that enhances the transfer of energy with high ...

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Biotechnology

OakLabs GmbH

OakLabs GmbH is a privately held company founded in 2011 to deliver most advanced R&D solutions by the combination of highly efficient detection methods ...

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my-lab International GmbH

my-lab International was founded by us in September 2015, Monika Dust and Dr. med. Jürgen Lipinski, founded. We are both state-certified food chemists and ...

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Chemical Engineering

turbonik GmbH

The new micro steam turbine for your own power generation gets more out of your steam! Steam contains a lot of energy. This can now also be used optimally ...

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Chemistry

nanofluor GmbH

nanofluor is a spin-off founded in 2010 in cooperation with Humboldt-Innovation Ltd. nanofluor has the necessary know-how – based on a number of patents – ...

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Production technology

AOM-Systems GmbH

Innovative Sensor and measurement systems for the spray characterization are our mission. Therefore we developed a new approach for the droplet and ...

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Chemistry

Li.plus GmbH

Its core competence, Li.plus GmbH, founded in October 2016, is the economic exploitation of a rapid battery test procedure developed in the context of ...

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Chemistry

akvola Technologies GmbH

The only way to achieve a sustainable freshwater supply in the long-run is by making wastewater reuse affordable — a complex process that requires ...

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Chemistry

Volterion GmbH

volterion GmbH was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT, Oberhausen. The company produces and sells compact-size redox flow ...

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Environmental Technology

Arva Greentech AG

Arva Greentech provides procedures and products for the fast and eco-friendly degradation of hydrocarbons in contaminated soils, sludges, track beds and on ...

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Analytics

Ionplus AG

Members of the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) at ETH Zürich founded the Ionplus AG as a spin-off company in order to offer new instrumentation ...

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EQuota Energy Technology (Shanghai) Ltd

EQuota Energy is committed to providing users with the world’s leading smart energy management solutions. As an AI and big data-driven energy technology ...

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Environmental Technology

Black Bear Carbon BV

Netherlands-based Black Bear Carbon BV, founded in 2010, has developed a unique, CO2negative process for producing the world’s first Cradle-to-Cradle ...

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Analytics

HyperChrom SA

Analysis in seconds: accelerate traditional GC to hyper-fast GC with HyperChrom. This hyper-fast GC is based on a fundamentally new design. 
It is the ...

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Bioanalytics

Plasmion GmbH

The only "chemoselective" sense of human kind is the sense of smell. Through this sense we are able to perceive taste, aroma, and hazardous substances, ...

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Lab Technology

Optotune AG

Optotune develops and manufactures industry shaping active optical components that allow customers around the globe to innovate. Founded in 2008, we ...

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Lab Technology

ScienceDesk GmbH

ScienceDesk is an innovative platform for scientists and engineers to interact with, collaborate on and obtain insights into their experimental data.

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Chemical Engineering

SFTec Oy

Many materials are left unused because processing them while wet is not possible, drying them is not profitable or the material cannot be handled with ...

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Start-up News

21. May 2019

5 start-ups receive the Paint the Future Award

Three exciting days of face-to-face collaboration with AkzoNobel experts have opened doors for international startups to "paint the future" with their innovations. Concluding the industry-first challenge, five startups were rewarded with Paint ...

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14. May 2019

The journey from BASF-employee to a founder

What do modular construction, coworking and polymeres have in common? They are all part of BASF! To be precise, part of Chemovator GmbH. Chemowhat? The internal incubator of BASF turns unconventional ideas which  carry usually high risks and lie ...

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09. May 2019

LANXESS to deploy artificial intelligence in product dev ...

LANXESS is set to break new ground when it comes to the development of customer-specific high-performance plastics. By deploying artificial intelligence (AI), the specialty chemicals company is looking to drastically cut the amount of time it ...

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24. Apr 2019

Nouryon announces 2019 Imagine Chemistry finalists

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has announced the 13 finalists for the 2019 edition of its Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge. Imagine Chemistry was launched to tackle chemistry-related challenges and uncover ...

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18. Apr 2019

BASF invests in quantum computing startup

BASF Venture Capital is joining a group of prominent investors in the Series A investment round of Zapata Computing, Inc. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zapata is developing both a powerful software platform as well as specific ...

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18. Apr 2019

Daimler Teams Up with Sila Nanotechnologies on Next Gene ...

Daimler AG has acquired a minority equity stake in U.S. battery material specialist Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. (Sila Nano) as part of its research and development activities. Founded in 2011, Sila Nano is a leading developer of new battery ...

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17. Apr 2019

Breaking ground for the Innovation Centre on the DESY Campus

The mayor of Hamburg, Dr. Peter Tschentscher, symbolically broke the ground together with his deputy, the Senator for Science Katharina Fegebank, the Chairman of DESY’s Board of Directors, Dr. Helmut Dosch, the President of the University of ...

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01. Apr 2019

Oculyze receives investment boost

Oculyze announced that it had secured a seven figure investment from Constantia New Business (CNB) GmbH headquartered in Vienna, Austria. CNB is a venture capital investor working with high-tech startups inspired by the idea of creating ...

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25. Mar 2019

Imagine Chemistry 2019 generates 162 ideas from 30 countries

There has been another tremendous response to the Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge of Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals). More than 160 innovative ideas from 30 countries were submitted by startups, scale-ups, ...

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22. Mar 2019

Intelligent material improves aerodynamics in cars and a ...

In order to save energy, aerodynamics is important for cars and aircraft. However, technologies controlling saving of energy are only designed for one speed range. Researchers at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern have developed a more ...

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21. Mar 2019

Public-sector research boosts cleantech start-ups

Cleantech start-ups in the USA that cooperate with government research agencies outperform their competitors both in terms of patents and funding. That is the conclusion of a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of ...

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20. Mar 2019

Start Up Energy Transition Award 2019: Finalists nominated

15 start-ups from Europe, Australia, China, Thailand, Uganda and the USA have made it to the final of the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award 2019. Whether it be autonomous electric trucks, organic solar cells or energy data management with ...

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18. Mar 2019

Lightweight metal foams become bone hard and explosion p ...

Strong enough not only for use in impact protection systems in cars, but able to absorb the shock waves produced by a detonation. Those are just some of the properties shown by the metallic foams developed by materials scientists Stefan Diebels ...

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13. Mar 2019

Dräger increases stake in Hamburg-based start-up bentekk ...

The Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA increased its stake in bentekk GmbH to 75% in October 2018, and to 100% in February 2019. The purchase was linked to milestones already agreed upon during the first acquisition of a 51% stake in March 2017. The ›X ...

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04. Mar 2019

AR for industry 4.0

The Fraunhofer-Gründerpreis 2018, worth 5000 euros, was awarded to Visometry GmbH, a spinoff from the Fraunhofer Institute for Graphic Data Processing (IGD). The Visometry team convinced the jury consisting of members from the Fraunhofer- ...

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01. Mar 2019

Bosch increases investment in startups

Investments in startups are on the rise. In 2017, institutional investors and companies invested 147 billion euros in these enterprises – nearly three times as much as in 2012. Bosch, too, is increasing its investment in external startups, ...

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27. Feb 2019

3rd European Chemistry Partnering: Over 100 Pitches from ...

Six times as many decision-makers attended the 3rd European Chemistry Partnering - compared to the initial event two years ago: with participants from Brazil, Morocco and Australia, all six continents were represented for the first time. More ...

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26. Feb 2019

For Start-ups and Founders: Inauguration of DESY Innovat ...

“I Love Innovation” was the fitting motto with which the DESY Innovation Village was officially inaugurated on Valentine’s Day, in the presence of DESY’s Board of Directors and representatives of the federal and local Hamburg governments. It ...

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25. Feb 2019

Non-polluting membrane for outerwear

As part of his master’s project, the chemical engineer Mario Stucki developed a breathable, environmentally friendly membrane for rain jackets. With his colleague Anna Beltzung, he has since founded the spin-off Dimpora to market the membrane ...

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21. Feb 2019

BASF’s investment into Alchemist Accelerator

BASF Venture Capital is investing $2 million into Alchemist Accelerator’s fund, allocating at least half towards investments in 3D printing, agtech, material informatics, nutrition, and technology game-changers. This investment supports BASF’s ...

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Start-up Events

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Jun
 2019
NOAH19 Berlin

NOAH19 Berlin

A unique discussion platform for CEOs and founders from established champions and disruptive challengers Key Facts - 4,000 attendees – executives, ...

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Sep
 2019
Bits & Pretzels 2019

Bits & Pretzels 2019

Bits & Pretzels is an application-only, three-day festival that connects 5,000 founders, investors, startup enthusiasts, and all other decision-makers of ...

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30.
Oct
 2019
Startup Summit 2019

Startup Summit 2019

Recognised over the last eight years as one of the UK’s leading events for entrepreneurship, Startup Summit provides a true immersion into the world of ...

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SwissLitho AG

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Biospec GmbH

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Thorsten Seipp

Volterion GmbH

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