Our Start-up Projects
Start-up Projects 2019-2020 (selection)
| Startup | Idea | Industry |
| Reflora Skin | Reflora Skin develops a microbiome product for complementary self-medication of atopic dermatitis (AD). The fermentation process uses bacterial strains that, when taken internally and applied topically, have shown a positive effect on AD in human studies. | Pharma |
| Carmino | Carmino's mobile application uses smartphone sensor data to detect traffic accidents. An emergency call is then sent automatically to minimize health and economic consequences. | KI, Software |
| Laori Drinks | Using an innovative manufacturing process, the team is able to produce gin from natural distillates and extracts and without alcohol. | Foods |
| VlyFoods | VlyFoods use a new combination of raw materials and an innovative production process to develop the first plant-based milk alternative that meets consumers' nutritional demands (high protein, low sugar and fat) while being sensory and attractively priced. | food industry |
| koppla | koppla plans to develop a digital platform that will for the first time link construction site and office, projects and customers across the entire process chain. | Software, food industry |
| Typeshift | Software development for "Interactive Content" | Software, App |
| Unfold | Transparency in food production and marketing. Better tracking of supply chains | Software, App |
| Imperceptron | KI-based error analysis in hospital billing system. Imperceptron thus simplifies billing in hospitals | Software, Digital Health |
| 2GuyGames | 2GuyGames analyzes game source codes for potential errors. The software is a help tool for game developers. | Software, App |
| HyperSpecs | HyperSpecs is an intelligent spectral camera product that can detect and display anomalies in a scene or objects that are invisible to the human eye. | Hard- & Software Application |
| Skin-Care-Revolution | With about 66,000 standardized articles, the skin care market offers a supposed variety of products for any application. Skin-Care has made it our mission to digitalize and individualize the skin care market | Care, Beauty |
| Letos | Letos uses AI to capture real and spontaneous reactions on the road. The software-based analysis tool leads to improved driver safety in the context of autonomous driving. | KI, Software |
| AnitTech (ATB) | AnitTech developed a novel measurement device that automatically and continuously measures stress indicators such as respiration rate in dairy cows. The sensor measures the intranasal pressure difference during inhalation and exhalation. The device holds enormous potential for farmers in monitoring the health of their animals. | Agritechnology |
| Humangold | Improving working conditions for employees through an innovative online-based process. Humangold also offers consulting-related services for companies, relying on scientific expertise from the field of psychology. | Software, App |
Start-up Projects 2017-2018 (selection)
| Datalert | Business Intelligence solution that serves as a "Virtual Data Assistant" for non-technical people in particular. In doing so, Datalert empowers users in collaboration tools such as Slack to get more out of company data, to work more independently and thus promotes a data-driven culture in companies. | Software |
| FÜNSTER | Game app for children and young people who learn to rediscover their surroundings with "augmented reality" and their smartphones. | App, Software |
| TeneTRIO | Insect food as an alternative diet to the classic meat option for pets. | Food industry |
| VisionU | System service in the areas of career orientation and recruiting young talent in the training sector in the form of an online platform. | Software |
Start-up Projects 2015-2016 (selection)
| DentOS | DentOS develops and distributes software-based solution for automating cost planning. The software simplifies the handling of treatment and cost plans in the dental market. | Software |
| Diamond Inventics | Testing method for testing water quality for germ contamination in a check-card format. This eliminates the need for time-consuming laboratory analysis and the need to block hot water systems for days at a time, which, especially in large properties, normally leads to considerable restrictions (e.g. showering and drinking bans for water that has not been boiled) for residents. | Medicine |
| Flutaro | Software for cross-company route optimization using a networked algorithm for small and medium-sized transport companies. | Software, Logistics |
| LIA | Language-enabled, knowledge-based artificial intelligence for customer service in e-commerce. The LIA-Learning Intelligent Agent project combines speech-processing components and learning algorithms. | Software, AI |
| Mastermind | Mastermind is a developer platform that can extract arbitrary information from various sources. To use dynamic information in an application, a developer only needs to create a Mastermind endpoint and can do without a separate server structure. | Software, Databases |
| Synfioo | Synfioo provides intermodal 360° transport monitoring through real-time analysis of multiple information sources for the logistics industry and acts as an intelligent early warning system for disruptions. | Logistics |
| Thesispoint | Thesispoint is a provider for a supra-regional placement of students to companies through theses. | Service |
| AMPARO | Innovative socket for standard prostheses that can bring about a significant cost reduction per patient. Simpler manufacturing process saves lab time and gives more people access to a prosthetic leg. | Medicine |
| Beroceutika | While developing a drug has become more difficult, BEROCEUTICA's vision is to overcome the gap of missing therapies by targeting multiple compounds based on network analysis. This will enable a tailored drug therapy based on the genetic profile. | Medicine |
| LanaLABS | LanaLABS provides process analysts with a software application that allows them to perform an automated target-performance comparison between existing process models and execution data from supporting IT systems. Individual processes or entire process chains can be viewed and analyzed. | Software |
| PerfAccT | Fully automated software acceleration of MATLAB-compatible applications. Thanks to this innovation, time-consuming manual programming processes can be avoided in the future. Advanced IT knowledge of the users is not required. | Software |
| printLab3D | Powerful 3D printing. printLab3D enables SMEs to turn almost any idea into an individual high-quality 3D design without any manual skills or prior technical knowledge. | Service |
| vivitag | mosaik" offers a platform where interactive photos with people and products can be created and shared. This makes it possible to search for products in the photos, to rate and comment on them in the photos, and to make purchases directly. | Software, App |
Start-up Projects 2013-2014 (selection)
| abdero | Broker mechanism for B2B marketplaces that enables the search for the cheapest supplier on the Internet. | Internet platform |
| einFach | Development of pick-up and drop-off stations to make services such as a shopping or cleaning delivery service better and more customer-friendly. | service |
| InteNsA | InteNsA (Intelligent nanocontainers for self-healing anti-corrosion coatings) pursues the goal of market-oriented development of micro- and nanocontainers for novel particularly sustainable anti-corrosion coatings. | Nanotechnology |
| weCycle | The goal of weCycle is to raise awareness about the positive effects of cycling on people and the environment and thus to increase the use of bicycles as a means of transport by tracking a smartphone application. In addition, a bonus program with public transport companies creates incentives to exchange the car for the bicycle for everyday journeys. | App, Software |
| Ackerdemia GmbH | educational service ("GemüseAckerdemie"), which enables students to produce and market vegetables under pedagogical and professional guidance. The GemüseAckerdemie can be individually integrated into the curriculum of schools. | Educational Service |
| Asaphus | The Face Recognition Software Development Toolkit features great robustness to image quality, illumination and orientation of faces, high efficiency and low resource consumption. | Software |
| ConnectionInfo | With ConnectingInfos software, users can keep an overall view of many information and recognize important information. ConnectingInfos presents the codified project knowledge as a network of information and highlights relevant data. | Software |
| Dropnostik | Health sensors for dairy cows. Through targeted observations of the animals, milk yield is kept at a constantly high level and the herd is kept healthy. | Agricultural Technology |
| SynFlex | Process innovation for the production of peptides. SynFlex opens up more efficient production of peptide chips (PepFlex products) with the help of a novel chemical process. | Chemical Industry |
| Syntody | Syntody is a collaborative online tool for knowledge-intensive work in science and industry with which information can be collected, structured, formed into something new (synthesis) and presented in a seamless and intuitive way. | Software |
Start-up Projects 2011-2012 (selection)
| Goalio | Goalio is the first software solution for sports clubs that integrates all relevant processes from membership management and accounting to the handling of match operations in a single software. | App, Software |
| INNERVision | The core idea of INNERVision is to significantly reduce the cost of creating high-quality 3D models on the computer. The improvement lies both in minimizing the time for data creation and in optimizing data processing. To this end, a fully automated process for generating 3D models from digital 2D images is to be developed and made available on the Internet. | Software |
| youcha | Software-based consumption feedback to reduce electricity consumption. Private households and small businesses that use the IS system to reduce their electricity consumption, as well as household appliance manufacturers and smart metering service providers that offer the system to their customers as a service for fine-grained measurements, or market their economical household appliances as comparison devices within the analysis software of the IS system, are the target groups of this project. | |
| BioWink | BioWink has the vision to show all women worldwide via their smartphone whether they are fertile on any given day in order to become pregnant or to avoid this naturally. To this end, BioWink is developing an app for smartphones and two mobile health devices with special sensors. | App, Software |
| Breed@KE | Breed@KE, a data management system for plant data, was developed and tested as part of the GABI (Genome Analysis in the Plant Biological System) funding programs. The prototype now available is to be further developed into a marketable product and will support the exchange of data between research and industry, which is becoming increasingly important in modern plant breeding. | Plant Breeding, Database |
| Detrosoft | Document Management (DM) software system with associated IT support. The foundation of this software product is based on an innovative approach that allows novel automatic creation, processing and personalization of templates, text documents and input windows. Using a database of text content, partially standardized text documents can be created and personalized in reduced processing time. | Software |
| expn | experience network (expn) is a SaaSB provider that identifies the right contact person (expert) within an organization for a person with a question (searcher) and moderates the establishment of contact. expn differs from other providers of expert search in the provision of a brokering system: the search algorithm takes into account not only the professional competencies, but also the willingness of potential contact persons to participate. | Software |
| GeneTalk | Web-based expert platform that assists in the anonymous analysis, research and interpretation of genetic data sets. Physicians and researchers can use GeneTalk to initially filter a patient's genetic sequence variants according to various criteria, thereby generating a prioritized list of potential disease-relevant mutations ("candidates." | Digital Health |
| Nigo Charger-Box™ | Intelligent charging and storage system for electric devices and batteries in public spaces, designed as a marketing tool/advertising medium. Not only can you conveniently store things in the Charger-Box™, you can also implement power access in it. Charger-Boxes™ can be found and operated via the Internet. | Sharing Economy |