Our Startup Projects
Startup projects 2019-2020 (selection)
| Startup | Idea | Sector |
| Reflora Skin | Reflora Skin is developing a microbiome product for complementary self-medication of atopic dermatitis. The fermentation process uses bacterial strains that have been shown to have a positive effect on AD in human studies when taken internally and applied topically. | Pharma |
| Carmino | Carmino's mobile application recognises traffic accidents using sensor data from the smartphone. An emergency call is then made automatically to minimise health and economic consequences. | Software, AI |
| Laori Drinks | Using an innovative production process, the team is able to produce gin from natural distillates and extracts and without alcohol. | Food industry |
| VlyFoods | With the help of a new combination of raw materials and an innovative production process, VlyFoods is developing the first plant-based milk alternative that meets consumers' nutritional requirements (high protein, low sugar and fat) and is also attractive in terms of taste and price. | Food industry |
| koppla | koppla is planning to develop a digital platform on which construction sites and offices, projects and customers will be networked across the entire process chain for the first time. | Software |
| Typeshift | Software development for interactive content | Software, App |
| Unfold | Transparency in food production and marketing. Better tracking of supply chains. | Software, App |
| Imperceptron | AI-based error analysis in the hospital billing system. Imperceptron thus simplifies billing in the hospitals. | Software, Digital Health |
| HyperSpecs | HyperSpecs is an intelligent spectral camera product that can be used to recognise and display anomalies in a scene or objects that are invisible to the human eye. | Hard- and software application |
| Skin-Care-Revolution | With around 66,000 standardised articles, the skincare market offers a supposed variety of products for every application. Skin-Care has set itself the task of digitising and individualising the skincare market. | Care, Beauty |
| Letos | Letos uses AI to record real and spontaneous reactions in road traffic. The software-based analysis tool improves driver safety in the context of autonomous driving. | Software, AI |
| AnitTech (ATB) | AnitTech has developed a new type of measuring device that automatically and continuously measures stress indicators such as respiratory rate in dairy cows. The sensor measures the intranasal pressure difference during inhalation and exhalation. The device harbours enormous potential for farmers to monitor the health of their animals. | Agricultural technology |
| Humangold | Improving working conditions for employees through an innovative online-supported process. Humangold also offers consultancy-related services for companies, relying on scientific expertise from the field of psychology. | Software, App |
Startup projects 2017-2018 (selection)
| Datalert | Business intelligence solution that supports non-technical people in particular as a ‘virtual data assistant’. Datalert enables users in collaboration tools such as Slack to get more out of company data, work more independently and thus promote 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 smartphone. | App, Software |
| TeneTRIO | Insect food as an alternative diet to the classic meat variant for pets. | Food Industry |
| VisionU | System service in the areas of career guidance and recruitment of young talent in the training sector in the form of an online platform. | Software |
Startup projects 2015-2016 (selection)
| DentOS | DentOS develops and distributes software-based solutions for the automation of cost planning. The software simplifies the handling of treatment and cost plans in the dental market. | Software |
| Diamond Inventics | Test procedure for testing water quality for bacterial contamination in cheque card format. This eliminates the need for time-consuming laboratory analyses and blocking the hot water system for days on end, which normally leads to considerable restrictions for residents (e.g. a ban on showering and drinking unboiled water), especially in large properties. | Health |
| Flutaro | Software for cross-company route optimisation using a networked algorithm for small and medium-sized transport companies. | Software, Logistic |
| LIA | Linguistically capable, 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 any information from various sources. To use dynamic information in an application, a developer only needs to create a Mastermind endpoint and can dispense with their own server structure. | Software, Database |
| Synfioo | Synfioo offers intermodal 360° transport monitoring through real-time analysis of a wide range of information sources for the logistics industry and acts as an intelligent early warning system for disruptions. | Logistic |
| Thesispoint | Thesispoint is a provider for the supra-regional placement of students with companies through theses. | Service |
| AMPARO | Innovative socket for standard prostheses that can lead to a significant cost reduction per patient. The simpler manufacturing process saves laboratory time and gives more people access to a leg prosthesis. | Health |
| Beroceutika | While the development of a drug has become more difficult, BEROCEUTICA's vision is to overcome the gap of missing therapies through the targeted combination of several active substances based on network analyses. This enables a customised drug therapy based on the genetic profile. | Health |
| LanaLABS | LanaLABS provides process analysts with a software application that allows them to carry out an automated target/actual comparison between existing process models and execution data from supporting IT systems. Individual processes or entire process chains can be viewed and analysed. | Software |
| PerfAccT | Fully automatic software acceleration of MATLAB-compatible applications. Thanks to this innovation, time-consuming manual programming processes can be avoided in future. Users do not require any further IT knowledge. | Software |
| printLab3D | Powerful 3D printing. printLab3D enables SMEs to turn almost any idea into a customised, high-quality 3D design without the need for manual skills or prior technical knowledge. | Service |
| vivitag | mosaik’ offers a platform on which interactive photos of people and products can be created and shared. This makes it possible to search for products in the photos, rate and comment on them in the photos and make purchases directly. | Software, App |
Startup projects 2013-2014 (selection)
| abdero | Broker mechanism for B2B marketplaces that enables the search for the most favourable provider on the Internet. | B2B Software |
| 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 | nteNsA (intelligent nanocontainers for self-healing anti-corrosion coatings) pursues the goal of market-orientated development of micro- and nanocontainers for innovative, particularly sustainable anti-corrosion coatings. | Nanotechnology |
| weCycle | The aim of weCycle is to raise awareness of the positive effects of cycling on people and the environment and thus sensitise people to the increased use of bicycles as a means of transport by tracking them via a smartphone application. A bonus programme with transport companies also creates incentives to swap the car for the bike for everyday journeys. | App, Software |
| Acker | Educational service (‘GemüseAckerdemie’), which enables pupils to produce and market vegetables under pedagogical and professional guidance. The GemüseAckerdemie can be individually integrated into the school curriculum. | Educational service |
| Asaphus | The Face Recognition Software Development Toolkit is characterised by high robustness in terms of image quality, lighting and orientation of the faces, high efficiency and low resource consumption. | Software |
| ConnectionInfo | With the ConnectingInfos software, users can maintain an overview of a large amount of information and recognise important information. ConnectingInfos presents the codified project knowledge as a network of information and highlights relevant data. | Software |
| Dropnostik | Health sensors for dairy cows. Targeted observation of the animals keeps the milk yield at a consistently high level and the herd healthy. | Agricultural technology |
| SynFlex | Process innovation for the production of peptides. SynFlex uses a novel chemical process to enable more efficient production of peptide chips (PepFlex products). | Chemical industry |
| Syntody | Syntody is a collaborative online tool for knowledge-intensive work in science and business that allows information to be collected, structured, synthesised and presented in a seamless and intuitive way. | Software |
Startup projects 2011-2012 (selection)
| Goalio | Goalio is the first software solution for sports clubs that integrates all relevant processes, from membership management to accounting and match operations, in a single software package. | App, Software |
| INNERVision | The core idea of INNERVision is to significantly reduce the costs of creating high-quality 3D models on the computer. The improvement lies both in minimising the time required for data creation and in optimising 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. The target groups of this project are 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 energy-efficient household appliances as comparative devices within the analysis software of the IS system. | Software |
| BioWink | BioWink's vision is to show all women worldwide via their smartphone whether they are fertile on any given day so that they can become pregnant or avoid it 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 funding programmes (Genome Analysis in the Biological System of Plants). The prototype now available is to be further developed into a marketable product and support the increasingly important exchange of data between research and industry in modern plant breeding. | Plant breeding, database |
| Detrosoft | Document Management (DM) software system with associated IT support. This software product is based on an innovative approach that enables the automatic creation, processing and personalisation of templates, text documents and input windows. Using a database of text content, partially standardised text documents can be created and personalised in a shorter processing time. | Software |
| expn | experience network (expn) is a SaaSB provider that identifies the right contact person (expert) within an organisation for a person with a question (searcher) and facilitates the establishment of contact. expn differs from other expert search providers in the provision of a brokering system: the search algorithm takes into account not only the specialist skills, 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. Doctors and researchers can use GeneTalk to filter a patient's genetic sequence variants according to various criteria and thus create a prioritised list of possible disease-relevant mutations (‘candidates’). | Digital Health |
| Nigo Charger‐Box™ | Intelligent charging and storage system for electrical devices and batteries in public spaces, designed as a marketing tool/advertising medium. The Charger-Box™ is not only a convenient place to store things, it can also be used to provide access to electricity. Charger-Boxes™ can be found and operated via the Internet. | Sharing Economy |