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Since 1999, 20/10 PERFECT VISION has been the worldwide technology
leader for solutions for the customized vision care market. The WaveScan
device became the first FDA-approved wavefront diagnostic procedure which
enables customized LASIK surgery for up to 100% sight improvement. Currently
they are developing the worlds first noninvasive LASIK procedure.
Heidelberg, Germany – www.2010pv.com |
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Attensity Corporation provides enterprise analytic software
that transforms captured human communication into decision-making insight
for competitive advantage. Attensity's customer communication analytics
and content intelligence software leverages breakthrough linguistic processing
technology to extract event and attribute data from natural language communication.
Current customers include e.g. CIA, Honeywell and Procter & Gamble.
Salt Lake City, USA – www.attensity.com |
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The founder of this company developed a one laser system,
which compresses a large amount of computer data by the help of multiple
colors (DWDM) into one fiber optic. This technology helps to commercialize
multi color fiber transmission also in metropolitan areas.
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The founders of fgmicrotec are typical serial entrepreneurs.
Before founding their current company they also established MIKNET and successfully
sold it to Level 3, a large telecommunication carrier. Solutions provided
by fg microtec dramaticly improve Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Management
for error and delay over packaged based (e.g. UMTS) wireless access networks.
München, Germany –
www.fgmicrotec.com |
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Intelligent views emerged as a start-up company from the information
technology research institute GMD, now Fraunhofer. Their break through product
K-Infinity manages vast heterogeneous databases and joins related pieces
of information to discover so far unrevealed and unrelated knowledge. The
company already has a large customer base including Thyssen Krupp, Bertelsmann
and alike.
Darmstadt, Germany –
www.i-views.de |
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iOpener is a spin-off from the European Space Agency (ESA) and is
located in Aachen, Germany. The company develops and distributes a real-time
engine
that compiles the real data of a racing event (e.g., velocity or position)
using satellite navigation technology, and provides these data “live” to
gamers via the internet. iOpener’s real-time engine enables the
gamer to play in real-time and live, when the real competition is occurring.
Current applications are focusing on motorsport events.
Aachen, Germany – www.iopenermedia.com |
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The central tool of DECOPA is a neuronal network, which takes
information from patent documents and other sources and stores this information
in an appropriate processed form. The integrated, innovative search algorithm
allows the user, to locate new aspects of an invention or to identify
product
dependences on existing developments. Additionally, trends can by analyzed.
One of the first pilot installations was HILTI AG, Liechtenstein.
Merseburg,
Germany – www.ipcentury.com
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iPharro is a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
(FhG/IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany. iPharros’ MediaSeeker technology
is a platform for the fully automated analysis of any TV/video stream
channel for the transmission of a variety of material (advertising, motion
pictures, news, etc.). The MediaSeeker technology compares video clips
with video streams in multiples of real time in order to detect if the
particular video clip appears somehow within the video stream. The comparison
approach can be used for copyright infringement detection, video archive
categorization, media research for the advertising industry, and by news
agencies.
Darmstadt, Germany – www.ipharro.com |
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The business is based on the results of the research work of Klastech’s
founder Prof. Fedor Karpushko (Academy of Science in Minsk/Byelorussia,
spin-off of the University of Edinburgh, Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH).
The company develops, manufactures and markets proprietary diode pumped
solid state lasers (DPSSL) for several industrial and scientific applications.
The new, patented Double ENhanced Intra-CAvity Frequency Conversion (DENICAFC)
laser technology is inherently free of the “green noise” problem
of other DPSS laser and excells in effiency, narrow bandwidth, and coherence
lengh.
Dortmund, Germany – www.klastech.de |
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Ontoprise was founded at the Karlsruhe University as a spin-off
from a joint venture between the university and the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). The company is currently focused on artificial intelligence software
which ontoprise implements as middelware in large software systems. Customers
are for example Software AG and Siemens AG.
Karlsruhe, Germany– www.ontoprise.com
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X-aitment, a spin-off from the German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI) develops software systems to automate repetitive and highly time
consuming tasks in the development of computer games. X-aitment's so-called
agent technology makes computer-generated scenes look as realistic as Hollywood
movies with real actors.
Saarbruecken, Germany– www.x-aitment.net |
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Previous Investments |
| Apalexo, Martinsried |
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| BioID, Berlin |
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| Borgs Industries, Hanover |
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| Rubikon, Munich |