Thüga SmartService takes over Start-Up Geospin

January 29, 2020

Thüga SmartService GmbH, a subsidiary of Thüga Aktiengesellschaft, takes over all shares in Geospin GmbH.

The start-up company from Freiburg offers location intelligence software solutions with a focus on Geo Machine Learning. These solutions evaluate environment and customer data with the help of artificial intelligence and self-learning algorithms. This enables companies and municipalities to objectively identify geographical success factors and to position their product and service offerings more successfully.

Geospin GmbH started in 2016 as a spin-off of the Chair of Information Systems at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. The founders have spent many years researching the topic of Smart Cities and have developed specialized geographic machine learning methods. Together with Thüga Aktiengesellschaft, the start-up company has, for example, developed a software solution for the optimal positioning of charging points for electric cars, which is already being used successfully by Thüga’s partner companies.

With the takeover of the shares from the company founders, Thüga Aktiengesellschaft and High-Tech Gründerfonds by Thüga SmartService GmbH, the young company is now on a broader financial footing to promote the sale of its current solution portfolio in various industries and to develop new products to market maturity. As a new shareholder, Thüga SmartService GmbH can actively support the development and sales of Geospin with its service portfolio and IT know-how. Geospin will continue to be led by the proven management team around managing director Dr. Sebastian Wagner.

“We are pleased to be able to further advance the successful development of the start-up with the takeover of Geospin GmbH. At the same time, competences in the field of data analysis and the resulting profound knowledge in the field of research of the young Geospin team are an enrichment for our company”.

Emil Bruusgaard, Managing Director of Thüga SmartService GmbH

“With Thüga SmartService we have a shareholder on board who is interested in the continuous development of our company and who can also support and promote us in product development and the expansion of our sales structure”.

Geospin Managing Director Dr. Sebastian Wagner

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