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Terrawater produces process water and drinking water out of Sea- and waste water. Additionally it is possible, to concentrate waste water for better disposal.

Exit since Sep. 2011. Purchaser: TAPROGGE ESACO GmbH

Threedy commercializes its instant3D hub platform – a visual computing platform for industrial customers to translate the ever growing web of 3D, business and process data into highly responsive and interactive 3D applications.

Development and distribution of direct digital printing machines for packaging.

Exit since Nov. 2011. Acquisition: KRONES

Toolify Robotics GmbH, founded in March 2020 in Ulm by Dr. Dennis Stampfer, Dr. Matthias Lutz, and Dr. Alex Lotz, consists of a team of six full-time employees with extensive software expertise and over 15 years of experience in automation and service robotics. Toolify's mission is to make the complex world of robotics easily accessible and enable companies to take advantage of modern robots to drive efficiency and growth.

The circular bioeconomy startup traceless materials has developed a holistically sustainable alternative for plastics and bioplastics that is fully compostable in nature, contributing to solve the global plastic pollution.

Twenty-One Semiconductors GmbH was founded in 2019 as a spin-off of the Institute of Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces (IHFG) at the University of Stuttgart. The company produces and markets a completely new type of laser crystals that can be used to efficiently generate laser radiation in the visible spectral range.
The underlying MEXL technology enables laser manufacturers to realize a new generation of laser sources for biomedical applications to obtain more detailed information when analysing cell and tissue samples.

Variolytics is a Stuttgart-based technology company focused on measurement technologies and process optimization. Dr. Matthias Stier (CEO), Johann Barlach (CFO) and Steffen Goerner (CTO) founded the company in March 2020, with the aim of making the invisible visible through innovative measurement technologies and thus contributing to a more sustainable society. The technology is used at wastewater treatment plants to monitor greenhouse gases in the wastewater treatment process and provide recommendations for actions to avoid them.

Theft of photovoltaik- (PV) modules leads to yearly losses adding up into the millions. The Viamon anti module is an intelligent system, integrated in the connection box of PV-modules, which permanently monitors the solar field and sets off an alarm, in case of theft.

viboo makes buildings more energy efficient through its Predictive Control as a Service platform. Rooted in extensive research at Empa and ETH Zurich, the company empowers smart thermostats with predictive algorithms, reducing energy usage by 20-40% in both light-commercial and residential buildings. With partnerships across the value chain, including Danfoss, ABB, Netatmo and Bouygues, viboo is ready to make buildings more energy efficient and sustainable.

VIOSO is a vendor of soft- and hardwaresolutions for projector-based large scale displays.
Since its founding in the year 2007, VIOSO has established itself as a reliable, successful partner to system integrators in the audiovisual industry.

Visometry is a startup and Fraunhofer spin-off founded in 2017, based Darmstadt, Germany. We create Augmented Reality core technology, develop custom solutions and support our customers integrating AR and computer vision into their business.

We are changing Augmented Reality bottom-up: with Machine Vision & AR Tracking at industrial scale. Our VisionLib tracking engine enables precise (multi-)object tracking, for a variety of high class AR applications along the entire ›product value chain‹, from prototyping, over production to sales, maintenance and training.

3D Visualisation & Imaging preferred by but not limited to autostereoscopic displays

Exit since Feb. 2010.

Our innovative etaLINK technology brings wireless charging to the next level with efficiencies far above 90 %. Based on the principle of magnetic induction, we made innovations in several key areas of the system. Modern algorithms and an integrated communication link to the batterymanagement- system (BMU) guarantees a gentle fast-charging process for the battery.

Yatta offers a unified enterprise IT management platform for professional software engineering to businesses and organizations. With effective instruments for planning, implementation, and controlling, project leads and heads of IT control development projects more efficiently. Development teams get access to an in-app marketplace integrated into their development environment (IDE) to receive, manage, and deploy software technologies relevant to their projects.

ZIM Plant Technology GmbH sells a user-friendly, long-term stable, non-invasive, telemetry-based magnet sensor technology that measures continuously the water supply of leaves of intact plants with high precision and in real time under field conditions.

Exit since Nov. 2013. Purchaser: YARA