On this episode of Start Up The Science, Ferdinand Rudolph Bartels, General Manager at SPECS Surface Analysis and Chairman of the INAM Board! Ferdinand has turned around multiple high tech ventures after coming on as a general manager and will discuss the ins and outs of the process with us. This episode was hosted by INAM's Managing Director, Oliver Hasse.   WATCH THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/otUss67ZVWY ..read more

Mimotype is a developer and vendor of bio-inspired performance materials. Our core skills: Initiating and steering end-to-end innovation cycles in the domain of bio-inspired materials research. The bioeconomy is about realigning production methods and supply chains with the vision of an ecologically seamless world economy. A deepened understanding of biology at the nanoscale will allow first-movers to become the technology leaders of the 21st century. We have a prime candidate for a materials blockbuster in our material pipeline. Our focus is on a peptide – i.e. a mini-protein – that acts as t ..read more

Fascinated by sound, noise, and its impact on society, co-founders Rhona Togher & Eimear O’Carroll have worked together for over 15 years. Inventive by nature, they founded Lios (formerly Restored Hearing) in 2009 to build technologies which would enable a quieter world. Togher and O’Carroll have long been frustrated with the pace of advancements in their field, witnessing incremental developments which fell short in delivering meaningful change. Originally trained as physicists, the pair have applied their knowledge of physics to a range of challenges, creating elegant and practical solut ..read more

Molecular Quantum Solutions (MQS) was founded in December 2019 by Mark Nicholas Jones (CEO) and Lukasz Ruszczynski (CTO) who know each other from their EU funded PhD projects (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/675251) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). During the final project conference they had the idea to start MQS to use the acquired knowledge from their PhDs, combine it and implement a full fledged software as a service solution for the pharma, biotech and chemical industries. Grown tired of using inflexible software in the chemical engineering domain which feel outdated in c ..read more

1.35 million babies are born with a congenital heart defect each year. Of these, 400,000 have heart valve defects but there is no durable valve replacement on the market. GrOwnValve aims to fulfill that unmet clinical need. GrOwnValve is a pre-clinical stage medical device company, developing a unique heart valve prosthesis system. Their completely new prosthetic valve for adults and children, will be implanted using a low-risk transcatheter technique. The valves will come to market as a procedure pack that enables a safe, affordable and easy-to-use minimally invasive heart valve replacement m ..read more

As the market leader in power modules, Infineon challenges YOU to develop a thermal interface material solution for highly reliable and best in class power modules. Power Modules are found in general purpose drives, traction, servo-units and renewable energy applications like solar inverters, energy storage systems or wind applications and more. They cover a wide range of a few hundred Watts to several Megawatts. However, with the ongoing demand and system requirement to increase the power density in power electronics, the thermal interface between power module and heatsink beco ..read more

Nanolumi is an advanced luminescent materials company leveraging the power of chemistry to optimize light efficiently. The company focuses on providing high quality perovskite products that enable the purest, brightest and widest range of colours in LCD, MiniLED and OLED displays while maintaining high energy efficiency. Chameleon® G Film, the company’s flagship product, is the industry’s first green perovskite colour enhancement film; It significantly enhances displays of all screen sizes with professional-grade colours, high dynamic range (HDR) brightness, power efficiency, and unprecedented ..read more

UBQ Materials is leading the dawn of a new era in manufacturing, introducing the market to a novel bio-based thermoplastic that is converted entirely from unsorted household waste. The UBQ™ material is cost competitive and compatible across industries, making sustainability the simple choice for manufacturers in automotive, construction, consumer goods, retail and many more.  Sophie Tuviahu leads the UBQ Materials sales and business development teams; building meaningful partnerships and a strong professional community around the shared desire to manufacture better. With over 20 years of ..read more

On this episode of Start Up the Science, we had the honor of speaking with Fanya Ismail, CEO of Sol-Gel Materials and Applications (SGMA).  Fanya is an entrepreneur, with expertise that span the chemistry, business and legal sector. Using her expertise from each sector she built SGMA, an advanced chemical company focusing on the development of sol-gel technology, delivering solutions to sustainability problems. Her company, SGMA, delivers solutions that are extracted from sand, sustainable and provide alternatives to plastic and a route to create effective non fossil fuel-based chemicals ..read more

This Expert Episode is with the fabulous Robert Harrison of Sonnenberg Harrison Partnerschaft. We sat down with him to ask him everything about IP Strategy for science based startups. Robert Harrison is a founding partner of SONNENBERG HARRISON. He has been working in the field of intellectual property since 1990. He is a registered German, French and European patent and trademark attorney. His work focuses on the fields of semiconductors, chemical engineering, computer science, photonics, telecommunications, microtechnology and biophysics. Robert is also one of our top IP mentors at our accel ..read more