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Meet your prejudice
Employees of WISTA Management GmbH met people who share their experiences with prejudice and social exclusion:
For its work in site development and business promotion, WISTA Management GmbH (WISTA) relies on a diverse team, coexistence and tolerance, and the individual development of its staff. This process is supported by the…
Peppermint Group takes stake in new R3 Solutions
Together they want to further advance industrial real-time wireless networking:
Highly available and fast-response wireless technologies are an indispensable core component of the further automation of industry and the Industrial Internet of Things. With EchoRing from R3, such a technology is…
German Contech Champion Sablono raises EUR 5.3M Series A investment by Thomas Bachmaier
The funding will be used to further expand the Next-Gen Lean Construction platform:
Sablono, the market leader for digital lean technology for construction enterprises, has raised €5.3M Series A to accelerate international growth and execute on their first-to-market advantage to establish Sablono as…
Nostos Genomics enters into partnership with Genomenon
Jointly, the companies aim to accelerate the diagnosis of genetic diseases:
Nostos Genomics, a company based at the CHIC Charlottenburg Innovation Centre, announced a partnership with Genomenon, which includes integration of the Mastermind® Genomic Search Engine into the company’s…
Researchers starting companies
Berlin pools its start-up activities in the Science & Startups network to promote science spin-offs:
The economic potential of science spin-offs is indisputable. Despite government incentives, however, their number remains comparatively low. Berlin is now pooling together all its start-up promotion activities in a…
New formats for the exchange with start-ups
The coronavirus pandemic has also affected the work of start-up and innovation centres:
These are turbulent, crazy times. Rarely has an issue dominated all areas of work and life as much as the coronavirus. Start-ups and other developing companies are being hit particularly hard by the resulting…
Using 3D printing effectively
3YOURMIND is one of today's leading providers of software solutions for industrial 3D printing:
From start-up to big player: 3YOURMIND offers software solutions for additive manufacturing. The company now had to leave the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC). The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is…
POLYLINE Lighthouse Project: Navigating Uncertainty and Redefining Factory of the Future
3YOURMIND provides software to manage the project:
The POLYLINE project brings together 15 industry and research partners from Germany to establish a landmark automated factory for additive manufacturing (AM). The 3YOURMIND Agile Manufacturing Suite will be the…
WISTA launches B2B-Platform during the corona crisis
Support with personnel, equipment, material, know-how etc...:
The economic situation during the Corona pandemic is a huge challenge for many companies. Some companies have to go on short-time work while others work extra shifts. In this difficult situation, we want to offer a…
From founders to entrepreneurs
Interview with Lars Hansen, the head of CHIC:
The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC is now home to nearly 60 start-ups. The building complex close to Berlin’s Ernst-Reuter-Platz is part of Berlin Campus Charlottenburg, one of the largest inner-city university…
The more you know, the more you grow
Start-ups Xploraytion and eGovCD market highly specific knowledge at CHIC:
Despite their wildly different business ideas, the two Berlin-based start-ups Xploraytion and eGovCD have more in common than just being sixth-floor neighbours at the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC. Both…
Charlottenburg Innovation Centre is looking forward to new young companies
Eight-year incubation period ended with successful departure of the first founder generation:
2019 saw a turning point at the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC). Young companies are eligible to stay there for eight years. Now that CHIC’s first eight-year period expired, some companies, including Virtenio…
ABB acquires software company Cassantec
Advanced, automated analytics capabilities of Cassantec enables customers to improve operational efficiency with potential for significant savings :
ABB’s industry-leading Ellipse® Asset Performance Management (APM) solution (part of the company’s Digital Enterprise portfolio) has been enriched with strengthened prognostic capabilities. The new functionality…
HELLA Aglaia has aquired start-up company Pyramics
Pyramics technology enables demographic customer and visitor counting :
Berlin technology firm HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH, one of the leading developers of intelligent visual sensor systems, has acquired the start-up company Pyramics. The addition of Pyramics will enhance the…
A pipeline full of ideas
Two start-ups from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC are making our lives easier and more convenient:
Sebastian Denef is a workaholic. Nevertheless, he is convinced that we will all be working less in the near future. How do those two things reconcile? Just last year, he was a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute…