News from the CHIC

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…

Hitachi uses advanced prognostic algorithms of Cassantec AG

Hitachi Power Solutions launches “Prognostic Solution” to improve the prognostic accuracy of predictive diagnostics:

Hitachi Power Solutions Co. Ltd., (Hitachi Power Solutions) a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that it launches “Prognostic Version” to help equipment operators optimize the…

Wireless experts from R3Coms win the Fog Tank Award

EchoRing ™ system convinces the jury in San Francisco:

After this year’s hot spring that included winning the IEIC IoT Challenge in Shenzhen, China, R3 Communications (R3Coms) faces a variety of hot moments this fall – the first happened yesterday by winning another…

R3Coms’ EchoRing™ system is nominated for two awards

This April is a special month for R3 Communications (R3Coms): from April 9th-12th, Managing Director Mathias Bohge will represent the company at the "2nd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International…

It doesn’t get any cooler

A start-up is developing an off-grid refrigerator:

32-year-old Julia Römer is the CEO of Coolar UG and one of the few female founders in the technology sector. Since 2012, she and her team have been developing refrigerators, which run without electricity, have no CO2…

Humedics receives UK Marketing Authorization for its diagnostic agent, LiMAxetin®, and thus achieves full market clearance for the LiMAx® maximum liver capacity test in the UK, - the company's first in Europe!

The LiMAx® test is now commercially available in the UK:

Humedics GmbH, a specialist in real-time measurement of individual liver function at bedside, today announced that the company has received the first Marketing Authorization for its diagnostic agent LiMAxetin®, which…

R3Coms wins biennial DKE-funded Project on “Wireless Safety” at DIN-Connect Challenge.

R3Coms, die R3 – Reliable Realtime Radio Communications GmbH, hat sich mit seinem Vorschlag für ein Förderprojekt mit Namen „Wireless Safety Specification – Maschinensicherheit im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 “ im…

Millions of investment in ultra-reliable communication systems

Creathor Venture and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft invest in R3 Communications:

Creathor Venture, one of the leading European venture capital firms, together with VC FondsTechnologie Berlin, managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, joins Berlin high-tech start-up R3 Communications as a partner.…

New Chemistry Lab for Start-ups

Inauguration of the Inkulab at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus:

On 25 January 2017 the Inkulab – a laboratory container system, fully equipped with a ventilation system, and laboratory and safety facilities – was inaugurated at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus. It provides…

An unusual container

Customized laboratory for start-ups / Ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab”:

The ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab” was celebrated on the Charlottenburg campus of Technische Universität Berlin on August 26, 2016. By October of this year, a laboratory container, fully equipped with a…

Start-ups on the fast lane

The new Adlershof Accelerator promotes new companies in a number of sectors:

There are accelerator programmes all over Europe. They help start-ups to enter markets at record speed. And both national and international companies are focusing heavily on Berlin: this city is the federal and…