News from the CHIC

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…

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…