Portfolio companies
Under the Invest-Impuls umbrella brand, hannoverimpuls invests in innovative technology-oriented start-ups on behalf of the state capital and the Hanover region with two of its own investment funds. The portfolio includes well-known names such as NewStore, mediaTest digital, Grover Group GmbH and Qnips GmbH. A total of 34 companies have been financed to date and further investment opportunities are welcome.
Here you will find a list of all portfolio companies:
B & S Media GmbH / Cruisewatch
Website: https://www.cruisewatch.com/
Brief profile: With the developed platform "cruisewatch", B & S Media GmbH operates the most customer-oriented, cross-provider booking platform for cruise vacations. More than 25,000 different cruises and more than 250,000 reviews are monitored in order to determine the best price or value for cruises using artificial intelligence and mathematical forecasting methods for customer recommendations.
| B & S Media GmbH / Cruisewatch | |
| Website | https://www.cruisewatch.com/ |
| Brief profile | With its "cruisewatch" platform, B & S Media GmbH operates the most customer-oriented, cross-provider booking platform for cruise vacations. More than 25,000 different cruises and more than 250,000 reviews are monitored in order to determine the best price and value for cruises using artificial intelligence and mathematical forecasting methods for customer recommendations. |
| Grover Group GmbH /formerly ByeBuy GmbH | |||
| Founding year | 2015 | ||
| Brief profile | Grover is an e-commerce company that enables customers to rent selected technology products quickly and easily. The aim is to optimize the rental process so that only minimal transaction costs are incurred and the ordering and return process is simple and unbureaucratic. At the end of the rental period, the device can be rented again, returned free of charge or purchased. The company uses modern logistics processes, a network of partners and a website that makes it very easy for customers to find products, rent them with just a few clicks and track and manage their own subscriptions via the dashboard.separator |
| Wingfield GmbH | |
| Website | https://www.wingfield.io/ |
| Brief profile | Wingfield develops and distributes a product that can turn any tennis court into a "smart court" in just a few minutes with precise data acquisition and comprehensive game analytics based on this. The so-called "Wingfield Box", consisting of two cameras, a processor unit and housing, is installed on the net post and then records players, movements, strokes and hits with the help of image processing algorithms. Players can dial into the system on the court using a smartphone and then call up match statistics and performance analyses that are otherwise only available to professionals. |
| Digital Hub Hannover GmbH | |
| Website | https://digitalhub-h.de/ |
| Brief profile | DHHG develops and operates a technology for the automated marketing of advertising space on websites and offers analysis tools and consulting services in this context. The company provides support with digitalization and thus optimizes its customers' e-commerce activities via native ads, Google SEO, online marketing, PR and image measures. |
| Implandata Opthalmic Products GmbH | |
| Website | www.implandata.com |
| Brief profile | Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (IOP) has developed a new system that enables the continuous measurement of intraocular pressure in glaucoma (or "glaucoma") patients. The CE-approved "eyemate® System" offers ophthalmologists the possibility of proactive and personalized therapy control and more efficient patient care. The eyemate® smartphone app provides patients with helpful information about the success of their therapy, enabling them to participate in treatment and protect themselves from blindness. Frequent visits to the doctor are therefore not absolutely necessary. |
| mediaTest digital GmbH /Appvisory | |
| Website | www.mediatest-digital.com |
| Brief profile | APPVISORY offers a time-saving solution for evaluating the risk potential of the mobile apps used, generating comprehensible and intuitively understandable results and ensuring the protection of the mobile device fleet. Comprehensive, fully automated risk analyses are created for all public and in-house apps of the leading mobile operating systems as well as a security classification using the APPVISORY evaluation process. Vulnerabilities and risky app behavior are identified and malware is detected. |
| Quofox GmbH | |
| Website | https://quofox.com/de |
| Brief profile | quofox offers a package for companies and educational institutions looking for a customizable learning platform. The learning platform is intuitive to use and can be designed according to corporate design, with a logo and in a corresponding color scheme. This learning platform provides access to over 9,500 quofox courses from leading providers. Lecturers can offer their training courses via the quofox marketplace. |
| neoLASE GmbH | |
| Website | www.neolase.com |
| Brief profile | neoLASE, a spin-off of the Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH), develops, produces and sells diode-pumped, pulsed solid-state lasers and optical amplifiers as customer-specific and energy-saving solutions. These systems are used, for example, by the automotive industry for welding or generally for industrial joining or machining processes. The configurable and modularized laser systems are produced in a customer-specific, flexible, cost-effective and high-quality manner. |
| NewStore Inc. | |
| Brief profile | As part of a successful partial exit and merger, the Hanover-based investment in CouchCommerce became part of NewStore - the third company founded by serial entrepreneur Stephan Schambach after Intershop and Demandware. CouchCommerce originally developed a cloud-based SaaS platform for online stores with a particular focus on mobile commerce. In addition to CouchCommerce, GoodsCloud and PaperBill were also integrated into NewStore. NewStore brings leading brands and well-known retailers to the mobile web and revolutionizes shopping and logistics processes in retail.separator |
| Qnips GmbH | |
| Website | www.qnips.com |
| Brief profile | Qnips GmbH was founded in October 2011 as a spin-off from Leibniz Universität Hannover. Qnips offers restaurateurs and retailers a mobile solution for quality management and customer loyalty. Individual apps based on the qnips modular system contain exactly the features that are required for a specific use case and individual marketing channels. With these apps, customers can receive individual coupons from participating partners, collect digital loyalty points and rate exactly the products and services they have used. The qnips POS integration of over 30 POS and merchandise management systems makes the master and transaction data available live for applications such as customer loyalty, mobile payment or digital signage. Central data storage and consolidated evaluations included. |
| Rodos BioTarget GmbH | |
| Website | www.biotargeting.de |
| Brief profile | Rodos BioTarget develops and markets an innovative and patent-protected technology (TargoSpheres®) for the targeted transport of medical agents to specific target cells (so-called targeted drug delivery). The technology addresses various applications, e.g. in therapies against autoimmune diseases or dangerous viruses. The aims are to optimize the distribution of active ingredients, increase efficacy and reduce the amount of active ingredients and side effects. |
| ROWIAK GmbH | |
| Website | www.rowiak.de |
| Brief profile | Rowiak GmbH develops and manufactures innovative opto-electronic products based on modern femtosecond laser technology. The product range includes, in particular, systems for non-contact cutting of biological tissue or various materials as well as instruments for precise, non-invasive manipulation of cells and cell structures. Rowiak GmbH is a spin-off from the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., one of the largest and most renowned laser institutes in Germany. The company has many years of experience in the application of ultrashort pulse lasers. Rowiak is dedicated to the development of new applications for ultrashort pulse lasers in the life science sector, but also in materials processing. By combining various optical processes, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) or microscopy with laser-based instruments, new solutions are being developed for current research tasks. The laser devices are primarily used in medicine and pharmaceuticals, in biotechnology and genetics or in cell and molecular biology. However, there are also many possible applications in materials research and the industrial processing of various materials. |
| smapOne AG | |
| Website | www.smapone.com |
| Brief profile | smapOne offers a software solution that enables companies to quickly and easily generate apps for use in their own company, thereby digitizing, simplifying and accelerating processes. The aim of smapOne is to make individualized apps (so-called "smaps") for professional mobile use easier, cheaper and faster. With this low-code solution, smapOne has already won over many industrial customers, including TÜV, Dachser, eOn, Cancom and others. |
| Tripod Technology GmbH (tandem app) | |
| Website | https://www.tandem.net/ |
| Brief profile | "Tripod Technology GmbH operates the language learning app Tandem. Tandem enables its users to find suitable native speakers to learn languages together via chat, voice message, audio or video call, and the free version of the app offers unlimited use of all core functions. The paid version of Tandem Pro offers extended learning and matching functions for ambitious learners. These include unlimited message translations, the ability to find members nearby or anywhere in the world, and the ability to be found more easily by other community members." |
| TIXEL GmbH | |
| Website | www.tixeltec.com |
| Brief profile | Tixel, a Thomsen spin-off based in Hanover, develops and sells IT systems and solutions for the fast, loss-free transport of large volumes of data in Internet Protocol (IP)-based wide area networks (WAN). Where standard FTP previously only achieved data transfer rates of a few megabytes/second or less, TIXEL products make maximum use of the same network infrastructure. TIXEL provides the ultimate solution for the acceleration and realization of distributed, globally interacting work processes, thus saving resources, time and money. The main users are the media industry with digital cinema and TV productions (AV real-time transmission / real time transmission) and large database users (fast file transfer / file acceleration). |
| Videantis GmbH | |
| Website | www.videantis.com |
| Brief profile | videantis GmbH is an IP provider for deep learning, computer vision and video processing from a single source and offers flexible computer vision, imaging and multi-standard HW / SW video coding solutions for automotive, mobile, consumer and embedded markets. videantis developed a programmable processor technology for video applications at the Leibniz University of Hanover to market maturity and licenses it to chip manufacturers in the video sector. Specifically, videantis has set out to replace the hard-wired circuits that have been the mainstay of the market to date with its programmable video solutions and to establish videantis solutions worldwide as the core technology for a wide range of devices from cell phones and classic home applications to HD set-top boxes and applications in the automotive segment. Current developments in the mobile Internet sector, the increased demand for flexible video solutions in smartphones and the increasing convergence of WebTV and broadcast TV are confirmation that we should continue to pursue this path consistently. |
| Tutao | |
| Brief profile | "Tutao's goal is to ensure maximum security when exchanging and retrieving emails and data over the Internet and to make the product intuitive to use. This fundamental differentiation of simplicity compared to competitors characterizes the Tutao solutions. The Tutanota webmail system already encrypts locally in the client, sends encrypted data and also backs up encrypted data in the cloud. End-to-end data encryption and a server location in Germany ensure a very high standard of security and guarantee that data is stored and forwarded in compliance with data protection legislation. Added to this is the integrated device management, which activates certain devices (smartphone, tablet, PC, etc.) for the service and makes it possible to block them immediately if they are lost. The Tutanota service can be used via a webmail client or a directly installed app, enabling maximum mobility. This means that the security and encryption technologies are available regardless of the platform." |