Start-up Stories

Dr. Peter Boeker has taken the path from scientific research to founding a company and successfully launching it on the market with his start-up HyperChrom. In the video interview, he talks about his different roles as a scientist and founder.

The start-up Education and Qualification Alliance (EQAsce) at the University of Bonn demonstrates how the UN Sustainable Development Goal of quality education and the concept of lifelong learning can become a business model. The Transfer Center enaCom spoke to the initiator of the cooperative society, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Petersen.

Dr. Petra Ditsche has invented a bionic suction cup that adheres to rough, textured and uneven surfaces. Inspired by a small fish in the Pacific, the Northern Clingfish, she founded her own start-up ClingTechBionics with the product. In our film interview, she talks about how she got there and in particular the change in perspective from scientist to entrepreneur.

The cybersecurity spin-off Identeco protects user accounts from fraudulent activities such as account takeovers. In this interview, the founders talk about how they came from research to founding the company, why the topic of cyber security is so important and what Bonn has to do with it.

From doctorate to start-up in one year. Jakob Vanhoefer has successfully completed this fast track. In our start-up story, he explains the differences between scientists and entrepreneurs and what tips he has for founders.

Madeleine Heuts is driving the digitalization of the legal sector with her start-up RAKETENSTART. In our interview, she talks about the challenges she faced when founding her company after studying law, how legal tech is changing the legal sector and where the start-up scene in NRW currently stands.

Bonn students Dustin Lang and Nils Stausberg founded the start-up kiresult together with their friend Fabian Kittel in 2020. With the help of AI, they offer a solution for better data analysis and cost optimization.

Dr. Vivien Karl is an alumna of the University of Bonn and founded her own company in October 2021. Here she talks to the Transfer Center enaCom about her career and how fearless you have to be to found your own start-up.

What is the actual CO2 footprint of food? You can find out with a new app based on your own purchases. The start-up project "Project Count" has developed the app.

Code Intelligence receives twelve million US dollars in funding led by Tola Capital. Code Intelligence helps developers with a platform to find security vulnerabilities before the product is finalized.

The start-up neuro11 has been training Liverpool FC's professional footballers since the summer of 2021. After two victories in the final, which Liverpool won on penalties, coach Jürgen Klopp raves about the work of neuro11.

The British company APIS Assay Technologies Ltd has acquired the start-up project Clickmer Systems from the University of Bonn, which was further developed at the Life Science Incubator (LSI), for a single-digit million euro sum.

The start-up project aimed analytics aims to improve the treatment of patients using machine learning methods. The team has now been awarded the EXIST start-up grant with funding of around 130,000 euros.

With their innovative technology to individually adjust the beam shape of the laser to the respective process, physicists from the University of Bonn were selected for the "EXIST Research Transfer" funding program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Social Fund. 

The "U BO GROW" project is funded by the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy with 3.2 million euros. The project is intended to significantly advance start-up activities from within the university.

A team of computer science researchers has developed a "leak checker" that allows users to protect themselves and easily check whether personal data is included in a stolen record.

The startup project "Midel Photonics" from the physics department of Dr. David Dung, Dr. Christian Wahl and Frederik Wolf is one of twelve startups selected for the state-wide program "HIGH-TECH.NRW".

It's filling up at the Transfer Center enaCom of the University of Bonn: The two founder teams of neuro11 and kiresult, which emerged from the university, settled in the co-working space at the beginning of November 2020.