Smashing the wall of outdated testing methods with a revolutionary in vitro philosophy

CompreVie fuses microfluidic technology with scaffold-free tissue engineering to create human-relevant platforms for substance screening and disease modeling. Our biochip designs allow for mechanical tissue damage and topical product application, reducing product development time and costs for pharmaceutical and cosmetic & personal care industries.

See beyond a single case

contextflow uses deep learning-based technology to analyze medical image data and reports, reducing a radiologist’s time to diagnosis, improving reporting quality and increasing confidence. Our core technologies are SEARCH (3D image-based search engine) and TRIAGE (worklist prioritization tool) that detect disease patterns in lung CTs, including those related to COVID-19. We are a spin-off of the Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Technical University of Vienna (TU) and European research project KHRESMOI, supported by the i²c Innovation Incubation Center. Founded by a team of AI and engineering experts in July 2016, contextflow received the BCS Search Industry Most Promising Startup Award 2016, the 2017 Digital Innovation Award by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science & Research, and was selected as one of 19 startups out of 700+ applications for the 2018 Philips HealthWorks accelerator. The Central European Startup Awards awarded us Best Healthcare Startup 2019 – Austria, and Forbes DACH listed us as one of the top AI30 startups for 2020.

Grow. Different. (Winner of the i²c Award)

For the sake of sustainability, Evologic is employing biotechnological approaches to render natural solutions as biostimulants, food or feed additives, etc. compatible with the mass market. Evologic delivering unmet product quality to microbial bioactives for the feed additive and Ag input industry (biocontrol and biostimulants) by utilizing pharma bioprocessing technologies. The proprietary bioreactor design yields allows producing even fungi-free of reproducibly without contamination and free of carrier materials.

AI-powered revolution for outcome-driven design of industrial buildings and production facilities

Factorymaker develops a collaborative, cloud-based AI software with novel optimization algorithms that empower architects, civil engineers and production planners as well as real estate developers and factory owners, to design cost- and resource-efficient production-, warehouse and logistic buildings. The software enables the integrated development and optimization of production layout and building design following the principle of maximum flexibility and sustainability. The re-imagined planning process automates repetitive manual planning steps and provides users with rapid cost and sustainability feedback to make better design decisions at early stages.

Reduce emissions using data

Our software nista.io makes analysing IIoT data as easy as calculating on paper. The high interaction with sensordata makes energy visible and helps finding improvements on a daily basis. This is the basis for getting our CO2 emissions under real control.

Huber Scientific is providing novel scientific equipment for multiple purpose experimental approaches

Huber Scientific develops novel solutions for experimental equipment used in the fields of Electrochemistry and Solid State Ionics. These innovative setups not only enable completely new experiments but also allow for the first time a combination of different, complementary methods. Huber Scientific will also supply completely new designed and improved test equipment for standardized measurements, which is much easier to repair, simpler to use and much cheaper than other test stations already available on the market. Up until now, research groups worldwide had to develop and build their own measurement equipment since for many experiments no commercial setups were available. This often resulted in makeshift equipment of varying quality with no long term support.
With years of experience in designing high quality and easy to use and upkeep experimental equipment, Huber Scientific will help research groups all over the world to focus on what they are doing best: Delivering top-notch science

We implement intelligent technology to make mechanical engineering sustainable.

Our goal is to make mechanical engineering sustainable by implementing digital smart sensor systems. This new technology enables condition-based maintenance by visualizing wear and tear as the first and most direct indicator for damage. It reduces costs and increases the safety in critical areas of different industries by intelligent maintenance planning. We would like to define predictive maintenance in a new way and set a new standard in condition monitoring.

Duplicate image detection service to find plagiarism and fabrication in the scientific literature

ImageTwin is an AI-based software service to check scientific papers for problematic image duplicates. Although there are already established solutions for text plagiarism, image plagiarism usually goes undetected during peer review and leads to reputational damage and costly investigation processes. ImageTwin offers publishers, universities and research institutions a solution for an effective detection of image duplicates.

Natural replacement for synthetic UV-Filters, antioxidants and emulsifiers

Lignovations is developing and manufacturing bio-based lignin particles to replace problematic synthetic ingredients like UV-Filters, antioxidants and emulsifiers which have negative effects on human health, climate and the environment. Our natural lignin particles enable many industries such as cosmetics, coatings and food packaging to increase the sustainability of their products, thus accelerating the transition to a bio-based economy and creating a healthier future for our planet and its inhabitants.

We help you to build the most stunning scientific animations

Nanoscale biological processes, such as gene editing or DNA replication, cannot be seen due to physical limits of microscopes. When we want to explain these processes to someone, we have to use animation. These animations are usually simplified and schematic because it is expensive to make them realistic.
We make software that alleviates the creation of such animations while preserving realism down to atomic resolution. Our software plugs into the typical workflow of scientific illustrators, and besides accelerating both modelling and rendering of biological structures, it makes it possible to deploy the animations to virtual reality and other immersive environments. This allows us to create stunning, interactive installations explaining biology and other molecular processes to large audiences. Our tool can help scientific animators to accelerate their workflow, the biologists to communicate their findings, and science centers and museums to present state of the art science to large audiences.

Predicting supply chain and sustainability risks

Manufacturing companies typically rely on 1000s of suppliers interconnected in complex, worldwide supply chain networks making it difficult to keep an overview about disruption and sustainability risks in their supply chain. Prewave is the next-generation supply chain intelligence platform that enables procurement professionals, sustainability and supply chain managers to follow their suppliers online and receive real-time and predictive information about events that might impact their suppliers. The platform is based on an algorithm that analyzes social and news media in more than 50 languages and identifies signals for more than 60 event types including industrial accidents, bankruptcies or natural disasters.

Generates Virtual Worlds

Architects, 3D artists and other creatives spend a lot of time using low-level digital tools to materialize their ideas. Our mission is to boost their creativity by supporting their expression on a higher level. Based on research in generative design at the TU Wien, we developed Michelangelo, a unique platform for collaborative design. It generates complete 3D scenes only from brief descriptions, allowing the users to rapidly explore various prototypes. Finishing adjustments can be easily performed by adding more specific descriptions at any abstraction level. Michelangelo extracts templates from existing designs all over the cloud and reuses them automatically to create new 3D content. We currently target applications in modular architecture, game design and dataset generation for AI training.

We make microplastics visible

It is the year 2020 and there is no established and scalable method for measuring microplastics – yet. Without sufficient data on the contamination of microplastics in food and the environment, there is no basis for its reduction. So far, one of the main reasons for this has been the lack of solutions for data analysis of microplastics measurements.

We have many years of experience in the analysis of microplastics and were able to overcome this hurdle by means of machine learning. We develop fast and robust algorithms to accurately classify microplastics regarding their size, quantity and type – within minutes. Bundled in software this enables laboratories to measure microplastics with reliable, fast and comparable results.

Forging pathways to renewable carbon products

Sisyphus is developing a process for the energy efficient conversion of CO2 to valuable products. Our core technology is based around a novel catalyst that allows carbon dioxide to be chemically recycled at lower costs and with greater energy efficiency, allowing production of more affordable green chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel.

We offer a pioneering technology for the efficient, fast and economic curing of epoxy-based resin systems

SpeedPox stands for an efficient and innovative technology for the curing of epoxy resins, that has been developed at TU Wien: Frontal Polymerization. The curing is initiated on demand by using a localized heat or temperature stimulus and propagates through the workpiece without any additional application of energy. Conventional energy-, time- and cost-intensive curing in large industrial ovens and autoclaves can therefore be avoided by the user. Our ready-to-use one-component formulations are storage stable for years and can also be employed for the fabrication of composite materials.

UGP materials – CRYS* – the future of composite materials

UGP materials produce CRYS, the only polyimide with high crystallinity worldwide. It is produced in patented hydrothermal geomimetic polymer synthesis.
UGP materials are currently in its final days of pre-founding.
This structure gives the product superior attributes in terms of:
• thermal stability
• tensile & compressive strength
• ultra-lightweight
CRYS can be used in composite materials of all kinds from the coating, sports equipment, electronics up to aeronautics. Its unique structure allows the production of very small particles to be used in all kinds of composite production processes. It can be used when sintering a composite, for usage in films and additional reinforcement for resin-based composites like carbon fibers.
The patented production process achieves both the described attributes as well as being green by reducing the need for chemical components in the production of imides. This is achieved by crystallization of the product in pure water instead of using toxic solvents and catalysts like it is currently state-of-the-art.

An ultrasonic trap to catch very small particles in liquids – in order for them to be measured much better in industrial environments

In industry, the thirst for data to make qualified decisions is growing. Often it is not possible to obtain real-time data in industrial liquids. This is where our products come in. They improve measurements with probes in liquids by an order of magnitude so that real-time monitoring of the process and thus “real” process control without time delay is possible. By using our add-ons, savings in resources, time and personnel as well as optimization potentials in yield, product quality and production downtimes can be realized.

Bringing Chemistry to Life

Our mission is to overcome the poor selectivity of conventional cancer chemotherapeutics by improving the specificity and thus safety of those drugs. This is achieved by exploiting controllable, ultra-fast in vivo chemical reactions to precisely deliver and activate drugs only at the site of disease. Based on unique molecular designs, we recently developed superior chemical tools that elevate the standards of current state-of-the-art approaches. Within Velaex Technologies we provide methods to ‘preprogram’ the movement of compounds in living systems and thus enable drug targeting strategies with unprecedented efficiency, selectivity, and safety, paving the way to novel high-precision therapeutics.

Scalable e-commerce fulfilment to online retailers

BYRD gives online shops access to a professional and international e-commerce logistics network. With BYRD, online retailers can outsource everything from the storage of their products to picking, packing and shipping of their e-commerce orders and focus on their core competencies such as marketing or product development instead. Thanks to BYRD’s distributed network of e-commerce fulfilment locations, retailers can make use of warehouses that are close to their end customers and benefit from fast shipping and attractive shipping conditions. All processes are completely automated and trackable in real-time thanks to the BYRD software which connects the retailer’s order management system to the warehouse. BYRD currently has 10 logistics centres across Europe and has already empowered hundreds of online retailers to bring their logistics to the next level.

The easiest way to collect and share your favorite video highlights!

Snipedy is a video-service which allows you to easily take out short clips of existing video streams. These short clips (= Snips) can have a maximum length of 16sec and can be shared using a simple weblink or Messenger-Extensions. With their snackable length, they are perfect for promotions, sneak previews and to spread the news by using Snips as video-quotes.