The round was led by Partech and byFounders and backed by existing investors capacura and Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (BACB). Aumio will use the fresh capital to triple its team and expand across Europe and in the US. Founded by Jean Ochel, Tilman Wiewinner, Felix Noller and Simon Senkl, Aumio is a meditation and sleep app for children. Aumio app provides multi-day courses and individual exercises, on topics such as “hyperactivity” or “impulsivity”. It uses short audio journeys to teach mindfulness exercises.

MotionsCloud raised around US$ 2 million with its AI insurance claim solution in the latest round. The startup was backed by investors from all around the world, co-lead by SOSV (US) and Net Insurance (IT), followed by AI Startup Incubator (CZ), ParticleX (HK), Artesian (AU), Excon Services (GER), Global Insurance Accelerator (US) and individual angel. MotionsCloud empowers insurance companies with an automated property and vehicle inspection, making the process faster and more efficient. Established in Germany, the startup already cooperates with European, US, and Asian firms.

SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator acquires BITROAD and strengthens its management team: as of today, SpinLab has grown by a top-class team of management consultants and from now on also offers strategy and organization consulting around the topics of digitalization and innovation. The acquisition gives a strong boost our ambitious growth plan.

With more than 300 applications, the run for the 13th class was huge. Ten promising startups were welcomed to the historic area of the Baumwollspinnerei in early March. The range of business ideas of the new entrepreneurs is enormous: founders are releasing the first therapeutic app for dementia prevention, a physician from Chemnitz is developing an app against the underestimated and often undiscovered disease endometriosis, and with the help of a digital marketplace, the direct path to emission savings should save time-consuming processes. International startups from Poland and Austria are also part of the new class.

Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG, a Swiss sensor specialist and part of the Endress+Hauser Gruppe announced the majority acquisition of Infrasolid. Our partners TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen, VNG Innovation (VNG AG) and SpinLab mentor WEGVISOR® (Titus Lindl) had invested in the Dresden based startup. The team was 2018 part of the 6th SpinLab class.

Eric Weber about the exit: "With two partners and one mentor invested, our fifth alumni exit Infrasolid once again shows that our ecosystem works pretty well."

Congratulations to the team Marco Schossig, Benjamin Buchbach and Tobias Ott for this amazing achievement!

Together with Basislager Coworking Leipzig and Startup Mitteldeutschland we present to you the brand new Werkbank Podcast "Startup Update". The hosts are Marina Chkolnikov  (SpinLab Project Manager) and Stephanie Wettmann (head of editorial Startup Mitteldeutschland).

The startup Replex is acquired by the US IT corporation Cisco. The world market leader in network infrastructure and security acquires the entire shares of the Leipzig-based startup, which develops solutions for optimizing cloud applications.

FlyNex recently closed another financing round worth millions of euros to develop new business areas and expand its current business. Stihl Digital, the venture capital arm of the well-known power and garden equipment manufacturer, is investing in FlyNex together with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS), GPS Ventures and Snowflake Ventures. The newly formed partnership is intended to support customers in forestry, gardening and landscaping in particular with data generated by drones.

SpinLab, one of the top 3 accelerators in Germany, is once again opening its application phase for startups. Ambitious founders who want to accelerate their innovation can apply from now until November 16. 2021 and benefit from the 6-month program. Startups from the fields of e-health, smart city and energy as well as cross-sectional technologies that are related to these topics and are in the pre-seed, seed or growth phase can apply.

SpinLabs own digital learning platform

The partnership contract between the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL), SpinLab-The HHL Accelerator and SachsenEnergie was signed yesterday as part of the East German Energy Forum. The collaboration provides for SachsenEnergie to get into strategic exchange with relevant startups over SpinLab-The HHL Accelerator. In addition, SachsenEnergie will advise the startups on the implementation of promising innovation projects. For the SpinLab startups, the partnership is highly valuable in optimizing their promising business idea for major customers and gaining access to the target market.