innoveas AG
Crowdinvesting as a growth booster for high tech companies – innoveas AG enables investments in top technologies ‘made in Germany’
innoveas AG / Key word(s): Private Equity/Capital Increase Press Release – innoveas AG Karlsruhe/Frankfurt a.M., May 21, 2013 Crowdinvesting as a growth booster for high tech companies – innoveas AG is offering the chance to invest in top technologies ‘made in Germany’ Karlsruhe based innoveas AG, an expert for converting scientific ideas into new companies and products will give investors the chance to invest in the creation and accelerated growth of high tech companies starting May 23, 2013. From that day on you will be able to be a part of this entrepreneurial success. As investments start from as low as EUR 1,000, this offer is open to small investors, too. ‘Up until now high tech investments were limited to big investors. We want to change this now and want to make this area accessible for a larger crowd. We firmly believe that anyone interested should be given the chance to join us in creating and nurturing companies out of brilliant ideas from German research,’ says Guido Hillebrands, CEO and co-founder of innoveas AG. Over the last 20 years the innoveas team has become an integral part of Germany’s research community and has acquired unique access to more than 30 universities and more than 30,000 researchers. innoveas’ experts screen more than 250 top technologies, analyze scientific ideas in respect to their marketability and actively promotes the development of business ideas and products. They partner up with researchers to support them in regards to management, create sustainable concepts for new companies and help to secure the start up companies’ funding. In order to guarantee a sustainable success innoveas AG takes on an active role as part of the new companies’ management teams. ‘We get involved personally and as a team with the researchers to jointly make the respective products a success,’ says Hillebrands. This comprehensive and sustainable involvement is characteristic for innoveas. The safety of the investment decision is increased by an international investor base and the renowned members of the company’s Global Advisory Board. Innoveas team has supported the foundation of about 200 companies in the last two decades. The innovation expert’s current portfolio comprises ten companies from the med tech, construction chemistry, software and 3D technology sectors. IONYS AG, also based in Karlsruhe, for example develops high performance construction material extending the life span of infrastructure and significantly reducing their maintenance costs. The company has a close cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and has received numerous awards in the last years, among them prizes from Deutsche Börse and the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Another innoveas start up is the Rostock-based Immungenetics AG. This company dwevelops personalized solutions in the medical sector to allow for individual diagnosis and prognosis. The researchers behind Immungenetics focus on autoimmune diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Rheumatoid Arthritis as well as on Alzheimer’s, against which they are currently developing a groundbreaking drug. Now innoveas AG is looking for investors by means of crowdfunding in order to accelerate the further development of the existing portfolio as well as to provide funding for upcoming start up companies and to identify further technologies with a great potential for commercialization from research results. innoveas offers profit-participating loans with a minimum duration of three years via the platform LightFin. Depending on the amount of the investment the fixed rate of interest can be as high as eight percent. The newly founded LightFin GmbH is focused on medium sized businesses. The company is managed by Dr. Kay-Michael Schanz, attorney at law and an expert for stock exchange law, and the IT-expert Prof. Dr. Bernd Freisleben. LightFin GmbH is commissioned to publish innoveas AG’s offer via the website lightfin.de and to make sure all technical aspects are being taken care off by licensed payment service providers. The fact that an already established company is entering the market like this is reflected by the funding volume. The funding threshold is defined at EUR 500,000 with the target being EUR 1 million, thus crowdfunding enters a new dimension in Germany. Interested investors can register at LightFin GmbH’s website starting Tuesday, May 22, and will be granted access to extensive information. An information memorandum describing innoveas AG’s offer will also be available for download. For further question please contact: Jana Hillebrands und Anja Lehmann End of Corporate News 22.05.2013 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP’s Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de |
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