Innovative spin-offs
Since as early the 1990s, we have been advising scientists at the Max Planck Institutes, who wish to set up a company based on their research results. That makes us some of Germany’s real pioneers.
Max Planck Innovation helps spin-offs to a successful start based on many years of interdisciplinary expertise. Our tasks also include conscientious quality checking, intensive advice and help when applying for funding programs to assist start-ups, the provision of industry and management expertise as well as the transformation of projects into foundation incubators founded by us.
Risk capital for financing could be acquired for a wide variety of spin-offs supported by us. Some of the companies are meanwhile listed on the stock market. The spin-offs were able to raise a financing volume of over 2.5 billion euros and create over 9,300 jobs in promising and growth-intensive sectors.
Track record
Our success – since we launched our professional support for company founders in 1990 – is clearly visible (31.12.2022):
- 181 companies founded
- 133 spin-offs actively accompanied by Max Planck Innovation
- 86 venture capital instances (14 of these with corporate financing) and/or financed by private investors
- 55 MPG participations, 22 of these exits, 11 liquidations and 17 amortizations, thus 35 active participations
- 7 listed companies
- approx. 9,300 new workplaces, all in industries with a bright future
- 11 participations or economic revenue shares of Max Planck Innovation
Extract:
Köln |
2018 |
|
Berlin |
2008 |
|
USA |
2002 |
|
ARTEMIS Pharmaceuticals GmbH |
Köln/Tübingen |
1998 |
Dortmund |
2018 |
|
USA |
2016 |
|
Hannover |
2016 |
|
Wien |
2021 |
|
DeveloGen AG |
Göttingen |
1997 |
USA |
2018 |
|
DIREVO Biotech AG |
Köln |
2000 |
Berlin |
1997 |
|
Dresden |
2010 |
|
Hamburg |
1993 |
|
Magdeburg |
2012 |
|
GreenTec GmbH |
Köln |
1997 |
USA |
2018 |
|
Ingenium Pharmaceuticals AG |
Martinsried |
1998 |
Leipzig |
2019 |
|
KINAXO Biotechnologies GmbH |
Martinsried |
2005 |
Dresden |
2012 |
|
Berlin |
1998 |
|
Berlin |
2000 |
|
Wendelsheim |
2013 |
|
Martinsried |
1992 |
|
Marburg/Karlsruhe |
2002 |
|
PlantTec GmbH |
Potsdam |
1996 |
USA |
2017 |
|
Martinsried |
2016 |
|
Dortmund |
1999 |
|
Bonn |
2017 |
|
Martinsried |
1998 |
|
USA |
2018 |
|
QLi5 Therapeutics |
Dortmund |
2020 |
USA |
2018 |
|
Bremen |
2005 |
|
Dortmund/Berlin |
2000 |
|
SUGEN Inc. (now: Pfizer Inc.) |
USA |
1991 |
SuppreMol GmbH |
Martinsried |
2002 |
München |
2012 |
|
Tacalyx GmbH |
Berlin |
2019 |
Garching |
2016 |
|
Targenomix GmbH |
Potsdam |
2013 |
Martinsried |
2010 |
|
Martinsried |
1993 |
|
U3 Pharma AG |
Martinsried |
2001 |
Reinach (SCHWEIZ) / Berlin |
2015 |
|
Dortmund |
2020 |
Extract:
Göttingen |
2011 |
|
Göttingen |
2012 |
|
Kaiserslautern |
2014 |
|
Saarbrücken |
1994 |
|
Wildau/Magdeburg |
2008 |
|
Jena |
2016 |
|
New York |
2010 |
|
Maastricht |
1996 |
|
Saarbrücken |
2013 |
|
Unterschleissheim |
2009 |
|
DOK Predictive Motion Cueing GmbH |
Tübingen |
2019 |
Stuttgart |
2005 |
|
ECMTEC GmbH (now: EMAG ECM GmbH) |
Holzgerlingen |
2003 |
Köln |
2016 |
|
Göttingen |
2021 |
|
Stuttgart |
2021 |
|
Fountain Hydrothermal Technology GmbH |
München |
2018 |
Heidelberg |
1999 |
|
Berlin |
1990 |
|
Tübingen |
2012 |
|
Saarbrücken |
2016 |
|
KonTem GmbH (now: FEI) |
Bonn |
2011 |
Erlangen |
2018 |
|
Berlin |
2000 |
|
Martinsried |
2001 |
|
Tübingen |
2018 |
|
Nanofilm Technologie GmbH => now: Accurion GmbH |
Göttingen |
1991 |
Lonsee |
2018 |
|
Martinsried |
2007 |
|
Regensburg |
1997 |
|
Magdeburg |
2005 |
|
München |
2011 |
|
Garching |
2018 |
|
Erlangen |
2016 |