Saarländische Wagnisfinanzierungsgesellschaft

Founded in the Saarland venture financing mbH was (briefly: SWG) in 1997 to assist with the goal of emerging technology companies in their early stages and already existing innovative companies in the development of new products and their marketing by providing equity and quasi-equity.

Doris Woll

MD

Past deals in IT Infrastructure

SEAWATER Cubes GmbH

Debt Financing in 2019
SEAWATER Cubes GmbH engages in the filed of aquaculture plant construction. It builds fully automated fish farms in recycled shipping containers, which can be used to produce marine fish in Germany. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Testfabrik Consulting

Seed Round in 2015
Testfabrik Consulting make webmate.io, the cross-browser testing service for web developers. Testfabrik AG develops webmate - an integrated test automation platform for web testing. webmate is the future of test automation and combines established methods with novel approaches to successfully meet the challenges of modern web development.

viamon GmbH

Seed Round in 2014
viamon GmbH develops and markets GPS-based geo fencing anti-theft system for photovoltaic plants in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Namibia, Chile, and the Dominican Republic. It offers 24/7 alarm services via control center; Webportal and mobile applications for smartphones and tablets; and applications for Android. The company is based in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

K | Lens GmbH

Seed Round in 2020
K | Lens GmbH is a high-tech start-up developing a product range based on the K|Lens technology, their innovative and patented image acquisition and processing technology. The K|Lens technology has been invented at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and further developed during an incubation period with IT Inkubator in Saarbrücken, Germany. They have raised seed funding in 2017 and now, their team of highly motivated Computer Vision experts is working on the development of their first product.

Okinlab GmbH

Venture Round in 2014
OKINLAB GmbH provides design software for clients to design individual furniture on their own and have it produced within a reasonable price.
consistec Engineering & Consulting GmbH offers consulting, software and system testing, development, and training solutions. The company offers its solutions in various sectors, including mobile communication, mobile business, and network solutions. It engages in the analysis of business procedures, planning and implementation of technical infrastructure, application development, planning and implementation of networks, network security and tests, video streaming, voice over Internet protocol, migration of IT systems, server administration, and configuration of routers, switches, firewalls, and remote access servers. consistec Engineering & Consulting GmbH is based in Saarbrücken, Germany.

SECTAGO GmbH

Venture Round in 2014
SECTAGO GmbH develops, licenses, and produces security features for applications, primarily based on innovative developments in the field of diffractive optics. The company is headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany.

ARTENGIS GmbH

Seed Round in 2014
ARTENGIS GmbH operates as an IT technology and services company. It engages in design and product development as well as in marketing and technical support.

K | Lens GmbH

Seed Round in 2017
K | Lens GmbH is a high-tech start-up developing a product range based on the K|Lens technology, their innovative and patented image acquisition and processing technology. The K|Lens technology has been invented at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and further developed during an incubation period with IT Inkubator in Saarbrücken, Germany. They have raised seed funding in 2017 and now, their team of highly motivated Computer Vision experts is working on the development of their first product.

SemVox GmbH

Seed Round in 2010
paragon semvox GmbH develops interactive, multimodal, and intelligent software solutions for automotive, automation, smart homes, home entertainment, robotics, mobile, and medical technology industries. Its solutions include ODP S3, a solution that creates embedded, cloud-based, and hybrid based interactive and assistant systems; Proactive Assistance and Artificial Intelligence that provide users with support and enable them to delegate tasks to their virtual personal assistants; and Voice Control and Dialog that enables interaction of local speech recognition with cloud-based free text speech recognition solutions. The company’s solutions also comprise Voice Control for Mobile Applications that provide voice control libraries for smartphones and tablets that enable applications to be controlled by voice; and Nuance speech recognizer, a text-to-speech solution which add natural sounding voice to applications. In addition, it offers information technology consulting services. The company’s solutions enable integrators to develop their own intelligent next-generation speech dialog systems and integrate them into existing infrastructures. paragon semvox GmbH was formerly known as SemVox GmbH. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Limbach, Germany. As of October 1, 2018, paragon semvox GmbH operates as a subsidiary of paragon GmbH & Co. KGaA.
youPEC your personal education community AG operates as online education community that allows users to share knowledge through blogs and videos. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Saarwellingen, Germany.

Ambiverse

Seed Round in 2016
Ambiverse extracts machine-understandable knowledge from big text data.

NEBUMA GmbH

Seed Round in 2015
NEBU®Block is the first high temperature energy accumulator to combine outstanding economic and ecological performance.

xaitment

Series A in 2006
xaitment develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software for video games and simulation developers. It offers xaitMap, an AI SDK that provides automatic navigational mesh generation, as well as pathfinding and local steering for single and crowd movement; xaitControl, an AI SDK that offers character behavior modeling; xaitKnow, an AI SDK that allows to develope knowledge modeling for the game world and to manage the knowledge within that world; and xaitThink, an AI SDK that allows to develop high-level behavior modeling for a game. xaitment also provides services, such as help desk support, onsite support, and SDK updates, as well as creates project specific features. It serves game studios, defense/simulation, middleware partners, technology partners, and academic partners. Andreas Gerber founded xaitment in 2004, with its headquarters in Quierschied in Germany. It has additional offices in the United States, Germany, England, China, Korea, and Japan.