Plansee invests in start-up fund for industrial digitalisation

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November 21, 2018

November 21, 2018

Plansee invests in start-up fund for industrial digitalisation

Plansee hopes that its investment in the Speedinvest Industry fund will enable it to see, assess and further develop ideas for industrial digitalisation (Courtesy Plansee Group)

 

Plansee Group, Reutte, Austria, has participated in the funding round of the Speedinvest Industry fund to become one of its core investors. The fund comprises €50 million of growth capital, available for developing and subsidising industry and technology-centred start-ups.

Karlheinz Wex, a member of the Executive Board of Plansee, stated, “We are investing because we want to see, assess and ideally further develop new ideas for digitisation in the industrial environment at a very early stage. The participatory interest was a cornerstone in the efforts to complete the group’s digital transformation by 2021.”

“The intelligent use of our data is a prerequisite for simplifying the working relationship with our customers and for controlling our production operation more intelligently,” he added.

The Speedinvest Industry fund is expected to provide financing primarily to companies focusing on areas such as big data & analytics, the smart factory, and new business models in the industrial domain. The fund is aimed at founders from across Europe, but places special emphasis on Germany, Austria and Switzerland as a result of being based heavily in industry.

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November 21, 2018

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