DEWB - DEWB and zouk ventures access a majority pale in Nanotron

Unique radio advice and tracking arrangement with a ample ambit of applications in the able advance RTLS market
- 11 actor Euro costs annular for added expansion

Jena/London/Berlin, 14 April 2008 – Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG (DEWB) – Prime Standard/ISIN DE0008041005 – has taken a pale in Nanotron Technologies Ltd. (Nanotron), Berlin, aural a costs round. DEWB acquired an 18.1 percent allotment and is demography over the role of co-lead broker with the British Venture Capital broker zouk ventures, London. The costs annular has a aggregate of 11 actor Euros. In accession to DEWB and zouk ventures the absolute shareholders Danfoss, PolyTechnos, IBB - VC Fonds Berlin, as able-bodied as the Nanotron Management aswell participated.

The Berlin-based cavity artist Nanotron is a baton in the development and auction of wireless sensor networks and solutions for radio-based advice and localisation. The company’s capital artefact is the nanoLOC cavity based on the reliable Chirp Spread Spectrum (CSS) manual system. This manual arrangement is acutely above to battling technologies and ill-fitted in accurate to advice as able-bodied as absolute time article ecology (RTLS – Real Time Location System) to a top akin of accession precision. Other arresting appearance of Nanotron’s arrangement band-aid are a fast and bargain installation, as able-bodied as top robustness, top believability on all-encompassing ranges additional acutely low ability consumption. Over contempo years the Chirp arrangement has been chip in the IEEE Standard 802.15.4a and plan is underway to access ISO certification.

“The aboriginal applications for asset tracking in industry were based on breath RFID solutions. However, RFID does accept its banned in agreement of attention locating. This is an across in which Nanotron is deploying its artefact and so targeting the rapidly-growing RTLS market. The anniversary advance ante of over 30 percent are the aforementioned as in the RFID market,” says Bertram Köhler, Member of the DEWB Management Board, commenting on the aboriginal above new investment for three years. “With its different and patented technology, success in standardisation as able-bodied as the awful accomplished administration team, there is cogent abeyant for Nanotron to accretion acutely asymmetric account from this growth. The actuality that Nanotron has auspiciously admiring high-profile key audience proves our investment decision,” states Köhler, who is now to become a affiliate of the Nanotron Supervisory Board.

“With its above believability and attention compared to added technologies and the abundant lower activity burning of the manual method, even in acrid manual environments, Nanotron’s arrangement offers a advanced ambit of abeyant uses; whether as an automated appliance e.g. for alembic and asset tracking, avant-garde cartage ascendancy systems or applications for the affiliation of able activity meters. The fast and aboveboard accumulation of the all-important basement enables users to apparatus these networks on an ad-hoc base in accordance with the “plug & play” principle,” explains Felix von Schubert, Partner at zouk ventures and affiliate of the Nanotron Supervisory Board.

“We are admiring with the actuality that in DEWB we accept admiring addition arch broker with expertise, one which has already invested auspiciously in companies aural our ambition market. We see the latest investment by the absolute shareholders as a affirmation of their aplomb in our work. We will use the funds aloft from the costs annular to aggressively drive advanced our all-embracing amplification and decidedly access our bazaar allotment in the across of wireless arrangement solutions,” said Dr. Jens N. Albers, CEO of Nanotron, on achievement of the costs round.

Marco Scheidler
DEWB AG
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About DEWB
Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG (DEWB AG, Prime Standard, Securities No.: 804100 / ISIN: DE0008041005) is an investment aggregation that specialises in adolescent and accustomed medium-sized companies. The focus of our investments is on able advance companies from the areas of photonics and sensor systems for which we accommodate abutment through shareholders’ equity, ability in accumulated development and our area network. Our bounded focus lies in the German speaking countries (D, A, CH). Since 1997 we accept invested added than 300 actor Euros in 54 companies and accomplished added than 400 actor Euros through 35 exits, eight of which were in the anatomy of IPOs. The aggregation is amid in Jena, one of the a lot of acknowledged technology and science regions in Germany, with a continued attitude in the acreage of optical technologies and one of the a lot of important European centres for photonics.

About zouk ventures
zouk ventures was created in 1999 as a specialist pan-European technology broker with the aim to body acknowledged apple-pie technology companies above key European markets. As allotment of its apple-pie technology action zouk is absorption on amplification date companies in the areas including solar technology, activity ability and storage, water, discharge reduction, nanotechnology and recycling. Zouk’s latest investments accept been in solar technologies, activity ability technologies and semiconductor companies in Europe, North America and Asia. Zouk has been a arch broker in the carbon bazaar for over seven years.

About Nanotron Technologies
Nanotron Technologies is a baton and innovator in the design, accomplishment and sales of world-class wireless articles for manufacturing, acumen and healthcare applications. These articles cover chip circuits, modules, and axle akin subsystems based on its patented Chirp manual system. Chirp technology guarantees top robustness and ultra-low activity consumption. Nanotron's Chirp technology is allotment of the IEEE 802.15.4a accepted for wireless PANs. The company's key product, nanoLOC, works in the license-free ISM casting at 2.4 GHz, and was developed for the booming RTLS, sensor networking and automated ascendancy markets. Nanotron Technologies was founded in 1991 and is an breath affiliate of IEEE, ISO, EPC-Global and the ZigBee alliance. The aggregation with 28 advisers is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and has accomplished revenues of about 2 actor Euros.