Innovative dent analysis arrangement for the semiconductor industry
- Largest Series B costs annular to date of any aggregation in the portfolio of the High-Tech Gruenderfonds
Jena/St. Gallen/Unterschleissheim/Munich/Bonn, May 8th, 2008 – Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG (DEWB) – Prime Standard, Securities No.: 804100 / ISIN: DE0008041005 – and BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v), a business angel network, alternate in the Series B costs annular of Nanda Technologies. The advance broker DEWB accordingly with the investors of b-to-v led by Dr. Christian Reitberger is demography an breath allotment in the added advance of Nanda. The costs annular has a absolute aggregate of 8m USD (5m EUR). Other investors cover the absolute shareholders Ventegis Capital AG and Bayern Kapital as able-bodied as the business angel Alexander Bruehl. This transaction concludes the better Series B costs annular to-date of any aggregation in the portfolio of the High-Tech Gruenderfonds.
Nanda was founded in 2006 to advance and accomplish optical, non-contacting analysis systems for the action ascendancy in semiconductor manufacturing. Semiconductor wafers are inspected for “macro defects” such as scratches, particles or added contaminants beyond again 1 micron. Nanda uses a new optical architecture accumulated with avant-garde angel processing to acutely access the acceleration of analysis while advancement top sensitivity. The aftereffect is a 10-fold abatement in analysis amount per dent compared to absolute tools. This and the bunched architecture of Nanda’s analysis arrangement accomplish it adorable to accommodate birthmark analysis anon into the assembly process. An industry first, Nanda enables the real-time, top acuteness birthmark analysis of all wafers after abridgement of the assembly throughput. Fast error-feedback permits accelerated action adjustments and appropriately increases action ramp-up speed, all-embracing crop and action apparatus uptime significantly. Nanda’s aboriginal bearing of analysis arrangement is currently beneath appraisal with arch semiconductor manufacturers.
“Nanda’s advocate arrangement architecture assertive us. The affiliation of its macro birthmark analysis anon into the semiconductor assembly action breeze promises cogent achievement and amount improvements. Net accumulation for the manufacturers can be significant. We see accomplished advance abeyant based on Nanda’s abstruse advantage and the acquaintance of its administration team. We apprehend acceptable after-effects from the appraisal action with arch semiconductor manufacturers and ahead accelerated bazaar acceptance” comments Falk Nuber, Member of the Management Board of DEWB.
„Nanda offers a ample advance potential. With its avant-garde band-aid Nanda addresses the fastest-growing articulation aural the dent analysis market. Our ability and ample industry contacts will advice Nanda advance into a acceptable success story”, says Dr. Christian Reitberger who invested in Nanda calm with nine added co-investors of the b-to-v arrangement and the b-to-v ancillary fund.
“We are actual admiring to accept won DEWB, b-to-v and Alexander Bruehl as new investors in Nanda. They accompany to the table their ample acquaintance and important arrangement aural the semiconductor industry. The new investors accompany our absolute shareholders Ventegis, Bayern Kapital and the High-Tech Gruenderfonds. We feel advantageous to accept a first-rate amphitheater of European investors that will account the development of our company. Moreover, we feel reaffirmed in our acquainted accommodation to body Nanda in Germany, admitting our able roots in the Silicon Valley” comments Dr. Lars Markwort, CEO. Johannes von Borries, CFO, adds: „The anchored banking bearings puts our bazaar access on solid area and provides us with an advantage in the seek for talents. For the addendum of our aggregation we can action abeyant candidates a actual adorable amalgamation of an agitative plan ambiance and accomplished career opportunities. We are currently analytic for experts in the across of optical and automated engineering as able-bodied as software development.
Marco Scheidler
DEWB AG
Leutragraben 1
Germany, 07743 Jena
Tel: +49 (0) 3641 573 3600
Fax: +49 (0) 3641 573 3610
E-Mail: ir@dewb-vc.com
www.dewb-vc.com
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 55 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 Nanda Technologies
Nanda Technologies offers its barter in the semiconductor industry a top throughput, top acuteness birthmark analysis technology that can be anon chip into action equipment. This makes it accessible to audit every dent at abounding apparent instead of just administering statistical tests. The acknowledgment aeon for action faults is bargain decidedly and action accessories malfunctions are bent and articular at an aboriginal stage. Nanda Technologies was founded in Munich by acclimatized admiral of the basic metrology accessories industry and food to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
Contact
Johannes von Borries
Lise-Meitner-Str. 3
85716 Unterschleissheim
Tel: +49 89 4523558-21
Fax: +49 89 4523558-70
borries@nanda-tech.com
www.nanda-tech.com
About b-to-v
BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v) is headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The aggregation serves ambitious clandestine investors who advance their capital, arrangement and ability in fast-growing companies. By authoritative this basin of capital, contacts and ability accessible to portfolio companies, b-to-v has accustomed a new business archetypal in the adventure basic and clandestine disinterestedness industry. With over 50 members, the b-to-v Investors Circle is the a lot of breath club of ambitious clandestine investors in German-speaking Europe. Based on the members’ expertise, b-to-v’s ambit of investment comprises added than 30 altered industries. It is the ambition of the Investors Circle to actualize amount for its portfolio companies and accomplish cogent profits from its investments. b-to-v’s Investors Circle invests about EUR 20m per year in aboriginal and amplification date companies as able-bodied as buyout cases. At present, b-to-v is invested in about forty companies. Investments alter amid EUR 500k and 3m per deal. www.b-to-v.com
About High-Tech Gruenderfonds
The High-Tech Gruenderfonds invests adventure basic in adolescent technology companies with top affairs that are appointment able accurate analysis to business enterprises. The berry costs shall aftereffect in a abstruse prototype, a affidavit of abstraction or a bazaar launch. High-Tech Gründerfonds has acceptance to a armamentarium aggregate of about 272,0 actor Euro. Investors in this public-private affiliation cover the Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology, the KfW Banking Group as able-bodied as the six industry companies BASF, Robert Bosch, Carl Zeiss, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom and Siemens. www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
About Seedfonds Bayern managed by Bayern Kapital
The Seedfonds Bayern was started in 2003. With a armamentarium admeasurement of 22m EUR it is focused on investments in aboriginal date technology companies in Bavaria. The armamentarium is managed by Bayern Kapital which was founded in 1995 by the Bavarian Government as allotment of the attack „Initiative Bavarian Future“ and to accommodate adolescent and innovated Bavarian companies with adventure capital. Up to date Bayern Kapital has invested in over 160 avant-garde high-tech companies with a absolute investment aggregate of about 130m EUR. More advice under: www.bayernkapital.de
About Ventegis Capital AG
Ventegis Capital AG is a listed adventure basic aggregation which invests nationally in high-growth companies from the aboriginal to the amplification stage. The focus of its investments lies in the areas of advice and advice technology (ICT), automated technologies and activity science. Ventegis aswell provides advising casework in accumulated finance. The capital actor of the aggregation with ca. 94.3 % is the Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG, which is listed on the official bazaar (ISIN DE0005221303). www.ventegis-capital.de
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