Portfolio Bavaria

Current Incubatees

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Sitegeist

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Infrastructure & Smart Cities, Technology Transfer

Sitegeist helps construction companies tackle labor shortages and increase productivity by providing intelligent, modular robots with advanced safety features.

SmartAIs

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Downstream, GNSS, Health

Blind and visually impaired people face outdoor challenges like navigating around obstacles and inaccurate GPS navigation. SmartAIs provides a user-friendly app that uses smartphone cameras to detect obstacles and improve GPS navigation with visual data, offering a safer, independent solution for outdoor mobility.

SPARK Microgravity

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Health, Satellites, Upstream

SPARK Microgravity is your orbital lab โ€“ advancing cancer research by using microgravity to unlock breakthrough therapies faster, cheaper and easier than on earth.

TALOS

  • Location: Neubiberg
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Downstream, Environment, Wildlife and Natural Resources, SatCom, Satellites

TALOS will provide state-of-the-art IoT technology to track wildlife, livestock, or other assets globally and seamlessly, using its own cubesat constellation and miniature IoT trackers. These trackers, weighing just 5 grams, are compact and unobtrusive, making them ideal for animal tracking. Our solution will be offered as a service to customers in agriculture, science, and other domains.

TerraLens

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Data platforms and IoT, Downstream, Earth Observation

TerraLens, a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), offers cutting edge solutions to exploit EO data for political and strategic decision making. We fill the gap between scientific prototyping and operational requirements by implementing state-of-the-art algorithms into professional software solutions for security-relevant applications. Our automatic monitoring solutions enable non-technical end-users to easily define their specific problem, analyze vast amounts of data with little effort, interact with the original data and the extracted insights, and take actions based on these insights.

Versatile Robotics

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Safety & Security, Technology Transfer

Sensitive interactions require robot controllers that can react flexibly. Such controllers currently still have stability/safety problems, low precision and high tuning costs. We offer the first generic full-body controller including AI software for robots that provides stability, safety, precision and prevents vibrations and overshoot. We operate in both upstream domains, integrating our software into robotic arms, and downstream activities, leveraging data tracked through our software. Application fields are for example on-orbit servicing and planetary exploration.

VORTEX Aerotec

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Incubatee
  • Application Field: Aviation / Aeronautics / Drones, Downstream, GNSS

VORTEX is developing Ventus, a fuel-cell-powered long-range eVTOL drone for middle mile logistics, offering 500 km range, 50 kg payload capacity, and rapid five-minute refueling. Unlike short-range battery drones or gas turbine competitors, Ventus combines low emissions, large cargo space, and compact design with GNSS-PPP precision navigation for safe BVLOS operations. Backed by IP in aerodynamics, hybrid power control, and fuel cell integration, the experienced VORTEX team is targeting a fast-growing $3B market with a scalable OEM approach.

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CargoKite

  • Location: Neubiberg
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Downstream, GNSS, SatCom, Transport / Logistics

CargoKite is developing the worldโ€™s first autonomous, kite-propelled cargo ship, using Airborne Wind Energy and hydrofoil technology to enable fast, reliable, and emission-free shipping. Targeting the โ‚ฌ15.8B intra-European short-sea market, CargoKite will operate a pilot freight vessel by 2024, scaling to series production in 2027โ€”delivering a truly viable zero-carbon alternative for global trade.

Celestial Space Technologies

  • Location: Nuremberg
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Ground Systems, Satellites, Space technologies, Upstream

Celus

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Data platforms and IoT, Other, Upstream

Cevotec

  • Location: Ottobrunn
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Aviation / Aeronautics / Drones

Fiber patch placement technology for aerospace, automative, and industrial applications

CLOUDEO

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Downstream, Earth Observation, Environment, Wildlife and Natural Resources

Earth observation data marketplace & geospatial analytics platform.

CM1

  • Location: Nuremberg
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Downstream, GNSS, Infrastructure & Smart Cities

CM1 uses its high-precision GNSS-based sensors to record the position and extent of roadworks in real time. The information is made available to users centrally for further processing via the company’s own backend. The sensors are configured and the data visualized via an intuitive CM1 front end.

CSA

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Downstream, Earth Observation, Energy

CSA relies in the access and application of satellite based information to gather statistical and current data for solar irradiation, aerosols, and cloud dynamics to be used in performance modelling and verification of photovoltaic power generation systems, their components and operational environmental conditions.

cstream

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Health, Technology Transfer

Data Machine Intelligence Solutions

  • Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Status: Alumni
  • Application Field: Other, Space technologies, Upstream

DMI enables safe automation in aerospace by bridging the gap between complex AI technology and mission-critical safety requirements. With a library of AI automation models and a powerful compute and simulation infrastructure, we help aerospace companies shorten development cycles and deploy reliable autonomyโ€”from urban drones to satellites and planetary exploration.