10-19-2010: High-Tech Gründerfonds and MAZ level one investing about EUR 550k in PAS-Analytik GmbH. The aim with this investment is to further develop the technology of laser-based photoacoustics and to push entry into the market for industrial and medical gas analysis.
PAS-Analytik GmbH was established in 2009 as an innovative, high-tech business spin off from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. The enterprise develops, produces and distributes spectroscopic gas sensors for industrial and medical applications. PAS-Analytik GmbH gas analysis systems operate on the highly effective principle of photoacoustics.
Senior Investment Manager Klaus Lehmann puts the case for High-Tech Gründerfonds investment as follows: “The demand for high-grade measuring technology on the market for gas analysis is steadily rising. The call is for innovative technologies that provide major benefit to the customer. Our investment will fund a highly innovative technology in the growth sector involving industrial and medical gas analysis; we are also investing in an exceptionally dynamic company that will certainly be able to master the market’s challenges.”
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