Company

Nanostart AG, founded in 2003, is the leading nanotechnology investment company.

Identifying opportunities early
Nanostart looks for young, up-and-coming companies which seek to commercialize a highly promising nanotechnology-based product or process. In selecting its portfolio companies, Nanostart particularly focuses on identifying companies whose innovations stand to solve some of the most challenging future problems facing mankind.

Investing with focus
Nanostart intensively examines its investment candidates. As a provider of venture capital to companies around the world, Nanostart invests in those phases in which the growth in companies and their value are the most rapid and profitable. These investments are made either directly by Nanostart AG or through a fund structure.

Commercializing for success
We invest not only with our financial capital but also by providing advisory support with our management experience and commercialization know-how. Beyond this, Nanostart portfolio companies benefit from our global network of contacts in business, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as among investors and capital market experts.

Selling at a profit
Every portfolio investment is made with a view toward a successful exit. The goal of Nanostart is thus to be able to sell our holdings when the time is right to a commercial buyer for a substantial profit. Along the way to this ultimate goal, initial public offerings may help access new sources of capital.

Doing business globally
Nanostart identifies investment candidates from the world’s most promising nanotechnology companies. Its portfolio thus spans the globe, from the research centers of Germany all the way to Silicon Valley and Singapore. Nanostart is currently invested in ten portfolio companies.

The headquarters of Nanostart is in Frankfurt, the financial capital of Germany, from where CEO Marco Beckmann manages the company’s global portfolio and business activities with his experienced investment team. The company’s supervisory board, which consists of renowned figures from the worlds of business and technology, actively participates in all important decisions. Nanostart AG has a branch office in Berlin, and in 2008 it established a wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore, Nanostart Asia Pte Ltd. For more information about Nanostart’s activities in Singapore, click here >>