Nanostart AG is the leading venture capital investment firm in nanotechnology
Nanostart invests in emerging, highly promising nanotechnology companies worldwide that hold the potential to deliver extraordinary rates of return.
As an active investor, we seek to add value by aiding these innovative companies up through to the point of commercial success, then maximize profits for our shareholders by selling them to a major corporate buyer or take them public.
We had ten corporate sales or public offers until now. Our portfolio companies span the globe, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. Learn more about us >>
“We’re dealing with a new age of technology”: On February 15 at 5:00 p.m., science journalist Nils Boeing will be a guest on the Nanostart program NanoWebTalk. The topic of his presentation is “Nanotechnology: risks and secondary (media) effects.” He explains in this interview 
More efficient heating insulation, more robust building materials, more environmentally sustainable energy production – which is particularly important in winter – are all due primarily to the rapid progress in materials and energy management. Nanotechnology is increasingly playing a critical role. 
In an interview to mark the end of 2011, Marco Beckmann, CEO of Nanostart AG, looks back, reports on current developments and takes stock of share price performance 
Nanotechnology in medicine: effective, targeted and fast: An aging society and demographic shift have led to an increasing need for new or improved medical technologies and processes. Nanotechnology – with its potential for improving medications, their formulations and transport mechanisms, or allowing completely new diagnoses – has long been a topic of key interest in the field of medicine. 
Statement by Nanostart AG on the press release by Nanogate AG dated December 9, 2011
nano.DE-Report 2011: Nanotechnology on Track for Growth
"Only the Best Technologies Are Used in Space Travel": We spoke to Dr. Frank Meyer, Head of Research and Development at ItN Nanovation AG, about the orbiter, its mission and how the ItN high-performance ceramics will be contributing to the success of the overall mission 
Nanosys promises better color in TVs, digital devices: the Los Angeles Times reports on the technology of Nanostart-holding Nanosys 
