nanotype starts as one of the winners of the Munich Businessplan Competition

Although they only entered the competition in the last of three phases, the founders of the Munich Biotech start-up nanotype managed to become one of the top three. At the award party on July 19th 2000, the founders Hermann Gaub, Boris Steipe, Martin Benoit, Christian Albrecht, Filipp Oesterhelt and Gunnar Brink were endowed with 30.000 Deutschmarks for the third rank. In Germany's by far largest competition of this type they could convince the jury with their concept for nanotype.

"nanotype is developing a new measurement principle within the area of life science", describes Gunnar Brink the idea behind the spin-off from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. At the chair of the well known physicist Professor Hermann Gaub, scientists developed this new technique. One of the inventors is Filipp Oesterhelt. According to Oesterhelt "nanotype technologies will be used first in big Pharma, to accelerate drug search and to find new medicines for individualized therapy."

With this concept Brink and Oesterhelt could convince the jury of the Businessplan competition MBPW. After four years of existence, approximately 103 business ideas from this competition have already been established as enterprises, making the MBPW more successful than the famous Boston Businessplan Competition.