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Start-Up Companies.

Interested in partnering with the JKU? The LIT OIC is ideal to partner with JKU researchers and companies. Together with our partners, such as tech2b, we provide support ranging from their idea to creating the start-up.

Entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies

Brigdecom Semiconductors

Established in early 2023, Brigdecom Semiconductors is a tech company developing 5G semiconductor products for the Internet of Things (IoT), helping to drive digital transformation of society forward. With offices in Linz, Dresden, and Munich, Brigdecom works closely with its partner network in China as well as worldwide.

The core team consists of former wireless communication industry experts from international companies including Infineon, Intel, and Apple. Bridgecom's goal is to become a leading global chip manufacturer in the cellular IoT industry by focusing on 3GPP protocol standards and conducting research to create 5G chips for eMBB, RedCap, and Massive IoT. Brigdecom's Linz office was selected on account of existing expertise in wireless communication and radio frequency (RF) technology in effort to benefit from, among others, partnerships with the JKU, SAL, and industry experts.

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qapture GmbH

The Linz-based start-up qapture bears the motto "Virtualize Reality", focusing on holistically transitioning production facilities and factories' transfer assets from the analog world to the digital world. Using state-of-the-art laser scanning, and along with the support of our robot dog, "Spot", we are creating identical "digital twins" of buildings and plants as well as focusing on creating solutions to support automatic object recognition, asset tagging, and digital inventory.

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Jobiqo GmbH

Jobiqo is a leading job board provider applying AI-driven matching technology to combine the advantages of a scalable software-as-a-service platform with the versatility of customized solutions. When it comes to online recruiting, we help publishers, local newspapers, educational institutions, and job board operators attain a new level of quality and professionalism. By serving over 100 customers in over 20 markets around the world, we are the worldwide leader of job board software.

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Plastic Innovation GmbH

BE INNOVATION! Our passion for Injection Molding and Product Engineering is our business. We love to be able to provide support services. Plastic Innovation GmbH offers innovative solutions in the field of polymer technology to revolutionize its customers' products. Based on the Plastic Innovation team's experience across different industries and value chains, the company is able to address and solve challenges through synergies and analogies in line with the zeitgeist of the times. One of the company's milestones during its young history included using special techniques in injection molding to create the first plastic bicycle frame.

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ACG Research Board Service Center GmbH

To date, there has been little ongoing monitoring of corporate governance activities in Austria's capital market by a scientific institution and corporate management does not have access to any scientifically prepared documentation regarding current corporate governance practices. As a result, there is insufficient benchmarking of corporate governance practices at individual companies. The Board Service Center addresses this important gap in the Austrian market and provides valuable support to professionalize supervisory board activities.

Heading365

Heading365 GmbH is a specialist in the development of aviation training software. Our employees, software developers, pilots and flight examiners, close important gaps in the training of future and active airline pilots with our applications. An application that simulates the behaviour of on-board computers of different aircraft models saves several hours of valuable full-flight simulator time and thus increases training quality and planning reliability.

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MatheArena

MatheArena, an innovative EdTech start-up in Upper Austria, specializes in teaching math in a fun, playful way. Established in 2014 by Eva-Maria and Gerald Infanger, the project evolved into creating a leading math learning app. MatheArena is an internationally accessible adaptive learning platform designed to make mathematics more approachable by means of microlearning games and short games.

MatheArena is for anyone looking to hone their math skills and making mathematics an international language to connect people from around the world. In partnership with the Veritas Publishing, the app has been available at Austrian schools since the 2023/2024 academic year. The app combines artificial intelligence to forge personalize learning paths, helping to individualize educational aspects and learning as well as allow students to learn without any time and location constraints. Teachers also do not have to assign as much homework and correct.

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Responsible Annotation Services GmbH

Responsible Annotation Services offers high-quality data annotation with a strong focus on social responsibility. As an ethical and regional partner, they aim to become the leading provider of AI training data in the German-speaking region, distinguished by their close proximity to clients.

Their services are aimed at companies in the AI industry that require high-quality standards, particularly in the phases where annotations for training data are crucial. They place great emphasis on close collaboration, ethical working conditions, fair wages, and the creation of valuable jobs. Through agile projects and transparent contracts, they provide customized annotations that meet the specific needs of their clients.

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SURFjobs - The Career Orientation Platform for the TikTok Generation

SURFjobs is revolutionizing career orientation with authentic short videos. Students discover professions and apprenticeship companies interactively and can apply for trial days or apprenticeship positions with just two clicks in the custom-developed app. Companies present themselves as attractive employers, while teachers are optimally supported with digital tools. Our mission: To make career orientation simple, exciting, and efficient!

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FoMB Forum MedienBildung GmbH

Forum Medienbildung (FoMB) is committed to promoting comprehensive media literacy in education. The vision is to establish education and media competence as inseparable components of a forward-thinking school curriculum. This enables students to fully realize their potential in a digital world.

FoMB launched the initiative medienbildung.at to connect educational institutions with media organizations and provide practical, scientifically-based teaching materials. This evolved into medienfuehrerschein.at, a standardized learning program that supports students and teachers and promotes the safe and critical use of digital media.

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Jobsi

The first job listing platform in Austria focused on supplementary income, part-time work and side jobs has a strong emphasis on developing products that create added value in job and employee search through artificial intelligence.

Jobsi.at is researching recommendation services that can be operated with natural language, as well as the intelligent collection and structuring of publicly available unstructured data. The proximity to JKU and research cooperation partners makes the LIT OIC the ideal location for the company.

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Signowls FlexCo

Artificial intelligence from theory to practice – creating innovations that make a difference. As a research and implementation partner, Signowls supports the development and implementation of innovative AI solutions.

With our own projects such as MarketPrediction.ai and Vibes by AI, we combine research, creativity, and practical experience. This leads to solutions for data-driven decision-making processes, sentiment analysis, and AI-supported media production.

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Network Partners

tech2b Inkubator GmbH

Tech2b supports, assists, and expedites the development of innovative, technology-oriented start-up projects. Acceptance to the tech2b program (AplusB) helps develop business ideas in a more structured and targeted way and bring them on the market. Tech2b offers support services ranging from strategic consulting and mentoring, to providing infrastructure and an extensive network to provide financial support to implement research findings for new products, services and at companies. Take advantage of the opportunity to talk to us directly at the OIC!

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The Economic Chamber of Upper Austria

Entrepreneurs and start-up companies can take advantage of consultation and support services offered by the Economic Chamber and TIM to draft, plan, and implement (technology) projects starting with an idea to practice! We work in a practice-oriented, uncomplicated way and consider ourselves to be a a "sparring partner" for enterprising companies. Our network is broad, including technologies, entrepreneurial assistance, funding and export assistance.

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