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75th Entrepreneurs’ Barbecue: “Continue the old, embark on the new”

Posted on by Simone Schappert

In April, the entrepreneurs’ barbecue was hosted by a member of the executive board for the first time in the eight-year history of the event: Professor Thomas Hirth, the new KIT Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs, personally fired up the grill and explained the significance of innovation at KIT and plans for the further development of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship (CIE) to attendants of the event. He was supported by the Head of KIT Innovation Management (IMA), Dr Jens Fahrenberg, and the Head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation (EnTechnon), Professor Orestis Terzidis.

Prof. Thomas Hirth am Grill

The BBQ chef during the 75th Entrepreneurs’ Barbecue: Prof. Orestis Terzidis, Prof. Thomas Hirth and Dr Jens Fahrenberg (left to right)

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Founder of the Month February: PARALUTION Labs UG

Posted on by Simone Schappert

Paralution Labs UG develops and sells its software PARALUTION, a software library for parallel calculation of sparsely populated linear equations. The software is hardware independent and thus gives inexperienced programmers the chance to use the newest research architectures. In addition to the development and sales of the software, the startup also offers services in the fields of “mathematics” and “parallel algorithms.” In an interview, we asked the team of Paralution Labs about the idea, the startup time, and the future prospects.

The founding team of PARALUTION: Nico Trost and Dimitar Lukarski (f.l.)

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KIT Entrepreneurship Event – Start of the semester founders’ get-together

Posted on by Karola Janz

KIT Entrepreneurship EventIn October, academic life at the KIT began for the 2015/2016 winter semester. The KIT Founders Forge, too, picked up speed again and welcomed founders and those interested in founding to the KIT Entrepreneurship Event on 10/22/2015 in cooperation with the Technologiefabrik Karlsruhe.

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KIT Entrepreneurship Talk – Silicon Valley meets Karlsruhe

Posted on by Petra Nitschke
Dr. Guido Appenzeller (Quelle: abusix)

Dr. Guido Appenzeller (Source: abusix)

As part of the special event “Silicon Valley meets Karlsruhe,” hosted by Karlsruhe startup abusix, the KIT Entrepreneurship Talk with Dr. Guido Appenzeller took place on May 12, 2015.

Dr. Appenzeller studied physics in Karlsruhe until 1996, writing his thesis at the KIT Institute for Anthropometrics and Robotics (IPR) with Prof. Dr. Dillmann. He then finished his doctoral dissertation in 2005 in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he was also an advisor as a junior professor from 2008 until 2010.
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