The 50th Founder's Grant for the TU Dresden goes to the Faculty of Computer Science

Team NEUBAU from the faculty of computer science gets the 50th EXIST-Founder’s grant for the TU Dresden. On Thursday, 18 August 2016 Marion Glowik who supervises the program, handed the grant to the founders. The TU Dresden is one of Germany's top 10 applicants for this start-up support and is significantly above average with a grant rate of 70 percent. Glowik says that „as a technical college with excellent research, the TU Dresden has a lot of potential for spin-offs and the numbers show that this potential is being utilized.“
The media computer scientists Thomas Meerpohl and Joshua Peschke have developed an intuitive control concept for digital music production during their study. Their approach is to connect sounds with geometric shapes, which allows also novices to implement musical ideas. The consultancy of the founding initiative dresden | exists lead to the development of a concrete business idea. Together with Clemens Schmiegel who is electrical engineer and also graduated at the TU Dresden, they are now developing a marketable software and hardware product. The founders also get support from Professor Raimund Dachselt from the chair of multimedia technology, who is in charge as a mentor.
Professor Gerhard Rödel, Vice President for research at the TU Dresden, congratulated the team and thanked all participants, enabling the start-ups. "The interaction of the EXIST-support, the broad support by the mentors and the advice from dresden | exist is an important success factor," says Rödel. "The spin-offs not only make an important contribution to the transfer of knowledge, but there are also arising important connections to the university and new impulses for research."