Founder Profil
Paolo Sommariva experience encompasses management, consulting and entrepreneurship. In the internet boom around 2000, he co-founded FirstTuesday and developed a network in Italy with 20.000 members hosting monthly meeting with attendance of 2.000 entrepreneurs, VC’s and other professionals each month. He also participated in the startup of Virgilio, the first and most successful iIalian portal, and then worked in Venture Capital with the internet branch of Syntek in Milano. After leaving the internet sector in 2002, he dedicated his time to aviation, founding the first seaplane airline in southern Italy, and later a regional airline in Vicenza. He then researched the requirements for aviation operations software, and built the grounds for FL3XX since 2006.

Products:
FL3XX software suite is available as an online service to all business jet operators. Initial market target is EU, comprising about 50 large operators (>10 aircraft) representing about half of the total of almost 3.000 business jets based in EU.

The product handles the entire operations from booking, through scheduling, crew management, dispatch and flight operations, optimizing all resources, and maintaining compliance to all applicable rules and laws.

Contact
Fl3XX Gmbh
Softwarepark 21
A-4232 Hagenberg
Tel.: n.a.
Fax: n.a.
E-Mail: info@FL3XX.com

Start-up with a wave of ideas
Numerous experts say this is the most innovative new company currently on the market. IsiQiri interface technologies GmbH with its headquarters at the Hagenberg Software Park was founded by Robert Koeppe and Richard Ebner in 2009. The one being a physicist and inventor, the other a businessman. During its first year, isiQiri was already number one in Upper Austria in terms of patents per employee. And they have had no intention of slowing down. Its interesting technology makes this company a fast-growing player. It has currently extended staff to 13 employees, mainly hardware and software developers. IsiQiri develops and produces large-scale sensor systems able to receive data from distant positions. To be more precise: computer commands can be put in quickly and simply by way of laser pointers, a pen or even by using a finder. If necessary, several users may do this at the same time – if many users want to browse a schedule, for example – and they may even do so from a longer distance. The heart and soul of this innovation is a novel control technology allowing large or even curved surfaces to be made light-sensitive at comparatively low costs. The required film can be produced up to the size of a cinema screen. Possible applications are many and varied. Products can be used for games, presentation technologies, training and much more. The same technology can also be used on large touch screens in public buildings or shopping centres.

Extended rating list:
1.isiQiri
2.FL3XX
3.Scio enterprise
4.Runtastic
5.FerRobotics

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Source: Chefinfo issue 07/2011

On 7 June, Scio enterprises presented the innovative knowledge platform “Expertaneous” for the very first time. Prominent experts from the field of management as well as nutrition expert Sasha Walleczek find it to be a compelling project, and they will be offering high-quality pointers there in the future – even electronically.

“Using the right kind of knowledge delivers more findings, resulting in quicker success” – this is the guiding principle of the young, innovative start-up company from Hagenberg that presented the novel “Expertaneous” project for the first time. Scio uses it to deliver knowledge from high-profile, recognised experts to professionals, young executives, entrepreneurs and all those looking for specific information by using short videos or expert audio messages. All answers are precisely geared to the requirements of clients, according to their relevant industries, experience and interests, either online or via mobile phone app.

“Millions of young professionals have to solve a large number of challenging issues and make the right decisions everyday. That is what drives their careers. There are many who get sleepless nights or experience personal distress as a result. Expertaneous takes the role of an external mentor at the click of a button. Due to its long-standing experience, it is able to provide pointers exactly when they are needed”, says Hubert Hofmann, founder and Managing Director of scio.

Apart from extensive management know-how offered by Expertaneous, Sasha Walleczek, a nutrition expert, is also convinced that this new platform has compelling propositions to offer, and he makes his entire expert knowledge on health and nutrition topics available to it. “I looked for such a project for a long time, because it allows me to share my know-how with many interested people and to keep in touch quickly and easily.”

Scio enterprises among TOP25 start-ups in Europe.
Scio enterprises was founded in early 2011, and it has already received its first international award: In May 2011 it was voted among the TOP25 start-up companies in Europe by the Tech Tour Association, an independent association based in Geneva.

Press contact:
Scio enterprises, Dr. Hubert Hofmann, CEO,
hubert.hofmann@scioenterprises.com; +43 676 844729200
Softwarepark 26/20, A 4232 Hagenberg im Mühlkreis, Upper Austria
Web: http://scioenterprises.com/ http://expertaneous.com

Technology basis of isiQiri is its proprietary Q-Foil technology. Using this technology it is possible to replace Silicon in position-sensitive photo detectors with a laminate of special plastic foils. Such isiQiri can overcome the space limitations of the silicon wafer and produce photo detectors up to several square meters in size.

There is a wide range of products that can be made with Q-Foil technology ranging from interactive projection screens and shop windows to large touchscreens or solutions for person tracking, gesture recognition and shooting training for sports.

isiQiri is located in Hagenberg in Upper Austria and has a subsidiary in San Jose / California.

Founder Profile

Richard Ebner is CEO of isiQiri and one of the founders. He has a degree in Technical Physics from the Technical University in Vienna and used to work in international marketing and sales and management for more than 10 years in two well-known Austrian companies.

In addition to that he has been working as a consultant for high-tech-startups for 3 years before he decided to found his own start-up.

Robert Koeppe is the inventor of the Q-Foil technology and heads R&D at isiQiri. He founded the company together with Richard Ebner.

He studied physics in Munich and Linz, where he got his degree.

Products:

The first product marketed by isiQiri is the Q-Screen, an interactive projection screen. Currently a second product is under development for multi-touch applications on large LCD screens. isiQiri delivers sensor technology to be integrated into these products, bundled and sold by master integration partners. Besides that isiQiri develops customer specific solutions in the field of sensor systems like for example laser interactive shooting targets for biathlon training

Contact
isiQiri interface technologies Gmbh
Softwarepark 37
A-4232 Hagenberg bei Linz
Tel.: +43-7236-33514-150
Fax: +43-7236-33514-159
E-mail: office@isiqiricom

The Department of Commerce has advertised the state award for innovation for the most innovative Austrian Enterprises for the 31^st time. This year 614 (!) projects had been handed in for evaluation. The winners of the prices, which were chosen by a jury with top-class members, have been awarded at the 22^nd of March 2011 by the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Reinhold Mitterlehner.

Link: Website isiQiri

Lately the online news portal told us about new inventions. Among others the tech2b incubator based in the software park Hagenberg, was listed.

Welt-Online has interviewed Siegfried Bauer, professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and says:
“The enterprise isiQiri has already launched Qfoil. The flexible plastics consists of small sensors which are thinner than one millimeter and which are able to catch focused beams of light. Due to this fact illustrations of a computer screen can be beamed on a wall and controlled by a laser pointer. A program can be started by touching the projected symbol with the focused beam of light.”

The foundation is supported by the International Incubator Hagenberg. Through the incubation program the founders attention was directed to the software park as location for their company. “For the FL3XX-team Hagenberg is the ideal place the get started. The resources and the infrastructure meet all the expectations of fast growing technology start-ups”, says Paolo Sommariva, CEO of FL3XX.

Soon the first flights will be ready for take off according to flight schedules generated by software “Made in Hagenberg.”

isiQiri interface technologies GmbH

The start-up’s work is based on research results published by the Johannes Kepler University. For the field of research and development a tight cooperation with Department of Soft Matter Physics is maintained.

From their new address Softwarepark 37 the isiQiri team will control the world-wide distribution of their products and the development of new innovative products.

Accompanied by Ljubomir Aleskic, BBI measure manager, Kirchweger and Preisinger visited Subotica, where they met with the management of BIS and representatives of local government, as well as the incubees. Afterwards, Austrian partners spent a day in business incubator in Senta and on meetings in Novi Sad, and the final visit brougt them to Zrenjanin.
This visit is one of the activities of BBI programme, implemented by the Provincial Secretariat for Economy within the project Strategic partnership in support of the Integrated Regional Development Plan of AP Vojvodina.

With this system one can for example interact with Prezi presentations or video games from any position in the room.