Meet the Startup NanoStruct, They Are Listening to Molecules

Meet NanoStruct, a startup enhancing spectroscopy with nanostructures for reliable biotech, pharma, and food industry applications.

What Is This About?

NanoStruct enhances spectroscopy using nanostructures for reliable applications in biotech, pharma, and the food industry. This interview explores how the deep tech startup's technology enables more precise molecular analysis, potentially revolutionizing quality control and diagnostics across multiple industries.

Introduction

NanoStruct enhances spectroscopy using nanostructures for applications in biotech, pharma, and the food industry. This interview explores how the deep tech startup enables more precise molecular analysis that could transform quality control and diagnostics across multiple sectors.

NanoStruct enhances spectroscopy using nanostructures for biotech, pharma, and food industry applications, enabling more precise molecular analysis for quality control and diagnostics.

This founder interview is part of our ongoing coverage of Scaleup Founder Interviews from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Meet NanoStruct, a startup enhancing spectroscopy with nanostructures for reliable biotech, pharma, and food industry applications. Startuprad.io brings you independent coverage of the key developments shaping the startup and venture capital landscape across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

This story was migrated from our old blog, originally published on June 3rd, 2021.

Meet the Startup NanoStruct, they are listening to Molecules

We are working in structures the size of nanometers. The average piece of paper is about 100.000 nanometers thick.Henriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

The Founder

We talk to Henriette Maaß (https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriette-maa%C3%9F-608792142/), co-founder and CEO of the startup NanoStruct. During her Ph.D. in solid-state physics, she looked at the electronic state of materials. She founded NanoStruct (https://www.nanostruct.eu/en/home-english/)during her post-doc at university.

Henriette went on record here to admit that she is a Star Wars and Star Trek fan.

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The reproducibility of nanostructures is normally not good. We can re-produce them more reliable.Henriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

The Startup

The idea of NanoStruct came when Henriette talked to her co-founder, who pursued his Ph.D. using spectroscopy as well, but another method. They are working on nanostructures like normal antennas but in nanometer sizes. The antennas function for frequencies of visible light, for which they have a reliable way to produce them over and over (which is not common for nanostructures). Their product can be used to search for contaminations like in biotech, pharma, or the food industry. You can learn more on their company website https://www.nanostruct.eu/en/home-english/

They are planning to do the production themselves since their production is neither expensive nor complex.

Don’t be scared of physic, it is actually a lot of funHenriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

Venture Capital Funding

NanoStruct is currently running on a federal grant for transferring research results into feasible products. They are looking for similar follow-up funding, until mid-2022, when they would rely on external investors. They are currently just starting to reach out.

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Further Readings / Additional Resources

Spectroscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy

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What is this article about: Meet the Startup NanoStruct, They Are Listening to Molecules?

Meet NanoStruct, a startup enhancing spectroscopy with nanostructures for reliable biotech, pharma, and food industry applications.

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NanoStruct enhances spectroscopy using nanostructures for reliable applications in biotech, pharma, and the food industry. This interview explores how the deep tech startup's technology enables more precise molecular analysis, potentially revolutionizing quality control and diagnostics across multiple industries.

How does this topic connect to the broader startup ecosystem?

NanoStruct enhances spectroscopy using nanostructures for applications in biotech, pharma, and the food industry. This interview explores how the deep tech startup enables more precise molecular analysis that could transform quality control and diagnostics across multiple sectors.

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