{"id":5023,"date":"2020-06-18T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/v4\/2020\/10\/07\/bmt-invests-in-precipoint-to-fund-next-growth-stage\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:29:16","slug":"bmt-invests-in-precipoint-to-fund-next-growth-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2020-en\/bmt-invests-in-precipoint-to-fund-next-growth-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"bm|t invests in PreciPoint to fund next growth stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint has com\u00adpleted a seven-digit growth financ\u00ading round in spring 2020. The round was led by bm|t and sup\u00adported by all other exist\u00ading investors, who showed their con\u00adtin\u00adued com\u00admit\u00adment to the com\u00adpany. The sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant invest\u00adment will be used to fund the next stage in the company\u00b4s devel\u00adop\u00adment. \u201cWe are very delighted to invest in PreciPoint\u00b4s strong team, its tech\u00adnol\u00adogy and its vision to fight can\u00adcer\u201c, com\u00admented Ste\u00adfan Jahn, Senior Invest\u00adment Man\u00adager at bm|t. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint deliv\u00aders scal\u00adable solu\u00adtions for auto\u00admated dig\u00adi\u00adti\u00adza\u00adtion and ana\u00adlyt\u00adics for microscopy work\u00adflows. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint thus tack\u00adles a key chal\u00adlenge in can\u00adcer diag\u00adnos\u00adtics. Its solu\u00adtions and prod\u00aducts enable a wide range of qual\u00adity, effec\u00adtive\u00adness, and effi\u00adciency gains for users. As dig\u00adi\u00adtal microscopy accel\u00ader\u00adates work\u00adflows Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint enables new busi\u00adness mod\u00adels and modes of col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion and improves qual\u00adity of output.<\/div>\n<h3><strong>About digital microscopy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>Today, almost 100% of micro\u00adscopic analy\u00adsis in life sci\u00adences is still per\u00adformed man\u00adu\u00adally. While dig\u00adi\u00adtal microscopy has been around for quite some time, adop\u00adtion in the past has been slow. Can\u00adcer tis\u00adsue, sperm, yeast or plants, among oth\u00aders, are still analysed using ana\u00adlogue micro\u00adscopes \u2014 which is not that dif\u00adfer\u00adent com\u00adpared to 30\u201340&nbsp;years ago. That is expected to change. \u201cWe expect the 2020ies to be remem\u00adbered as the decade when microscopy went truly dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u201d, Nico\u00adlas Weiss and Dominik Ger\u00adber, the CEOs of Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint, con\u00adfi\u00addently state. Dur\u00ading the next 5 to 10&nbsp;years, the mar\u00adket for micro\u00adscopic can\u00adcer diag\u00adnos\u00adtics alone will grow to 3\u20135 bil\u00adlion EUR p.a. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint aims to shape this mar\u00adket and par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in its rapid growth.<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Preparing for strong growth<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint offers inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive microscopy hard\u00adware and robot\u00adics to mul\u00adti\u00adply through\u00adput and its cus\u00adtomiz\u00adable and scal\u00adable soft\u00adware solu\u00adtions allow for smooth inte\u00adgra\u00adtion into exist\u00ading work\u00adflows. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint dis\u00adtin\u00adguishes itself clearly from other mar\u00adket par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants by pro\u00advid\u00ading full solu\u00adtions tai\u00adlored to spe\u00adcific use cases, rather than focus\u00ading on microscopy hard\u00adware alone. While its research solu\u00adtions are already cur\u00adrently sold to users all across the globe, the com\u00adpany has ambi\u00adtious plans to fuel future growth. In the pipeline are AI- and blockchain-appli\u00adca\u00adtions and an exten\u00adsive patent port\u00adfo\u00adlio to rein\u00adforce and pro\u00adtect its tech\u00adnol\u00adogy. The com\u00adpany has also made sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant progress to estab\u00adlish part\u00adner\u00adships with well-known seg\u00adment spe\u00adcial\u00adists and to attain inter\u00adna\u00adtional med\u00adical cer\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions, both of which will sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcantly boost the company\u00b4s mar\u00adket access and reach. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint now has over 40 employ\u00adees in two loca\u00adtions in Thuringia and Bavaria. Its team is extremely diverse, bring\u00ading together, for exam\u00adple, soft\u00adware engi\u00adneers and PhDs in physics and biol\u00adogy with busi\u00adness man\u00adage\u00adment grad\u00adu\u00adates and a highly skilled pro\u00adduc\u00adtion team. Employ\u00ading an almost equal share of women and men, the age range spans from 19 to 65&nbsp;years of age. All employ\u00adees are extremely pas\u00adsion\u00adate about Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint, its cul\u00adture and its ambi\u00adtion. \u201cThe team has an excel\u00adlent bal\u00adance between tech\u00adnol\u00adogy and busi\u00adness lead\u00aders. The firm def\u00adi\u00adnitely has the poten\u00adtial to be a dri\u00adving force in dig\u00adi\u00adtal microscopy and can\u00adcer diag\u00adnos\u00adtics in the years ahead. We are very excited to be part of it\u201d, stated Ste\u00adfan Jahn, bm|t.<\/div>\n<div><strong>About bm|t<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>bm|t is the first address for invest\u00adments in Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen, Ger\u00admany. bm|t invests in start-up teams and com\u00adpa\u00adnies in the Free State with a clear aim of gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading pos\u00adi\u00adtive invest\u00adment returns. This is how inno\u00adva\u00adtion and eco\u00adnomic growth in Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen are financed. bm|t cur\u00adrently man\u00adages eight funds with a total vol\u00adume of over 400 mil\u00adlion euros and invests in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies in nearly all sec\u00adtors and in all phases of com\u00adpany devel\u00adop\u00adment \u2014 from the start-up and growth phases to buy\u00adouts and other suc\u00adces\u00adsion sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions. For more infor\u00adma\u00adtion visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bm-t.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bm\u2011t.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<h3><strong>About PreciPoint<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div>Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint is a dig\u00adi\u00adtal microscopy start-up, offer\u00ading microscopy hard\u00adware and robot\u00adics in con\u00adnec\u00adtion with exist\u00ading lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtory man\u00adage\u00adment sys\u00adtems and soft\u00adware pow\u00adered ana\u00adlyt\u00adics to com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsively dig\u00adi\u00adtize microscopy work\u00adflows. The com\u00adpany aims to take a lead\u00ading posi\u00adtion in can\u00adcer diag\u00adnos\u00adtics. Its solu\u00adtions and prod\u00aducts enable a wide range of qual\u00adity, effec\u00adtive\u00adness, and effi\u00adciency gains for users. As dig\u00adi\u00adtal microscopy accel\u00ader\u00adates work\u00adflows, Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint enables new busi\u00adness mod\u00adels and modes of col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion while improv\u00ading qual\u00adity of out\u00adput. Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint dif\u00adfer\u00aden\u00adti\u00adates itself by pro\u00advid\u00ading full solu\u00adtions tai\u00adlored to spe\u00adcific use cases, an excep\u00adtional and inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive prod\u00aduct offer\u00ading, and a laser focus on client needs all with the high\u00adest qual\u00adity devel\u00adoped and made in Ger\u00admany. For more infor\u00adma\u00adtion visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precipoint.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.precipoint.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre\u00adci\u00adPoint has com\u00adpleted a seven-digit growth financ\u00ading round in spring 2020. The round was led by bm|t and sup\u00adported by all other exist\u00ading investors, who showed their con\u00adtin\u00adued com\u00admit\u00adment to the com\u00adpany. The sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant invest\u00adment will be used to fund the next stage in the company\u00b4s devel\u00adop\u00adment. \u201cWe are very delighted to invest in PreciPoint\u00b4s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}