This October, SHS held its first SHS Portfolio Days. This new format was created to give SHS portfolio companies the opportunity to present themselves in an online format to potential strategic partners and other interested audiences. This year’s Portfolio Days consisted of two blocks of two dates each. The first block was made up of […]

Dr Cornelius Maas is responsible for the so-called deal flow at SHS. One of his main tasks is to find suitable companies in which SHS would like to invest. Fundraising for the SHS VI fund is running very successfully and is almost complete. Time for a few questions for Dr Maas: Dr Maas, what criteria […]

Last Sunday, the SHS team took part in this year’s Tübingen Nikolauslauf. For the 47th time, the Nikolauslauf, organised by Post-SV Tübingen and sponsored by itdesign and several other companies, took place in Tübingen. 2619 participants successfully completed the 21 kilometre run. Among them were a few SHS employees as well as SHS friends. As […]

The Swiss company TRI® Dental Implants now offers dental practices a super-fast workflow for restoring implant patients in just 60 minutes. This is made possible by the unique matrix® implant line, which requires no abutments and no cement. A real step forward for patients and dentists. More information: https://t1p.de/yqjgz

Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) live on sub-Antarctic islands and can dive more than 180 metres deep, their maximum speed in the water is around 35 km/h. Since penguins do not have gills, but are birds with lungs, researchers from the Fundación Oceanogràfic want to find out how exactly the lungs of gentoo penguins work. To […]

On the occasion of a meeting of the renowned French Académie Nationale de Chirurgie at the Institut Faire Faces, the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, was able to personally convince herself of the performance of the CARLO® surgical robot. The Institut Faire Faces was founded in 2009 in Amiens, the birthplace of Brigitte Macron, […]

Here we introduce you to the SHS senior advisors. The experience of these experts plays an important role for us in the investment process and benefits not least our portfolio companies. Dr Enzelberger is currently a partner at Versant Ventures in Basel, where he builds new companies in drug discovery and biotechnology. Prior to that, […]

In our series “SHS portfolio companies”, today we talk to Tobias Richter, founder and CEO of the Swiss TRI Dental Implants Int. AG, in which SHS has held a stake since 2014. In 2011, Tobias Richter founded the company TRI Dental Implants in Switzerland. The graduate economist comes from a family of doctors in East […]

The European Medical Device Regulation (MDR), whose goals were initially supported by the European medtech industry, has been in force since May 2022. After half a year, the situation for the medium-sized medtech industry is devastating.

Blazejewski MEDI-TECH GmbH is one of the technology leaders in the field of complex 2D and 3D endoscopy and has been able to grow very strongly in recent years Reinhold Blazejewski, Founder and Managing Director of Blazejewski MEDI-TECH, also sells part of his shares to the Erbe Group, but remains with the company as a […]

At the beginning of the Corona pandemic, many market participants were looking for investment opportunities in the health market. Companies like BioNTech, which had previously remained niche, became stock market stars. Can investors also profit from the transition to endemicity?

Medium-sized medical technology companies are facing many challenges in these geopolitically turbulent times: Supply chain problems, the MDR medical device regulation, digitalisation, energy shortages and rising refinancing costs due to the jump in interest rates. It’s good to have a solid capital base.