SHS Newsletter

SHS invests €10 million euro from its newly launched sixth fund generation into the Zurich-based growth company Simulands AG develops, produces, and distributes innovative simulation devices and tools for cardiovascular interventions The investment aims to further accelerate the commercialisation of the company and help revolutionise cardiovascular education and training through advanced training solutions for physicians […]

Medical technology market in Germany with slight growth in 2021 Pandemic leaves positive as well as negative traces on medical technology companies in second year, with the former predominating SHS expects a good development for medical technology in Germany in 2022 due to the improvement in the pandemic situation The new regulatory requirements (MDR/IVDR) will […]

On the initiative of Elisa Mayer and Tomma Hinke, two football clubs, SSC Tübingen and SV Bühl, have launched an inclusive training format. This means that children and young people with disabilities who are interested in football now have the opportunity to pursue their hobby in the club. Since May 2022, children, youths and young […]

More than 510,000 colonoscopies for the early detection of colorectal cancer were performed in Germany in 2019. Compared to 2018, this was an increase of more than 14 percent. Screening colonoscopy plays an important role in the early detection of colorectal cancer. Today, the procedure itself is relatively uncomplicated and painless, thanks to state-of-the-art endoscopy […]

SHS is happy to give students practical experience as part of a three-month or longer internship and provide you with an insight into the areas of private equity, funds and growth companies. Since the end of September, we have welcomed Felix Frick as an intern with us. Felix is currently in the third semester of […]

Anna has been part of the SHS team since September 2022. She completed her Bachelor of Science at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University. In addition, she did a Double Degree Master at EDHEC Business School / Maastricht University in Corporate Finance and Banking. She then joined William Blair International as an […]

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, […]