Best High Tech Companies in Lower Saxony, Germany
The 75 best High Tech companies in Lower Saxony, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nature Robots.
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$3.5b in tracked funding; 85% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2022.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Lower Saxony
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Robots Developer of autonomy software platform for regenerative and complex farming 37Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Funding top 37%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 37% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 31% Techbottom 22% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $8M | 2 mo ago | Seed | Sven Lake Co-Founder & CSO | 2022 | HugoUbuntuYouTube+5 | — | — |
| 2 | Rodos BioTarget Provider of drug delivery platform for the treatment of bacterial infections and viral diseases | $5M | 106 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2008 | — | 29 patents Lipid‑based targeted nanocarriers for gene and drug delivery to immune and neural cells | — |
| 3 | Videantis Developer of computer vision and video coding semiconductor IP solutions | $2M | 36 mo ago | Acquired | Hans-Joachim Stolberg CEO & CTO | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Graswald Online platform offering 3D animated visual assets | $1M | 48 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 5 | Simmetry.ai Provider of synthetic data for artificial intelligence model training and development | $392K | 4 mo ago | Seed | Stefan Stiene Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — | — |
| 6 | FeelSpace Developer of a belt for navigation purpose using tactile signals | $304K | 63 mo ago | Funding Raised | Silke Kaercher CEO | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorBeaver BuilderWordPress+19 | — | — |
| 7 | QLEX Designs and develops vertical take-off and landing drones | $113K | 102 mo ago | Funding Raised | Immo Weidner CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Formhand Gripper robot for package and parts handling | — | 82 mo ago | Funding Raised | Christian Lochte Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | JoomlaPHPUIKit+6 | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Lower Saxony
#1
Seed · Osnabruck, Lower Saxony · founded 2022$7.5Mraised▾
Developer of autonomy software platform for regenerative and complex farming. The platform equips agricultural machines with modular autonomy to promote precision farming. It offers digital farm mapping, route planning, and navigation in rough terrain. The software enables machines to operate without consistent GNSS or internet connectivity. The company focuses on hardware solutions for complex agricultural environments.
- Mar 2026Seed$4.6M
- 2025Grant (prize money)$2.9M
#2
Seed · Osnabruck, Lower Saxony · founded 2024$391.8Kraised▾
Provider of synthetic data for artificial intelligence model training and development. The company generates annotated datasets tailored to specific artificial intelligence needs, offering adaptability across various environmental conditions and scenarios. It supports each phase of artificial intelligence development, from problem analysis to continuous support. The company delivers simulations for sensor selection and virtual environments.
- Feb 2026Seed$391.8K
#3
Acquired · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2004 · 14 employees$2Mraised▾
Developer of computer vision and video coding semiconductor IP solutions. The platform enables computer vision and multi-format video coding. Its technologies are used for the advancement of ADAS and autonomous cars. They are also applicable in the advancement of augmented reality, natural user interfaces, face recognition, professional applications, gaming solutions, and surveillance solutions.
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$16M
- Sep 2022Series A—
- Sep 2017Seed$2M
#4
Deadpooled · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2008 · 4 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Provider of drug delivery platform for the treatment of bacterial infections and viral diseases. Offers proprietary TargoSphere technology, a nanocarrier platform to achieve enhanced prophylactic and therapeutic approaches against diseases. Claims that TargoSphere can carry high concentrations of compounds spanning a broad range of sizes and structures of classical small molecule drugs to biomolecules, such as proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids. Currently applies TargoSphere technology for two in-house therapeutic applications Targobiotics, for intracellular treatment of bacterial infections, and Targovir, for the treatment of viral diseases.
- Aug 2017Series A$940.7K
- 2016Series A$368.9K
- Apr 2013Series A$3.4M
#5
Seed · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2021 · 10 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering 3D animated visual assets. It offers virtual assets depicting forests and trees. Users can also create their own assets for videos.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.3M
#6
Funding Raised · Osnabruck, Lower Saxony · founded 2015 · 11 employees$304.4Kraised▾
feelSpace offers an eponymous belt which helps users in navigation through tactile signals. It allows users to set the destination location in their smartphone using the companion application. The information is then sent to the belt via Bluetooth. The belt has an inbuilt compass which senses the direction of movement of the user and based on that it directs them to the destination using tactile signal. This allows user to freely navigate without looking at his phone or any other GPS device. Its target market includes individuals with visual impairment. The company launched a campaign on Indiegogo and raised an amount of $13,664 against $25,000 goal.
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$304.4K
#7
Funding Raised · Oldenburg, Lower Saxony · founded 2017$112.5Kraised▾
QLEX designs and develops vertical take-off and landing drones. Products include Creo Utility - comes with an endurance of 4 hours with & 3.6 hours without the payload and Creo Performance - comes with an endurance of 5 hours with & 4.7 hours without the payload. Both the products are fixed-winged droned that has rotors for VOTL. The difference between both the version being that the Utility is characterized by robust propellors and can be used in multiple weather conditions. Applications are in the areas of agriculture, inspection or geology. As of Jan 2018, the product is in the prototype phase.
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$59.5K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$53.1K
#8
Funding Raised · Braunschweig, Lower Saxony · founded 2011 · 5 employees—raised▾
Formhand provides a robotic gripper arm which can be used for handling of items such as packages, bags, textiles and objects with a sensitive surface. The gripper operates by creating a vacuum force for gripping on items. The gripping part is a semi-permeable pad with a filling of granules which adapts the shape according to the object that needs to be handled using gripper. It can handle items of different sizes and shapes and also sensitive and hot objects. It had been developed as a project at Braunschweig University of Technology and also received a grant from Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)—
#9
Seed · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2018—raised▾
Umeleon is a developer of the multicolor extruder (MCE) for FMD desktop 3D-printers. The company product UP1 features filament diameter 1.75 and 2.85 mm with automated color mixing and job planning.
- Jul 2019Seed—
#10
Deadpooled · Braunschweig, Lower Saxony · founded 2018—raised▾
Provider of integrated video analytics systems. It analyzes video footage of an IP camera to detect threats in real-time. The platform offered by the company can be deployed to provide security in the stadiums, open access areas, crowd security, urban security, and transportation systems.
- Mar 2019Grant (prize money)—
#11
Late Stage · Hildesheim, Lower Saxony · founded 2005—raised▾
Developer of robotic storage and warehouse operations management solutions. It offers solutions to support production logistics. It streamlines intra-logistics processes in the manufacturing industry by connecting the company ordering system with the AGV technology, to automate the ordering and delivery processes. It automates inventory monitoring and replenishment orders. The platform integrates with AGV technology for automated delivery of load carriers.
- Jun 2018PE—
#12
Seed · Braunschweig, Lower Saxony · founded 2002—raised▾
Vehico develops robots for vehicle testing applications for automobile manufacturers. The company has developed standard robotic modules such as steering robots, brake pedal operating robot, multipurpose robot etc which can be fit into any car in a very small time. The robotic modules combined together form a driving robot which allows a vehicle to be controlled remotely.
- Dec 2016Angel—
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,404 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Infineon Technologies160
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology124
- RWTH Aachen University113
- Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration104
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics94
- Photonics15→47
- Electronic circuit38→59
- Power (physics)4→24
- Scalability4→23
- Photonic integrated circuit20→37
- Detector3→20
- Photonics15→31
- CMOS28→44
- Voltage15→30
- Fabrication8→20
- Electronics8→15
- Power electronics1→6
- Reliability (semiconductor)13→16
- Transistor6→9
- Current (fluid)2→5
Where semiconductors is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing semiconductors patents in Germany
Germany semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 11,058 filings from 3,473 assignees (2016–2025), led by Infineon Technologies, Osram OPTO Semiconductors, Osram OLED; annual filings 1473→601.
- Infineon Technologies5090
- Osram OPTO Semiconductors1686
- Osram OLED593
- Robert Bosch551
- Fraunhofer GES Forschung290
- Merck Patent268
- BASF SE254
- Siltronic217
Common questions
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