Realtime Technology (RTT), a Germany-listed 3D visualization software company, sells stake to industrial peer Siemens.

Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate venturing division of Germany-based industrial conglomerate Siemens, has taken a minority stake in Realtime Technology (RTT), a Germany-listed 3D visualization software company.

In December RTT, which helps customers including car maker Audi (pictured), added its products to Siemens’ data management PLM Software.

RTT has had continuous double-digit growth since its inception in 1999 and has other "industrial touch points" with Siemens, the company said in a statement.

Ralf Schnell, chief executive of Siemens Venture Capital, said: "We are investing in one of the leading companies worldwide in this area which furthermore still has high growth potential."

The deal is the latest push to add real-time services to Siemens products.

On 18 August, Calypso Medical Technologies, which locates tumours in real-time, signed a non-exclusive product distribution agreement with Siemens Healthcare for the sale of its main product in Europe for three years.

 

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.