Humboldt spin-out Tame tunes up ahead of public launch.
Tame, a search engine for Twitter spun-out from the Humboldt University of Berlin, has re-launched its Twitter-management platform ahead of emergence from its open beta.
The platform, spun out from the University last year, allows users to order tweets according to users, current issues, and the most tweeted links, and charges users for the service on a subscription basis.
Humboldt itself does not hold equity in the firm, nor does it hold IP rights for the company. Humboldt’s tech transfer office did assist with the establishment of the firm, but through mentoring and providing office space for the spin-out to grow. Instead, the firm received backing from a range of different sources.
Torsten Mueller, co-founder of Tame, explained the company’s financial backing in an email to GUV: “The three founders received initial funding from the German Ministry of Economics and Technology and the EU in 2012 with a total volume of €94k within the framework of an entrepreneurial stipend called “Exist” in April 2012. After we founded the company and build the first beta version of Tame, we successfully completed a crowdinvesting campaign in April 2013 with €250k via Companisto.de. In April 2013 we gained €200k with the “Pro FIT Early Stage Funding” from the business development and promotion bank of the Federal Land of Berlin (Investitionsbank Berlin). Shareholders of the company are the three founders and Business Angel Julius Endert, CEO of Netzlloyd.de, a German journalist and entrepreneur, who invested a six-digit euro investment.”
