The Max Planck spin-out has been taken over on a share deal basis.
KonTem, a Germany-based spin-out of the Max Planck Society and the research centre Caesar, has been acquired by FEI. The mergers and acquistion mandate for the successful exit was carried out by High-Tech Gründerfonds.
KonTem is based on research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt. It was then further developed at Centre of Advanced European Studies and Research (Caesar) – associated with the Max Planck Society – and turned into a marketable product.
KonTem’s technology, a…