{"id":12884,"date":"2026-09-03T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/?post_type=news&p=12884"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:29:31","slug":"three-start-ups-join-the-cyber-valley-start-up-network","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/news\/three-start-ups-join-the-cyber-valley-start-up-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Three start-ups join the Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network is expanding, admitting three new members: Feyer, Ontic Labs, and oneAI. These start-ups are using bold ideas and groundbreaking technologies to shape the future of AI and robotics in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feyer<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Feyer is building a European frontier AI lab for automated physical invention. The team develops AI systems designed to explore complex physical design spaces and create new technological solutions, with potential applications across areas such as photonics, precision instrumentation, and quantum technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company emerged from the research group of Mario Krenn, Professor at the Cluster of Excellence \u201cMachine Learning: New Perspectives for Science\u201d at the University of T\u00fcbingen. The founding team consists of Jonathan Klimesch, S\u00f6ren Arlt, and Mario Krenn and has already reached an exciting milestone: Feyer was selected as one of ten teams for the first stage of SPRIND\u2019s Next Frontier AI Challenge, together with Ontic Labs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ontic Labs<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ontic Labs is building a foundation model for physical intelligence, giving machines a working understanding of how the physical world behaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The T\u00fcbingen-based startup develops physics-aware world models that enable machines and robots to perceive, predict, and act in complex real-world environments. Its approach brings states, actions, and sensor data into a shared representation, allowing physical properties such as contact, forces, and object coherence to emerge from training rather than being manually programmed. The goal: a single world model that can transfer across robots, embodiments, tasks, and environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded by Omid Taheri, Mikel Zhobro, Georg Martius, Wieland Brendel, and Gerard Pons-Moll, Ontic Labs brings together expertise from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the University of T\u00fcbingen, the T\u00fcbingen AI Center, and the ELLIS Institute T\u00fcbingen. The team was also selected as one of ten teams in SPRIND\u2019s Next Frontier AI Challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SPRIND’s Next Frontier AI Challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The two start-ups from T\u00fcbingen are among just ten teams across Europe that have been selected and will receive \u20ac3 million to develop technologies beyond today’s AI models. Of the three selected teams from Germany, two originate from the Cyber\u00a0Valley ecosystem in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg as spin-outs from several of Cyber\u00a0Valley’s academic partners, including the ELLIS Institute T\u00fcbingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, T\u00fcbingen AI Center, and the University of T\u00fcbingen. Their success highlights the growing momentum with which AI research is being translated into innovative companies and how excellent AI research from Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg is playing a key role in the European race for frontier AI models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the success story here:
https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/en\/news\/two-cyber-valley-start-ups-selected-to-shape-europe-s-frontier-ai-future<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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oneAI<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As AI adoption accelerates across organizations, questions around governance, security, compliance, and control are becoming increasingly important. oneAI is addressing exactly this challenge: enabling companies and public organizations to use AI securely, transparently, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start-up is a spin-out from relyon AG, already part of the Cyber\u00a0Valley Corporate Network<\/a>, demonstrating Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg’s powerful research-to-innovation pipeline. Mirko Tochtermann, Founder & CTO of oneAI, shared his perspective on secure AI adoption and governance at one of our latest Cyber\u00a0Valley IMPULSE events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research-to-market journeys of these start-ups highlight how transferring academic expertise into application leads to tangible impact, powering industry and driving Europe’s sustainable future. Cyber\u00a0Valley is delighted to welcome these three start-ups to its community!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network<\/a> brings together more than 100 innovative AI and robotics start-ups across Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, forming a strong and growing entrepreneurial community within one of Europe\u2019s leading AI and robotics ecosystems. The network spans a broad range of applications and industries, from foundational AI technologies to applied and industry-specific solutions. Connected through their close ties to Cyber\u00a0Valley, members benefit from access to world-class research, industry partners, investors, and public stakeholders, jointly strengthening the region\u2019s AI and robotics ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12885,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"cv-tag":[289,290,294,308,345],"location":[],"network-role":[348,349],"news-category":[375,378],"user-group":[242,243,244],"class_list":["post-12884","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cv-tag-max-planck-institute-for-intelligent-systems","cv-tag-university-of-tubingen","cv-tag-start-up-network","cv-tag-tubingen-ai-center","cv-tag-ellis-institute-tubingen","network-role-corporate","network-role-industry","news-category-corporate-network","news-category-start-up-network","user-group-start-up","user-group-investor","user-group-corporate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThree start-ups join the Cyber Valley Start-up Network - Cyber Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/news\/three-start-ups-join-the-cyber-valley-start-up-network\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three start-ups join the Cyber Valley Start-up Network - Cyber Valley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network is expanding, admitting three new members: Feyer, Ontic Labs, and oneAI. 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