Zurich \u2014 Neural Concept, the Swiss soft\u00adware company in the field of Compu\u00adter Aided Design (CAD) and Engi\u00adnee\u00adring (CAE), is plea\u00adsed to announce new mile\u00adsto\u00adnes in the company\u2019s deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment. At the begin\u00adning of the year, the exis\u00adting inves\u00adtors, Constan\u00adtia New Busi\u00adness and High-Tech Gr\u00fcn\u00adder\u00adfonds, support the next growth phase with seed exten\u00adsion finan\u00adcing. Both inves\u00adtors alre\u00adady led the seed round 18 months ago. With the fresh capi\u00adtal, Neural Concept can acce\u00adle\u00adrate and realize its mission \u2014 to bring the enorm\u00adous poten\u00adtial of Deep Lear\u00adning into the hands of design engi\u00adneers for real-time simu\u00adla\u00adtion and inter\u00adac\u00adtive design optimization.<\/p>\n
Paral\u00adlel to the finan\u00adcing round, a new advi\u00adsory board was estab\u00adlished to comple\u00adment the exis\u00adting board of direc\u00adtors. The two new advi\u00adsory board members, Evrard Van Zuylen and Roberto Schett\u00adler, bring exten\u00adsive expe\u00adri\u00adence in foun\u00adding, growing and mana\u00adging successful B2B soft\u00adware compa\u00adnies in the areas of machine lear\u00adning and design engineering.<\/p>\n
Pierre Baqu\u00e9, foun\u00adder and CEO of Neural Concept<\/strong>: \u201cI am deligh\u00adted to advise Neural Concept on its future growth. The company\u2019s disrup\u00adtive deep lear\u00adning algo\u00adrithms will set the new stan\u00addard in the simu\u00adla\u00adtion industry<\/p>\n Evrard Van Zuylen, Neural Concept Advi\u00adsory Board: \u201cNeural Concept has foun\u00added a new world of simu\u00adla\u00adtion. Deep Lear\u00adning will not only speed up simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adons and demo\u00adcra\u00adtize them in all areas of design and deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment. I am convin\u00adced that this will finally enable itera\u00adtive design of better products at low cost. Rather than seeing this as a mere vision of the future, compa\u00adnies can make it a reality today with Neural Concep\u00adt\u2019s soft\u00adware products.\u201d<\/p>\n About Evrard Van Zuylen<\/strong> About Roberto Schettler<\/strong> About Constan\u00adtia New Busi\u00adness (CNB Capital)<\/strong> About High-Tech Gr\u00fcnderfonds<\/strong> Zurich \u2014 Neural Concept, the Swiss soft\u00adware company in the field of Compu\u00adter Aided Design (CAD) and Engi\u00adnee\u00adring (CAE), is plea\u00adsed to announce new mile\u00adsto\u00adnes in the company\u2019s deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment. At the begin\u00adning of the year, the exis\u00adting inves\u00adtors, Constan\u00adtia New Busi\u00adness and High-Tech Gr\u00fcn\u00adder\u00adfonds, support the next growth phase with seed exten\u00adsion finan\u00adcing. Both investors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1366,1369,1373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-news-en","category-investors","category-venture-capital-en","news-category-venture-capital-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nEvrard van Zuylen is co-foun\u00adder (2006) and mana\u00adging direc\u00adtor of darts-ip, worl\u00add\u2019s leading AI-based data provi\u00adder for IP liti\u00adga\u00adtion until its acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion by Clari\u00advate plc. Foun\u00adder (2000) and CTO of Trans\u00adwide, now part of Alpega N.V. Previously, he worked at BCG and IBM.Evrard holds a master\u2019s degree in mecha\u00adni\u00adcal engi\u00adnee\u00adring from l\u2019Ecole Poly\u00adtech\u00adni\u00adque de Louvain and an MBA from the Univer\u00adsity of Chicago Booth School of Business.<\/p>\n
\nRoberto was CEO of Real\u00adtime Tech\u00adno\u00adlogy (RTT), a leading 3D soft\u00adware and services company for the auto\u00admo\u00adtive and aero\u00adspace sectors. Under his leader\u00adship, he grew the company to nearly 1,000 employees before RTT was acqui\u00adred by Dassault Systems in 2014. He subse\u00adquently also served as CEO of the rebran\u00added company 3DExcite. Previously, he co-foun\u00added Core\u00adOp\u00adtics, which was later acqui\u00adred by Cisco Inc. was purcha\u00adsed, and worked as a consul\u00adtant at Think\u00adTeam as well as BCG. Here, he helps tech\u00adno\u00adlogy compa\u00adnies in both Europe and the U.S. grow to new levels.<\/p>\n
\nCNB Capi\u00adtal is an inde\u00adpen\u00addent early-stage inves\u00adtor focu\u00adsed on B2B product compa\u00adnies that have achie\u00adved initial market vali\u00adda\u00adtion. An expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced team of invest\u00adment mana\u00adgers actively supports foun\u00adders in func\u00adtional areas, espe\u00adci\u00adally sales and marke\u00adting. The ever\u00adgreen invest\u00adment approach supports the long-term orien\u00adta\u00adtion of CNB\u2019s stra\u00adtegy in buil\u00adding substan\u00adtial busi\u00adnesses together.<\/p>\n
\nThe seed inves\u00adtor High-Tech Gr\u00fcn\u00adder\u00adfonds (HTGF) finan\u00adces tech\u00adno\u00adlogy start-ups with growth poten\u00adtial. With a volume of around EUR 900 million spread across three funds and an inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal part\u00adner network, HTGF has supported more than 600 start-ups since 2005. His team of expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced invest\u00adment mana\u00adgers and start-up experts supports the young compa\u00adnies with know-how, entre\u00adpre\u00adneu\u00adrial spirit and passion. The focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digi\u00adtal tech, indus\u00adtrial tech, life scien\u00adces, chemis\u00adtry and rela\u00adted busi\u00adness areas. Almost EUR 3 billion in capi\u00adtal has been inves\u00adted in the HTGF port\u00adfo\u00adlio by exter\u00adnal inves\u00adtors in more than 1,700 follow-on finan\u00adcing rounds to date. In addi\u00adtion, the fund has alre\u00adady successfully sold shares in more than 120 companies.Investors in the public-private part\u00adner\u00adship include the German Fede\u00adral Minis\u00adtry for Econo\u00admic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capi\u00adtal, the Fraun\u00adho\u00adfer-Gesell\u00adschaft and the 32 companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"