High six-figure financing round for WiredSense

WiredSense, a Hamburg-based startup specializing in the development of novel optical sensor solutions, has closed its first round of financing. The high six-figure investment will allow the company to advance the production readiness and market launch of its new product Sweeb, a compact sensor solution for chemical material analysis without a laboratory.

 The venture capitalists are several experienced business angels and entrepreneurs themselves who, with experience in various fields and industries, will support WiredSense with relevant know-how in the long term as well. These are Thomas Wagner, Wolfram Drescher, Thomas Ecker and Andreas Kupke. WiredSense is located on the DESY campus in Hamburg in the Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld and is advised by the DESY Start-up Office.

Sweeb enables simple and fast analysis of ingredients based on highly specific spectroscopy in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum. Here, most materials have a characteristic "molecular fingerprint" that an algorithm can analyze quickly and without error. For example, the composition of medicines or food can be identified within seconds, opening up a wide range of new markets. Pharmacies can use Sweeb to check starting materials for their own formulations on site and in the shortest possible time, thus eliminating time-consuming and material-intensive chemical analyses.