Nanostart AG is the world leading nanotechnology investment company based in Frankfurt, Germany. Through its Portfolio Division, Nanostart invests globally in young up-and-coming companies whose business is based on groundbreaking nanotechnology. With the backing of Nanostart’s capital and business know-how, they are given the opportunity to radically transform existing markets. Nanostart also links them up in a network of potential clients, cooperation partners and research institutions that span the entire globe. In this way, they gain access to a new source of additional potential of securing, strengthening and accelerating their own growth. Nanostart made its first Asian investment in December 2007 to Curiox, a spinoff company from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore.