YPOG advises investors on € 8.6 million round of GEMESYS

Berlin — YPOG provi­ded compre­hen­sive legal advice to the lead inves­tors Amadeus APEX Tech­no­logy Fund and Atlan­tic Labs as well as the inves­tor NRW.Bank in the € 8.6 million pre-seed finan­cing round of the AI hard­ware start-up GEMESYS. The Sony Inno­va­tion Fund and the Sili­con Valley-based Plug and Play Tech Center also parti­ci­pa­ted in the round. Foun­ded in Bochum in 2021, the start-up offers an analog chip design based on the same
infor­­ma­­tion-proces­­sing mecha­nisms as the human brain. This enables providers
of AI hard­ware to sell a new type of chip that trains neural networks 20,000 times more energy-efficiently
than current tech­no­lo­gies. With the new funding, GEMESYS will advance its rese­arch and expand its team,
to further deve­lop its novel chip architecture. 

Consul­tant GEMESYS: YPOG

Dr. Martin Scha­per (Lead, Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Johan­nes Janning (Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Cologne
Dr. Bene­dikt Flöter (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Berlin
Anna Eick­meier (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Senior Asso­ciate, Berlin
Pia Meven (Tran­sac­tions), Senior Asso­ciate, Berlin
Laura Franke (Tran­sac­tions), Senior Project Lawyer, Cologne
Dr. Jonas von Kalben (Tran­sac­tions), Senior Asso­ciate, Berlin
Dr. Chris­toph Cordes (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Boris Schin­zel (Tran­sac­tions), Asso­ciate, Berlin

About YPOG

YPOG is a law firm specia­li­zing in tax and commer­cial law, active in the core areas of funds, tax,
banking + finance and tran­sac­tions. The YPOG team advi­ses a wide variety of
clients. These include up-and-coming tech­no­logy compa­nies and family-run
medium-sized compa­nies as well as corpo­rate groups and private equity/venture capi­tal funds. YPOG
is one of the leading addres­ses for venture capi­tal, private equity and fund struc­tu­ring in
Germany. YPOG curr­ently employs more than 150 expe­ri­en­ced lawy­ers and tax advi­sors. www.ypog.law