From University Project to Hardware Start-up to International Joint Venture

Christian Großmann takes us on his journey from RUB PhD student to successful co-founder of Ingpuls GmbH, which has been turning the medical world upside down with shape memory alloys since this year. Ingpuls' precisely balanced metal mixtures have unique properties that make them the starting material for consumer goods, state-of-the-art automotive or medical technology. Earlier this year, the startup formed a joint venture with a U.S. medical technology supplier to produce high-performance medical products in Bochum, Germany, for the global market.

Christian talks about why Ingpuls had to take a 12-year detour to enter the medical industry and how the joint venture came about in an interview with RUB's WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center. The event language is English.

The event will take place online via Zoom in English as part of the international bootcamp "Entrepreneurship Explorer Ruhr". It is free of charge and open to start-up teams from the WSC and the RUB. You have the possibility to send your questions already with the registration, so that they can be included in the interview. However, there will also be time for a Q&A starting at 4pm. You can register for the event  by sending an informal email to Worldfactory International until May 11.