March 27th, 2016
Awards ceremony “Founder competition – innovative ICT” at the IFA Leipzig, 02.09.2011: Leipziger architools 3D was as a prize-winner at the contest – ICT innovative 2011 “award. The prize is endowed with 6,000 EUR. The founder competition – ICT innovative the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology awarded promising start-ups in the field of information and communication technology. The young Leipzig company was awarded as one of the most interesting IT ideas in Germany this Friday at the IFA in Berlin architools 3D. The founder competition – innovative ICT”of the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology awarded innovative start-ups from the information and communication technology. The jury paid tribute to the concept of architools 3D with a prize money of EUR 6,000. The founder competition – innovative ICT”is held twice a year. 265 applications were submitted for the first round of the competition.
In addition to the five main prizes, eight recognition awards were presented. One of them went to architools 3D. With the competition, the Ministry supports young start-ups in the IT industry on implementation of its innovative concepts. The founders of architools 3D could convince the jury with their innovative software for the fast and intuitive creation of 3D-Architekturmodellen. The software allows large city models for computer games, movies, archaeology and urban development to generate and to reduce the development time by up to 80 percent.
We are excited about the award and can use very well the prize money for the market entry of our software.”says Christian Begand, one of the three founders of architools 3D. The application deadline for the next round of the founder – ICT innovation”is on the 30.11.2011. Architools 3D: Digital building models to be of architools 3D software faster than hitherto to create. In traditional software, 3D building models must be drawn line for line to the computer. The software of the Architools 3D simplifies company and accelerated this process, by building models of user described and then automates the computer draw. The structure and the appearance of the building models can be fully defined with parameters. Parameters are for example the height of Windows, number of floors or shape of the roof. The software is aimed at game developers, film and TV production companies, urban planners and architects. The architools 3D GmbH was founded by Christian Begand, Fred Heinig and Michael Keutel in July 2011. Press contact: Fred Heinig, + 49 341 927 88 22 0,