Top-Innovator 2023
Press release:
TOP 100 award
Ranga Yogeshwar honors vigram®
Überlingen – Congratulations at the German SME Summit: Ranga Yogeshwar congratulates vigram GmbH from Freiburg on being awarded the TOP 100 seal. The award ceremony at the Summit will take place on Friday, June 23, in Augsburg for all medium-sized companies that received the TOP 100 seal at the beginning of the year. The science journalist is accompanying the innovation competition, which is being held for the 30th time, as a mentor. In the scientific selection process, vigram was particularly impressive in the size category A (up to 50 employees) in the category “external orientation / open innovation”.
The TOP 100 company portrait published on the occasion of the award states (excerpt):
“Smart documentation” on the construction site: For this purpose, the medium-sized company has developed, among other things, a small measurement tool that, docked to a smartphone, makes surveying on the construction site child’s play. Based on a digital platform solution, people on site can work collaboratively faster, more efficiently and without large equipment. “In this way, we are setting completely new standards in the digitization of construction sites,” explains founder and CEO Nicolai Nolle. To ensure that such solutions succeed, the company has consistently relied on partnerships and cooperations since its founding in 2019. In addition, vigram is the spin-off of an experienced engineering firm: “Very important practical knowledge comes from this cooperation, especially on ‘Building Information Modeling’, a working method for the networked planning, construction and management of buildings by means of software,” says the other founder and CEO Sidon Futterknecht. Many other partner companies add essential knowledge directly from the construction site to the team’s development expertise. “Even in the pilot phase, we are working closely with partners from the field, such as small construction companies,” says Futterknecht.
Click here for the full portrait: www.top100.de/die-top-innovatoren.
TOP 100: the competition
Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal of approval to medium-sized companies for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success. Since 2002, scientific management has been in the hands of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke. Franke is the founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The mentor of TOP 100 is the science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW. The magazines manager magazin and impulse accompany the company comparison as media partners, ZEIT für Unternehmer is a cooperation partner. More info at www.top100.de.
TOP 100:
vigram® GmbH
Visionäre für „smart documentation“
They are a real game changer in construction: The smart solutions from vigram GmbH accelerate surveying and documentation on construction sites and still fit in any jacket pocket. The innovation management of the Freiburg-based start-up benefits above all from strategic cooperations: Continuous networking with partners and customers from the field. Another plus is a small team of experts who are passionate about breaking new ground and creating an excellent climate for innovation in-house.
“Smart documentation” on the construction site: For this purpose, the medium-sized company has developed, among other things, a small measurement tool that, docked to a smartphone, makes surveying on the construction site child’s play. Based on a digital platform solution, people on site can work collaboratively faster, more efficiently and without large equipment. “In this way, we are setting completely new standards in the digitization of construction sites,” explains founder and CEO Nicolai Nolle.
Close to construction and practice
To ensure that such solutions succeed, the company has consistently relied on partnerships and cooperations since its founding in 2019. In addition, vigram is the spin-off of an experienced engineering firm: “Very important practical knowledge comes from this cooperation, especially on ‘Building Information Modeling’, a working method for the networked planning, construction and management of buildings using software,” says founder and CEO Sidon Futterknecht. Many other partner companies add essential knowledge directly from the construction site to the team’s development expertise. “Even in the pilot phase, we are working closely with partners from the field, such as small construction companies,” emphasizes Futterknecht. This ecosystem enables vigram GmbH to make its technologically sophisticated innovations absolutely practical.
Staff with adventurer DNA
Important innovation impulses also come from the digitally closely networked team: “All of our employees from twelve nations are experts in their field and very enthusiastic about innovation,” reports Nolle. Many of them are university graduates and bring the latest findings, for example on artificial intelligence, from research to the start-up. It’s no wonder that such a team always initiates new innovation projects, 90% of which are also realized in the shortest possible time, as Nolle confirms: “Breaking new ground is simply in our DNA. And we are extremely fast and unerring in doing so.”
