Innosabi founders sell majority of their shares

The founders of the software start-up Innosabi are giving up the majority of their shares. A French company strikes.

The founders of Munich-based Innosabi have sold their majority stake in the start-up to France's Questel Group. "With the sale of the majority shares, we can put our international growth on bigger feet and phenomenally marry our products with those of Questel," co-founder and CEO Catharina van Delden told Handelsblatt

Innosabi offers a platform where customers can access various sources and information. This is supposed to increase the innovation process in companies. Questel also offers such a platform and aims to become a "European champion" for managing patents with the partial acquisition. "What Questel has in terms of patent data and business-relevant information is incredibly valuable in the innovation process and pays into our vision," van Delden told Handelsblatt

Innosabi was founded in 2010 from a student project at the Technical University of Munich by van Delden, Jan Fischer, Hans-Peter Heid and Moritz Wurfbaum.