{"id":86344,"date":"2010-08-25T01:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/takwak-satellite-device-developer-receives-venture-capital-financing\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:36:24","slug":"takwak-satellite-device-developer-receives-venture-capital-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/takwak-satellite-device-developer-receives-venture-capital-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"TakWak Satellite Device Developer Receives Venture Capital Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-24-10] German start-up communications company <strong>TakWak GmbH<\/strong> has received 2.5 million Euros ($3.1 million) in financing from the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s Open Sky Technologies Fund to develop a three-in-one communication device integrating mobile phone, satellite navigation and walkie-talkie functions, ESA announced Aug. 23.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The device will be marketed to outdoor enthusiasts for use in hiking, skiing and kayaking. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Triangle Venture Capital Group<\/strong> manages the Open Sky Technologies Fund on behalf of ESA. This venture capital fund aims to support business opportunities arising from space technologies and satellite applications for terrestrial industries. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c[TakWak\u2019s] unique multifunctional, dedicated outdoor sports device is based on cutting-edge technologies to provide a radical new user experience. With its rugged design and unique features, TakWak responds perfectly to outdoor enthusiasts preferring dedicated devices to converged solutions such as a smart phone with integrated navigation features,\u201d Triangle Venture Capital Group spokesman Bernd Geiger said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-24-10] German start-up communications company TakWak GmbH has received 2.5 million Euros ($3.1 million) in financing from the European Space Agency\u2019s Open Sky Technologies Fund to develop a three-in-one communication device integrating mobile phone, satellite navigation and walkie-talkie functions, ESA announced Aug. 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The device will be marketed to outdoor enthusiasts for use in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}