Partnerships to fuel global growth

Auterion and Japanese NTT e-Drone Technology
Auterion provides enterprise and government with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third-party applications within a single, easy-to-use platform based on open-source standards. A strategic alliance with NTT e-Drone Technology, a company that develops, manufactures and provides solutions for corporate drones, aims to accelerate drone use that helps tackle major social problems. The companies will jointly drive the development, manufacturing, operation, and sales of next-generation drone fleets. These software-defined drone fleets will enable life-changing smart farming and infrastructure management. The partnership will also enable various Japanese companies and regional governments, especially those concerned with national security, to easily access Auterion’s ecosystem of the world’s most advanced open-source platforms for drones. By combining that ecosystem with the 5G, AI, and edge cloud ICT services promoted by the NTT Group, Auterion will provide customers with new value and integrated capabilities never before seen on the market, as explained by Lorenz Meier co-founder and CEO of Auterion.

21 Shares and Germany based comdirect
Based in Zug (Switzerland), 21Shares, the pioneering issuer of crypto Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with a suite of 15 crypto ETFs and over $1.35 Bn in assets under management in total listed products, has entered an exclusive partnership with the largest German online retail platform, comdirect. comdirect provides more than 2.9m customers (Sept 2020) with innovative, intelligent products and services so that they can carry out their banking and securities trading transactions easily and conveniently. The partnership marks a first for investors opting to add crypto assets into their savings accounts. Eleven of 21Shares’s ETP offerings currently listed in Germany are available on the comdirect platform at zero commissions.

Ava Women and Aristo Pharma
The strategic partnership between Ava,  maker of the first FDA-cleared and CE-marked wearable fertility tracking device that has helped women to conceive over 50’000 babies and Berlin-based pharmaceutical company Aristo Pharma GmbH, provides access to patients right at the doctor’s office, leveraging Aristo’s European healthcare provider network and adding an innovative offering to Aristo’s women’s health portfolio. Aristo will henceforth provide physicians and consumers with an additional modern option for managing reproductive health.

Cysec and D-Orbit
cybersecurity company Cysec, a pioneer of off-the-shelf, end-to-end security products for commercial space missions, is releasing “ARCA Space”, a full product portfolio encompassing both the ground and space segments to provide end-to-end protection of satellite communications. The startup has selected D-Orbit, the space transportation company, and its ION Satellite Carrier to perform the in-orbit demonstration of its product ARCA. The ARCA Space IOD mission will consist in testing all the security mechanisms embedded in the product using representative scenarios, like the secure communication of TMTC data or sensitive Earth Observation data captured on-board. The data will be received on the ground in the CYSEC private cloud for storage and processing, mimicking a real mission requiring end-to-end protection.

(Press release/ran)