Hermann Hauser (entrepreneur)

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Hermann Hauser (2016)

Hermann Maria Hauser (born October 23, 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian engineer, computer and venture capital entrepreneur in Great Britain. He played a leading role in founding companies in the UK's Silicon Valley ( Silicon Fen ) in the Cambridge area .

Life

Hauser spent his childhood in Tyrol, attended grammar school in Wörgl and during this time a language school in Cambridge. After high school he studied physics at the University of Vienna (diploma) and did his doctorate at the renowned Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the field of laser technology. He was best known as the founder of the British company Acorn , which he initiated together with Chris Curry in 1978. The company developed the first personal computers in Great Britain, including the BBC Micro (developer Steve Furber , Sophie Wilson ) and the very successful ARM processor (which later found billions of uses in mobile phones, among others). Founded at £ 100, the company was worth £ 200 million on the stock market five years later. After the company was taken over by Olivetti in 1985 , Hauser became Vice President for Research and founded the Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) in Cambridge in 1986 with Andy Hopper (who took over the management). In 1988 he left Olivetti to found the Active Book Company, which would develop tablet computers . In order to learn from Acorn's mistakes, Hauser endeavored at an early stage to spread the technology widely and to establish cooperation. This company was merged in 1991 by AT & T's EO Inc. , which manufactured the EO Personal Communicator. Hauser was Chairman of EO Europe and Chief Technical Officer. The company existed until 1994.

Hauser co-founded ARM Limited (Advanced RISC Machines), a spin-off from Acorn in 1990. The company was a joint venture between Apple (who used the ARM as the CPU in the Newton PDA from 1993 ), Acorn and VLSI Technology . ARM was finally sold to Japanese tech company Softbank for $ 31.4 billion in 2016 .

As a result, Hauser played a dominant role as a business angel and venture capitalist in the Cambridge area. He is the founder or co-founder of Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd. (Founded in 1993 together with Andy Hopper and sold to Conexant Systems in 2004), by NetChannel Ltd. (founded in 1996 to market the NetStation and sold to AOL in 1996 ), by Net Products, by Cambridge Network Ltd. (Founded in 1998 with David Cleevey and Alec Broers) and by Virata. Hauser is also the co-founder of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Electronic Share Information Limited, E * Trade UK.

In 1997, together with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn, he founded the venture capital company Amadeus Capital Partners and used it to finance biotechnological research, for example Solexa (DNA sequencing technology) in 2003, which was sold to Illumina Inc. for 600 million dollars in 2007. were sold. In 2009, Hauser also became head of the East Anglia Stem Cell Research Network in this context. Using Amadeus Capital, Hauser financed, among other things, the very successful chip manufacturer CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio), which Qualcomm acquired in 2014 for 2.5 billion dollars . Other successful Amadeus Capital companies in the Hausers division were Entropic Research Laboratory (acquired by Microsoft in 1999) and Icera (acquired by Nvidia in 2011). Hauser is currently the Non Executive Director of XMOS , Intune Networks, Plastic Logic, and Cambridge Broadband Networks.

Since autumn 2015, Hermann Hauser has also been involved in a number of Austrian start-ups and technology companies. Part of his funding initiative was the founding of the IECT - Hermann Hauser, which took place in 2015 together with Josef Hauser and Johannes Hauser. The company offers various programs to support researchers, early-stage entrepreneurs and scale-ups from the deep technology area in their further development through know-how, mentoring and investments - within the framework of Hermann Hauser Investment GmbH - and to support them with a diverse Bringing together a network of entrepreneurs, experts and investors. IECT - Hermann Hauser and researchers from Cambridge are currently developing the IECT - Network, a platform that unites all players - start-ups, investors, companies, mentors - and thus enables start-ups to be supervised and evaluated in an international context.

Hauser also invested in the text recognition start-up Anyline and the crowdinvesting platform CONDA in 2016. In 2017/18 he participated in a 29.5 million euro financing for the Graz-based semiconductor and micro-speaker specialist USound and invested in the cloud-based unified communications solution eyeson , which in 2017 was the only European company from the world's leading market research company Gartner Inc. was awarded the title "Cool Vendor in Unified Communications".

Awards and honors

Hermann Hauser is also honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath , Loughborough and Anglia Ruskin University . From 2015 to 2020 he is a member of the Council for Research and Technology Development .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In an interview he reports that he turned down an offer from Bill Gates at the beginning of the 1980s to use his operating system because it was not network-compatible and inferior to his own - nevertheless, thanks to cooperation with IBM and others, Microsoft prevailed
  2. ↑ Chris O'Brien: Softbank completes $ 31 billion acquisition of ARM Holdings. VentureBeat, September 5, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Tech pioneer and investor Hermann Hauser invests in start up zoomsquare ( memento from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), from October 01, 2015, Telekom Presse, accessed on January 16, 2017
  4. ↑ Hermann Hauser co-founder of IECT - Hermann Hauser GmbH ( Memento from November 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), from November 23, 2015, IECT - Hermann Hauser Homepage, accessed on November 20, 2019 (current website: http: // www. iect.at/ )
  5. ↑ ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser invests in the start-up Anyline , from August 24, 2016, trend (magazine) , accessed on November 30, 2018
  6. ↑ Hermann Hauser invests in MEMS speaker startup ( Memento from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), from Jan 26, 2017, EE Times , accessed on February 17, 2017
  7. ↑ Micro Speaker Developer USound Secures 12 Million Euro for Market Entry , JAN 16, 2017, PR Newswire, accessed January 16, 2017
  8. ↑ [1] , dated November 29, 2018, Die Presse , accessed November 30, 2018
  9. ↑ Billionaire Hermann Hauser joins Styrian Visocon , May 19, 2017, Der Standard , accessed on July 9, 2017
  10. ↑ Hermann Hauser is Business Angel of the Year 2016 ( Memento from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauser, Hermann Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna