Milestones

Oktober 31, 2006 

Foundation of Vela Laboratories, Appointment of Dr. Markus Fido as Managing Director

November 2006

Approval of AWS Seed Financing loan Approval of ZIT / LISA grants for R&D projects

December 2006

Bid for Igeneon infrastructure and lab equipment (together with Greenovation Biopharma) for selected Igeneon projects

January 2007

Confirmation of the asset deals (infrastructure and projects) by court of law (start of the business)
Binding Letter of Intent from Greenovation for Project Co-development

February 2007

Approval of ZIT / LISA project grant `Innovations - Support´

April 2007

Signing of a lease contract for analytical laboratories with ImmoRent / Arealis
First customer acquired for analytical service business

June 2007

Closing 1st round atypical investors

September 2007

Expansion of office space Signing of Co-Development contract with Greenovation
Closing 2nd round atypical investors

October 2007

Appointment of Dr. Andreas Nechansky as 'Authorized Representatives' of Vela Labs

November 2007

GMP certification of Vela Laboratories by AGES Austria

December 2007

Closing 3rd round atypical investors

January 2007

Foundation of Meridian Biopharmaceuticals GmbH

April 2008

Start of the operative separation Vela (Analytical Service Provider) - Meridian (Project Development)

July 2008

Canadian customer acquired for analytical service business

November 2008

First Prize ZIT call "CoOperate Enlarged"

December 2008

Vela sales reach 500T€ (export quote: 55%)

March 2009

Indian customer acquired for analytical service business

June 2009

Dr. Kricek joins Vela Scientific Advisory Board

September 2009

Launch of marketing initiative focusing on cellular Bioassays

December 2009

Vela sales reach 1,0 mio  € (export quote: 65%)

February 2010

Vela and Meridian are two legally separated companies

April 2010

Signing of cooperation contract with NBS-C BioScience

September 2010

Renewal of GMP certification by AGES Austria (until June 2013)

Dezember 2010

Vela sales reach € 1,9 mio. (export quota: 79%)