news

01.02.2023

The manufacturer's final samples for the self-inflating cushions have been accepted. 

15.01.2023

The concept of our crowdfunding campaign is ready, we plan to launch in April 2023.

01.08.2022

The first 10 prototypes of our new version of easyUp are produced. Our testers are already using them busily.

01.05.2022

We have redesigned our website a bit and made it more streamlined.

15.04.2022

We are happy to inform you, that we found a new producer for our self-inflating cushion.

01.04.2022

We launched the easyUp webshop, just have a look (easyup store).

01.03.2022

We are happy about the founders grant, with which we can mainly cover our marketing costs.

01.02.2022

From now on there will be ads on social media, e.g. here on Instagram.

26.01,2022

We created a questionnaire to gauge interest in solutions like easyUp before we start production.

Here is the questionnaire for e-scooter riders: https://forms.office.com/r/2vewJ4X7qp

and here the questionnaire for bicyclists: https://forms.office.com/r/0BTRwr960A

We appreciate every answer and as a thank you will get a Gundel Business Trolley equipped with the easyUp belt system.

30/12/2021

Hurray, our new company, fokus-m UG, has been registered in the commercial register at district court of Bochum.

20/11/2021

We a proud to present a separat Website an will soon open our easyup Webshop. The website fokus-projekt.de is of course still available.

10/6/2021

The newsletter summer break has ended. The easyup newsletter No. 06 has been sent out.

04/10/2021

We have got the letter of recommendation from Economic Development Bochum  so we can apply for Start-up grant NRW  at the KFJ in Jülich.

07/21/2021

With curicum we found a partner who supports us in finding the right company for the production of the self-inflating pillow. 

06/01/2021

Unfortunately, we did not make it into the top 10 of the "start2grow" start-up competition. Nevertheless, we are happy that we were allowed to take part because we learned a lot. We will use this experience applying for the NRW start-up grant.

05/18/2021

We got the following message from "start2grow":

... I am very happy to announce that you and your team are among the 20 best teams in the start2grow 2021 founding competition and I would like to invite you ... to the pitch in front of the jury ...

In other words, we can pitch in the competition and we are really happy.

05/02/2021

We developed a simplified version of easyup and call it easyup light. It comes along without transverse ligaments. The back cushion is simply attached with Velcro straps.