{"id":1226,"date":"2026-04-15T07:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:58:17","slug":"blindspot-software-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/batch-2-eng\/blindspot-software-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"BlindSpot Software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-fd412670 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blindspot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-306\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:30px;border-top-right-radius:30px;border-bottom-left-radius:30px;border-bottom-right-radius:30px;aspect-ratio:1.4299065960869586;width:302px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teams_blindspot-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-666\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5000000310980761;object-fit:cover;width:360px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Founder Christian Walter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-category is-style-post-terms-1 is-style-post-terms-1--1 wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/category\/batch-2-eng\/\" rel=\"tag\">Batch #2<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Firmware is embedded software that is necessary for the operation of electronic devices and serves as the link between hardware and the operating system. Firmware must be tested on hardware, which in most cases is done manually and involves significant time and cost. The Bochum-based startup <strong>BlindSpot <\/strong>has developed a SaaS system that enables scalable and efficient testing of firmware on hardware. This reduces manual testing by 75%, making the hardware indirectly more secure and directly more cost-effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blindspot.software\/\">Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firmware is embedded software that is necessary for the operation of electronic devices and serves as the link between hardware and the operating system. Firmware must be tested on hardware, which in most cases is done manually and involves significant time and cost. The Bochum-based startup BlindSpot has developed a SaaS system that enables scalable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batch-2-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accelerator.high-tech.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}