Ontos AG was founded in 2001 with the goal to develop semantic solutions. The privately owned company has key activities in the area of automatic extraction of entities and relations from natural text based on an ontology driven approach and building different web services and solutions. Ontos is pursuing the vision of the semantic web and related technologies. In addition to semantic technologies, the Ontos team has gained experience in grid computing, data visualisation and designing and implementing the solution inside portals.