Investors
We´re proud that we can count such successful companies and private investors among our partners and investors. They support us not only financially, but also with their experience, trade knowledge and advice.
Corporate Finance Partners CFP & Founders Investments:
“CFP & Founders Investments” is a co-investment vehicle which was founded in 1998 in Frankfurt am Main as Corporate Finance Partners CFP Beratungs-GmbH (CFP), a Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions consulting firm. The activities of CFP & Founders Investments mostly stem from deal flow at the CFP & Beratungs-GmbH (CFO & Consulting Company) or involve the network of CFP & Founders Investments. The network of funds is made up of 150 investors in the area of telecommunications, Internet, IT, software, Clean Tech, media and medicine technology. Many of the former CFP & Beratungs-GmbH (CFO & Consulting Company) clients are now involved in CFP & Founders Investments. Currently around €33.4 million of funds are being managed. Apart from the purely financial engagements, CFP portfolio companies has access to the network of CFP & Founders Investments and profit from commercial contacts, trade experience and management skills.
Contact:
Corporate Finance Partners
CFP & Founders Investments GmbH & Co. KGaA
Andreas Thümmler
CEO/Managing Director
Palais 22
Kennedyallee 70a
60596 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tel: +49 69 907476 12
Fax: +49 69 907476 70
http://www.cfpartners.com
High-Tech Gründerfonds:
High-Tech Gründerfonds invests venture capital in young, risky, technology companies, who are performing promising company research. With help from „seed financing“ of up to €500,000 with economic terms of start-ups that have research and development plans in the aim of making, for example, proof of concepts or to help them become market leaders. The High-Tech Gründerfonds is made up of €272 million in investments in the public-private partnership sphere, such as the Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the KfW banking group as well as the six-industry group consisting of BASF, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Robert Bosch, Daimler and Carl Zeiss.
Contact:
High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Clemens von Bergmann
Investment Director
Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2
53175 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49 228 96568500
Fax: +49 228 96568550
info@high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
KfW:
Start-ups, technology-based companies and middle-income families have access to transparent, coordinated finance methods. KfW mobilizes funds for young, innovative tech companies with the support of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and ERP-Startfonds (enterprise resource planning start-up funds). KfW participates in the loan process without trying to get involved in the management of companies. But the requirement is that the lead investor must be loaning at least the same amount of money. The same financial terms are applicable to KfW, as for the lead investor.
Contact:
KfW Bankengruppe
Business unit KfW Mittelstandsbank
Brigitte Reischl
Ludwig-Erhard-Platz 1-3
53179 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49 228 / 831-7698
Fax: +49 228 / 831-7493
http://www.kfw.de
Odeon Venture Capital AG:
Odeon AG is a company-led venture capital group. Odeon has already founded multiple successful companies with successful exits through stock offerings and acquisitions. Odeon sees itself as an institutional business-founding group, and an angel investor. Acting as founder, the group systematically develops business ideas. Acting as angel investor, Odeon makes its experience with innovative start-ups available to companies as they face strategic challenges.
Contact:
Odeon Venture Capital AG
Marcel “Otto” Yon
14469 Potsdam, Germany
office@odeon-ag.com
SeedCapital Dortmund:
SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG is financed by NRW.BANK, Sparkasse Dortmund and private investors. Participating in newly-founded technology and growth-oriented companies within Dortmund, SeedCapital Dortmund supports modern, structural change in the region. The goal of the company´s funds is to make it possible for companies who are in the early stages to strive for above-average growth, which can be realized with the help of larger, institutional investors.
Contact:
SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG
Steffen Gruber
Freistuhl 2
44137 Dortmund, Germany
Tel.: +49 231 / 183-342 11
Fax: +49 231 / 183-342 99
http://www.seedcapital-dortmund.de
Private Investors
Klaus Wecken, Ferry Wecken, Ina Wecken, Prof. Conen