Hannes Schill

Open-Xchange AG develops e-mail and collaboration software solutions. It specializes in the development of tools for on-premise or on-demand solutions, geared towards fueling clients' businesses. The company designs an application suite, a centralized cloud environment that lets users manage digital lives, emails, tasks, and files from a single interface. Its solutions include e-mail, calendar, address book, document, and task management applications. The company was founded by Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Martin Kauss and Frank Hoberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.

Wickr, Inc. provides a platform to send encrypted messages without a trace. It also offers a mobile communication application that provides military-grade encryption of text, picture, audio, and video messages. The company was founded by Nico Sell, Chris Howell, Kara Coppa and Robert Statica in June 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Lead Equities Beteiligungsverwaltungs AG (Lead Equities) is an independent Austrian private equity firm which was founded in 2001 to invest in mid-market businesses in Austria and bordering EC countries. Headquartered in Vienna, Lead Equities manages the Lead Equities private equity funds, backed by institutional and private investors. Their Investment Committee and Advisory Board provide a range of professional partners which allows investee companies to leverage their industrial and financial expertise. Through the firm's cooperation with AUCTUS they are the only Austrian private equity fund with a strong presence in Germany.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Roland Berger GmbH provides business consulting services. It offers advisory services to international enterprises and public institutions on business management issues ranging from rule-breaking strategies to organizational structures and business processes. The firm focuses on corporate development, information management, marketing and sales, operations strategy, restructuring and corporate finance. Roland Berger was founded on September 14, 1998 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Union Square Ventures LLC (USV) is a venture capital firm founded by Brad R. Burnham and Frederick R. Wilson in 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Gotham Ventures (Gotham Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Threshold Ventures Inc founded in 1999 by Timothy Cook Draper, Daniel J. Schultz and Ross H. Goldstein. The firm is headquartered in White Plains, New York.

Novaled GmbH designs and develops organic light-emitting diode technologies. Its products include organic materials, OLED display materials, OLED lighting materials and organic photovoltaic materials. The company was founded by Karl Leo, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Martin Pfeiffer and Jorg Amelung in 2001 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Pembroke Real Estate LLC (Pembroke) is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of FMR LLC founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Heliatek GmbH develops, produces, and commercializes organic solar cells. The firm engages in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) based on small molecules. It is making the transition from pure technology development to industrial manufacture. The company was founded in 2006 by Jens Drechsel, Peter Bäuerle, Bert Männig, Martin Pfeiffer, Harald Eggers and Karl Leo and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

FlightCaster, Inc. provides information about flight delays. The firm uses an advanced algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight and matches it to real-time conditions. The company was founded by Evan Konwiser in July 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Widetronix, Inc. designs and manufactures ultra-low power sensor platforms. It specializes in semiconductor design and fabrication, as well as ultra-low power electronics. The firm serves in defense and medical industries. Widetronix was founded by Michael Gregg Spencer and Yuri Makarov in 2003 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

aws-mittelstandsfonds Management GmbH provides investment services. It offers services that allows to increase production and marketing capacity and invest in new technologies. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

New Energy Capital Partners LLC (New Energy Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Scott Brown. The firm is headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire.

KMC Management Consultants GmbH & Co. KG is a German business development company that has been assisting medium-sized and large corporations in developing their business strategies and implementing them in their target markets since 1988. The private company is based in Meerbusch, Germany, and has an international team that develops pragmatic concepts, taking country-specific characteristics into account. KMC's primary activities include successful sales and marketing strategies, portfolio optimization, market entries, acquisitions, and the implementation of strategic alliances. The company is implementation-oriented and actively involves the client's organization to write enduring success stories. KMC is a cross-industrial functional specialist with extensive expertise in different sectors based on more than 29 years of experience. The CEO is Christian Klausmeier.

Ceram Hyd SA develops and manufactures ceramic membranes for electrolytic hydrogen production. It offers CERAPEM, a membrane platform technology for brine electrolysis systems which is integrated into any in situ cleaning and disinfection equipment. The company was founded by Arthur Mofakhami, Tarek Nassar and Eric Levet on December 16, 2009 and is headquartered in Ecuelles, France.

Kiwigrid GmbH engages in the development and operation of a modular, turnkey smart grid as a service platform. The company was founded by Carsten Bether in 2011 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Part of Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, ESCRYPT GmbH is a leading provider of IT security solutions in embedded systems and consulting services for enterprise security and secured manufacturing. The company is based in Bochum, Germany, with four other German locations and subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, and other countries. The German company's solutions are widely used in the automotive security and production industry. ESCRYPT also provides dedicated security services for the Bosch Group's corporate IT and products. The company was founded in 2004 by Willi Mannheims and Christoph Paar, and the CEOs are Thomas Josef Wollinger and Uwe Bingel. ESCRYPT was acquired by ETAS GmbH on August 24, 2012.

sonnen GmbH develops lithium storage systems and battery technologies. It specializes in the design of lithium storage systems and renewable energy development technologies. The firm engages in research and development investment projects focused on the production of power battery storage solutions. The company was founded by Christoph Ostermann and Torsten Stiefenhofer in April 2010 and is headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Germany.

Österreichische Hotel- und Tourismusbank GmbH engages in the financing and promotion of investments in tourism. It also provides consulting services related to investments and financing. In addition, the firm offers other services, which includes export pre-financing as well as support of cooperation and restructuring of financing of tourism businesses. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Graylog, Inc. provides open-source software for big data collection and analytics. The firm offers integrated platform for collecting, indexing and analyzing both structured and unstructured data from almost any source. It also provides production and development support services. The company was founded by Lennart Koopman in 2009 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Paperspace Co. provides more affordable modernize desktop computer. It offers cloud desktops, gaming and machining, and visual effects products. The firm provides cloud computing resources. The company was founded by Daniel Kobran and Dillon Thompson Erb in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Rhebo GmbH engages in the provision of industrial monitoring solutions ensuring both cybersecurity and stability of ICS (industrial control system) and IoT (Internet of things) infrastructures. Its products include Rhebo Industry 4.0 Stability and Security Audit; Rhebo Industrial Protector; Rhebo IoT Device Protection; and Rhebo ReadyNow. The company was founded by Martin Menschner, Klaus Mochalski and Frank Stummer in 2014 and is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.

Antecedent Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Steven Brian Berg. The firm is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Peak State Ventures (PSV) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Young Sergey. The firm is headquartered in New York, United States.

Lytical Ventures LLC (Lytical Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Murex Partners Co. Ltd. (Murex Partners) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Beom-Seok Lee, Dong-Min Kang and Ji-Seong Oh. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

sonnen Holding GmbH (Germany) engages in the holding and management of participations in other firms. The company was founded on April 15, 2010 and is headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Germany.

Careviso, Inc. engages in the provision of market access services to all participants in the molecular diagnostics. Its services include instant verification, all-in-one access payor access, business consulting, CMT laboratory assist program, eligibility check, insurance discovery and recovery, deductible management, and propensity to pay. The company was founded by Dimas Perry and Andrew Mignatti and is headquartered in Falls Church, VA.

Part of LichtBlick SE, Installion GmbH is a digital marketplace for photovoltaic systems, energy storage, and wall boxes, and a strong advocate for the energy transition. The company is based in Cologne, Germany. Installion offers a digital platform for nationwide PV installations with installation guarantees, and provides career opportunities for both beginners and professionals in the field. The German company was founded in 2019 by Florian Meyer-Delpho and Till Pirnay, with Florian Meyer-Delpho serving as CEO since then. Installion was acquired by LichtBlick SE on April 01, 2023.

Enclaive GmbH provides application security and data privacy through their revolutionary encryption technology. The company is based in Berlin, Germany and was founded by Andreas Walbrodt, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The German company's products are designed for developers and built for businesses, allowing them to move to the cloud with zero-trust and confidence. Enclaive's compute, storage, and other services are used by a plethora of businesses to develop, manage, and protect their applications.

Esforin SE is a market leader in flexibility marketing, offering fully automatic flexibility marketing services and intraday trading of electricity and gas. Esforin is based in Essen, DE and was founded in 2014 by Christoph Gardlo and Christian Hövelhaus. The German company provides attractive additional revenues for industrial, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies. Christian Hövelhaus has been the CEO since 2014.

beeOLED GmbH is a technology company based in Dresden, Germany that specializes in developing highly efficient blue emitters for OLED displays. beeOLED's technology concept is based on a single atom emitter that generates light 100%% efficiently, making it fundamentally impossible to break anything. The German company leverages the latest advances in europium chemistry and innovative organic ligands to develop highly stabilized blue eu (ii) -complexes that are air-stable and have nearly unity photoluminescence quantum yield. The company was founded in 2020 by Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Carsten Rothe, and Volodymyr Senkovskyy, with Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth serving as the CEO since then.

Evolution Equity Partners LLC (Evolution Equity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Richard Seewald and Dennis Smith. The firm is headquartered in New York.