Heiko Burchert

3i Deutschland Gesellschaft für Industriebeteiligungen mbH (3i Deutschland) is the German private equity subsidiary of 3i Group Plc (LSE: III) in Great Britain. Established in Frankfurt in 1984, the firm invests in small and medium-sized German companies at all stages of development, from start-ups to established businesses. In addition to the Frankfurt office, 3i Deutschland has offices in Munich and Stuttgart. They drive their investment focus and decisions from their Frankfurt and Munich offices, and the team collaborates with Swiss colleagues in Zurich and 3i's network across Europe, Asia and the U.S. to invest in a wide range of industry sectors.

Berlin-Chemie AG engages in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. It offers products for therapeutic areas, which include inflammatory diseases and pain; gastroenterology; neurology; diabetes; cardiovascular diseases; oncology; and viral diseases. The company was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

seed & speed GmbH (seed + speed Ventures) is a venture capital firm within the German family office of Carsten Maschmeyer. The firm was founded in 2016. It is headquartered in Hannover, Germany, with offices in Berlin and Munich, and a US office in San Francisco.

BC Brandenburg Capital GmbH (BC GmbH) is a venture capital investment firm and a majority-owned subsidiary of ILB-Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg, the promotional bank for the State of Brandenburg in the east of Germany. BC GmbH was established in 2000 and is headquartered in Potsdam near Berlin, with an office in Frankfurt an der Oder, on the German-Polish border. The firm manages a series of venture capital funds, and invests a combination of private and public funds.

Peppermint VenturePartners GmbH (PVP) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Ingeborg Neumann, Dr. Joachim Rautter, and Dr. Klaus Stöckemann. It is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH develops diagnosis tool for glaucoma therapy. Its technology Pro-IOP is an eye pressure measurement system consists of an implantable micro sensor, responsible for pressure sensing, an external hand held device, which is transferring energy to the micro sensor telemetrically and which is responsible for data read out and storage and a GSM module which can be connected with the hand held device for transfer of measurement data to a database, which can be accessed by the eye doctor in order to get information about the disease status of the patient. The company was founded by Max Georg Ostermeier and Stefan Meyer in January 2010 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany.

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops anti-cancer immunotherapy products. The firm specializes in the discovery and development of immunotherapy products against cancer. It develops IMA901, a combination of multiple tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans Georg Rammensee, Hansjörg Schild, and Peter Brossart in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

Shire Orphan Therapies GmbH engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of chemical and biochemical products, ingredients, as well as pharmaceutical and diagnostic products. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Humedics GmbH operates as a research-based medtech company. It focuses on rapid and precise lover function measurement using LiMax, a breath analysis technology. The company was founded by Martin Stockman, Erwin de Bujizer, and Karsten Heyne in 2009 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Animas LLC manufactures and distributes external insulin pumps for diabetes patients. The company was founded on November 5, 1996 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.