Rouven Westphal

Collax GmbH provides software service solutions for network infrastructure, communication, collaboration, protection, security, high availability, and virtualization industry, It delivers comprehensive solutions for the fields of collaboration, security, and infrastructure. The firm offers software only solutions, virtual servers, and a customer support. The company was founded by William Hite, Boris Nalbach, and Olaf Jacobi in 2005 and is headquartered in Ismaning, Germany.

Hasso Plattner Ventures Management GmbH (HPV) is an independent venture capital firm established in 2005 by Hasso Plattner. HPV is headquartered in Potsdam in Land Brandenburg in the east of Germany. In addition to Hasso Plattner, the original investors included the government-funded InvestitionsBank of Brandenburg and the US-based technology venture capital firm CMEA Ventures. Later investors include high-net worth private individuals from the IT community. HPV manages a series on venture capital funds. The firm leverages their close proximity with the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, founded in 1998 and affiliated to the University of Potsdam.

SmApper Technologies' vision is to deliver automatic and intelligent file management across all tiers of storage from SSD to cloud to ensure that data is in the right place at the right time to optimize both cost and performance. The challenge is to provide optimization without adding complexity. SmApper is developing new 'Data Mobility' technology to address this challenge that automatically manages where the data is placed on storage using data intelligence. Data Mobility delivers business value by enabling policy-based data movement, while masking and automating the complexities of data migration regardless of storage platform. It matches the vision of many organizations to disaggregate servers and storage and interconnect them via multiple interoperating networks. Today SmApper's products provide automated storage tiring for dramatic cost reductions in large enterprises. SmApper's next generation Data Mobility technology will deliver automatic and intelligent file management across all tiers of storage from SSD to cloud for both performance and cost. The company has assembled a management team and board of seasoned storage visionaries and experts to bring the next generation Data Mobility solutions to market.

HPC Germany GmbH & Co. KG (HPC Germany) is a private German family office which was founded in 2012 to supervise, manage and grow the Hasso Plattner family’s wealth. Headquartered in Potsdam, HPC Germany manages a portfolio of equities, fixed-income, private equity, real estate and hedge funds.

The Hasso Plattner Foundation operates as a German enterprise software company. The non-profit company is based in Potsdam, Germany. The company was founded in 2015 by Hasso Plattner.

OLIGO Lichttechnik GmbH designs, manufactures and markets lamps and lighting systems worldwide. Its products include 250V, modular 12V and 12V system luminaires, single luminaires and OLIGOplus sortiment. The company was founded by Ralf Keferstein in 1987 and is headquartered in Hennef, Germany.