Michael Tönes

Nestlé Deutschland AG makes ice creams and frozen desserts. It also offers baby, sports, breakfast, ready to mix kitchen helper, drinks, and sweets. The company was founded in 1839 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH invests in small and middle market technology orientated companies located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, in the form of direct investments and silent partnership. It invests only together with at least one private investor.

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.

MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungs GmbH Schleswig-Holstein (MBG Schleswig-Holstein) is a regional private equity firm which was established in 1994 on the initiative of the State of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany to increase equity base of medium-sized companies in Schleswig-Holstein and to improve the conditions for raising debt capital. Headquartered in Kiel, Germany the firm signed a cooperation agreement in 2007 with Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein, Bürgschaftsbank, Genossenschaftsverband Norddeutschland, Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken, aiming to improve the implementation of support for small and medium-sized companies in Schleswig-Holstein.

Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt mbH is a private equity/ venture capital firm founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Magedeburg.

Emperra GmbH E-Health Technologies manufactures and designs telemedicine technologies. The firm specializes in the development of medical monitoring devices for the tracking and transmission of diabetic patients' diagnostic and therapeutic data. It develops components and systems under the ESYSTA product brand, featuring data acquisition, analysis, and transfer solutions. The company was founded by Janko Schildt in 2008 and is headquartered in Potsdam, 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.