Investors
T-Venture Holding GmbH
T-Venture Holding GmbH, or T-Venture for short, is one of the most important corporate venture capital companies in Europe. Founded in 1997 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, it has since then invested in young companies that demonstrate economic and technological synergies with the business units of Deutsche Telekom and also show considerable growth potential.
Headquartered in Bonn and supported by T-Venture of America, Inc. in Foster City, California, T-Venture focuses on the management of shareholdings. These commitments are financed by the T-Mobile, T-Online, T-Com and T-Systems funds set up especially by Deutsche Telekom AG. The T-Corporate Venture Fund also controls other direct and indirect investments, such as TeleSoft, USA, a venture capital fund specialising in telecommunications shareholdings.
The Tokarz Group
The Tokarz Group is an investment banking firm based in the United States with investments worldwide. The Tokarz Group is led by Michael Tokarz, who prior to forming the Tokarz Group, was a General Partner at Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. KKR is a private investment firm that makes equity investments in management buyouts on behalf of itself and its investors, which are primarily government and corporate pension funds, financial institutions and university endowments. Before joining KKR, Mike spent 12 years with the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. He has established an international reputation for creating unusual acquisition financings, including several that set new standards for the scale of financings and leveraged buyouts.
Motorola Ventures
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, automotive and broadband communications. Sales in 2002 were $27.3 billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important innovations that make things smarter and life better, honoured traditions that began when the company was founded 75 years ago this year.
Motorola Ventures (MV), www.motorolaventures.com, is the global, strategic venture capital investment arm of Motorola, Inc. MV invests at all stages in developing companies of strategic value to Motorola in order to accelerate access to new technologies, new markets and new talent.
Eden Ventures
Eden Ventures is an early stage VC fund, focussed on early stage software businesses in UK and Ireland. Eden Ventures was formed by a group of successful serial software entrepreneurs turned venture investors. The companies founded include On Demand Distribution (Europe's leading digital distributor of music), Cramer Systems (telecommunications' industry leader in inventory management software), Metrica (telecommunications' industry leader in performance management software), Division Group (virtual prototyping software), Smartgroups (now Freeserve's 'communities' software), and Exony (advanced call centre routing and management software). For more information, please see www.edenventures.com.
DVC Deutsche Venture Capital
DVC Deutsche Venture Capital is a VC-fund based in Munich, which is focused on European information, telecommunication, semiconductor and industrial technologies as well as life sciences. In life sciences, DVC particularly looks for opportunities in therapeutic and diagnostic product development as well as for platform technologies and medical devices. DVC has 300 million Euro capital under management for investments in private companies, DVC invests approximately 1-10 million Euro as a lead or co-lead investor also in larger rounds. DVC is a "value-add" financial investor. Each sector team consists of experienced investment managers with relevant backgrounds. Since its formation in 1998, DVC has invested in approximately 50 companies.
Add Partners
Add partners, www.addpartners.com is a leading Venture Capital firm, investing in Europe's most promising technologies and entrepreneurs. Uniquely for Europe, Add Partners' expert investment team applies Silicon Valley-style investing, deep knowledge of the European market, and global perspective to help early-stage companies achieve their global potential. Add Partners was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in London, UK.