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Renaissance Management SA (Renaissance) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1997.

Vinci Capital Switzerland SA is an independent Swiss private equity firm. The Vinci Capital group was founded by Olivier Tavel and Christian Waldvogel in 2004 to finance and develop Swiss-based technology and industrial companies. Based in Lausanne, the firm focuses their investments on businesses in Switzerland. They formed a strategic partnership with Swisscom to jointly launch the Mona Lisa venture capital technology investment fund as a co-investment vehicle to their Renaissance Technologies 2 fund. For Swisscom the partnership aims to increase innovation and boost the development of Swiss technology SMEs. For Vinci Capital, it provides access to Swisscom's industry expertise for selecting new investments and developing commercial and technological partnerships with investee companies.

Baader Helvea AG (Baader Helvea) s the research-based Swiss brokerage subsidiary of Baader Bank AG (XE: BWB) in Germany. Formerly known as Helvea SA, established in 1990, the firm is located in Geneva and specializes in equity research, sales, sales trading, execution and administration, and services institutional clients worldwide, including pension funds, insurance funds, unit trusts, balanced funds and hedge funds. Their core market is Switzerland with a focus on small- and mid-cap companies; however, they also have expertise in European equity especially in those sectors in which Swiss companies operate as global players, such as banking, insurance, healthcare, food manufacturing, chemicals and luxury goods. The firm's research process focuses on company analysis and includes a company visitation program. They aim to identify companies likely to generate superior returns for shareholders and to evaluate sector or company-specific trends.