Oliver Kolbe

Ascential Group Ltd. provides multi-platform events, information and publishing services. The firm's brands include i2i, Lions Festivals, WGSN, EMAP, Glenigan, MEED Projects, Groundsure, Planet Retail and DeHavilland. The company was founded by Richard Winfrey in 1947 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of SoftBank Group Corp., Ziff Davis Publishing, Inc. publishes technology-based digital content products. The company is based in New York, NY. Ziff Davis Publishing was acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. on October 01, 1994 for $198.91 million.

Noerr LLP provides legal services. Its practice areas include antitrust and competition, banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and media, litigation, arbitration and ADR, regulation and governmental affairs, restructuring and insolvency, and tax and private clients. The firm serves automotive and mobility, commerce and trade, compliance and investigations, energy, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, IT, outsourcing and data privacy, real estate investment group, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Eduard Oehl, Rudolf Nörr and Alfred Stiefenhofer in 1950 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Siemens Corp. manufactures electrical hardware and software for the communication, power, medical and other industries. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Olive Software, Inc. provides digital publishing solutions. The firm’s Software products allows the users to transform content resources into knowledge assets, opening new revenue streams, enabling information discovery, search and future-proof preservation. Its product lines support entire content lifecycle, including digitization, transformation, warehousing, search, access, view, and Web-based delivery. The company was founded by Yohnatan Stern in 2000 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

AUCTUS Capital Partners AG (AUCTUS) is an independent, management-owned German private equity firm which was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Alpina Capital Partners LLP (Alpine Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Smarteag AG specializes in infrastructure sensing, monitoring, and management systems. It offers distributed acoustic, distributed strain and temperature, as well as geomagnetic field sensing technology solutions. The company was founded on October 15, 2012 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Holtzbrinck Digital GmbH (Holtzbrinck Digital) is the strategic investment subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH in Germany. Formerly known as Holtzbrinck Networks GmbH, the firm originated in 2000 when all internet investments from the Verlagsgruppe von Holtzbrinck were consolidated to form Holtzbrinck NetworXs AG, which was subsequently split into Holtzbrinck Networks GmbH and Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH in 2006. Located in Munich, Holtzbrinck Digital aims to develop new areas of business on the Web by managing interests in Internet companies and acquiring start-ups. From their experience as a venture partner helping to build B2C Internet companies, the firm has unique knowledge of how to build brands, win customers and handle regional expansion. They invest from the balance sheet of the parent company.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

FinLeap GmbH (FinLeap) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Jan Beckers, Ramin Niroumand and Hendrik Krawinkel. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with additional offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid and Paris.

MoneyMap GmbH offers a convenient tool for personal finance optimization. The company was founded by Felix Kaiser, Dmitry Kharchenko and Frank Broer in October 19, 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Motive Capital Management LLC (Motive Partner) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Rob Heyvaert, Mike Hayford and Stephen C. Daffron. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Carolinas Matkasse AB owns and operates an electronic commerce grocery-delivery platform. It offers planned grocery bags containing ingredients, recipes, and meal plans that are prepared weekly and delivered to homes. The firm enables its clients to order a set grocery with accompanying recipes that make five meals for four people. The company was founded by Ebba Carolina Gebäck and Paul Niklas Aronsson in 2008 and is headquartered in Spånga, Sweden.

SVOX AG develops speech, voice and language output solutions and related equipment. The company was founded by Volker P. Jantzen, Alexander E. Fries and Bettina Hein in April 2000 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

plazz AG engages in the development of applications for events and all event related processes and marketing tools. The applications include the event app itself, registr, used in the pre-event phase for administrational purposes and to create a pre event website for marketing, and check-in, an admission management app, to streamline the admission process on the day of the event itself. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Erfurt, Germany.

Scope SE & Co. KGaA is a holding company, which engages in the provision of services in sales, finance, human resources management, communications, IT, legal and compliance, and risk management to its subsidiaries. The company was founded in 2002 by Florian Schoeller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Scope Group is a German European company that specializes in providing credit ratings, fund analyses, and customized solutions for risk assessment and monitoring. The private company has around 200 employees and has offices in several locations, including Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Oslo, and Paris. The company was founded in 2002 by Florian Schoeller, who has been the CEO since then.

Alpina Management GmbH provides PPM software solutions and services. The company is based in Munich, Germany and has subsidiaries in Germany and Switzerland. The CEOs are Sebastian Canzler, Florian Strehle. The German company was founded in 2018.