Rolf Kälin

ProgressNow! invest AG is a holding company. It focuses on healthcare, education and environmental innovations and renewable energy sources. The company was founded on February 2000 and is headquartered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

ProgressNow Advisers AG (ProgressNow! advisors) is an independent Swiss private equity holding firm which was established in 2000 to invest in development-stage and stock exchange-listed companies which are active in a field, or offer products and services that make an active contribution to human well-being and development. Based in Frauenfeld, the firm advises the ProgressNow! funds.

Emptoris, Inc. was a private company that provided strategic supply, category spend and contract management solutions. They offered sourcing, contract management, spend analysis, supplier lifecycle management, services procurement and telecom expense management solutions. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Velico Medical, Inc. operates as a pre-clinical medical technology company that develops and commercializes products for use in preparing and storing platelets and plasma, including a companion instrument and disposable product for spray drying plasma. Its products include FrontlineODP (on demand Plasma) and FrontlinePPS (Platelet Protection System). The company was founded by Robert W. Middleton and Cabot G. L. Henderson in 1991 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.