Thom E. Rasche

Wind River Systems, Inc. provides embedded and mobile software solutions. It offers operating systems, Wind River Helix Chassis, intelligent device platforms, network infrastructure, and Wind River Helix cloud. The company was founded by Jerry L. Fiddler in 1981 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

PQ Bypass, Inc. develops novel procedure for the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases. It offers an approach for achieving a bypass of the femoral artery that is designed to match the performance and safety of an invasive surgery for long segment occlusions. The company was founded by Richard Heuser and James D. Joye in 2009 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Vascular Devices develops and manufactures cardiovascular devices for people with cardiovascular disease. The company is based in Redwood City, CA.

Kernel Management Partners Ltd. (Kernel Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Niall Olden. The firm is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

Tryton Medical, Inc. manufactures and sells stent systems for the treatment of bifurcation lesions. Its tri-zone technology provides scaffolding within the side branch, radial strength in the transition zone and minimal coverage in the main vessel zone. The firm also provides side branch stent systems which are used to treat a range of bifurcated lesions. The company was founded by H. Richard Davis, Aaron V. Kaplan and Dan Cole in 2003 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Stokes Bio Ltd. develops microfluidics technologies for gene expression measurement and target detection. It detects soft and solid tumors, and toxicology. The company was founded by Mark Davies, Tara Dalton and Edward M. Walsh in 2005 and is headquartered in Limerick, Ireland.

Covagen AG engages in the research in as well as development, production, and distribution of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products and technologies. The company was founded by Julian Bertschinger and Dragan Grabulovski in 2007 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

azeti GmbH provides hardware components and applications. It also provides research and development services. The company was founded by Dirk D. Sommerfeld in 2006 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Vivasure Medical Ltd. manufactures medical devices to enable deployment of vascular implants. It offers an absorbable implant and delivery system for use in a range of medical applications, primarily in minimally invasive and percutaneous procedures, such as percutaneous closure of arteriotomies. The company was founded by Gerard Brett and Christopher Martin on August 27, 2008 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

DailyDeal GmbH operates online shopping portal. It offers daily deals and coupons on shopping, events, hotel, restaurant, wellness, beauty and sport. The firm operates through its offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company was founded by Fabian Heilemann and Ferry Heilemann in 2009 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Apica Cardiovascular Ltd. designs and develops innovative medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its product includes innovative transapical access and closure system that is designed to simplify and standardize the technique used to open and close the apex of a beating hear. The company was founded by Ajit P. Yoganathan, Jorge H. Jimenez, Vinod H. Thourani and James L. Greene in November 2009 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

Endo Tools Therapeutics SA manufactures medical devices. It focuses on the development of devices providing new means of therapeutic interventions for gastroenterologists. The company was founded by Jacques Deviere, Alain Delchambre and Nicolas Cauche in 2003 and is headquartered in Gosselies, Belgium.

Cryotherapeutics SA develops and markets a cryotherapy system, with focus on highlighting the safety and efficacy of cryoneergy in the cardiovascular system. The firm specializes in the design of a proprietary system to be used in the treatment of coronary artery diseases that cause heart attacks. Its focus areas encompass technology research, system development, and early-stage product commercialization. The company was founded by Randell L. Werneth, John Yianni and Maurice Buchbinder on September 8, 2009 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Peak Oyun Yazilim Ve Pazarlama AS develops and publishes social games. The firm builds a global user base for its community-based, multiplayer card games as well as casual puzzle games. Its products include Spades Plus, Gin Rummy Plus, 101 Okey Plus, and Toy Blast. The company was founded by Hakan Bahadir Bas, Rina Onur, Safa Sofuoglu, and Sidar Sahin in October 2010 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

Socialbakers a.s. provides monitoring and tracking tools for analysis of social networks. It offers social media analytics, reporting, publishing, and recommendation suite that track social profiles across various social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. The company was founded by Martin Homolka, Jan Rezab, Lukas Maixner and Jiri Voves in 2008 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

EyeEm Mobile GmbH provides smart phone camera and photo sharing applications. The company was founded by Ramzi Rizk, Florian Meissner, Lorenz Aschoff and Gen Sadakane in February 2011 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Seroba BioVentures Ltd (Seroba BioVentures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Kernel Management Partners Ltd founded in 2001 by Peter Sandys and Seamus O''Hara. The firm is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Earlybird VC Management GmbH & Co. KG operates as a alternative investment manager. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Sky & Sand GmbH operates as a holding company through its subsidiaries operates online portals. The company was founded by Ferry Heilemann and Fabian Heilemann in February 2013 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

FSMLabs, Inc. deals in system and operating system software. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

iSTAR Medical SA develops innovative ophthalmic implants. Its products include MINIject, STARflo and STAR Material. The company was founded by Michel Alvarez in 2011 and is headquartered in Wavre, Belgium.

Global Center For Medical Innovation, Inc. provides medical devices. It provides medical device commercialization, innovation, prototyping, machine shop, cGMP manufacturing, preclinical testing, clinical trial, inovator education, regulatory assurance, quality assurance, 3D Printing-ProJet 6000, rapid prototyping, cleanroom. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Traxpay GmbH engages in the design and development of online payment solutions. Its cloud-based business-to-business (B2B) dynamic payments platform provides secure bank-grade and regulatory compliant financial process automation and B2B payments services to corporates, digital marketplaces, and B2B commerce networks. The company was founded by Michael Rundshagen and Markus Rupprecht in 2009 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

RhodeCode, Inc. provides source code management solutions for enterprises. It offers a software development solution for mission-critical programs. The firm applies unified user control, permissions, code reviews and tool integration across Mercurial, Git and Subversion repositories. The company was founded by Sebastian Kreutzberger and Marcin Kuzminski in 2010 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Seerene GmbH develops and provides analytics software. It solutions include software maps, cio cockpit, data sources and seerene Analytics. The company was founded by Marc Hildebrandt and Johannes Bohnet in September 2015 and is headquartered in Potsdam, Germany.

BY Capital Management GmbH (BlueYard Capital Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Ciarán O'Leary and Jason Whitmire. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Spaceknow, Inc. develops satellite imagery products. It provides watchdog and trading indices products. The firm offers analytics products for a wide range of commercial and governmental clients across all major industries. The company was founded by Jerry Javornicky and Pavel Machalek in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Forto GmbH provides freight forwarding and digital interface logistics services through online. The company was founded by Erik Muttersbach, Ferry Heilemann and Michael Wax and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Earlybird 2007 Opportunities GmbH & Co. KG provides investment services. The private company is based in Munich, Germany. The CEOs are Roland Manger, Rolf Mathies, Christian G. Nagel. The German company was founded in 2014.

Part of Freepik Co. SL, EyeEm Ltd. is a British company that provides business support services. The company is based in Birmingham, UK. EyeEm was founded in 2011.

Earlybird Growth Opportunities Fund I GmbH & Co. KG is an investment fund based in Munich, Germany. The CEOs of the German company are Hendrik Brandis, Heiko Thiel.

O'mahony Holding Srl is a Belgian company that provides purchase, sale, and rental of real estate services. The private company was founded in 2005 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

McKinsey GmbH & Co. KG provides business consulting services. The company was founded on October 18, 2011 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.