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Jedox AG provides enterprise technologies for Excel applications. It offers consulting, training, support, workshops, newsletter and social media services. The firm also offers planning/forecasting, reporting/analysis, sales controlling, procurement controlling and project controlling. The firm has operations in France and Germany. The company was founded by Kristian Raue in 2002 and is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany.

Open-Xchange AG develops e-mail and collaboration software solutions. It specializes in the development of tools for on-premise or on-demand solutions, geared towards fueling clients' businesses. The company designs an application suite, a centralized cloud environment that lets users manage digital lives, emails, tasks, and files from a single interface. Its solutions include e-mail, calendar, address book, document, and task management applications. The company was founded by Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Martin Kauss and Frank Hoberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.

SinnLeffers AG engages in the management and operation of retail clothing stores. The firm offers collections of private label clothing apparel and accessory items. Its product range includes men's and women's leisurewear, outerwear, suits, jackets, trousers, scarves, neckties, and fashion accessories. It operates through collaborations with designer brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Opus, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Vero Moda, Esprit, Puma, and Superdry. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Hagen, Germany.

MANN+HUMMEL GmbH engages in the manufacture and development of air filtration systems. It specializes in air cleaners and intake systems, liquid filter systems, solutions for alternative drives, industrial filters, indoor air quality, fine dust eater, digital transformation, water treatment, waste water treatment, and membrane filtration for food and dairy products. The company was founded by Adolf Mann and Erich Hummel in 1938 and is headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Brauerei Diebels GmbH & Co. KG operates breweries. It also manufactures and supplies malt beverages. It markets its products under the brand name Diebels. The firm's products include Diebels Beer, Kampagne and Song. The company was founded in 1878 by Josef Diebels and is headquartered in Issum, Germany.

MANN+HUMMEL Vokes-Air Holding AB provides pollution filtration products and solutions for clean and fresh air. Its products include air filter media, panel air filters, bag air filters, compact air filters, gas adsorption filters, air filter housings, oil mist eliminators, dust collectors, weather louvers, dampers, operating theatre and fluff separators. The company was founded by Cecil Gordon Vokes in 1921 and is headquartered in Svenljunga, Sweden.

Roland Berger GmbH provides business consulting services. It offers advisory services to international enterprises and public institutions on business management issues ranging from rule-breaking strategies to organizational structures and business processes. The firm focuses on corporate development, information management, marketing and sales, operations strategy, restructuring and corporate finance. Roland Berger was founded on September 14, 1998 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (AWS) is the Austrian promotional bank, fully controlled by the Government of Austria. Based in Vienna, AWS emerged in 2002 from the merger of several government funding agencies including FGG-Finanzierungsgarantiegesellschaft mbH and BÜRGES Förderungsbank GmbH. The firm later absorbed Innovationsagentur GmbH. The Seed Financing division of AWS manages venture capital investments by way of mezzanine financing. AWS also comprises several divisions not directly involved in investment management, namely Tecma which is specialized in technology marketing support, Tecnet which supplies technology information, i²-Ideas & Investment which is a networking platform for business angels and Biotech, providing business support for biotechnology projects. AWS manages the university spin-off fund Uni Venture, sponsored by BAWAG-Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft.

Novaled GmbH designs and develops organic light-emitting diode technologies. Its products include organic materials, OLED display materials, OLED lighting materials and organic photovoltaic materials. The company was founded by Karl Leo, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Martin Pfeiffer and Jorg Amelung in 2001 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG (eCAPITAL) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Münster, Germany.

FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH engages in the provision of financial services. Its equity financing solutions include venture capital, growth capital, private capital, initial public offering, dual-track, private investment in public equity, and block trade. It also offers solutions for debt financing such as receivables, borrowing base, inventory, working capita, revolving credit facility, guarantees, letters of credit, bank loan facility, sale-and-lease back, corporate bonds, promissory not, high-yield bond, second lien, unit ranches, and convertible bonds. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Heliatek GmbH develops, produces, and commercializes organic solar cells. The firm engages in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) based on small molecules. It is making the transition from pure technology development to industrial manufacture. The company was founded in 2006 by Jens Drechsel, Peter Bäuerle, Bert Männig, Martin Pfeiffer, Harald Eggers and Karl Leo and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Ernstng's family GmbH & Co. KG distributes clothing and apparel for men, women, chilren, and babies. It offers clothes, underwear, shoes, jackets, and accessories. The company also offers furniture, household accessories, and board games. Ernstng's family was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Coesfeld, Germany.

KMC Management Consultants GmbH & Co. KG is a German business development company that has been assisting medium-sized and large corporations in developing their business strategies and implementing them in their target markets since 1988. The private company is based in Meerbusch, Germany, and has an international team that develops pragmatic concepts, taking country-specific characteristics into account. KMC's primary activities include successful sales and marketing strategies, portfolio optimization, market entries, acquisitions, and the implementation of strategic alliances. The company is implementation-oriented and actively involves the client's organization to write enduring success stories. KMC is a cross-industrial functional specialist with extensive expertise in different sectors based on more than 29 years of experience. The CEO is Christian Klausmeier.

Eliq AB specializes in the analysis and visualization of energy data. It provides digital energy advisory, self-learning monitoring and automation solutions. The company was founded by Joakim Olof Christofilus Ottander and André Gustav Stefan Mellin in 2008 and is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Faradion Ltd. manufactures batteries. It offers sodium-ion batteries that can be tailored to both energy and power applications. The company was founded by Jerry Barker and Christopher J. Wright and Ashwin Kumar Kumaraswamy in 2011 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

Inven Capital SICAV as (Inven Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of CEZ as founded in 2014 by Peter Míkovec. The firm is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

ES.FOR.IN SE provides energy solutions for industrial customers. The private company is based in Essen, Germany. The German company was founded in 2014 by Christoph Gardlo and Christian Hövelhaus. Christian Hövelhaus has been the CEO since 2014.

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.

CLOUD & HEAT Technologies GmbH operates cloud-based virtual data centers. The firm provides distributed data center infrastructure with different hardware solutions. The company was founded by Jens Struckmeier, Rene Marcel Schretzmann and Christof Fetzer in 2011 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Ferroelectric Memory GmbH (FMC) is a German company that has developed advanced ferroelectric hafnium oxide memory technology for non-volatile memory in future electronics and computing innovation. The company is based in Dresden, Germany. FMC's ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FEFET) and capacitor (FECAP) technology is fast, low-power, scalable, and has high endurance with decades of data retention, suitable for a broad range of AI, IoT, edge, data center, and embedded applications. The company was founded in 2016 by Marko Noack, Wolfram Drescher, Stefan Mueller, Menno Mennenga, and is currently working with major semiconductor companies for its embedded and stand-alone memory solution. The CEO is Ali Pourkeramati.

ZOLAR GmbH engages in the supply of solar power systems for private households through an online platform. Its product portfolio includes solar energy systems with photovoltaics, storage batteries, heating elements, service water heating pumps, and electric charging stations. The company was founded by Alex Melzer and Gregor Loukidis in May 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

sonnen Holding GmbH (Germany) engages in the holding and management of participations in other firms. The company was founded on April 15, 2010 and is headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Germany.

Part of LichtBlick SE, Installion GmbH is a digital marketplace for photovoltaic systems, energy storage, and wall boxes, and a strong advocate for the energy transition. The company is based in Cologne, Germany. Installion offers a digital platform for nationwide PV installations with installation guarantees, and provides career opportunities for both beginners and professionals in the field. The German company was founded in 2019 by Florian Meyer-Delpho and Till Pirnay, with Florian Meyer-Delpho serving as CEO since then. Installion was acquired by LichtBlick SE on April 01, 2023.

1komma5° GmbH is a German Hamburg-based company founded in 2021 by Jannik Schall, Micha Grüber, Philip Liesenfeld, Philipp Schröder, and Michael H. Hinderer. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany, and has subsidiaries in Sweden and Germany. The company provides carbon-neutral home energy solutions, including solar systems, heat pumps, wallboxes, and energy storage, all connected to a smart energy system. The company offers a "One-Stop-Shop" for klimaneutrale Energiesysteme, providing tailored solutions for zero-impact power supply. Philipp Schröder has been the CEO since 2021.

Esforin SE is a market leader in flexibility marketing, offering fully automatic flexibility marketing services and intraday trading of electricity and gas. Esforin is based in Essen, DE and was founded in 2014 by Christoph Gardlo and Christian Hövelhaus. The German company provides attractive additional revenues for industrial, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies. Christian Hövelhaus has been the CEO since 2014.

beeOLED GmbH is a technology company based in Dresden, Germany that specializes in developing highly efficient blue emitters for OLED displays. beeOLED's technology concept is based on a single atom emitter that generates light 100%% efficiently, making it fundamentally impossible to break anything. The German company leverages the latest advances in europium chemistry and innovative organic ligands to develop highly stabilized blue eu (ii) -complexes that are air-stable and have nearly unity photoluminescence quantum yield. The company was founded in 2020 by Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Carsten Rothe, and Volodymyr Senkovskyy, with Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth serving as the CEO since then.