DuMont Venture Holding GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of the publishing group M. DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, Germany). DuMont Venture invests in growth companies in the fields of digital media and IT and provides capital for their development, market entry and internationalisation.
Earlybird Venture Capital is one of the most successful European venture investors. Currently, Earlybird manages over 430 million Euros of assets for an international investor base. Earlybird invests in innovative, fast growing companies with outstanding management teams and high growth potential in international markets.
As the state development bank of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW.BANK has implemented a wide range of financial development tools. Promoting technology and innovation is one of the main tasks of NRW.BANK.
Klaus Wecken has been a co-founder, partner and CEO of various companies in Germany and Switzerland, especially the KHK Software AG in Main, which he sold to the English Sage Group in 1997. From 1999 to 2009 he was founder and principal shareholder of Switzerland's leading property development company Tivona AG, which was integrated into Jelmoli Holding AG and then in the Swiss Prime Site AG (PLC) in 2009.
