Investors



Since 1996 SAP Ventures has invested in companies that offer promising future-oriented technology and applications. SAP Ventures has years of experience and a network of excellent business contacts. We use this experience and contacts to support owners and management teams:
when choosing the best staff, making the correct technology decisions, expanding their business and extending their partner networks. SAP Ventures has made it its goal to support companies and their growth to increase shareholder value.
SAP Ventures has consciously selected a small team for these tasks. Five investment experts around the world are concentrating fully on our portfolio companies in Europe and the USA. We invest in future technologies that not only offer a large market potential but also good opportunity for growth. With a venture capital partnership model and the freedom of decision to invest in areas which are directly connected to the core business of SAP, we have completed more than 50 direct-equity investments and can reflect on a unique success story.
With the support of resources of the worldwide leading suppliers of corporate software and a team of experienced professionals, SAP Ventures is the ideal partner for technology companies financed by venture capital.

www.sap.com

DEWB is a bank-independent investment company listed on the stock exchange. The company is based in Jena, one of the fastest-growing high-tech regions in Germany, especially in the area of optics. DEWB focuses on optics-related technology that will belong to the most important innovations in the next years. At 31 December 2005 DEWB had managed 67 million euros of capital and had owned shares in 15 companies. The 15.23 million owner shares of DEWB with a calculated value of 1 euro per share are traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and in the XETRA System (share abbreviation: EFF).

www.dewb-vc.com

Frankfurt am Main-based EVP Capital Management is an independent private equity company which has been investing in fast-growing technology enterprises since 1998. EVP Capital Management AG, formerly equinet Venture Partners AG, the venture capital arm of the Frankfurt investment bank equinet AG, was established through the management buy out at the beginning of 2008.

www.evp-capital.com

Pari Capital is a new kind of venture capital company. Pari Capital offers strategic and operative support from drafting a business concept, administration and marketing services through to temporary management. Pari Capital also finds co-operation and service partners from its network of contacts for the portfolio companies in its care.

www.paricapital.de

The Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH (tbg) (technology investment company) of the German Ausgleichsbank together with its partners supports young high-tech start-ups with investment capital and by mediating investors and finance consultants, from the initial idea to the stock exchange launch. The tbg, located in Bonn, can reflect on 10 years of successful financing of young high-tech companies.

www.tbgbonn.de

TVM Capital GmbH, founded in 1983, is one of the oldest German venture capital companies which established itself on the US market in 1986. Since it was founded, TVM Capital has raised more than 1.3 billion euros in five generations of funds and is one of the leading VC companies in Europe. Approximately 220 Life Science and IT companies in Europe and the USA have been financed by TVM funds – markets in which innovation, effective management and solid financing have a great effect on company growth. The accurate knowledge of the European and American markets offers TVM Capital portfolio companies access to research, science and capital and helps build up management and sales structures on both sides of the Atlantic. More than 40 TVM Capital companies are listed on the European or American stock exchanges. TVM Capital currently actively invests in more than 70 companies.

www.tvm-capital.com