Investors
Bayern Kapital
Bayern Kapital was founded in 1995 as part of the “Bavarian Future Initiative” to facilitate access to venture capital particularly for young, innovative Bavarian companies. So far, Bayern Kapital invested about €168 m in more than 200 innovative high-tech companies. Bayern Kapital serves as regional contact and currently manages a fund volume of approximately €214 m.
High-Tech Gründerfonds
High-Tech Gründerfonds invests venture capital in promising technology companies that turn innovative concepts into viable businesses. Seed financing aims to help start-ups guide their innovation to the prototype or proof-of-concept stage or to market launch. High-Tech Gründerfonds provides seed financing of approximately €500,000. It supports high-tech companies by way of its investment managers and its highly-qualified network of coaches, investors and specialists. In individual cases it can invest up to a total of €2 m per company. The investors in this public private partnership are the German Federal Ministry for Business and Technology, the KfW Banking Group as well as the six industrial groups of BASF, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Robert Bosch, Daimler and Carl Zeiss. High-Tech Gründerfonds has an investment volume totalling approx. €272 m.
info@high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
www.high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
Marquardt
The Marquardt Group is a worldwide leading manufacturer of electromechanical and electrical switches and switch systems for vehicles, electrical power tools and household appliances, as well as for other industrial uses. The Swabian family-owned business, with its headquarters in Rietheim-Weilheim, has won even further market share in fiscal year 2010, thereby establishing itself as a worldwide innovation leader. The deciding factor of the manufacturing group’s success is, first and foremost, innovation. Marquardt invests annually about 10% of its sales for research and development of new products, in order to maintain its international competitiveness. No other manufacturer can offer a similarly broad product program with such depth, from appliance, snap and electrical power tool switches to complex control panels and Driver Authorization Systems.
