Dirk Leipold

Apax Partners Beteiligungsberatung GmbH (APB) is a private equity firm located in Munich, Germany. APB is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners Holdings Ltd. with the ultimate parent firm being UK-headquartered Apax Partners Worldwide LLP which can trace their history to 1972. In 1972, Ronald Cohen and Maurice Tchenio co-founded the Multinational Management Group (MMG). In 1976, the Alan Patricof Associates firm joined forces with MMG to form Apax Partners. In 2002, the European and the U.S. operating firms merged to become Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, headquartered in London. They also operate through offices in New York, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Mumbai, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. In 2005, the Apax Foundation was established for the group's charitable donations. The foundation supports entrepreneurial endeavors, social investment and educational initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty worldwide.

Noa Noa ApS engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of clothes. Its products include printed clothes, skirts, tops, frocks, jeans, and hand-made jewelry. The company was founded by Lars Holstein and Harald Holstein in 1981 and is headquartered in Kvistgaard, Denmark.

HeartSine Technologies LLC designs and develops automatic external cardiovascular defibrillator devices. Its products include samaritan PAD 450P with CPR rate advisor, samaritan PAD 350P with CPR coaching, samaritan PAD trainer family, Pad-Pak, heart trac, samaritan CPR, and accessories. The company was founded by Andrew O'hara, Drew Hofmann and John Anderson in 1998 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

Firecomms Ltd. develops semiconductor related devices. It provides lasers and LEDs provide the groundwork that will revolutionize optical data communications for small area networks, such as in-car networks and home networks. It offers low power visible lasers unleash the potential for medical devices, barcode scanners and optical storage devices. The company was founded by John Lambkin and Thomas Moriarty in May 2001 and is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

Sindice Ltd. develops data intelligence platform. It provides search and analytics jumpstart services that include Kibi; Solr, Lucene and Elasticsearch; custom search and analytic solutions; and knowledge graphs. The company was founded by Giovanni Tummarello and Renaud Delbru in 2011 and is headquartered in Mervue, Ireland.

Equal1 Laboratories Ireland Ltd. is a quantum computing Irish company that uses commercially available semiconductor technology to provide scalable and cost-effective quantum computing solutions for businesses. The company's technology has a smaller carbon footprint and can help businesses overcome data-intensive AI challenges. Atlantic Bridge, a pan-European technology growth firm, has invested in Equal1 Laboratories and other deep tech sectors such as AI, semiconductors, security, digital health, and computer vision. The firm leverages its deep operational experience and networks to help build deep technology companies into market leaders.

Atlantic Bridge Services Ltd (Atlantic Bridge) is a global growth equity technology investment firm founded in 2004 by Brian Long and Kevin Dillon. The firm is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices in London, Palo Alto, Munich & Paris.

btov Partners AG (btov) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by St. Gallen University students as an online job platform BrainsToVentures, with backing from Swiss business angels. The firm is headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Wellington Partners GmbH (Wellington Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Rolf Christof Dienst. The firm is headquartered in Munich, with offices in Zurich, London, and Palo Alto.

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.

ROMO Wind AG provides products that focus on improving the wind turbine rotor function. It offers wind farm optimization, and yaw and pitch correction services. The firm also provides iSpin1, a retrofit product that is used for accurate detection and subsequent one-off correction of static or average wind turbine yaw misalignments. The company was founded by Soren Mouritsen, Poul Anker Lubker and Jan Nikolaisen in 2011 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Orcan Energy AG develops solutions for the optimization of energy efficiency in industrial processes and engine systems. It offers electricity generation modules based on Organic Rankine Cycle technology. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.