Jens M. Abend

Tektronix, Inc. provides test, measurement and monitoring solutions. It provides services for the communications, computer, semiconductor industries, as well as for the military, aerospace, consumer electronics and education sectors. The firm also assists its clients in designing, building, deploying and managing global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The company was founded by Melvin Jack Murdock, Glenn Leland, Miles Tippery and Charles Howard Vollum in 1946 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

HgCapital LLP (HgCapital) is a private equity firm founded in 1985 by Craig M. Donaldson. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Munich, Paris, New York and San Francisco.

Hansen Sicherheitstechnik AG engages in the designing, developing, manufacturing, and distribution of explosion-proof electrical and electronic systems for the mining industry. It offers associated engineering and repair services. The company was founded by Lars Hansen and Rolf Reinders in 1969 and is headquartered in Velbert, Germany.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hubert Burda Media Holding KG engages in the publication of magazines and provision of digital media content services. It offers online services in the areas of electronic commerce, social networks, online travel, publishing, and subscriptions. The company was founded by Franz Burda in 1903 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Burda Digital Ventures GmbH (BDV) is an investment arm of Hubert Burda Media Holding GmbH & Co. KG, owned by Burda family, a publishing and media group based in Germany with operations throughout Europe and Eastern Europe as well as in the US, Hong Kong and Singapore. BDV was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Offenburg. The firm specializes in venture capital investing in the digital media industry. The firm invests the parent group's own capital.

Advent International Plc provides investment services. It serves the business & financial, healthcare, industrial, retail, consumer & leisure, technology, media and telecoms sectors. The company was founded in 1989 and is located in London, UK

Fresenius Kabi AG manufactures medical devices for therapies. It specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The firm offers infusion solutions for fluid substitution, blood volume replacement, intravenously administered drugs as well as the respective medical devices for the application, pump systems and infusion management systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Aziende Chimiche Riunite Angelini Francesco - A.C.R.A.F. - SpA engages in the design, marketing, and distribution of pharmaceuticals for health and wellness. It specializes in developing therapies for pain and inflammatory disorders, diseases and disorders of the nervous system, infection control, and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Francesco Angelini in 1941 and is headquartered in Rome, Italy.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Trail Blazers, Inc. engages in the management of professional basketball franchise. The firm is part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It markets sports merchandise, match tickets, and collectable game items. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

EMRAmed Arzneimittel GmbH engages in wholesale of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Trittau, Germany.

Aurelius (Private Equity) (Aurelius) is a pan-European alternative investment arm of Aurelius Group founded in 2005 by Dirk Markus and Gert Purkert. It is headquartered in Munich, Germany with additional offices in London, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Madrid, Milan and Düsseldorf.

Founded in 2009, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB) is a registered investment adviser, a registered broker-dealer, a registered futures commission merchant, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Purchase, New York, MSSB is one of the largest financial services firms in the US with branch offices in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The firm was initially owned by a joint venture company which was indirectly owned 65% by Morgan Stanley and 35% by Citigroup, Inc. On June 28, 2013, Morgan Stanley purchased Citi’s 35% interest in MSSB. As such, the firm is now a direct subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC and they are a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Co. Service AB is a consulting company founded in 2005. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden and provides consulting services.

Part of Novartis AG, Novartis Deutschland GmbH is an investment holding German company. The company is based in Nuremberg, Germany.

Altman Solon GmbH & Co. KG provides management advisory and consulting services for the telecommunications, entertainment, and technology industries. The firm offers digitalization, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions services. The company was founded by Tilman Rhein, Martin Weiss, and Hubertus von Wulffen in 1996 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen na Zycie Europa SA engages in the provision of insurance services. It offers cancellation insurance, annual travel insurance, insurance via the Internet, insurance against damage caused by children, health insurance, organizer insurance, and other insurance services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Wroclaw, Poland.

Immediate Media Co. Ltd. publishes books, newspapers, and magazines. It offers articles about TV and entertainment, craft, weddings, cycling, gardening, parents and children, specialist, knowledge, and brands A-Z. The company was founded in November 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

smartblue AG engages in the development and marketing of fault detection solutions for photovoltaic systems. The firm specializes in the design of photovoltaic monitoring systems for photovoltaic engineers and system installers. It offers its Smart Monitor technology, a monitoring solution that provides string, parallel, and module monitoring compatible with current monitoring hardware. The company was founded by Günter Seel and Philip Geiger in 2010 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Milvik AB provides life, accident, and health insurance services. It offers mobile-delivered micro insurance, pre-paid life, personal accident and hospitalization insurance, and pre-paid tele-doctor services. The company was founded by Per Gustaf Arne Agartsson in 2010 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Vinted Ltd. operates as an online marketplace for secondhand items. It offers products such as, women’s clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, beauty, tops, hoodies, sweaters, skirts, shorts, rompers, jumpsuits, swimwear and other clothing. The company was founded by Sophie Utikal, Justas Janauskas and Milda Mitkute on December 7, 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

DHS Venture Partners AB (DHS Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Lars Lindgren, Emmet King, Luca Banderet, Alexander Pochet, Fredrik Wilhelm Uhrstrom, Caroline Rosen, Charlotte Stromberg and Carl Klingberg. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

CogitalGroup Ltd. engages in the provision of business advisory services. It offers accounting, payroll outsourcing, transactional invoice, payment processing, administration, financial reporting, tax compliance, restructuring, insolvency, and information technology services. The company was founded by John Patrick Connolly on June 9, 2016 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Burda GmbH, ROSEA Grundstücks-Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Objekt BU is a company based in Dusseldorf, Germany. The CEOs are Philipp Welte, Holger Eckstein, Martin Weiss. ROSEA Grundstücks-Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Objekt BU rents and leases residential properties, buildings and apartments. The German company was founded in 2004.

Burda Principal Investments GmbH & Co. KG (BPI) is the corporate venture capital division of Hubert Burda Media Holding KG. The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. It has another German office located in Berlin, with international offices in London, New York, and Singapore.

Part of Bristol Myers Squibb Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA is a German company that manufactures biopharmaceutical medicines. The company is based in Munich, Germany. The CEO of the company is Han Steutel.