Our Exits

Hornetsecurity is premium provider of cloud-based security services. Hornetsecurity products protect companies’ IT infrastructure and data.

Multilingual language portal, including dictionaries, language quizzes, language games and a vocabulary trainer. Wiki-style approach allows users to collaborate.

Exit since April 2015. Purchaser: Oxford University Press (OUP).

According to market surveys Collinor IRP is one of the leading Project Management Systems in the Enterprise Area and due various interfaces (above all to SAP) specially designed for midsized and big companies.

Compositence, a University of Stuttgart spin-off, offers innovative platform technology combining the fully automatic and low-cost mass production of composite components with maximum flexibility in the fibre architecture.

Exit since January 2017.

CONTROS provides sensor systems for detecting dissolved CO2, hydrocarbons and methane in water for up to 6,000m. These systems find their applications in Offshore risk management (platform safety, leak detection, blow out prevention, etc.), general oceanographic research such as greenhouse gas studies as well as the exploration / exploitation of methane hydrates. One major future challenge is the monitoring of CO2 sequestrated oil and gas deposits.

Exit since March 2015.

crossvertise is the first marketplace for online and offline advertising media, where advertisers and agencies get free access to comprehensive sector news and have the possibility to book all kinds of media directly online.

Cuciniale develops and markets intelligent cooking assistence systems enabling everybody to cook ingeniously easy like a Chef.

The mission of Cumulocity is to make mobile machine-to-machine applications profitable for all businesses through ready-made, cloud subscription services.

Custom Cells manufactures customer-specific acculumators and intermediate products based on lithium technology.

Quentic is one of the leading providers of HSE and CSR software in Europe.The software is suitable for management systems according to ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and OHSAS 18001. Quentic connects software and people, involves people in a task-oriented manner, and generates enthusiasm for the whole HSE and CSR field – via web browser or app. The solution supports seamless cooperation across departments, locations, and even countries, thereby helping companies to coordinate all processes efficiently and in compliance with legal requirements.

evoxx technologies GmbH, a German Industrial Biotechnology Company, is focusing on the development and production of industrial enzymes and novel carbohydrate ingredients produced by enzymatic bioconversion. With its proprietary enzymes and carbohydrate ingredients, evoxx is active in high growth markets addressing consumer needs in the Global Food Health & Wellness Sector and Consumer Products Markets. Product development is based on the proprietary technology and patent platform covering the whole value chain from early enzyme and process development to industrial scale production and product deregulation. evoxx industrial partners and customers benefit from the unique metagenomics libraries, the enzyme and carbohydrate development skills and tech-transfer and production capabilities. evoxx is located on the Creative Campus in Monheim am Rhein and on the Biotech Campus Hermannswerder in Potsdam.

Development, manufacture and marketing of patented magnetic closure and coupler technology for a variety of applications where a high degree of comfort and function is in demand.

futalis provides personalized petfood for dogs. To prevent health issues caused by feeding mistakes, each individual dog is offered a veterinary diet calculation. Based on scientific criteria, the nutritional requirements of each dog are calculated. On that basis a unique feed with personal recipe consisting of high quality ingredient is created.

Exit since July 2015.

GeneQuine Biotherapeutics is a biotech company focused on the development of gene therapy-based drugs for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. In the lead program GeneQuine develops drug candidates with potentially disease-modifying activity for treatment of osteoarthritis.
In 2017, one of GeneQuine's lead candidates was acquired by the US pharma company Flexion Therapeutics Inc.

gestigon develops software solutions for skeleton tracking and gesture control on the basis of 3D depth data for the markets consumer electronics and automotive offering a B2B licensing model.

Exit since February 2017.

grandcentrix is a quality leading system integrator for Internet of Things, Smart Products and Distributed Ledger Technologies. With more than 150 experts from the areas of embedded development, cyber-physical systems security, IoT cloud platform development and operation, machine learning and frontend development, we work for some of the most renonwed clients in the German market.

grandcentrix is a certified Microsoft Gold Azure IoT Cloud Solution Provider and a Microsoft Cloud Platform Advisor, OPC Foundation member, LoRa Alliance member, Bluetooth SIG member, zigbee Alliance member and Thread Group member.

H. C. Carbon develops and produces tailor-made products, which allow to replace metals by plastic materials. Further application is possible for paint/varnish, lubricant and production of batteries.

Exit since June 2015.

Lighting as a Service: Intelligent lighting with M2M (Machine to Machine) services in outdoor sector with focus on Information, Communication, Energy efficiency (ICE).

Exit since November 2016.

Intelligent Job Search Engine, which searches job boards, recruiting agencies and company career sites for jobs. Artificial Intelligence helps identifying the best jobs.

Exit since Jan. 2015.

Kiwigrid is an energy management system, which is connecting producers of renewable energy, consumers, storages, electric mobility and the energy grid with Microgrids.
Purchaser of HTGF-Shares: AQTON SE

Exit since December 2016.

MAGAZINO develops, builds and sells innovative storage and picking machines. They enable highly efficient individual item storage and dispensing of a wide range of objects.

Exit since May 2015. Purchaser: Siemens Novel Businesses.

Development of innovative, bioabsorbable products with a focus on medical applications.

Posterior-leaflet-implant for treatment of mitral valve diseas.

Exit since February 2017.

We connect the world in Munich. In 2007 we stirred up the blue and white sky above Bavaria with an invisible cloud. A very special cloud still revolutionizing worldwide business telephony to this day. We’re NFON AG, a worldwide leading provider of high-end telephone systems from the cloud. More than 150 creative, skilled and passionate employees in Munich, Mainz and over ten countries (eight other branches) throughout Europe ensure you stay talking. Whenever you want. Wherever you want. With whomever you want.

We take the telephone system out of the office – and into the NFON high performance computer centers. With an encrypted internet connection you can now access your phone system from around the world by phone, computer or smartphone, always connected to the classic telephone network.

Regardless of location, flexible, free and at a low price. And thanks to free for life cloud updates you’re always up to date. We make everyday business life a little simpler. And your communications more secure.

Whether you’re a local small business or international major enterprises: Our cloud telephone system can serve businesses of 2 to 249,000 employees. That’s what we like to do. That’s what we do best. With more than 10,000 satisfied customers. We’ve also received a certificate and seal from TÜV Saarland. And frequent praise from the media. ChannelPartner elected us the best known provider of cloud telephony service, the Handelsblatt writes about “calls from cloud 9”. And we keep doing what we know best: we connect what belongs together.

Photonics Healthcare enables doctors to monitor cellular oxygen.

The Global Sourcing Platform provided by pliXos GmbH secures the quality of globally distributed software and IT services in an efficient and economic way. The customers benefit from enhanced transparency and control over the projects.

Exit since August 2016.

metoda provides a tool for e-commerce participants to monitor prices, analyze the market, and optimize the profit. Retailers can also identify new products and plan inventory levels based on actual demands.

Propertybase is the leading cloud-computing CRM tool for real estate companies. The customer base continues to grow globally and includes real estate developers, brokers, and agents in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.

Holistic access rights management for IT infrastructures: Visualization, analysis, recommendations, reporting and optimized administration (controlled by workflows) of access rights within different IT systems.

Provecs Medical develops novel products from its platform technology for cancer treatment by specific activation of the immune system.

Exit since July 2015.