Eric V. Protiva

EGORA Holding GmbH (EGORA Holding) is an independent venture capital firm which was originally founded as AMS Electronic GmbH by Eric V. Protiva in 1982. The current structure started operating in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

AMS Technologies AG operates as a solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies. It serves the medical, industrial, renewable energies, research and scientific, defense and aerospace, telecom and datacom industries. The company was founded by Eric V. Protiva in 1982 and is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

Elforlight Ltd. manufactures diode pumped solid state lasers. It offers the facility to design and manufacture a range of optical systems, including packages of laser diodes, drivers, and thermal management. The company was founded by Keith Oakes in 1997 and is headquartered in Daventry, the United Kingdom.

TeraGate is the German specialist for corporate wide area networks based on fiber-optic technology. They network customers sites and provide network interconnects for customer computing centers at the speed of light with maximum capability. To do this, they employ Ethernet technology that has been proven throughout the world for decades in LANs. This line is ideal for medium-sized and large business customers who need, both nationally and internationally, high performance network with speeds of up to 10 Gbps. TeraGate AG is a company of Deutsche Bank Industrial Holdings GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, and EGORA Holding GmbH. Their headquarters is in Munich. Corporations such as Deutsche Bahn AG, Infineon Technologies AG and Deutsche Bank AG are already benefiting from their services.