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Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH operates as an investment holding company with interests in publishing books, newspapers, periodicals and online media. Its customers include authors, researchers, academics, educators, librarians, and readers. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Droege Group AG provides consultancy and investment services. It directly invests with own equity in corporate subsidiaries and medium-sized companies. It focuses on spin-offs, underperformers, turnarounds, and successions. The company was founded by Walter P. J. Droege in 1988 and is headquartered in Duesseldorf, Germany.

StepStone Deutschland AG provides online recruitment services. The company offers talent management solutions to individuals and employers. StepStone Deutschland was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Duesseldorf, Germany

Axxom Software AG is an international provider of software solutions and consulting services developed for the comprehensive optimization of value-add processes. With its software ORion-PI® the technology company offers a solution for the simulation, planning and optimization of all business processes in production and logistics. Among its customers there are leading manufacturers and suppliers from the automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as businesses from the logistics, shipping and distribution sector. Axxom Software AG was incorporated in April 2001. Axxom has a development center in Timisoara/Romania

smac partners GmbH is an independent German venture capital firm headquartered in Bamberg, Germany. Formerly known as Siemens Acceleration in Communications, the firm was founded in 2001 and reorganized by Dietrich Ulmer, Oliver Kolbe and Ingo Potthof in 2006.

HUMAINE Kliniken GmbH operates and manages hospitals and medical institutions. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Immowelt Hamburg GmbH engages in the digital marketing of real estate properties. It also provides consultancy services related to construction financing, property assessment, and housing construction planning. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Poolworks (Germany) Ltd. provides online information services for students. The company was founded by Ehssan Dariani, Dennis Bemmann, Lukasz Gadowski and Jonathan Teklu in October 2005 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

INNOFACT AG operates as a full-service market research company that provides online data research and collection services. The firm’s areas of research include test purchasing, employee surveys, website pre- and post-testing, user surveys, tracking, customer satisfaction surveys, customer segmentation, and competitive intelligence. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Part of Baxter International, Inc., Baxter AG is a Swiss company that is uniting with Hillrom to improve healthcare outcomes and broaden access to care in various settings. The company is based in Volketswell, Switzerland. Baxter emphasizes the importance of corporate governance in today's business environment, where investor and public trust in the company is no longer solely based on financial performance or products and services.

Business Insider, Inc. operates a business news website that publishes real-time news, analysis and original commentary. It publishes business information in financial, media, technology, and other industry verticals across blogs: Clusterstock, Silicon Alley Insider, the War Room, and the Wire and Law Review. The company was founded by Dwight A. Merriman, Kevin P. Ryan and Henry Blodget in May 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Acton Capital Partners GmbH (Acton) is an independent venture capital firm which originated in 1999 as the corporate venture capital arm of Hubert Burda Media Holding KG. In 2008, it spun out of the media group into an independent fund structure and was renamed to Acton. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Immoweb SA/NV provides real estate services. The firm operates a real estate website that enables users to sell and rent residential and business properties. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Forest, Belgium.

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG engages in the development and operation of a network of online market places. It operates web platforms for buying and selling cars, real estate, classified ads, finance, and insurance. The company was founded by Daniel Grossen in 2000 and is headquartered in Flamatt, Switzerland.

Jupiter Asset Management Group Ltd. provides financial intermediary services. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in London, GB.

Prohealth AG provides medical, health treatment, and radiotherapy services. The private company is based in Munich, Germany.

fundinfo AG provides financial consulting services. It offers fund publication, document and data dissemination, and web publication. The firm hosts international platforms for information and mandatory publications of investment funds. The company was founded by Philipp Portmann, Jan Giller, Michael Partin, Daniel Walter, and Matthias Weber on September 29, 2005 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Axel Springer Digital Classifieds GmbH engages in the acquisition, holding, management, and disposal of participating interests in firms, whose business activities include the development, operation, and marketing of digital information systems for job, property, and motor vehicle advertisements. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

StepStone GmbH operates an online job search engine. It offers several job boards and niche job boards in Europe, Central America and Africa. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

FlixMobility GmbH provides bus transportation services. The firm offers long distance passenger transport services and its network connects major cities throughout Europe. It also develops and operates a mobile app for the booking of trips, navigation, special promotions, ticket display, and customer service. The company was founded by André Schwämmlein, Daniel Krauss, Panya Putsathit, Torben Greve, and Jochen Engert in 2011 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

FinLeap GmbH (FinLeap) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Jan Beckers, Ramin Niroumand and Hendrik Krawinkel. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with additional offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid and Paris.

Chrono24 GmbH operates an online marketplace for luxury watches. The firm sells Omega, Cartier, Breitling, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Tag Heuer. The company was founded by Dirk Schwartz, Michael Krkoska, and Tim Stracke in 2003 and is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Part of Axel Springer SE, Axel Springer Digital Classifieds Holding GmbH is a German investment company. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. The CEOs are Jan Bayer, Stephanie Caspar. The company was founded in 2012.

Motive Capital Management LLC (Motive Partner) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Rob Heyvaert, Mike Hayford and Stephen C. Daffron. The firm is headquartered in New York.

MoneyMap GmbH offers a convenient tool for personal finance optimization. The company was founded by Felix Kaiser, Dmitry Kharchenko and Frank Broer in October 19, 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

ControlExpert GmbH operates as a holding company, which engages in the digitalization of manual processing of insurance and leasing companies, body shops, as well as original equipment manufacturers in the automotive industry. The firm focuses on appraisal audits, estimates, invoices, and maintenance documents. Its products include EASYCLAIM, EASYCLAIMGO, SPEEDCHECK, GLASSCHECK, EXPERTISE-CHECK, INVOICE-CHECK, AUTOCHECK, APPRAISER FEE CHECK, TOWINGCHECK, MOBILECHECK, FLEETCONTROL, and POSTMASTER. The company was founded by Gerhard Witte and Kai Siersleben in 2002 and is headquartered in Langenfeld, Germany.

NUCOM Group SE operates as an investment company with interests in e-commerce businesses. The company is headquartered in Unterfohring, Germany.

ParshipMeet Holding GmbH operates as an investment holding company. It operates a dating website by providing matchmaking social dating and entertainment services. The firm’s brands include MeetMe, Skout, Tagged, GROWLr, and LOVOO. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Mbiomics GmbH is a German company that specializes in microbiome analysis. The company is based in Munich, Germany. The company's patented precision technology allows for fast, quantitative, and accurate analysis of the microbiome, which creates a basis for various future clinical applications and accelerates microbiome-based therapeutics development. Mbiomics offers high-resolution measurements of the composition of the microbiome, combining DNA and RNA analysis with a highly standardized workflow and unique single/molecule detection to tackle the three key challenges in microbiome profiling. The company was founded in 2020 by Laura Figulla, Johannes B. Woehrstein, Heinrich Grabmayr, and Laura Figulla has been the CEO since 2020.