Hans-Ulrich Demuth

HBM Partners AG (HBM-P) was established in 2001 as an independent provider of investment advisory services with headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. HBM-P's field of expertise comprises global human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology and related sectors. The firm primarily advises HBM BioVentures AG and HBM BioCapital via their Cayman Islands-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, HBM Partners (Cayman) Ltd., which acts as the investment manager for the HBM funds. They rely on the services of an external consultant to analyze investment opportunities in the US.

ProBioGen AG operates as a contract development and manufacturing organization. It specializes in cell line engineering, process development, and GMP manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. The firm offers services such as cell line development, process development, manufacturing programs, physio-chemical analyses, and cell-based assays. The company was founded by Uwe Marx on June 13, 1994 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Autonomic Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes innovative therapies for the treatment of severe headache. Its product, the ATI Neurostimulation System, is used for the treatment of acute pain of cluster headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Andera Partners SCA (Andera Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Pierre-Michel Passy. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

NOXXON Pharma AG operates a clinical stage biotechnology company. Its core focus is on cancer treatment. The firm offers effectiveness of cancer treatments including immuno-oncology approaches such as immune checkpoint inhibition and current standards of care such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The company was founded in 1997 by Sven Klussmann, Jens-Peter Fürste and Thomas Klein and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops anti-cancer immunotherapy products. The firm specializes in the discovery and development of immunotherapy products against cancer. It develops IMA901, a combination of multiple tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. The company was founded by Harpreet Singh, Toni Weinschenk, Niels Emmerich, Hans Georg Rammensee, Hansjörg Schild, and Peter Brossart in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.

CFH Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (CFH) is the investment arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. CFH was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Leipzig on the eastern side of Germany. CFH manages private equity funds including regional funds focused on Saxony and venture capital funds. They also manage a portfolio of direct participations and a private equity fund of fund. In addition to their parent Sachsen Landesbank and the Government of Land Sachsen, their investors include large regional savings banks and European entities.

Novoplant GmbH develops and provides veterinary medicines. It produces antibodies and antibody fragments in plants for veterinary use to fight intestinal pathogens. It received a license for the development and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies as feed components for use in veterinary medicine. It will use MorphoSys’s HuCAL GOLD technology to generate antibodies against viruses, parasites and pathogenic microorganisms. The addition of such antibodies to animal feed stock may offer protection against infectious diseases in the respective animal’s gastro-intestinal tract. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Gatersleben, Germany.

Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt mbH is a private equity/ venture capital firm founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Magedeburg.

Scienion AG develops and provides DNA biochips and protein microarrays. It provides its customers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostic and reagent supply markets, as well as in academic research institutions with products, and services to facilitate confidence and efficiency in aspects of its applications. The company was founded by Holger Eickhoff in 2000 and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

Connecting for Health addresses the challenges of protected health information between sub-network organizations on a nationwide health information network. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

JenaValve Technology GmbH develops and manufactures transcatheter valve implantation systems for transapical and transfemoral implantation. The firm offers a therapeutic alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement for high-risk patients suffering from aortic heart valve stenosis. The company was founded by Markus Ferrari, Volker Guyenot and Hans-Reiner Figulla in 2006 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Market Logic Software AG designs and develops enterprise business software for product management. Its software helps to manage research, search information, build knowledge, guide innovation, plan marketing and drive sales. The firm provides marketing information systems to the marketing and research teams. Its clients include global brands from FMCG and CPG, healthcare, retail, high-tech, finance and communications sectors and research agencies. The company was founded by Kay Iversen in 2006 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Acktar Ltd. engages in the development, industrialization and production of black light absorbing coating. Its products include light absorbing foils, die-cuts solutions, optical components, black optical coatings, high specific surface area coatings, vacuum coater and high capacitance anode and cathode foils. The firm also offers coating services that include black optical coating and light absorbing foil. It serves the space, defense, semiconductor, solar energy and commercial industries. The company was founded in 1994 by Zvi Finkelstein and Dina Katsir and is headquartered in Kiryat-Gat, Israel.

Novosom Verwaltungs GmbH provides clinical development services and hospital equipment. It offers its own euqipment and technology to discover new methods of healing and researching on ribonucleic acid. The company was founded by Steffen Panzner in 1999 and is headquartered in Halle, Germany.

CODIXX AG specializes in the production, development, and distribution of glass polarizers. It encompasses visible and infrared standard, ultraviolet, and high-transmittance polarizers. The company was founded on September 1, 1998 and is headquartered in Barleben, Germany.

JenaValve Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems. The company was founded on March 27, 2006 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation BV develops medical devices. The company was founded by Sjaak Deckers in 2011 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Medlumics SL provides medical imaging diagnostics services. It specializes in optically guided medical devices. The firm’s proprietary integrated optics platform technology combines optical and electrical components in a miniature chip, enabling for the first time complex multi view optical probes of the size of a grain of rice and ultra-portable, hand-held OCT systems that produces real-time images. The company was founded by Eduardo Margallo Balbás and Jose Luis Rubio Guivernau on April 3, 2009 and is headquartered in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Elector GmbH engages in the acquisition, holding, and management of participating interests in firms. The company was founded on November 20, 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Allecra Therapeutics GmbH focuses on the development of novel treatments to combat multi drug-resistant bacterial infections. The firm serves the bio and pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded by Nicholas Benedict and Stuart Shapiro in 2013 and is headquartered in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

HighLife SAS develops percutaneous mitral valve replacement therapies. It offers a minimally invasive prosthetic mitral valve that is implanted on a beating heart, while preserving the native valve structure and respecting the surrounding anatomy. The company was founded by Georg Börtle in 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

T-Knife GmbH operates as an next-generation adoptive T-cell company using its proprietary humanized T-cell receptor mouse platform to treat solid tumors. The company was founded by Thomas Blankenstein, Elisa Kieback and Holger Specht in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.