Marc Lambrechts

Capricorn Partners NV (Capricorn) is an independent European licensed manager of private and public equity investment funds which was founded in 1993 as a joint venture between Dr Jos B. Peeters and Baring Venture Partners Ltd. In 1999, Capricorn became a fully partner-owned, independent firm. It is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

fluXXion founded in 2003, is a Dutch clean technology company applying proven manufacturing technology from the semiconductor and micro system industries, to the design and manufacture of unique micro filtration and separation products for bulk liquid filtration markets and chemical separation markets. The basic manufacturing technology was originally developed by Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, for the manufacture of complex micro structured products. Co-inventor Prof. Dr. Cees van Rijn first started making wafer based Microsieves for filtration in 1994. fluXXion completed the industrial application of this technology and has its own R&D as well as production facilities. A well-balanced team of industry veterans, who worked together for over ten years in related high technology fields, founded the Company in 2003 and expanded the company over the years. fluXXion is based on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands The company has closed several contracts with leading industrial partners to develop, integrate and market the technology. Given the huge benefits of the fluXXion technology versus the traditional filtration and separation technologies, in the focal area's dairy products processing and distillation applications, it is clear that the company has great potential to become an unique major technology provider in these markets. The first full scale filtration plant is in operation at a large cheese factory with an annual capacity of 40 000 tons. A demo-unit for a chemicals stripping unit will be built in the first half of 2010. In 2008 fluXXion was the only Dutch company selected as Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

Soitec Belgium NV provides nitride epitaxial material solutions. It offers large-diameter Ga-on-Si and GaN-on-SiC epitaxy wafers for power electronics, RF power and sensor device manufacturers worldwide. The firm gives power and RF device manufacturers access to an technology to be used in key market segments such as power supplies for consumables and servers, AC drives, UPS systems, hybrid electric vehicles, solar inverters, smart grid, RF power for base stations, CATV infrastructure, and radars. The company was founded by Marianne Germain, Joff Derluyn and Stefan Degroote in 2010 and is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.

Leuven.Inc Vzw provides administration and management consulting services. The company was founded by Imec, Arthur Andersen and Fortis Bank in 1999 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

FEops NV develops novel simulation technology. It provides cardiovascular device and procedure simulation advice to medical device companies, as well as to medical specialists and physicians. The firm develops disruptive technology: a cloud-based simulation platform designed to assist clinicians in assessing the effect of device-and-host interaction, with the ultimate goal of predicting and preventing complications of transcatheter-based structural heart interventions. The company was founded by Benedict Verhegghe, Matthieu De Beule and Peter Mortier in 2009 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Quest for Growth NV, a fund traded on Euronext Brussels, has a diversified portfolio which is invested in growth companies listed on European stock exchanges, in European unquoted companies and in venture capital funds. It focuses on innovative companies in areas such as digital technologies (ICT), technologies for the healthcare sector (Health-tech) and clean technology (Cleantech).

Centrum Voor Ambulante Revalidatie Oostakker Vzw is an ambulatory rehabilitation center. The private company is based in Ghent, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 1976.