Stefan Schäfer

KfW provides housing-related loans, grants, and financing services. The firm offers financing for infrastructure projects for municipalities, global funding to regional development agencies and financial institutions, and export and project finance. It also promotes small and medium-sized enterprises, business founders, start-ups, self-employed professionals, and developing and transition countries. The company was founded on November 18, 1948 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Open-Xchange AG develops e-mail and collaboration software solutions. It specializes in the development of tools for on-premise or on-demand solutions, geared towards fueling clients' businesses. The company designs an application suite, a centralized cloud environment that lets users manage digital lives, emails, tasks, and files from a single interface. Its solutions include e-mail, calendar, address book, document, and task management applications. The company was founded by Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Martin Kauss and Frank Hoberg in 2005 and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.

European Network & Information Security Agency engages in prevention and detection of information security problems. It offers pan-European cyber security exercises, the development of national cyber security strategies, CSIRTs cooperation and capacity building, also studies on cloud adoption, addressing data protection issues, privacy enhancing technologies and privacy on emerging technologies, eIDs and trust services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Heraklion, Greece.

Portigon AG engages in the management of its own assets. It also provides financial services and conducts banking activities. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Duesseldorf, Germany.

PHOENIX CONTACT Cyber Security GmbH engages in the development and manufacture of connection and automation technology for use in industrial environments. Its products include lighting and signaling, electronics housing, electronic switching devices and motor control, functional safety, HMIs and industrial PCs, industrial cloud computing, industrial communication technology, installation and assembly material, cables and wires, charging technology for electric mobility, PCB terminals and connectors, marking and labeling utensils, measurement, control and regulation technology. The company was founded on August 28, 2001 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Roland Berger GmbH provides business consulting services. It offers advisory services to international enterprises and public institutions on business management issues ranging from rule-breaking strategies to organizational structures and business processes. The firm focuses on corporate development, information management, marketing and sales, operations strategy, restructuring and corporate finance. Roland Berger was founded on September 14, 1998 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Eracom Technologies AG provides information technology services and solution. It supports and integrates with key IT security initiatives such as EMV, Verified by Visa/Visa 3D secure. The company operates as subsidiary company of SafeNet, Inc

Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (AWS) is the Austrian promotional bank, fully controlled by the Government of Austria. Based in Vienna, AWS emerged in 2002 from the merger of several government funding agencies including FGG-Finanzierungsgarantiegesellschaft mbH and BÜRGES Förderungsbank GmbH. The firm later absorbed Innovationsagentur GmbH. The Seed Financing division of AWS manages venture capital investments by way of mezzanine financing. AWS also comprises several divisions not directly involved in investment management, namely Tecma which is specialized in technology marketing support, Tecnet which supplies technology information, i²-Ideas & Investment which is a networking platform for business angels and Biotech, providing business support for biotechnology projects. AWS manages the university spin-off fund Uni Venture, sponsored by BAWAG-Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft.

Novaled GmbH designs and develops organic light-emitting diode technologies. Its products include organic materials, OLED display materials, OLED lighting materials and organic photovoltaic materials. The company was founded by Karl Leo, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Martin Pfeiffer and Jorg Amelung in 2001 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Heliatek GmbH develops, produces, and commercializes organic solar cells. The firm engages in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) based on small molecules. It is making the transition from pure technology development to industrial manufacture. The company was founded in 2006 by Jens Drechsel, Peter Bäuerle, Bert Männig, Martin Pfeiffer, Harald Eggers and Karl Leo and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

RAG-Stiftung operates as a private foundation. It provides financing services for the perpetual mine management as well as the educational, scientific, and cultural projects related to coal mining in the Ruhr and Saar regions. The company was founded on June 26, 2007 and is headquartered in Essen, Germany.

Part of RAG-Stiftung, RAG AG specializes in coal mining. The company is based in Essen, Germany. The CEO of the German company is Peter Schrimpf.

Signa Prime Selection AG is a real estate developer and investor in Europe. The portfolio consists of exclusive properties in prime downtown locations in large cities and metropolitan areas in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Northern Italy. Its portfolio includes properties, such as KaDeWe in Berlin, the UPPER WEST in Berlin, the Golden Quarter in Vienna, with the Park Hyatt Vienna, Oberpollinger in Munich, Kaufhaus Tyrol in Innsbruck, and Alsterhaus in Hamburg. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria.

Part of RAG-Stiftung, Vivawest GmbH is a German company that focuses on the development and value enhancement of their properties. The company is based in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The company manages over 120,000 apartments in NRW, providing homes for approximately 300,000 people. The company offers a repair service to quickly address emergencies and repairs for their tenants. The company was founded in 2006 and is led by CEOs Claudia Goldenbeld and Haluk Serhat. Vivawest was acquired by RAG AG on June 30, 2015.

Part of Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, ESCRYPT GmbH is a leading provider of IT security solutions in embedded systems and consulting services for enterprise security and secured manufacturing. The company is based in Bochum, Germany, with four other German locations and subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, and other countries. The German company's solutions are widely used in the automotive security and production industry. ESCRYPT also provides dedicated security services for the Bosch Group's corporate IT and products. The company was founded in 2004 by Willi Mannheims and Christoph Paar, and the CEOs are Thomas Josef Wollinger and Uwe Bingel. ESCRYPT was acquired by ETAS GmbH on August 24, 2012.

sonnen GmbH develops lithium storage systems and battery technologies. It specializes in the design of lithium storage systems and renewable energy development technologies. The firm engages in research and development investment projects focused on the production of power battery storage solutions. The company was founded by Christoph Ostermann and Torsten Stiefenhofer in April 2010 and is headquartered in Wildpoldsried, Germany.

Vivawest Wohnen GmbH is a leading real estate company based in NRW, Germany. The private company manages over 120,000 apartments, providing homes for approximately 300,000 people. Uwe Eichner has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

RAG Foundation provides finance to mines. The private company is based in Essen, UK.

Part of BlackBerry Ltd., BlackBerry Deutschland GmbH is a German company that manufactures smartphones. The company is based in Dusseldorf, Germany. The company was founded in 2011. The CEO is Jay Peng Chai.

Heinrich Linssen Gmbh & Co. Kg provides business services. The company was founded on November 19, 1963 and is headquartered in Geldern, Germany.

Rhebo GmbH engages in the provision of industrial monitoring solutions ensuring both cybersecurity and stability of ICS (industrial control system) and IoT (Internet of things) infrastructures. Its products include Rhebo Industry 4.0 Stability and Security Audit; Rhebo Industrial Protector; Rhebo IoT Device Protection; and Rhebo ReadyNow. The company was founded by Martin Menschner, Klaus Mochalski and Frank Stummer in 2014 and is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.

Cdu Nordrhein-Westfalen operates as an online and service platform. The private company is based in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Materna Information & Communications SE provides information technology services. The company is based in Dortmund, Germany and has subsidiaries in Austria and Germany. The German company was founded by Winfried Materna. The CEO is Martin Wibbe.

MM HD Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG buys and sells real estate properties. The private company is based in Dortmund, Germany. The CEOs are Helmut an de Meulen, Gerd Vogel, Winfried Materna. The German company was founded in 2015.

beeOLED GmbH is a technology company based in Dresden, Germany that specializes in developing highly efficient blue emitters for OLED displays. beeOLED's technology concept is based on a single atom emitter that generates light 100%% efficiently, making it fundamentally impossible to break anything. The German company leverages the latest advances in europium chemistry and innovative organic ligands to develop highly stabilized blue eu (ii) -complexes that are air-stable and have nearly unity photoluminescence quantum yield. The company was founded in 2020 by Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Carsten Rothe, and Volodymyr Senkovskyy, with Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth serving as the CEO since then.