Thilo Schmidt-Rogge

bmp Ventures /Venture Capital/ (bmp Ventures) is the venture capital arm of bmp Ventures AG. It was founded by Oliver Borrmann in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with another German office located in Magdeburg.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH engages in the production of gas engines. Its product portfolio includes gas-fueled gensets and cogeneration power plants, which are used in industries such as agriculture, forestry, mining, oil exploration, construction, manufacturing, gas compression and power production. The firm also provides support, diagnosis, parts sales, maintenance, and repair services. The company was founded by Carl Benz in 1871 and is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany.

Carbon Clean Tech AG engages in the production and distribution of alternative carbon black products. It also develops and markets industrial facilities for the manufacture of these products. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bad Lauchstaedt, Germany.

asphericon GmbH manufactures aspherical components using CNC-technology. It offers aspheres, freeforms, reflectors, cylinders and axicons. The firm improves imaging properties and reduces the overall number of optical elements. The company was founded on May 17, 2001 and is headquartered in Jena, Germany.