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Dear Participants,
Frankfurt is very well known as the heart of “Financial
Europe”. Being the headquarters for the largest
German banks or the German Stock Exchange, the
city of Frankfurt attracts capital like no other city in
Germany. Now it is time to built a common ground
for investors and entrepreneurs to seize the various
opportunities that have yet to be explored.
GrowthCon 2015 invites you to make a first step and
to create with us a platform for synergies. We will
provide the opportunity to participate in in-depth
discussions, visionary speeches and
insightful
company presentations. GrowthCon 2015 is not just
about business, but about building an environment to
foster growth. Be a part of it!
Your Team of
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Content
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The Conference
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Schedule
The Venues
Daniel Gutenberg
Detlef D. Soost / Fredrik Harkort
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VC Panel
Entrepreneur Panel
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Pia Poppenreiter
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Innovation Award
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Fintech Panel
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Exit Panel
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Chris Boos
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Charity
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Our Partners 2015
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Impressions 2014
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Imprint
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Opening Cocktails
GrowthCon invites all participants
to opening cocktails at Pearly Gates
Bar, the newest addition to Frankfurts
exceptional Bar scene. Enjoy a relaxed
evening with cocktails, finger food and
great networking.
Conference
GrowthCon is not only to provide a platform of networking, but offers a deep dive
into the relevant topics of todays tech business and entrepreneurs. Joining us on
stage, many well known investors and founders will discuss the hottest trends and
give a picture of newest developments.
Innovation Award
The
Great Technology is developed by great minds. Therefore, GrowthCon invites
innovative Ventures with breathtaking technology to inspire investors and
entrepreneurs. GrowthCon Award is not looking for mainstream CEO-pitches, but
offers investors the opportunity to experience the core asset of each Venture firsthand.
Charity Auction
Though GrowthCon is focused on networking between investors and entrepreneurs,
the conference also uses its platform for a good cause. To support the foundation
steps for children, GrowthCon is auctioning valuables worth over EUR 20,000.
15 Years VentureCapital Magazin
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Since May 2000, VentureCapital Magazin has been delivering
high-quality corporate finance information to investors and
entrepreneurs. Editorial focus is placed on private equity,
venture capital and buy-out transactions as well as mergers and
acquisitions. The most recent figures, reports, and statistics are
covered on a regular basis. VentureCapital Magazin is published
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Club Night
Markets Reception
Once again, GrowthCon will host its
Club Night at Gibson Club, the hottest
nightlife location in town. Our Guests
may rock to beats of Urban Club Band,
Gibson‘s extraordinary life band,
featuring many well known artitsts.
In the early Friday morning, GrowthCon
is proud to ring the opening bell
at German stock markets, inviting
registered participants to Deutsche
Börse. While computers of Xetra have
taken over trading, the historic building
still owns the atmosphere of successful
IPOs.
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May 20
19:30 24:00
Opening Cocktails at Pearly Gates Bar
May 21
All day at Klassikstadt Frankfurt
09:00 10:00
Networking Breakfast & Registration
10:00 10:30
Opening Keynote - Daniel Gutenberg
10:35 11:05
Detlef D. Soost & Fredrik Harkort
11:10 12:00
VC Panel moderated by Rene Seifert (Venturate)
with Dörte Höppner (EVCA), Christian Claussen (Ventech), Jens Munk (Kennet), Thomas Prüver (EY)
12:05 12:50
Entrepreneurs Panel moderated by Rene Seifert (Venturate)
with Tobias Kiessling (Intelliad), Robert Hein (004), Henning Lange (Giant Swarm), Christian Kleinsorge (Ingenious Technologies)
12:50 14:20
Lunch Buffet
14:20 14:50
Pia Poppenreiter
14:55 15:40
Exit Panel moderated by Christian Ramme (Acxit)
15:45 16:35
GrowthCon Innovation Award Part I
16:40 17:25
Fintech Panel moderated by Paul Morgenthaler (CommerzVentures)
with Lennart Börner (Kreditech), Robert Abend (BörseGo), Thomas Bloch (Vaamo), Sean Park (Anthemis)
17:30 18:15
GrowthCon Innovation Award Part II
18:20 19:00
Closing Keynote - Chris Boos
19:00 19:15
Dr. Michael Hoppe - steps for children
19:15 19:30
Axel Krieger - Investing in Diamonds
19:30 22:00
Dinner Buffet & Drinks
with Andreas Thümmler (VCDE), Karl Balz (Paul Hastings), Holger Hinz (Quirin), Stefan Höfer (Deutsche Börse AG)
15 Years VC Magazin - Laudatio: Dr. Johannes Velling (BMWi)
Awarding Ceremony / Charity Auction
22:00 open end
GrowthCon Club Night at Gibson Club
WE OWN THE NIGHT powered by Acxit Capital Partners
May 22
09:30 12:30
Markets Reception at Börse Frankfurt
powered by Quirin Bank
limited capacity - additional ticket required
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Pearly Gates Bar
www.pg-bar.de
The
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Pearly Gates Bar is one of the newest additions to the exceptional
Bar scene of Frankfurt. Enjoy outstanding longsdrinks and
cocktails in an intimate atmosphere.
Klassikstadt Frankfurt
Klassikstadt Frankfurt provides the main stage for GrowthCon 2015.
Inbetween Oldtimers and tech-pumped luxury cars, Klassikstadt offers
an incredible event space for networking and conferencing.
www.klassikstadt.de
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Gibson Club
Gibson Club will host the offical GrowthCon 2015 party. With
its spectacular architecture, lighting and sound, Gibson Club is
Member of “The World‘s Finest Clubs”.
www.gibson-club.de
Börse Frankfurt
Although financial markets of today are highly computer driven
and Xetra has no use for a physical exchange, many IPOs are still
celebrated at Frankfurter Börse.
www.boerse-frankfurt.de
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Unsere Werte:
Familienbesitz & Tradition
Die nachhaltige Entwicklung Ihres
Familienbesitzes geniesst bei uns oberste
Priorität. Eigentum und Vermögen zu
erhalten und sie über Generationen
hinweg zu vermehren, gehört seit 1841 zu
unseren Grundwerten.
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Speaker
2015
Daniel Gutenberg
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Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner of VI Partners, a Swiss
venture capital firm. He joined the company in 2003.
Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to
the Telindus Group in the year 2000, Daniel Gutenberg became a
very active business angel and investor in numerous startups.
His focus is on Technology and he has been taking board
assignments for various public and private Companies as well
as for YPO Young Presidents’ Organization, a network of young
global business leaders. He also acts as the president of the Swiss
Technion Society and as a member of the Circle of Investors of
BrainsToVentures.
Daniel Gutenberg was awarded as business angel of the year in
2011 (SECA).
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Detlef D. Soost
Detlef D. Soost is Motivator, Star-Choreographer and
successful Moderator. He is motivating kids, teenager
and adults throughout Germany. He has already worked
with more than one hundred national and international
top-class acts and moderated shows such as “Flash! The
biggest moment of your life” as well as three various
formats on Cartoon Network.
Due to more than 170 associate dance schools named
“D!'s Dance Club”, he is able to create meaningful impact
on people throughout Germany. Together with Fredrik
Harkort, he established “I make you sexy”, an online diet
and fitness program.
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Fredrik Harkort
Fredrik Harkort is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Media Interactive
GmbH. SMI is the creator of the BodyChange movement, a celebrity
endorsed online diet and fitness program (“I make you sexy”). Founded
in 2012 SMI has offices in Munich, Berlin, Sao Paulo and San Francisco.
Prior to SMI Fredrik worked as a TV Producer, producing TV shows like
´Germanys next Topmodel´ and ´MTV Bandtrip´.
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Venture Capital
Panel
Dörte Höppner
Dörte represents the industry at the very highest levels of business
and government. She joined the EVCA in 2011 after spending four
years as the Managing Director at the BVK, the German Private
Equity Association where she played a leading role in the industry’s
response to the Alternative Investment Fund Manager’s Directive.
Before joining the BVK Dörte held the role of Communications
Director at the German Institute for Economic Research. Prior she
worked as a journalist for ZDF.
Jens Munk
Jens works with CEOs, founders and management teams to
help create and grow differentiated market leading technology
companies and to provide superior business value. He has been at
the forefront of the major technology trends of the last 25 years,
initially as an entrepreneur and operator building businesses in the
areas of analytics, big data, ERP and financial technology
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Before joining Kennet in 2015 Jens was a technology investment
banker with Corporate Finance Partners and Torch Partners.
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Christian Claussen
Christian Claussen joined Ventech in 2013 as the firms fourth Equity
Partner with the mission to spearhead our investment activities in
the DACH region. With offices in Paris and Munich he is proactively
seeking investment opportunities in exciting and innovative highgrowth companies in the DACH region.
René Seifert, Host
René Seifert is the co-founder and co-CEO of Venturate AG, an
integrated investment platform where the crowd can invest sideby-side with renowned business angels into top-notch start-ups.
Before that, René was living for 10 years in India and involved in
founding several internet, tech and media companies, among those
Holtzbrinck eLab.
René began his career 1992 hosting radio shows and working
as a journalist in parallel to his studies as a Master of Business
Administration.
Thomas Prüver
Thomas Prüver is a Senior Manager at EY Transaction Advisory
Services in Berlin and joined the firm in January 2007.
He is focused on due diligence processes in the digital segment for
corporates, venture capital investors as well as fast growing digital
start-ups. In 2014, Thomas published the EY study “Venture Capital
and Start-ups in Germany 2014”.
Thomas is a certified tax advisor and public accountant under
German law and holds a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance.
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Entrepreneur
Panel
Robert Hein
Robert Hein is co-founder and CEO of 004 GmbH, a full service
e-Commerce provider headquartered in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
During his time with 004, Robert has also co-founded a number
of enterprises in the e-Commerce and technology space. Prior to
004, Robert was Business Analyst at Integration ware (Chicago)
and ensuing co-founder and CEO of electronica24 GmbH, one of
Germany’s first online electronics retailers. Robert holds an MBA
in International Business and BA in Organizational Behaviour from
the University of Illinois.
Tobias Kiessling
As a director and co-founder of intelliAd Tobias Kiessling is
responsible for all technical development.
His primary focus includes Bid Management as the Performance
Marketing Platform’s core functionality, customer journey analysis
and all things relating to Real Time Bidding (RTB). Tobias Kiessling
is involved in various scientific studies and a point of contact for
postgraduate research into advertising technology. Some of the
institutions with whom he works include the Technische Universität
München, the University of Passau and the Wharton School.
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Christian Kleinsorge
Christian Kleinsorge, CEO, runs Ingenious Technologies since July
2012. With 5 offices in 4 countries, the company’s today one of the
most leading technology provider for advertising and e-Commerce.
Prior to that Christian was member of the Executive Board of zanox.
Christian has a broad network within the international e-Commerce
scene, based on over 20 year of experience as an entrepreneur and
investor in high tech companies.
René Seifert, Host
René Seifert is the co-founder and co-CEO of Venturate AG, an
integrated investment platform where the crowd can invest sideby-side with renowned business angels into top-notch start-ups.
Before that, René was living for 10 years in India and involved in
founding several internet, tech and media companies, among those
Holtzbrinck eLab.
René began his career 1992 hosting radio shows and working
as a journalist in parallel to his studies as a Master of Business
Administration.
Henning Lange
Henning Lange, born in 1976, is an entrepreneur and angel investor
since more than 10 years. He began his career at IhrPreis.de AG
in 2000. During his time at Onvista AG he started Ligatus, a paneuropean performance advertising network today owned by
Gruner+Jahr. He co-founded and sold two companies: Ormigo GmbH
in 2005, and Adcloud GmbH in 2009. After the sale to Deutsche
Post DHL in 2011 he served as CEO for two more years growing the
company to 75 employees and rolling out the business to France,
Switzerland and Spain. In July 2014 he co-founded Giant Swarm
GmbH - the Microservice Infrastructure Company.
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Pia Poppenreiter
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Pia is CEO & Co-Founder of Spreefang. She holds a degree in
management as well as business ethics and has previously worked
at Westwing, the department of Social Responsibility at Steinbeis
university, Continental and Dresdner Kleinwort. She has made
headlines for launching a mobile web app that connects potential
clients to escorts, because she knows – regardless of personal
opinions - that the profession can be made safer for those who
deliberatley and voluntarily chose to work in this field.
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COBI
COBI is the smartest way to upgrade your bike and benefit your life – making every ride
more rewarding and more fun. All of its advanced technology and smart design is geared
towards one purpose: enhancing your biking experience with fun, comfort and safety. It
adds over 100 intelligent features to any bike – with a simple, predictive and beautiful
interface on your smartphone. The COBI system offers hard- and software upgradeability
– plus a developer SDK for third party apps, wearables, wireless bike components, onboard electronics.
World‘s Smartest Connected Biking System. The next chapter in smart bike mobility:
designed and engineered in Frankfurt, Germany.
www.cobi.bike
Evopark
evopark
evolution in parking
Evopark combines a unique end-to-end parking experience with location-based marketing.
The evopark app allows you to easily find off-street parking locations and check the realtime availability. Car park tickets become obsolete as you can enter and exit car parks
with the gates opening automatically through RFID technology (the “evotag”). At exclusive
retail and restaurant partners, you receive a significant discount on your parking fees.
Finally, you are invoiced conveniently once a month. With an up-and-running pilot
market in Düsseldorf and international partners like Q-Park, evopark is a pioneer in the
digitalization of off-street parking in Europe.
www.evopark.de
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Wearable Life Science
Wearable Life Science is a young, innovation driven company based in Nuremberg and
Frankfurt. The goal is to develop the best possible electrical muscle stimulation equipment
that helps you optimise your training process. We have the vision to help every person,
from professional and hobby athlete to “couch potato”. Even though our human body
possesses incredible performance potential, only few people are capable of actually
unleashing it. Professional athletes, endurance sports lovers and fitness freaks prove,
however, that it is possible to push oneself to the limit. Achieving such results is always
associated with an enormously time-consuming training process. While smart diets
or individual training plans do help people to live healthier – there has only been little
support from the technical side so far. That’s why we have developed the ANTELOPESeries – the most revolutionary sportswear of the past decades.
www.wls.club
UniKey
UniKey’s access control platform powers the first keyless entry system that can be
integrated into any lock. This technology affords secure and intelligent access by simply
touching your door lock without ever needing to remove your phone from your pocket.
Serving the mass market by licensing its technology, UniKey works in partnership with
global market leading companies worldwide, including Kwikset for the Kevo Bluetooth
residential door application in North America, MIWA for hospitality solutions, Microsoft
for Azure global cloud solutions, and NEST for smart building thermostat integrations.
UniKey is currently building out partnerships with European lock manufacturers for
residential, commercial and enterprise.
www.unikey.com
Quantumrock
QUANTUMROCK, founded in 2010, with offices in Kiel and Munich, is a highly specialized,
fully licensed asset manager developing and implementing automated trading systems.
For five years, we have been researching and developing software and models for
sustainable success on financial markets. In contrast to traditional asset managers, our
background is not in investment banking, instead we develop mathematical, statistical
algorithms for price pattern recognition in commodities, in particular crude oil. We
are fully independent and offer investors access to state of the art trading technology,
which is often not even accessible to large institutions. QUANTUMROCK has a 3.5 years
real money track record showing outstanding returns. Through our brokers investors
in 75 countries can subscribe to QUANTUMROCK’s methods. Be better invested with
QUANTUMROCK. Simple. Transparent. Focused on Absolute Returns.
www.quantumrockcapital.com
Zencap
With Zencap we are building the leading global online marketplace for business loans.
We are a truly pan-European marketplace with presence in Germany, Spain and the
Netherlands. Via the Zencap small businesses receive access to loans that enable growth
and investment. The simple application process takes only minutes and borrowers receive
their credit decision within 48 hours. Our marketplace directly connects borrowers and
investors with clear advantages for both sides. Fast and flexible SME loans as well as
attractive yields. For the credit decision we rely on our experienced local credit analysts
and the proprietary ZenScore model, our advanced risk scoring technology. While Zencap
is focused on highly efficient processes, we provide a personal account manager to every
borrower. Since inception in 2014, the numbers speak for themselves: Zencap is the
fastest growing online lending marketplace in Europe.
www.zencap.de
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Fintech
Panel
Sean Park
Sean is the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of
Anthemis, the digital financial services investment and advisory
firm. A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair,
The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and Zoopla, before
founding Anthemis, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management
Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses
including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. He serves on
the boards of Blueleaf, Fidor, Payoff, Trov and Xenapto.
Lennart Börner
Lennart Börner is SVP Strategy & Special Operations at Kreditech. He
is taking care of the strategic positioning of the firm as the leading
online consumer finance provider. Previous to joining, he was part of
a team reorganising, selling and integrating a German mid-cap bank.
Lennart also held positions in diverse financial institutions where
he was involved in strategy development and investment banking.
Lennart holds a BSc in General Management from European Business
School, Oestrich-Winkel and a MSc in Finance from the University of
St Andrews, Scotland.
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Robert Abend
Robert Abend, born in 1971, studied Business Administration in
Augsburg. During this time already he discovered his passion for the
stock markets. In 2000 he founded BörseGo AG together with some
partners. Today he is Managing Director of the Munich-based mediumsized enterprise and employs more than 100 staff. Both private and
business clients bank on the competent financial information and
innovative technology solutions of BörseGo AG, which is amongst
others renowned for its finance portal GodmodeTrader (www.godmodetrader.de) and the investment and analysis platform Guidants.
Paul Morgenthaler, Host
Paul Morgenthaler is a Senior Investment Manager with
CommerzVentures, the VC arm of Commerzbank.
Previous to joining CommerzVentures, Paul co-founded and later exited
a Fintech start-up in the credit rating space and advised banks in setting
up greenfield operations with The Boston Consulting Group. Paul is a
mentor with Startupbootcamp Fintech and Techstars Berlin. He holds
an MBA degree from Harvard University, where he was awarded the
Satchu-Burgstone Prize for Entrepreneurship.
Thomas Bloch
Thomas is co-CEO and co-founder of vaamo. Prior to
founding vaamo Thomas worked 8+ years in investment
banking at J.P. Morgan in London and Frankfurt, where he predominantly
advised banks in the German speaking region and asset managers
across continental Europe on M&A and capital market transactions.
Thomas holds a doctorate and a diploma in finance from Goethe
University, Frankfurt. Prior und during his studies Thomas worked
for a number of front and back office businesses at Deutsche Bank in
London incl. its former strategic venture capital arm DB eVentures.
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Exit
Panel
Stefan Höfer
A Business Administration graduate, Stefan has over 20 years
experience with Deutsche Börse. Starting his career with the
‘Electronic Trading System’ department he moved to the ‘New
Market’ team in 1997. From 1999 he managed a number of projects
developing exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2001 Stefan
was appointed Head of Marketing for NEWEX Börse AG, the central
and eastern European exchange. Since May 2002 he has been Key
Account Manager for Life Science Issuers and Listing Partners.
Currently his role as Director and Expert includes responsibilities
for development and promotion of Deutsche Börse listing activities
in Russia & CIS.
Karl Balz
Dr. Karl Balz is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings
and is based in the firm’s Frankfurt and London offices. He focuses
his practice on capital markets and leveraged finance, with an
emphasis on U.S. listings of European companies and high yield bond
offerings. His practice also encompasses mergers and acquisitions,
private equity and restructuring work with a particular focus on
U.S. cross-border transactions. His clients include corporations,
family owned businesses, financial institutions and private equity
funds. Recent matters include the NYSE IPO of voxeljet AG and the
NASDAQ IPO of Materialise NV.
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Andreas Thümmler
Andreas Thümmler was founder and CEO of Corporate Finance
Partners. Over the last decade, CFP had developed to one of the
leading M&A boutiques in Tech & Internet with more than 250
successfully closed transactions. In February 2015, CFP has teamed
up with Acxit Capital Management, one of the leading mid-market
M&A boutiques in traditional industries and private equity. Before
CFP Andreas worked at SBC Warburg in London and Rothschild
in Frankfurt. He also founded VCDE Venture Partners in 2008, a
growth-stage VC-fund.
Christian Ramme, Host
Christian Ramme joined Acxit Capital Partners (“ACP”) mid 2014 as
Executive Director and Head of Growth Capital. In his position he
is advising venture-backed and entrepreneurial growth companies
on capital raising and M&A projects and leads ACP’s principal
investment arm.
Before ACP, Christian worked as Senior Investment Manager
at Munich-based SevenVentures, the venture arm of the
ProSiebenSat.1 Group, one of the leading media companies in
Europe, gaining deep insights into e-Commerce platforms and
digital market places.
Holger Hinz
Holger Clemens Hinz shares the responsibility for Investment
Banking and, in addition, manages Corporate Finance at quirin bank.
Prior thereto he established the corporate finance consultancy
company PCA Capital Advisors which was merged into quirin bank
in 2007. Before that he was Vice President in charge of Corporate
Finance at Consors Capital Bank. He gained further experience in
Corporate Finance as Team Head Life Science at BHF-Bank. He
started his career at Bankgesellschaft Berlin.
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Chris Boos
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Chris Boos is founder and CEO of arago. His responsibilities
include strategy, product development and research. As author
and algorithm designer he is broadly engaged in the high tech and
academic communities. Chris is also active in several boards and
supports the European and US start-up scene as contributor and
angel investor.
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As every year, GrowthCon supports Charity!
This year, our partners Vainard (by entrepreneur Axel Krieger)
and artist Eric Decastro will sponsor jewelry & art for auction
worth about 20.000 EUR, including a customized watch by
deLaCour (Geneva) with value of over 10.000 EUR.
All proceeds will be donated to steps for children!
Dr. Michael Hoppe
Steps for children, founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Dr. Michael
Hoppe, is dedicated to help traumatized children and teenagers in
need who oftentimes, suffer from HIV infections. The foundation
runs several businesses either on its own or in co-operation which
give work, a regular income and, most importantly, hope to more
than 700 children in Namibia, where the pilot project was initiated
in 2006. As of today, steps for children acts from 4 different
locations in Namibia with additional commitments being planned in
other countries.
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Ernst & Young
www.de.ey.com
Growth starts with courage, confidence – and capital
In a perfect world, companies never stop growing. Every forwardlooking decision requires more than passion and entrepreneurial
spirit. It also requires courage: Courage to venture into unknown
territory and to try new ways. But courage without caution in the
assessment of risks and opportunities would not be advisable.
This applies to start-ups as well as to investors. Your advisor has
to share these values and needs to provide the right approach.
Entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional commitment and the ability to
always think in solutions are the strengths that characterize EY.
With decades of relevant experience, integrated high performing
teams and exceptional client service, we help you to continuously
pursue improvement and growth. The coordinates for the right
strategic decision are determined by raising, investing, preserving
and optimizing capital.
We are here to help: Whether it is for the opening of financial
markets and resources, strengthening the companies’
competitiveness, developing sustainable structures, or providing
transparency via reliable business information and data: with
our initiatives and solutions we initiate discussions, add value
and enable growth. Our goal is to exceed your expectations:
that’s how we make a difference.
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Contact EY
Thomas Prüver
Senior Manager
EY Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 25471 10164
Email: thomas.pruever@de.ey.com
www.de.ey.com
Deutsche Börse AG
www.deutsche-boerse.com
As one of the world’s leading exchange organisations, Deutsche
Börse Group offers companies and investors access to
international capital markets. Its product and service portfolio
covers the entire process chain, including listing, securities and
derivatives trading and clearing, transaction settlement, custody,
the provision of indices and market information as well as the
development and operation of electronic trading systems. Issuers
benefit from low capital costs, investors from high liquidity and
low transaction costs.
Deutsche Börse Cash Market offers capital seeking companies
financing alternatives. When raising equity capital through
shares, companies can choose to be listed in one of the three
clearly structured transparency standards: Prime Standard,
General Standard and Entry Standard. For raising debt capital
through issuing corporate bonds you can choose between the
Entry Standard for corporate bonds or the Prime Standard for
corporate bonds. Deutsche Börse is an important interface
between issuers and the capital market. Its IPO & IR services
accompany firms before, during and after their IPO. Besides,
companies are also offered professional expertises by Deutsche
Börse Listing Partner®.
Contact Deutsche Börse AG
Stefan Leisner
Vice President
Issuer & Primary Market Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)69 2111 24 16
Email: stefan.leisner@deutsche-boerse.com
www.deutsche-boerse.com
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J. Safra Sarasin
www.jsafrasarasin.com
The name J. Safra Sarasin combines the successful private
banking heritages of Safra and Sarasin. The two logos on either
side of the name signify both the integration of Safra and
Sarasin, and the substantive banking strengths that the business
combination provides the Group and our clients. The tagline
“Sustainable Swiss Private Banking since 1841” demonstrates our
Swiss roots and the Group’s continued commitment and unique
expertise in the area of sustainable investments.
The Group has a number of key attributes which gives us the
confidence to execute this growth strategy: significant financial
strength, complementary presence and knowledge of key global
markets, the philosophy of a sustainable and conservative
investment approach, and strong brand value from our long
heritage as private bankers. The client is at the centre of all we
do: it is our duty to know a client intimately in order to provide
the right advice. Beyond the essential infrastructure of a global
bank, we have two key attributes – personal dedication and time
for our clients. Our focus lies not on complex financial products,
speculation or the generation of short-term profit, but rather
on the personalised analysis of individual requirements. We are
passionate and personally committed to do the best thing for our
clients.
Our underlying performance in 2013 was more than satisfactory,
with reported Group profit of CHF 180.5 million and client assets
under management of CHF 131.4 billion. With shareholders’ equity
of CHF 3.5 billion, we significantly exceed the requirements of the
Swiss financial regulator and have a BIS Tier 1 ratio of over 25 %.
The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks July 2013 edition ranked us
as being amongst the Top 10 of all Swiss Banks by several key
indicators.
As an international group committed to sustainability and well
established through its banks in 26 locations in Europe, Asia, the
Middle East and Latin America, J. Safra Sarasin Group is a global
symbol of private banking and wealth management tradition,
emphasizing security and well-managed conservative growth for
clients.
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Contact J. Safra Sarasin
Markus Diekmann
Executive Director
J. Safra Sarasin Frankfurt
Tel.: +49 (0)69 71 44 97 150
Email: markus.diekmann@jsafrasarasin.
com
www.jsafrasarasin.com
Quirin Bank
investment-banking.quirinbank.de
Founded in 1998 we actually employ 21 experts in our Investment
Banking division (Corporate Finance, Institutional Sales and
Equity Research). Besides the Investment Banking team placed
in Frankfurt/Main quirin bank AG offers fee-based advisory
services with head office in Berlin and 11 branches in Darmstadt,
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Hof, Cologne,
Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
Our Investment Banking advises and supports small and
medium-size companies managed by entrepreneurs as well as
listed and unlisted companies in the form of preparation and
execution of capital market transactions. Transaction size is €
10m up to € 250m. Besides a profound analysis of our client’s
current situation, we develop alternative financing possibilities
and structure the capital market transaction with all its aspects
(advisory on due diligence, indicative company valuation,
selection of the stock exchange, design of the equity-/bond
story). Besides the structuring, we offer a successful placement
of the transaction, followed by ongoing support after the
execution. To complete our services, we established the division
of Institutional Research in 2014 with a focus on capital goods,
technology, consumer/retail, transport/logistics, TMT and real
estate.
Contact Quirin Bank
Holger Clemens Hinz
Managing Director
Quirin Investment Banking
Tel.: +49 (0)69 2475049 30
Email: holger.hinz@quirinbank.de
investment-banking.quirinbank.de
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Acxit Capital Partners
www.acxit.com
ACXIT Capital Partners is an independent, privately owned
corporate finance firm. With almost 60 professionals and offices
in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Hong Kong as well
as alliances in China and India, ACXIT is one of the leading
corporate finance advisory firms for mid-market clients in
Europe.
Since 1998, ACXIT has been providing clients with a
comprehensive range of services tailored to the requirements
of corporate finance, including professional advice on mergers
and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and strategic
management. During this period ACXIT has successfully closed
almost 300 domestic and international transactions with a total
volume of approx. EUR 15bn.
ACXIT’s advisory expertise is founded on an in-depth
understanding of the key industries served, covering both the
industrial and technology sectors.
Contact Acxit Capital Partners
Christian Ramme
Executive Director
Tel.: +49 (0)69 77 0606 0
Email: ramme@acxit.com
www.acxit.com
arago
www.arago.co
arago is a high tech company driven by the spirit of German
engineering. We are building disruptive technology focused
on the B2B sector using artificial intelligence and analytical
components. We operate in the fast moving environment of hightech without forgetting that solving big problems takes time,
precision and excellence.
Our efforts are focused on giving people back their time, they
currently spend in mindless processes. arago solutions are built
to automate enterprise IT operations to an extend not seen
before, because a machine with human problem solving skills
can take on tasks even in heterogeneous, individualized and fast
changing environments.
Contact arago
Christian Boos
CEO
Tel.: +49 (0) 69 40568 0
Email: info@arago.co
www.arago.co
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Guidants by BörseGo
www.guidants.com
Guidants is the customizable investment and analysis platform of
BörseGo AG, the creators of the finance portal GodmodeTrader.
It enables traders and investors to observe the financial markets,
conduct technical and fundamental analyzes and discuss with
experts and other users – entirely according to their individual
needs and in real-time! Thus users are only provided with data
and information they really need for their investment decisions.
In 2015 Guidants was listed in FinTech50, which means that it is
among the most promising European financial and technology
products.
Contact Guidants by Börse Go AG
Robert Abend
CEO
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 76 73 69-0
Email: kundenservice@boerse-go.de
www.guidants.com
intelliad
www.intelliad.com
intelliAd offers agencies and advertising customers a Performance
Marketing Platform which enables them to measure, optimise
and understand their online and offline campaigns, including
TV and telephone. Companies can analyse the customer
journey using intelliAd Multichannel Tracking. Our own Beacon
technology facilitates the merger of online and offline data. This
enables streams of customers and visitors at events, in shops
and railway stations as well as data from the online, TV and
telephone channels to be evaluated and incorporated into online
marketing activities.
Household names such as Immonet, O2, weg.de, Medion,
SportScheck, ad agents, pilot, iProspect, explido and plan.net
place their trust in intelliAd. intelliAd has been a wholly owned
subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group since July 2012.
Contact intelliad
Tobias Kiessling
CTO
Tel.: +49 (0)89 - 15 90 490 - 0
Email: info@intelliad.de
www.intelliad.com
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Quantumrock Capital
www.quantumrockcapital.com
QUANTUMROCK, founded in 2010, with offices in Kiel and
Munich, is a highly specialized, fully licensed asset manager
developing and implementing automated trading systems. For five
years, we have been researching and developing software and
models for sustainable success on financial markets. In contrast
to traditional asset managers, our background is not in investment
banking, instead we develop mathematical, statistical algorithms
for price pattern recognition in commodities, in particular crude
oil. We are fully independent and offer investors access to state
of the art trading technology, which is often not even accessible
to large institutions. QUANTUMROCK has a 3.5 years real money
track record showing outstanding returns. Through our brokers
investors in 75 countries can subscribe to QUANTUMROCK’s
methods. Be better invested with QUANTUMROCK. Simple.
Transparent. Focused on Absolute Returns.
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Contact Quantumrock
Stefan Tittel
CEO
Tel.: +49 (0)89 25542191
Email: info@quantumrock.de
www.quantumrockcapital.com
004 GmbH
www.004gmbh.com
The 004 GmbH is a full service e-Commerce provider headquartered
in Aschaffenburg Germany, founded in 2003, with activities in the US,
Europe and the Middle East. Since its founding, 004 has accompanied
well-known brands, such as German Telekom, Redcoon or BILD,
in diverse branches with their e-Commerce projects. Based on its
expertise and award-winning proprietary technology, 004 offers the
fully integrated end-to-end e-commerce value chain.
Contact 004 GmbH
Robert Hein
CEO
Email: info@004gmbh.com
Intralinks
www.intralinks.com
Intralinks is a leading, global technology provider of beyond the firewall
collaboration solutions. Over 99% of the Global Fortune 1000 use the
Intralinks platform to securely share content and collaborate anytime,
anywhere, with business partners. Intralinks provides start-up
businesses with virtual data rooms to be ready for investors coming on
board or increasing their investment immediately at any point in time.
Contact Intralinks
Bernd Mährlein
Sales Director Strategic Transactions DACH
Email: bmaehrlein@intralinks.com
Taylor Wessing
www.taylorwessing.com
Taylor Wessing is a full-service international law firm, working with
clients in the world’s most dynamic industries. We take a single-minded
approach to advising our clients, helping them succeed by thinking
innovatively about their business issues. Our focus on the industries
of tomorrow has enabled us to develop market-leading expertise in
Technology, Media and Communications, Life Sciences, Private Wealth
and Energy.
Contact Taylor Wessing
Hassan Sohbi
Partner
Email: hsohbi@taylorwessing.com
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Burrito Bande
www.burritobande.de
Burrito Bande is a group of food revolutionaries who are providing
delicious SlowFastFood Burritos in Germany since June 2013. Burrito
Bande offer their burritos at changing locations throughout the city of
Frankfurt using their moveable food trucks.
Contact Burritobande
Oliver Meiser
Managing Director
Email: oliver.meiser@burritobande.de
Foddobox by TynTyn
www.foddobox.de
The TynTyn manufacturing company conceptualizes, develops and
rents out photo and video modules to be used at events of any size.
These modules can be combined in different ways which are desired by
the customer to be then used by the guests. Open and closed modules
can be adapted to the brand and event setting.
Contact Foddobox
Christopher Stürtz
Business Development
Email: cs@foddobox.de
Fruitful Office
www.fruitfuloffice.de
Fruitful Office is Germany‘s leading office fruit delivery service. We
supply office workers across Germany with regular fruit deliveries and
help create healthier and friendlier work environments. Our attractive
fruit baskets provide employers with a cost-efficient, easy-to-handle
and visible means of expressing appreciation for their workforce as well
as making a small but significant contribution to healthier eating habits.
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Contact Fruitful Office
Enzio Reuß
Managing Director
Email: enzio@fruitfuloffice.de
von Jungfeld
www.jungfeld.com
The fashion label von Jungfeld from Mannheim is an up-and-coming
premium brand for coloured men‘s socks. In Europe and Taiwan,
the fancy socks are already available in about 400 stores. Quality,
style, and sense of responsibility are the pillars of the brand von
Jungfeld. Therefore, all production steps – from selecting the yarns to
manufacturing the socks to packaging – are entirely made in Germany.
Contact Von Jungfeld
Lucas Pulkert
Managing Director
Email: lucas@jungfeld.com
Yomaro
www.yomaro.de
Yomaro started their first frozen yogurt store in 2012 and counts today
14 franchised stores throughout Germany. Yomaro sells frozen yogurts,
muesli and smoothies as well as a variety of drinks. To your own Yomaro
Frozen Yogurt, Muesli or Smoothie you can add different topics from
seasonal fruits and sauces to chocolate and other sweets. Depending
on the season, Yomaro also offers delicious specials like Hot Brownies,
rice pudding or hot waffles.
Contact Yomaro
Jens-Philipp Jung
MD Yomaro Frankfurt
Email: j.jung@link11.de
Mobile Event Guide
www.mobileeventguide.de
Mobile Event Guide was founded in 2009 by Felix Swoboda, Nick
Thomas and Marc Schuba with the target of merging the traditional
event booklet with the growing smartphone market. Five years on, we
have established ourselves as the market leader in Germany serving a
wide range of diverse clients. Our goal has since grown: now we aim
to enhance the overall event communication and assist organisers in
generating additional revenues.
Contact Mobile Event Guide
Franka Mörke
VP Sales & Marketing
Email: franka.moerke@mobileeventguide.de
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