Carsten Schmeding

Warburg Invest Holding GmbH operates as an investment holding company. The company was founded on October 18, 2006 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany.

Bantleon Invest AG is the German asset management subsidiary of Bantleon AG in Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1999 and formerly known as NORD/LB Asset Management and AG Warburg Invest AG. Headquartered in Hannover, Bantleon Invest provides asset management and fund administration services to German institutional investors and distribution partners.

TRAPO AG manufactures, sells, and assembles conveyor technology and handling installations. The firm offers driverless transport systems, robotic systems, palletizer and depalletizer, and TIM. The company was founded by Karl Stumpf in April 1957 and is headquartered in Gescher-Hochmoor, Germany.

Equity Partners GmbH (Equity Partners) is an independent German private equity firm which was founded in 2001 by Carsten Schmeding on behalf of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf with a mandate to focus on direct investments in the German mid-cap market. Based in Dusseldorf, Equity Partners invests globally in private equity funds as well as in small and medium-sized companies in Europe. They manage the Private Equity Anlageprogramm IV fund, encouraging their investee companies to develop ideas in mutually beneficial cooperation. The firm also offers their investment programs and services to external institutional investors.