Christian Schütte

Elcos AG develops and manufactures optoelectronic products. It specializes in chip on board (COB) technology, chip design for special LED or PIN diodes and packaging starting from mechanical and optical design to optimizing process solutions. The company provides LED solutions for medical, specialty lighting and automotive applications. The firm provides products, covering the spectrum from UV, visible to IR as well as standard SMD and custom products. The company is headquartered in Pfaffenhofen, Germany.

COR pumps + compressors AG, located in Stuttgart, Germany, develops and markets pumps and compressors based on its unique COR® technology. Using the COR® system technology to develop positive displacement pumps or compressors is a fundamentally new way of engineering and brings forth a new generation of pumps and compressors. Since this new technology allows the parameterization of free form surfaces, it has a great deal of potential for other areas of mechanical engineering as well. During the product design process, surfaces and bodies are adapted to mechanical, hydraulic and/or pneumatic requirements. The company's COR® software tools allow statements concerning future performance of the aggregate to be made before it is even built and tested. After deciding which product design option will be pursued, prototypes are built and subsequently tested in COR pumps + compressors AG's own lab before being delivered to the client for potential further testing. In addition, COR pumps + compressors AG can also provide clients with PC-monitored long-term endurance runs at their request.

High Tech Private Equity GmbH (HTPE) is a leading German private equity firm controlled by Triginta Capital Group GmbH (formerly AVIDA Equity Partners) and DEWB AG. Established in 1999 and based in Düsseldorf with an office in Liechtenstein, HTPE invests in rapidly growing technology companies and manages the High Tech Beteiligungen fund, backed by institutional investors including German pension funds, banks and insurance companies.

VERTILAS GmbH develops, produces, and distributes laser diodes for optical communications technology, sensor engineering, and measurement methods. The company's products include gas sensing spectroscopy, data and telecommunication applications, spectroscopic diode lasers, and engineering services in the fields of fiberoptics, semiconductors, laser diodes, and vertical cavity surface-emitting laser diodes. The company was founded in December 2001 by Markus Ortsiefer and Markus-Christian Amann and is headquartered in Garching, Germany.