Paul-Bernhard Kallen

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hubert Burda Media Holding KG engages in the publication of magazines and provision of digital media content services. It offers online services in the areas of electronic commerce, social networks, online travel, publishing, and subscriptions. The company was founded by Franz Burda in 1903 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH is a Haniel family equity firm. The company was founded in 1756 by Jan Willem Noot and is headquartered in Duisburg, Germany.

Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH provides Internet, book, and media publishing and retail distribution services. The firm specializes in the development and operation of online portals that sell books, newspapers, magazines, software and games, music, electronics, and gift articles. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany.

Mode Media Corp. provides media advertising and content delivery services. The firm operates GlamMobile, a mobile advertising, content and social platform that allows brand advertisers to engage with consumer audiences on mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. It also ops GlamSplash, an advertising platform that allows brand advertisers to deliver the effectiveness of TV spot in consumers' digital lifestyles. The company was founded by Fernando Ruarte, Victor Zaud, Susan Kare, Ernie Cicogna, Dianna Mullins, Rebecca Bogle Arora, Raj Narayan, Emmanuel Job,and Samir Arora in 2004 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

Acton Capital Partners GmbH (Acton) is an independent venture capital firm which originated in 1999 as the corporate venture capital arm of Hubert Burda Media Holding KG. In 2008, it spun out of the media group into an independent fund structure and was renamed to Acton. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

The Internet Economy Foundation operates as a foundation focused on the internet economy. The private company is based in Berlin, Germany. The German company was founded in 2016 and the CEO is Friedbert Pflüger.