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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), former Hahn-Meitner-Institut (HMI) The Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, HZB (formerly known as Hahn-Meitner-Institut, HMI) is a scientific research centre specializing in the investigation of the structures of solid matter and materials, as well as new materials and manufacturing techniques for photovoltaic cells. The centre is part of the Helmholtz-Association, Germany’s largest organization for scientific research, and is a product of the fusion of the HMI and BESSY, the “Berliner Elektronenspeicherring - Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung”, that will be finished by 2009. The Helmholtz Centre Berlin has some 800 employees.
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software and services, targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and clean tech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US $7.5bn in approximately 1,000 companies in than 45 countries. In that timeframe, about 168 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 212 were acquired in a merger. In 2007, Intel Capital invested in 166 deals for a total of US $639m with approximately 37% of funds invested outside the United States.
CPE manages a €200m clean tech private equity fund, which is one of the world’s largest private equity funds dedicated to clean tech. CPE invests expansion capital into later stage companies and finances management buy-outs. CPE’s goal is to back high growth clean tech companies that contribute to a lower carbon economy and a more sustainable environment and generate attractive returns for its investors. CPE is part of Climate Change Capital (“CCC”), a leading investment banking group specialising in the investment opportunities created by the low carbon economy with over US $1.6bn under management. The Berliner Energie und Umweltfonds was funded during the acquisition of the utility company Berliner Gaswerke through the companies Gaz de France and Bewag. Both own fifty percent of the fonds and are investing in innovative, energy related, and sustainable projects.
Ventegis Capital AG is a listed venture capital company which invests nationally in high-growth companies from the early to the expansion stage. The focus of its investments lies in the areas of information and communication technology (ICT), industrial technologies and life science. Ventegis also provides advisory services in corporate finance. The main shareholder of the company with ca. 94.3 % is the Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG, which is listed on the official market.
Vattenfall Europe is Germany’s third largest utility und part of the Swedish Vattenfall group, the fifth largest energy company in europe. Vattenfall Europe generates, distributes and sells power and heat. By means of the subsidiary Vattenfall Europe Venture GmbH venture capital is given to young technology-oriented companies on the field of renewable energies. Mr. Engelbert Giesen is the general manager and a shareholder of the PROWIB Projektmanagement und Wirtschaftsberatung GmbH Berlin which also owns several other companies that operate in the field of providing decentralized energy. He is also vice president of the Bundesverband Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung. He has concentrated his entrepreneurial efforts on developing, producing and providing decentralized systems for the provision of energy.
AIG Investments is a global leader in asset management with extensive capabilities in equity, fixed income, hedge, private equity, and real estate investments. Member companies of AIG Investments manage more than US $750bn in assets and employ more than 2,500 professionals in 46 offices around the world as of March 31, 2008. The Sustainable Investment Group within AIG Investments focuses on the emerging global cleantech and new energy markets. The objective is to invest in companies expected to generate strong financial returns and make a measurable positive or social impact through their core products and services. AIG Investments is the asset management arm of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG). BankInvest Group – New Energy Solutions BankInvest New Energy Solutions venture fund was established in 2002 by the BankInvest Group. Its two funds of more than €150m are dedicated to cleantech and energy solutions with a geographical focus on Scandinavia, Europe and North America. The team consists of 6 investment professionals with a strong track record in management, business development, technology and financing. New Energy Solutions is part of the BankInvest Group, an asset management house established in 1969 by a group of Danish banks. The BankInvest Group has more than €25bn under management. Demeter Partners is a French PE management company exclusively dedicated to Cleantech investments. Demeter partners is currently managing Demeter 1, a €105m PE fund dedicated to French, German and Spanish SMEs running their business in the fields of eco-industries (water, waste, air & soil treatment) and eco-energies (renewable energies). (Demeter 1 is sponsored by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Institut Français du Pétrole and counts 20 European institutional investors). The portfolio as of 12/31/2007 is composed of 18 companies and various stages of development (from start-up to €300m sales companies). Demeter partners’ team includes 14 staff members and has offices in Paris, Madrid and Freiburg. Demeter 2, currently under raising is expected to be closed in July 2008 above €200m. The Masdar Clean Tech Fund L.P. is a private equity fund designed to generate superior long-term returns through investments in Cleantech and Sustainable Energy companies. Among the founding investors of the fund are Credit Suisse, a leading global financial services provider with an industry leading practice in energy and cleantech, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, a private joint stock company incorporated in Abu Dhabi and wholly-owned by the government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company and Consensus Business Group. The unified resources and skills of these partners provide unique synergy and value-add in sourcing, developing and successfully exiting the Fund's investments. The Fund focuses on the development and commercialization of technologies in renewable energy, energy efficiency, carbon management and monetization, water usage and desalination, as well as investing in companies with technologies which are potentially suitable for commercialization in the United Arab Emirates.
Founded in 1999, zouk is a London-based investor that has been active in the cleantech space for seven years. zouk’s investment strategy is one of active fund management in expansion-stage companies. zouk currently manages two technology funds focused on Cleantech opportunities in renewable energy, efficiency and enabling technologies. zouk also manages a dedicated fund investing in solar infrastructure projects. The IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (www.ibb-bet.de) manages the VC Fonds Berlin since November 2004 and the VC Fonds Technologie Berlin as well as the VC Fonds Kreativwirtschaft Berlin since December 2007. The three VC Fonds are the result of a joint initiative of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the state of Berlin and are indirectly partly financed by resources of the European Regional Development Found (ERDF). Since 1997 the IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, in consortia with partners, has placed over €470m at the disposal of technology firms in Berlin. Of this, an amount of €66m was invested by the IBB as lead, co-lead or co-investor.
Conetwork Erneuerbare Energien Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA (CEE) CEE is a holding company based in Hamburg, specialised in renewable energies and clean technologies, with an administrated equity capital of €100m. The company is involved in Private Equity, Venture Capital and Mezzanine investments both in clean technology companies and in power plant projects primarily in the field of photovoltaic, biogas, biomass power plants and wind parks. Under the few shareholders that are based in Germany are long term orientated institutional investors and family offices. CEE is run by Bankhaus Lampe KG who in turn are owned by Lampe Corporate Finance GmbH who have more than ten years experience in the financing of renewable energies. |
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