First Venture Lounge in London was a complete success
27.10.2009
Our first Venture Lounge in London took place on 22 October and it was a complete success! The organisers of the event - Neuhaus Partners and CatCap - want to thank Osborne Clarke cordially for their great co-operation and their help. Osborne Clarke allocated their wonderful rooms in the city of London for our event.
reBuy, the Berlin based company, was elected as the "Best of Germany". It is a B2C shop for second-hand products. reBuy buys used videogames, DVDs, CDs and books from consumers and resells it in an average of 15 days with a margin of 40 percent to their customers. reBuy could convince the jury with its easy and efficient business model.
Two companies, Jedox and earth TV, share the second place.
earth TV produces, licenses and syndicates proprietary video content for international television stations, web portals and new media. The company produces 450 TV programs per day on five continents and reaches 2 billion people with their own worldwide network of highest quality television cameras. The program is broadcasted in 40 TV transmitters in over 16 languages. You also can watch it about the Earth TV WebPlayer.
The software company Jedox offers solutions for Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM). Starting with cost-free open-source editions Jedox generates recurring revenues from subscriptions and licenses as well as cloud-based BI and CPM SaaS offerings. The Palo Suite" is a centralized BI and CPM solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, dashboarding and analysis which uses a web-browser or excel as front-ends.
As interesting as the presentations were the lecture of our partner, the High-Tech Gründerfonds, and the speeches of Neuhaus Partners and CatCap. Dr Alex von Frankenberg, CEO of the HTGF, talked about the potential of German high-tech start-ups and explained the business model of the HTGF. Paul Jozefak partner of Neuhaus Partners lectured about the international perspective on Venture Capital in Germany and Michael Moritz overviewed the German IT M&A market.
The Venture Lounge goes abroad! For the very first time the Venture Lounge will take place in London, on Wednesday, 22 October, 2009.
05.10.2009
Germany is not only good in brewing beer, playing football and manufacturing cars - we also have some of the hottest technology companies in Europe. Come and attend the Venture Lounge and meet the founders and CEOs of selected German software, internet and technology companies.
The Venture Lounge, the established event for venture capital in Germany will take place in London for the very first time on October 22, 2009. The event is hosted by CatCap, the leading corporate finance consulting company in Germany in the venture capital business and Neuhaus Partners, a leading venture capital company based in Hamburg. Neuhaus Partners, early investor of Europes leading online pharmacy DocMorris, has been recently awarded with the "Venture exit of the year" for the trade sale of Blau.de, the first independent mobile telephone discounter, to KPN.
The Venture Lounge brings together young high-tech companies searching for equity investors and representatives of leading Venture Capital investors who would like to participate with an investment in the growth of there companies. Through an exclusive presentation at the Venture Lounge eight to ten companies get the opportunity to convince investors to enter in an in-depth examination of their business cases.
We are pleased to have the German "High-Tech Gründerfonds" (HTGF) on board, recently awarded as the "Equity Gap Fund of the year" at the 2008 "Investor AllStars Awards" in London. The 270 m Euro fund typically invests in high-tech companies and supports them with the necessary amount of capital for the start and currently holds a portfolio of more than 160 high-tech companies.
The "Venture Lounge" is sponsored by the corporate law firm Osborne Clarke which advises market leading and high performing organisations on their UK and international legal needs.
Do you have annual revenues of 1 m Euro and are you aiming a financing round between 2 to 10 m Euro within the next six month? Are you interested in such a presentation at the Venture Lounge in London? Please apply via one-pager and send it per email to Judith Nowatschin (Judith.nowatschin@catcap.de) until 11 October 2009.
Please refer here for details on the program.
Venture Lounge "Web 2.0, IPTV, Mobile, Games" in Berlin on September, 7th 2009
17.08.2009
Neuhaus Partners and CatCap Corporate Finance would like to invite you to the "Venture Lounge" in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, September 7, 2009. The central theme of this event is "Web 2.0, IPTV, Mobile & Games". The "Venture Lounge" gives preselected rising start up stars from all over Germany the chance to present their business case to investors, strategic partners and Business Angels. The exclusive pitch of six to eight entrepreneurs gives the opportunity to obtain seed or series A financing or to use the valuable network of key industry players present. Regularly, 75% of the German venture capital firms / private investors or industry partner relevant in the specific technology field take part in the "Venture Lounge".
As keynote speaker, we invited Heiko Rauch - CTO and founder of Zanox AG. Zanox is the German market leader for online- and affiliate marketing and among the most innovative players in the global online-marketing business. The company was jointly acquired by Axel Springer and Publigroupe in 2007, their newest add-on investment being Digital Window Ltd. In the UK.
The "Venture Lounge" is sponsored by the corporate law firm Osborne Clarke, the managed hosting, security and application services provider NTT Europe Online and by the Innovationsbank Berlin.
On past "Venture Lounges" with a similar focus we were happy to welcome, among others, the following Investors: Dumont Venture, Doughty Hanson, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Burda Digital Ventures, Target Partners, Creathor Ventures, 3i Germany, Partech International, Triangle Ventures, BayTech Venture Capital, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Ventizz Capital Partners, eCapital New Technology Fund AG, Wellington Partners, T-Venture and Earlybird Venture Capital as well as various angels and family offices. Industry partners included ebay Germany, Sony Europe, Siemens Germany, AOL, Vodafone, SAP, Google, RTL interactive, MTV Networks Germany, T-Online and Microsoft.
Our event is integrated into the 2009 "Medienwoche", one of Europe's largest media gatherings and the most important communication platform of the international media industry, including the trade fair (IFA), panel discussions, and exciting events. The IFA in Berlin is the world's leading trade show for the general public and the CE industry's number one venue for doing business. All of the major Consumer Electronics brands present themselves at this unique business event. A showcase for innovation and the technology of tomorrow - coupled with a spectacular programme of entertainment events -IFA fascinates yearly thousands of visitors from around the world.
Keynote speakers include Markus Berger-de León (studiVZ Ltd.), Frank Briegmann (Universal Music Deutschland) and Jürgen Hopfgartner (Digital Media & Network Development MTV Networks North).
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact Judith Nowatschin via e-mail judith.nowatschin@catcap.de or via phone: +49 40 300836 23.
Please find the "Venture Lounge" program and invitation here.