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welcome.Dear Participants,Frankfurt is very well known as the heart of “Financial Europe”. Being the headquarters for the largest German banks or the German Stock Exchange, the city of Frankfurt attracts capital like no other city in Germany. Now it is time to built a common ground for investors and entrepreneurs to seize the various opportunities that have yet to be explored.

GrowthCon 2015 invites you to make a first step and to create with us a platform for synergies. We will provide the opportunity to participate in in-depth discussions, visionary speeches and insightful company presentations. GrowthCon 2015 is not just about business, but about building an environment to foster growth. Be a part of it!

Your Team ofGrowthCon 2015by VCDE Venture Partners

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07 Schedule

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12 Daniel Gutenberg

14 Detlef D. Soost / Fredrik Harkort

16 VC Panel

18 Entrepreneur Panel

20 Pia Poppenreiter

22 Innovation Award

24 Fintech Panel

26 Exit Panel

28 Chris Boos

31 Charity

33 Our Partners 2015

44 Impressions 2014

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Opening Cocktails

GrowthCon invites all participants to opening cocktails at Pearly Gates Bar, the newest addition to Frankfurts exceptional Bar scene. Enjoy a relaxed evening with cocktails, finger food and great networking.

Conference

GrowthCon is not only to provide a platform of networking, but offers a deep dive into the relevant topics of todays tech business and entrepreneurs. Joining us on stage, many well known investors and founders will discuss the hottest trends and give a picture of newest developments.

Club Night

Once again, GrowthCon will host its Club Night at Gibson Club, the hottest nightlife location in town. Our Guests may rock to beats of Urban Club Band, Gibson‘s extraordinary life band, featuring many well known artitsts.

Markets Reception

In the early Friday morning, GrowthCon is proud to ring the opening bell at German stock markets, inviting registered participants to Deutsche Börse. While computers of Xetra have taken over trading, the historic building still owns the atmosphere of successful IPOs.

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Though GrowthCon is focused on networking between investors and entrepreneurs, the conference also uses its platform for a good cause. To support the foundation steps for children, GrowthCon is auctioning valuables worth over EUR 20,000.

15 Years VentureCapital Magazin

Since May 2000, VentureCapital Magazin has been delivering high-quality corporate finance information to investors and entrepreneurs. Editorial focus is placed on private equity, venture capital and buy-out transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions. The most recent figures, reports, and statistics are covered on a regular basis. VentureCapital Magazin is published monthly in German language.

VC Magazine celebrates it's 15th birthday at GrowthCon!

Innovation Award

Great Technology is developed by great minds. Therefore, GrowthCon invites innovative Ventures with breathtaking technology to inspire investors and entrepreneurs. GrowthCon Award is not looking for mainstream CEO-pitches, but offers investors the opportunity to experience the core asset of each Venture first-hand.

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09:00 -10:00 Networking Breakfast & Registration

10:00 -10:30 Opening Keynote - Daniel Gutenberg

11:10 -12:00

VC Panel moderated by Rene Seifert (Venturate)with Dörte Höppner (EVCA), Christian Claussen (Ventech), Jens Munk (Kennet), Thomas Prüver (EY)

12:50 -14:20 Lunch Buffet

22:00 -open end

GrowthCon Club Night at Gibson ClubWE OWN THE NIGHT powered by Acxit Capital Partners

19:30 -22:00 Dinner Buffet & Drinks

15 Years VC Magazin - Laudatio: Dr. Johannes Velling (BMWi)

Awarding Ceremony / Charity Auction

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19:30 -24:00 Opening Cocktails at Pearly Gates Bar

09:30 -12:30

Markets Reception at Börse Frankfurtpowered by Quirin Banklimited capacity - additional ticket required

10:35 -11:05 Detlef D. Soost & Fredrik Harkort

12:05 -12:50

Entrepreneurs Panel moderated by Rene Seifert (Venturate)with Tobias Kiessling (Intelliad), Robert Hein (004), Henning Lange (Giant Swarm), Christian Kleinsorge (Ingenious Technologies)

14:20 -14:50 Pia Poppenreiter

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Exit Panel moderated by Christian Ramme (Acxit)with Andreas Thümmler (VCDE), Karl Balz (Paul Hastings), Holger Hinz (Quirin), Stefan Höfer (Deutsche Börse AG)

15:45 -16:35 GrowthCon Innovation Award Part I

16:40 -17:25

Fintech Panel moderated by Paul Morgenthaler (CommerzVentures)with Lennart Börner (Kreditech), Robert Abend (BörseGo), Thomas Bloch (Vaamo), Sean Park (Anthemis)

17:30 -18:15 GrowthCon Innovation Award Part II

18:20 -19:00 Closing Keynote - Chris Boos

19:00 -19:15 Dr. Michael Hoppe - steps for children

All day at Klassikstadt Frankfurt

19:15 -19:30 Axel Krieger - Investing in Diamonds

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Klassikstadt FrankfurtKlassikstadt Frankfurt provides the main stage for GrowthCon 2015. Inbetween Oldtimers and tech-pumped luxury cars, Klassikstadt offers an incredible event space for networking and conferencing.

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Gibson ClubGibson Club will host the offical GrowthCon 2015 party. With its spectacular architecture, lighting and sound, Gibson Club is Member of “The World‘s Finest Clubs”.

www.gibson-club.de

Börse FrankfurtAlthough financial markets of today are highly computer driven and Xetra has no use for a physical exchange, many IPOs are still celebrated at Frankfurter Börse.

www.boerse-frankfurt.de

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Die nachhaltige Entwicklung Ihres Familienbesitzes geniesst bei uns oberste Priorität. Eigentum und Vermögen zu erhalten und sie über Generationen hinweg zu vermehren, gehört seit 1841 zu unseren Grundwerten.

Unsere Werte: Familienbesitz & Tradition

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Daniel Gutenberg

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Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner of VI Partners, a Swiss venture capital firm. He joined the company in 2003.

Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in the year 2000, Daniel Gutenberg became a very active business angel and investor in numerous startups.

His focus is on Technology and he has been taking board assignments for various public and private Companies as well as for YPO Young Presidents’ Organization, a network of young global business leaders. He also acts as the president of the Swiss Technion Society and as a member of the Circle of Investors of BrainsToVentures.

Daniel Gutenberg was awarded as business angel of the year in 2011 (SECA).

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Detlef D. SoostDetlef D. Soost is Motivator, Star-Choreographer and successful Moderator. He is motivating kids, teenager and adults throughout Germany. He has already worked with more than one hundred national and international top-class acts and moderated shows such as “Flash! The biggest moment of your life” as well as three various formats on Cartoon Network.Due to more than 170 associate dance schools named “D!'s Dance Club”, he is able to create meaningful impact on people throughout Germany. Together with Fredrik Harkort, he established “I make you sexy”, an online diet and fitness program.

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Fredrik Harkort Fredrik Harkort is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Media Interactive GmbH. SMI is the creator of the BodyChange movement, a celebrity endorsed online diet and fitness program (“I make you sexy”). Founded in 2012 SMI has offices in Munich, Berlin, Sao Paulo and San Francisco. Prior to SMI Fredrik worked as a TV Producer, producing TV shows like ´Germanys next Topmodel´ and ´MTV Bandtrip´.

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Jens works with CEOs, founders and management teams to help create and grow differentiated market leading technology companies and to provide superior business value. He has been at the forefront of the major technology trends of the last 25 years, initially as an entrepreneur and operator building businesses in the areas of analytics, big data, ERP and financial technology .

Before joining Kennet in 2015 Jens was a technology investment banker with Corporate Finance Partners and Torch Partners.

Jens Munk

Dörte represents the industry at the very highest levels of business and government. She joined the EVCA in 2011 after spending four years as the Managing Director at the BVK, the German Private Equity Association where she played a leading role in the industry’s response to the Alternative Investment Fund Manager’s Directive.

Before joining the BVK Dörte held the role of Communications Director at the German Institute for Economic Research. Prior she worked as a journalist for ZDF.

Dörte Höppner

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Thomas Prüver is a Senior Manager at EY Transaction Advisory Services in Berlin and joined the firm in January 2007.

He is focused on due diligence processes in the digital segment for corporates, venture capital investors as well as fast growing digital start-ups. In 2014, Thomas published the EY study “Venture Capital and Start-ups in Germany 2014”.

Thomas is a certified tax advisor and public accountant under German law and holds a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance.

Thomas Prüver

René Seifert is the co-founder and co-CEO of Venturate AG, an integrated investment platform where the crowd can invest side-by-side with renowned business angels into top-notch start-ups.

Before that, René was living for 10 years in India and involved in founding several internet, tech and media companies, among those Holtzbrinck eLab.

René began his career 1992 hosting radio shows and working as a journalist in parallel to his studies as a Master of Business Administration.

René Seifert, Host

Christian Claussen joined Ventech in 2013 as the firms fourth Equity Partner with the mission to spearhead our investment activities in the DACH region. With offices in Paris and Munich he is proactively seeking investment opportunities in exciting and innovative high-growth companies in the DACH region.

Christian Claussen

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As a director and co-founder of intelliAd Tobias Kiessling is responsible for all technical development.

His primary focus includes Bid Management as the Performance Marketing Platform’s core functionality, customer journey analysis and all things relating to Real Time Bidding (RTB). Tobias Kiessling is involved in various scientific studies and a point of contact for postgraduate research into advertising technology. Some of the institutions with whom he works include the Technische Universität München, the University of Passau and the Wharton School.

Tobias Kiessling

Robert Hein is co-founder and CEO of 004 GmbH, a full service e-Commerce provider headquartered in Aschaffenburg, Germany. During his time with 004, Robert has also co-founded a number of enterprises in the e-Commerce and technology space. Prior to 004, Robert was Business Analyst at Integration ware (Chicago) and ensuing co-founder and CEO of electronica24 GmbH, one of Germany’s first online electronics retailers. Robert holds an MBA in International Business and BA in Organizational Behaviour from the University of Illinois.

Robert Hein

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Henning Lange, born in 1976, is an entrepreneur and angel investor since more than 10 years. He began his career at IhrPreis.de AG in 2000. During his time at Onvista AG he started Ligatus, a pan-european performance advertising network today owned by Gruner+Jahr. He co-founded and sold two companies: Ormigo GmbH in 2005, and Adcloud GmbH in 2009. After the sale to Deutsche Post DHL in 2011 he served as CEO for two more years growing the company to 75 employees and rolling out the business to France, Switzerland and Spain. In July 2014 he co-founded Giant Swarm GmbH - the Microservice Infrastructure Company.

Henning Lange

René Seifert is the co-founder and co-CEO of Venturate AG, an integrated investment platform where the crowd can invest side-by-side with renowned business angels into top-notch start-ups.

Before that, René was living for 10 years in India and involved in founding several internet, tech and media companies, among those Holtzbrinck eLab.

René began his career 1992 hosting radio shows and working as a journalist in parallel to his studies as a Master of Business Administration.

René Seifert, Host

Christian Kleinsorge, CEO, runs Ingenious Technologies since July 2012. With 5 offices in 4 countries, the company’s today one of the most leading technology provider for advertising and e-Commerce. Prior to that Christian was member of the Executive Board of zanox. Christian has a broad network within the international e-Commerce scene, based on over 20 year of experience as an entrepreneur and investor in high tech companies.

Christian Kleinsorge

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Pia Poppenreiter

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Pia is CEO & Co-Founder of Spreefang. She holds a degree in management as well as business ethics and has previously worked at Westwing, the department of Social Responsibility at Steinbeis

university, Continental and Dresdner Kleinwort. She has made headlines for launching a mobile web app that connects potential

clients to escorts, because she knows – regardless of personal opinions - that the profession can be made safer for those who

deliberatley and voluntarily chose to work in this field.

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COBICOBI is the smartest way to upgrade your bike and benefit your life – making every ride more rewarding and more fun. All of its advanced technology and smart design is geared towards one purpose: enhancing your biking experience with fun, comfort and safety. It adds over 100 intelligent features to any bike – with a simple, predictive and beautiful interface on your smartphone. The COBI system offers hard- and software upgradeability – plus a developer SDK for third party apps, wearables, wireless bike components, on-board electronics.

World‘s Smartest Connected Biking System. The next chapter in smart bike mobility: designed and engineered in Frankfurt, Germany.

www.cobi.bike

EvoparkEvopark combines a unique end-to-end parking experience with location-based marketing. The evopark app allows you to easily find off-street parking locations and check the real-time availability. Car park tickets become obsolete as you can enter and exit car parks with the gates opening automatically through RFID technology (the “evotag”). At exclusive retail and restaurant partners, you receive a significant discount on your parking fees. Finally, you are invoiced conveniently once a month. With an up-and-running pilot market in Düsseldorf and international partners like Q-Park, evopark is a pioneer in the digitalization of off-street parking in Europe.

www.evopark.de

evoparkevolution in parking

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QuantumrockQUANTUMROCK, founded in 2010, with offices in Kiel and Munich, is a highly specialized, fully licensed asset manager developing and implementing automated trading systems. For five years, we have been researching and developing software and models for sustainable success on financial markets. In contrast to traditional asset managers, our background is not in investment banking, instead we develop mathematical, statistical algorithms for price pattern recognition in commodities, in particular crude oil. We are fully independent and offer investors access to state of the art trading technology, which is often not even accessible to large institutions. QUANTUMROCK has a 3.5 years real money track record showing outstanding returns. Through our brokers investors in 75 countries can subscribe to QUANTUMROCK’s methods. Be better invested with QUANTUMROCK. Simple. Transparent. Focused on Absolute Returns.

www.quantumrockcapital.com

UniKeyUniKey’s access control platform powers the first keyless entry system that can be integrated into any lock. This technology affords secure and intelligent access by simply touching your door lock without ever needing to remove your phone from your pocket. Serving the mass market by licensing its technology, UniKey works in partnership with global market leading companies worldwide, including Kwikset for the Kevo Bluetooth residential door application in North America, MIWA for hospitality solutions, Microsoft for Azure global cloud solutions, and NEST for smart building thermostat integrations. UniKey is currently building out partnerships with European lock manufacturers for residential, commercial and enterprise.

www.unikey.com

ZencapWith Zencap we are building the leading global online marketplace for business loans. We are a truly pan-European marketplace with presence in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Via the Zencap small businesses receive access to loans that enable growth and investment. The simple application process takes only minutes and borrowers receive their credit decision within 48 hours. Our marketplace directly connects borrowers and investors with clear advantages for both sides. Fast and flexible SME loans as well as attractive yields. For the credit decision we rely on our experienced local credit analysts and the proprietary ZenScore model, our advanced risk scoring technology. While Zencap is focused on highly efficient processes, we provide a personal account manager to every borrower. Since inception in 2014, the numbers speak for themselves: Zencap is the fastest growing online lending marketplace in Europe.

www.zencap.de

Wearable Life ScienceWearable Life Science is a young, innovation driven company based in Nuremberg and Frankfurt. The goal is to develop the best possible electrical muscle stimulation equipment that helps you optimise your training process. We have the vision to help every person, from professional and hobby athlete to “couch potato”. Even though our human body possesses incredible performance potential, only few people are capable of actually unleashing it. Professional athletes, endurance sports lovers and fitness freaks prove, however, that it is possible to push oneself to the limit. Achieving such results is always associated with an enormously time-consuming training process. While smart diets or individual training plans do help people to live healthier – there has only been little support from the technical side so far. That’s why we have developed the ANTELOPE-Series – the most revolutionary sportswear of the past decades.

www.wls.club

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Sean is the founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Anthemis, the digital financial services investment and advisory firm. A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and Zoopla, before founding Anthemis, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. He serves on the boards of Blueleaf, Fidor, Payoff, Trov and Xenapto.

Sean Park

Lennart Börner is SVP Strategy & Special Operations at Kreditech. He is taking care of the strategic positioning of the firm as the leading online consumer finance provider. Previous to joining, he was part of a team reorganising, selling and integrating a German mid-cap bank. Lennart also held positions in diverse financial institutions where he was involved in strategy development and investment banking. Lennart holds a BSc in General Management from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel and a MSc in Finance from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Lennart Börner

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Thomas is co-CEO and co-founder of vaamo. Prior to founding vaamo Thomas worked 8+ years in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in London and Frankfurt, where he predominantly advised banks in the German speaking region and asset managers across continental Europe on M&A and capital market transactions.

Thomas holds a doctorate and a diploma in finance from Goethe University, Frankfurt. Prior und during his studies Thomas worked for a number of front and back office businesses at Deutsche Bank in London incl. its former strategic venture capital arm DB eVentures.

Thomas Bloch

Paul Morgenthaler is a Senior Investment Manager with CommerzVentures, the VC arm of Commerzbank.

Previous to joining CommerzVentures, Paul co-founded and later exited a Fintech start-up in the credit rating space and advised banks in setting up greenfield operations with The Boston Consulting Group. Paul is a mentor with Startupbootcamp Fintech and Techstars Berlin. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Satchu-Burgstone Prize for Entrepreneurship.

Paul Morgenthaler, Host

Robert Abend, born in 1971, studied Business Administration in Augsburg. During this time already he discovered his passion for the stock markets. In 2000 he founded BörseGo AG together with some partners. Today he is Managing Director of the Munich-based medium-sized enterprise and employs more than 100 staff. Both private and business clients bank on the competent financial information and innovative technology solutions of BörseGo AG, which is amongst others renowned for its finance portal GodmodeTrader (www.godmode-trader.de) and the investment and analysis platform Guidants.

Robert Abend

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Dr. Karl Balz is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Frankfurt and London offices. He focuses his practice on capital markets and leveraged finance, with an emphasis on U.S. listings of European companies and high yield bond offerings. His practice also encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring work with a particular focus on U.S. cross-border transactions. His clients include corporations, family owned businesses, financial institutions and private equity funds. Recent matters include the NYSE IPO of voxeljet AG and the NASDAQ IPO of Materialise NV.

Karl Balz

A Business Administration graduate, Stefan has over 20 years experience with Deutsche Börse. Starting his career with the ‘Electronic Trading System’ department he moved to the ‘New Market’ team in 1997. From 1999 he managed a number of projects developing exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2001 Stefan was appointed Head of Marketing for NEWEX Börse AG, the central and eastern European exchange. Since May 2002 he has been Key Account Manager for Life Science Issuers and Listing Partners. Currently his role as Director and Expert includes responsibilities for development and promotion of Deutsche Börse listing activities in Russia & CIS.

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Holger Clemens Hinz shares the responsibility for Investment Banking and, in addition, manages Corporate Finance at quirin bank. Prior thereto he established the corporate finance consultancy company PCA Capital Advisors which was merged into quirin bank in 2007. Before that he was Vice President in charge of Corporate Finance at Consors Capital Bank. He gained further experience in Corporate Finance as Team Head Life Science at BHF-Bank. He started his career at Bankgesellschaft Berlin.

Holger Hinz

Christian Ramme joined Acxit Capital Partners (“ACP”) mid 2014 as Executive Director and Head of Growth Capital. In his position he is advising venture-backed and entrepreneurial growth companies on capital raising and M&A projects and leads ACP’s principal investment arm.

Before ACP, Christian worked as Senior Investment Manager at Munich-based SevenVentures, the venture arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, one of the leading media companies in Europe, gaining deep insights into e-Commerce platforms and digital market places.

Christian Ramme, Host

Andreas Thümmler was founder and CEO of Corporate Finance Partners. Over the last decade, CFP had developed to one of the leading M&A boutiques in Tech & Internet with more than 250 successfully closed transactions. In February 2015, CFP has teamed up with Acxit Capital Management, one of the leading mid-market M&A boutiques in traditional industries and private equity. Before CFP Andreas worked at SBC Warburg in London and Rothschild in Frankfurt. He also founded VCDE Venture Partners in 2008, a growth-stage VC-fund.

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Chris Boos is founder and CEO of arago. His responsibilities include strategy, product development and research. As author and algorithm designer he is broadly engaged in the high tech and academic communities. Chris is also active in several boards and supports the European and US start-up scene as contributor and angel investor.

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Steps for children, founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Dr. Michael Hoppe, is dedicated to help traumatized children and teenagers in need who oftentimes, suffer from HIV infections. The foundation runs several businesses either on its own or in co-operation which give work, a regular income and, most importantly, hope to more than 700 children in Namibia, where the pilot project was initiated in 2006. As of today, steps for children acts from 4 different locations in Namibia with additional commitments being planned in other countries.

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As every year, GrowthCon supports Charity!

This year, our partners Vainard (by entrepreneur Axel Krieger) and artist Eric Decastro will sponsor jewelry & art for auction worth about 20.000 EUR, including a customized watch by

deLaCour (Geneva) with value of over 10.000 EUR.

All proceeds will be donated to steps for children!

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Growth starts with courage, confidence – and capitalIn a perfect world, companies never stop growing. Every forward-looking decision requires more than passion and entrepreneurial spirit. It also requires courage: Courage to venture into unknown territory and to try new ways. But courage without caution in the assessment of risks and opportunities would not be advisable.This applies to start-ups as well as to investors. Your advisor has to share these values and needs to provide the right approach. Entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional commitment and the ability to always think in solutions are the strengths that characterize EY. With decades of relevant experience, integrated high performing teams and exceptional client service, we help you to continuously pursue improvement and growth. The coordinates for the right strategic decision are determined by raising, investing, preserving and optimizing capital.

We are here to help: Whether it is for the opening of financial markets and resources, strengthening the companies’ competitiveness, developing sustainable structures, or providing transparency via reliable business information and data: with our initiatives and solutions we initiate discussions, add value and enable growth. Our goal is to exceed your expectations: that’s how we make a difference.

Contact EYThomas PrüverSenior ManagerEY BerlinTel.: +49 (0)30 25471 10164Email: thomas.pruever@de.ey.comwww.de.ey.com

Ernst & Youngwww.de.ey.com

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As one of the world’s leading exchange organisations, Deutsche Börse Group offers companies and investors access to international capital markets. Its product and service portfolio covers the entire process chain, including listing, securities and derivatives trading and clearing, transaction settlement, custody, the provision of indices and market information as well as the development and operation of electronic trading systems. Issuers benefit from low capital costs, investors from high liquidity and low transaction costs.

Deutsche Börse Cash Market offers capital seeking companies financing alternatives. When raising equity capital through shares, companies can choose to be listed in one of the three clearly structured transparency standards: Prime Standard, General Standard and Entry Standard. For raising debt capital through issuing corporate bonds you can choose between the Entry Standard for corporate bonds or the Prime Standard for corporate bonds. Deutsche Börse is an important interface between issuers and the capital market. Its IPO & IR services accompany firms before, during and after their IPO. Besides, companies are also offered professional expertises by Deutsche Börse Listing Partner®.

Contact Deutsche Börse AGStefan LeisnerVice President Issuer & Primary Market RelationsTel.: +49 (0)69 2111 24 16Email: stefan.leisner@deutsche-boerse.comwww.deutsche-boerse.com

Deutsche Börse AGwww.deutsche-boerse.com

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The name J. Safra Sarasin combines the successful private banking heritages of Safra and Sarasin. The two logos on either side of the name signify both the integration of Safra and Sarasin, and the substantive banking strengths that the business combination provides the Group and our clients. The tagline “Sustainable Swiss Private Banking since 1841” demonstrates our Swiss roots and the Group’s continued commitment and unique expertise in the area of sustainable investments.The Group has a number of key attributes which gives us the confidence to execute this growth strategy: significant financial strength, complementary presence and knowledge of key global markets, the philosophy of a sustainable and conservative investment approach, and strong brand value from our long heritage as private bankers. The client is at the centre of all we do: it is our duty to know a client intimately in order to provide the right advice. Beyond the essential infrastructure of a global bank, we have two key attributes – personal dedication and time for our clients. Our focus lies not on complex financial products, speculation or the generation of short-term profit, but rather on the personalised analysis of individual requirements. We are passionate and personally committed to do the best thing for our clients.Our underlying performance in 2013 was more than satisfactory, with reported Group profit of CHF 180.5 million and client assets under management of CHF 131.4 billion. With shareholders’ equity of CHF 3.5 billion, we significantly exceed the requirements of the Swiss financial regulator and have a BIS Tier 1 ratio of over 25 %. The Banker’s Top 1000 World Banks July 2013 edition ranked us as being amongst the Top 10 of all Swiss Banks by several key indicators.As an international group committed to sustainability and well established through its banks in 26 locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, J. Safra Sarasin Group is a global symbol of private banking and wealth management tradition, emphasizing security and well-managed conservative growth for clients.

J. Safra Sarasinwww.jsafrasarasin.com

Contact J. Safra SarasinMarkus DiekmannExecutive DirectorJ. Safra Sarasin FrankfurtTel.: +49 (0)69 71 44 97 150Email: markus.diekmann@jsafrasarasin.comwww.jsafrasarasin.com

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Founded in 1998 we actually employ 21 experts in our Investment Banking division (Corporate Finance, Institutional Sales and Equity Research). Besides the Investment Banking team placed in Frankfurt/Main quirin bank AG offers fee-based advisory services with head office in Berlin and 11 branches in Darmstadt, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Hof, Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

Our Investment Banking advises and supports small and medium-size companies managed by entrepreneurs as well as listed and unlisted companies in the form of preparation and execution of capital market transactions. Transaction size is € 10m up to € 250m. Besides a profound analysis of our client’s current situation, we develop alternative financing possibilities and structure the capital market transaction with all its aspects (advisory on due diligence, indicative company valuation, selection of the stock exchange, design of the equity-/bond story). Besides the structuring, we offer a successful placement of the transaction, followed by ongoing support after the execution. To complete our services, we established the division of Institutional Research in 2014 with a focus on capital goods, technology, consumer/retail, transport/logistics, TMT and real estate.

Quirin Bankinvestment-banking.quirinbank.de

Contact Quirin BankHolger Clemens HinzManaging DirectorQuirin Investment BankingTel.: +49 (0)69 2475049 30Email: holger.hinz@quirinbank.deinvestment-banking.quirinbank.de

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ACXIT Capital Partners is an independent, privately owned corporate finance firm. With almost 60 professionals and offices in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Hong Kong as well as alliances in China and India, ACXIT is one of the leading corporate finance advisory firms for mid-market clients in Europe.Since 1998, ACXIT has been providing clients with a comprehensive range of services tailored to the requirements of corporate finance, including professional advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and strategic management. During this period ACXIT has successfully closed almost 300 domestic and international transactions with a total volume of approx. EUR 15bn.ACXIT’s advisory expertise is founded on an in-depth understanding of the key industries served, covering both the industrial and technology sectors.

Contact Acxit Capital PartnersChristian RammeExecutive Director

Tel.: +49 (0)69 77 0606 0Email: ramme@acxit.com www.acxit.com

Acxit Capital Partnerswww.acxit.com

arago is a high tech company driven by the spirit of German engineering. We are building disruptive technology focused on the B2B sector using artificial intelligence and analytical components. We operate in the fast moving environment of high-tech without forgetting that solving big problems takes time, precision and excellence.

Our efforts are focused on giving people back their time, they currently spend in mindless processes. arago solutions are built to automate enterprise IT operations to an extend not seen before, because a machine with human problem solving skills can take on tasks even in heterogeneous, individualized and fast changing environments.

Contact aragoChristian BoosCEO

Tel.: +49 (0) 69 40568 0Email: info@arago.cowww.arago.co

aragowww.arago.co

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Guidants is the customizable investment and analysis platform of BörseGo AG, the creators of the finance portal GodmodeTrader. It enables traders and investors to observe the financial markets, conduct technical and fundamental analyzes and discuss with experts and other users – entirely according to their individual needs and in real-time! Thus users are only provided with data and information they really need for their investment decisions. In 2015 Guidants was listed in FinTech50, which means that it is among the most promising European financial and technology products. Contact Guidants by Börse Go AG

Robert AbendCEO

Tel.: +49 (0) 89 76 73 69-0Email: kundenservice@boerse-go.dewww.guidants.com

Guidants by BörseGowww.guidants.com

intelliAd offers agencies and advertising customers a Performance Marketing Platform which enables them to measure, optimise and understand their online and offline campaigns, including TV and telephone. Companies can analyse the customer journey using intelliAd Multichannel Tracking. Our own Beacon technology facilitates the merger of online and offline data. This enables streams of customers and visitors at events, in shops and railway stations as well as data from the online, TV and telephone channels to be evaluated and incorporated into online marketing activities.Household names such as Immonet, O2, weg.de, Medion, SportScheck, ad agents, pilot, iProspect, explido and plan.net place their trust in intelliAd. intelliAd has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group since July 2012.

Contact intelliadTobias KiesslingCTO

Tel.: +49 (0)89 - 15 90 490 - 0Email: info@intelliad.dewww.intelliad.com

intelliadwww.intelliad.com

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QUANTUMROCK, founded in 2010, with offices in Kiel and Munich, is a highly specialized, fully licensed asset manager developing and implementing automated trading systems. For five years, we have been researching and developing software and models for sustainable success on financial markets. In contrast to traditional asset managers, our background is not in investment banking, instead we develop mathematical, statistical algorithms for price pattern recognition in commodities, in particular crude oil. We are fully independent and offer investors access to state of the art trading technology, which is often not even accessible to large institutions. QUANTUMROCK has a 3.5 years real money track record showing outstanding returns. Through our brokers investors in 75 countries can subscribe to QUANTUMROCK’s methods. Be better invested with QUANTUMROCK. Simple. Transparent. Focused on Absolute Returns.

Contact QuantumrockStefan TittelCEO

Tel.: +49 (0)89 25542191Email: info@quantumrock.de www.quantumrockcapital.com

Quantumrock Capitalwww.quantumrockcapital.com

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The 004 GmbH is a full service e-Commerce provider headquartered in Aschaffenburg Germany, founded in 2003, with activities in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Since its founding, 004 has accompanied well-known brands, such as German Telekom, Redcoon or BILD, in diverse branches with their e-Commerce projects. Based on its expertise and award-winning proprietary technology, 004 offers the fully integrated end-to-end e-commerce value chain.

Contact 004 GmbHRobert HeinCEOEmail: info@004gmbh.com

004 GmbHwww.004gmbh.com

Intralinks is a leading, global technology provider of beyond the firewallcollaboration solutions. Over 99% of the Global Fortune 1000 use the Intralinks platform to securely share content and collaborate anytime, anywhere, with business partners. Intralinks provides start-up businesses with virtual data rooms to be ready for investors coming on board or increasing their investment immediately at any point in time.

Contact IntralinksBernd MährleinSales Director Strategic Transactions DACHEmail: bmaehrlein@intralinks.com

Intralinkswww.intralinks.com

Taylor Wessing is a full-service international law firm, working with clients in the world’s most dynamic industries. We take a single-minded approach to advising our clients, helping them succeed by thinking innovatively about their business issues. Our focus on the industries of tomorrow has enabled us to develop market-leading expertise in Technology, Media and Communications, Life Sciences, Private Wealth and Energy.

Contact Taylor WessingHassan SohbiPartnerEmail: hsohbi@taylorwessing.com

Taylor Wessingwww.taylorwessing.com

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Burrito Bande is a group of food revolutionaries who are providing delicious SlowFastFood Burritos in Germany since June 2013. Burrito Bande offer their burritos at changing locations throughout the city of Frankfurt using their moveable food trucks.

Contact BurritobandeOliver Meiser Managing DirectorEmail: oliver.meiser@burritobande.de

Burrito Bandewww.burritobande.de

The TynTyn manufacturing company conceptualizes, develops and rents out photo and video modules to be used at events of any size. These modules can be combined in different ways which are desired by the customer to be then used by the guests. Open and closed modules can be adapted to the brand and event setting.

Contact FoddoboxChristopher StürtzBusiness DevelopmentEmail: cs@foddobox.de

Foddobox by TynTynwww.foddobox.de

Fruitful Office is Germany‘s leading office fruit delivery service. We supply office workers across Germany with regular fruit deliveries and help create healthier and friendlier work environments. Our attractive fruit baskets provide employers with a cost-efficient, easy-to-handle and visible means of expressing appreciation for their workforce as well as making a small but significant contribution to healthier eating habits.

Contact Fruitful OfficeEnzio ReußManaging DirectorEmail: enzio@fruitfuloffice.de

Fruitful Officewww.fruitfuloffice.de

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The fashion label von Jungfeld from Mannheim is an up-and-coming premium brand for coloured men‘s socks. In Europe and Taiwan, the fancy socks are already available in about 400 stores. Quality, style, and sense of responsibility are the pillars of the brand von Jungfeld. Therefore, all production steps – from selecting the yarns to manufacturing the socks to packaging – are entirely made in Germany.

Contact Von JungfeldLucas PulkertManaging DirectorEmail: lucas@jungfeld.com

von Jungfeldwww.jungfeld.com

Yomaro started their first frozen yogurt store in 2012 and counts today 14 franchised stores throughout Germany. Yomaro sells frozen yogurts, muesli and smoothies as well as a variety of drinks. To your own Yomaro Frozen Yogurt, Muesli or Smoothie you can add different topics from seasonal fruits and sauces to chocolate and other sweets. Depending on the season, Yomaro also offers delicious specials like Hot Brownies, rice pudding or hot waffles.

Contact YomaroJens-Philipp JungMD Yomaro FrankfurtEmail: j.jung@link11.de

Yomarowww.yomaro.de

Mobile Event Guide was founded in 2009 by Felix Swoboda, Nick Thomas and Marc Schuba with the target of merging the traditional event booklet with the growing smartphone market. Five years on, we have established ourselves as the market leader in Germany serving a wide range of diverse clients. Our goal has since grown: now we aim to enhance the overall event communication and assist organisers in generating additional revenues.

Contact Mobile Event GuideFranka MörkeVP Sales & MarketingEmail: franka.moerke@mobileeventguide.de

Mobile Event Guidewww.mobileeventguide.de

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ImprintVCDE Venture Partners GmbH & Co. KG

Palais 22 | Kennedyallee 70a60596 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

www.venturecapital.dewww.growth-con.com

Contact for Event Inquiries: Lukas Bennemann

lukas.bennemann@venturecapital.de+49 69 90 74 76 60

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