Steffen Malessa

The Creative Club operates an online do it yourself shop which offers textile fabrics and equipment and haberdashery products. The company was founded by Nils Haack, Jörn Haack, and Melf Haack in 2003 and is headquartered in Schenefeld, Germany.

DaWanda GmbH operates an online marketplace for handmade items. Its products include fashion wear, accessories, bags, jewelry as well as art and home decor. The firm also offers do-it-yourself materials for sewing, knitting, crocheting, recipes, jewelry making, home improvements, and crafting. The company was founded by Claudia Helming and Michael Pütz on December 3, 2006 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

BM-T Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen GmbH (BMT) is the investment arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thüringen Aufbaubank, which in turn is part of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale, also known as HELABA-Hessische Landesbank. HELABA is a regional bank in Länder Hessen and Thüringen, controlled but the Government of Germany. BMT was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Erfurt, the capital of Land Thüringen in central Germany. The firm invests on behalf of the German government, and is backed by Land Thüringen. They originally received capital from TBG-Technologie Beteiligungs GmbH as well. TBG is a Bonn-based private equity entity part of the government-controlled KfW Bankengruppe. BMT manages venture capital and private equity funds.

plazz AG engages in the development of applications for events and all event related processes and marketing tools. The applications include the event app itself, registr, used in the pre-event phase for administrational purposes and to create a pre event website for marketing, and check-in, an admission management app, to streamline the admission process on the day of the event itself. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Erfurt, Germany.

Q-Sensei Corp. develops an enterprise search platform. It builds an indexing technology that changes the way companies search data. The firm’s products are fuse and spark technology. The company was founded by Ute Rother, Hans-Jurgen Uffhaus, Nicolai Wirth, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Ottolski Sascha and Wolfram Kerber in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

rooom AG engages in online presentations of products. It offers augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D inhalte, product presentation in 3D, mixed reality, and product viewer services. The company was founded by Hans Elstner in 2017 and is headquartered in Jena, Germany.