Thomas Hutter

S-Refit AG, which stands for Sparkassen-Refit AG, is a regional private equity firm located in Regensburg on the eastern side of Bavaria in Germany. S-Refit was established in 1990 as an investment fund at the initiative of OTTI-Ostbayerisches Technologie-Transfer-Institut eV, the not-for-profit East-Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute. A stock corporation since 2002, S-Refit is a leading Bavarian holding company structured as a joint venture and financed by the region's Sparkassen, publicly-supported local savings banks. The firm manages the medTECH Capital fund, backed by Sparkasse Erlangen, and the S-Refit EFRE Bavaria fund, which receives public financing from the European Fund for Regional Development through the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology.

cerbomed GmbH manufactures and supplies medical devices for treating epilepsy. It offers NEMOS, a transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation unit that treats epilepsy patients. The company was founded by Stefan Dietrich and Timo Freitag in 2005 and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany.