Pierre Hochuli

deVGen NV provides biotechnology services for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. It innovates in crop protection research and environment induced stress tolerance for its own crops and provides technology to corporate partners. The firm produces and sells its hybrid seeds in field crops such as rice, sunflower, sorghum and pearl millet in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The company was founded by Thierry Bogaert on September 10, 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

PolyTechnos Venture-Partners II GmbH (PTVP) is an independent partner-owned European private equity firm established in 1998 and based in Munich with a U.S. office in Silicon Valley. Their clients include financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, universities, foundations, corporations and fund-of-funds. They operate in close relationship with U.S. venture capital firms based on the West Coast. PTVP manages and divests a portfolio of private equity participations held through two maturing funds, namely the German fund PolyTechnos Venture Fund II and the UK fund Enabling Technology. PTVP's successor firm PT Capital-Partners GmbH was established in 2008.

PolyTechnos Venture-Partners II GmbH (PTVP) is an independent partner-owned European private equity firm established in 1998 and based in Munich with a U.S. office in Silicon Valley. Their clients include financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, universities, foundations, corporations and fund-of-funds. They operate in close relationship with U.S. venture capital firms based on the West Coast. PTVP manages and divests a portfolio of private equity participations held through two maturing funds, namely the German fund PolyTechnos Venture Fund II and the UK fund Enabling Technology. PTVP's successor firm PT Capital-Partners GmbH was established in 2008.