Johannes Fritz

Gemplus International SA provides digital security systems and components based on smart cards. It manufactures smart cards, develops operating systems, software and hardware for them and provides a number of other associated services. Its products are used as SIM card in mobile telephones, banking cards, loyalty program cards, travel tickets, passports and ID cards. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

MANN+HUMMEL GmbH engages in the manufacture and development of air filtration systems. It specializes in air cleaners and intake systems, liquid filter systems, solutions for alternative drives, industrial filters, indoor air quality, fine dust eater, digital transformation, water treatment, waste water treatment, and membrane filtration for food and dairy products. The company was founded by Adolf Mann and Erich Hummel in 1938 and is headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Messer Group GmbH engages in the manufacture of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, inert welding gases, special gases, gases for medicinal use and gas mixtures. Its products include technical, breathing, welding, cutting and pharmaceutical gases, cry ice, and gas supply systems. The firm serves to the chemistry, food and beverages, construction, electronics, shipbuilding, and water treatment industries. The company was founded by Adolf Messer in 1897 and is headquartered in Bad Soden, Germany.

BHF Kleinwort Benson Group SA is a financial holding company, which engages in private banking, asset management, and financial markets and corporate activities. It provides wealth management services and strategic advice for businesses, as well as access to the community of institutional investors and family offices. The company was founded by Timothy C. Collins on June 18, 2004 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Gemalto Holding BV engages in the software development business. It offers a range of digital security products and solutions to businesses and governments. It operates through the Identity, IoT and Cybersecurity; and Smartcards and Issuance segments. The Identity, IoT and Cybersecurity segment designs security solutions that help governments, industrial companies, and enterprises to bring trust to a range of services. The Smartcards and Issuance segment offers smart card products and solutions to financial institutions, retail, transport and mobile network operators. The company was founded on December 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Harald Quandt Family Office GmbH engages in the provision of financial services. It specializes in investment and asset management services. The company is headquartered in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany.

SKion GmbH operates as an investment holding company, which engages in the management of shares and stakes in different businesses. It focuses in industrial goods and services, electrical engineering, optics, renewable energy and closed-loop material cycles, IT and digitization; and medical technology sectors. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg vor der Hohe, Germany.

eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG (eCAPITAL) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Münster, Germany.