Ralf Kronenwett

Intelligent Venture Capital Management GmbH (IVCM) is an independent venture capital firm established in 1999. IVCM is based in Aachen with a representative office in Cologne, both cities in Nordrhein-Westfalen near the western border of Germany. The firm manages the IVC series of funds for a private clientele. The IVC funds are operated as pledge funds, through which private individuals such as entrepreneurs invest in the form of private placements. IVCM also manages the regional seed fund Rheinland Venture Capital, in which the lead investors are regional financial institutions including savings banks. The firm has strategic alliances with government-controlled banks and with High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH, a public-private partnership based in Bonn and specialized in venture capital investing in technology.

m2p-labs GmbH manufactures and supplies micro bioreactors. The firm focuses on micro reaction and automated solutions for screening and bioprocess development. Its commercialized products are the BioLector and the FlowerPlate which provide an intelligent micro fermentation platform. The firm's technology empowers the biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical industry to increase their number and information of microbial and cell culture experiments. The company was founded by Ingo Klammer, Carsten Müller, Mirko C. Hofmann and Frank Kensy on November 22, 2005 and is headquartered in Baesweiler, Germany.

WISE Srl operates as a biomedical company which engages in the development of neuromodulation and neuromonitoring devices. It offers scbi technology, stretchability, micropatterning, biocompatibility and effective stimulation. The company was founded by Cristian Ghisleri, Luca Ravagnan, Mario Zanone Poma and Paolo Milani in 2011 and is headquartered in Cologno Monzese, Italy.