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Hasso Plattner Ventures Management GmbH (HPV) is an independent venture capital firm established in 2005 by Hasso Plattner. HPV is headquartered in Potsdam in Land Brandenburg in the east of Germany. In addition to Hasso Plattner, the original investors included the government-funded InvestitionsBank of Brandenburg and the US-based technology venture capital firm CMEA Ventures. Later investors include high-net worth private individuals from the IT community. HPV manages a series on venture capital funds. The firm leverages their close proximity with the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, founded in 1998 and affiliated to the University of Potsdam.

Collax GmbH provides software service solutions for network infrastructure, communication, collaboration, protection, security, high availability, and virtualization industry, It delivers comprehensive solutions for the fields of collaboration, security, and infrastructure. The firm offers software only solutions, virtual servers, and a customer support. The company was founded by William Hite, Boris Nalbach, and Olaf Jacobi in 2005 and is headquartered in Ismaning, Germany.

OLIGO Lichttechnik GmbH designs, manufactures and markets lamps and lighting systems worldwide. Its products include 250V, modular 12V and 12V system luminaires, single luminaires and OLIGOplus sortiment. The company was founded by Ralf Keferstein in 1987 and is headquartered in Hennef, Germany.

HPC Germany GmbH & Co. KG (HPC Germany) is a private German family office which was founded in 2012 to supervise, manage and grow the Hasso Plattner family’s wealth. Headquartered in Potsdam, HPC Germany manages a portfolio of equities, fixed-income, private equity, real estate and hedge funds.