Guillaume Besson

NRW.Bank (Private Equity) (NRWB PE) is the private equity operating division of the NRW Bank which traces their origins to 2002 when Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale was split up into two entities. From this basis and further to the 2004 Reorganization Act, the current foundations for NRW Bank were established. Headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, NRWB PE specializes in providing capital and business development support for SMEs in North Rhine-Westphalia. They manage a number of private equity funds. Through mezzanine capital as a co-investor alongside lead investors, they provide equity limited to minority stakes as a silent partner.

Landis+Gyr LLC provides energy management systems. Its products include electricity meters, communication networks, grid management, and software services. The company was founded on 12th January, 1978 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

BugBuster SA enables web developers to test their applications. Its features includes test recorder, site explorer, environments, test plans, bug reports, site monitoring, javascript api and integrations. The company was founded by Olivier Crameri, Renault John Lecoultre and Willy Zwaenepoel on November 03, 2011 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Business Angels Switzerland (BAS) is an independent angel association of about 100 members founded in 1997. It is headquartered in Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Perseo pharma AG is a Swiss preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on discovering and developing enzyme therapeutics for the treatment of digestive diseases. The company is based in Muttenz, Switzerland. The company has entered into a strategic research and development collaboration with Nestlé Health Science to develop novel therapies for digestive diseases. Perseo pharma's innovative technology is based on therapeutic enzymes that are protected in a nano shield with muco-adhesive coating. The company is a spin-off from the University of Applied Sciences (FHNW), School of Life Sciences in Switzerland, and was founded by Prof. Dr. Patrick Shahgaldian. Yves Dudal has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

INOFEA AG is a Swiss biotech company founded in 2014 that works closely with its clients to provide them with a complex line of services that sustain their processes and products. The company is based in Muttenz, Switzerland. The company has developed a patented platform technology called enzzen® that empowers enzymes to fit industrial applications. Enzymes are protein molecules that carry a vital energy factor needed for every chemical reaction and reactions that occur in any living organism. INOFEA has successfully demonstrated the added-value of their technology for enzyme-mediated bioconjugation or post-translational modifications of antibodies or other large molecules. Anne Timm has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

SV Group AG engages in the hotel management and restaurant trade. It focuses on the community catering, hospital and home catering, event catering, public restaurant, and hotel industries. The company was founded by Else Züblin-Spiller in 1914 and is headquartered in Dübendorf, Switzerland.

Hitachi Energy Ltd. engages in the acquisition, holding, management, and sale of participations in domestic and foreign companies. It focuses on firms that specialize in the development, engineering, manufacture, and sale of products, systems, and projects related to power grid automation, power grid integration, high voltage products, as well as transformers. The company was founded on September 20, 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Statkraft Ventures GmbH (Statkraft Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Statkraft Markets GmbH, itself a subsidiary of Statkraft AS, ultimately owned by the Government of Norway, founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, with an additional office in Oslo, Norway.

Pag Consulting & Services GmbH provides management consulting services. The private company is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Swissgrid AG engages in providing electricity distribution services. It offers security supply, electricity market, and renewable energies. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Laufenburg, Switzerland.

gamigo AG engages in the development, publishing, and distribution of online and mobile games. The firm’s portfolio of gaming titles includes ArcheAge, Trove, Aura Kingdom, Desert Operations, Fiesta Online, Defiance 2050, Ironsight, RIFT, Echo of Soul, Grand Fantasia, Eden Eternal, Wargame 1942, Kings and Legends, Shaiya, and Twin Saga. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

ParkBee BV provides private parking accessible to the public. Its cloud-based system offers an entry and exit of a garage from one click of an app. The firm also provides the technology and cooperates with existing as well as global parking app providers to make the private garages available for the public through its platform. The company was founded by Jian Jiang and Tom Buchmann in 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Deepki SAS provides data analytics serving energy efficiency to detect energy savings. The firm provides solutions such as zero hardware, zero audit, and zero delay. The company was founded by Vincent Bryant and Emmanuel Blanchet in September 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Betterspace GmbH engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of digital solutions for the hotel industry. Its product portfolio includes temperate control, tablets, displays, digital monitoring for consumption measurement and analysis, as well as phone systems. The company is headquartered in Kassel, Germany.

Metron SAS provides big data energy management technologies and services. It offers METRON Solutions, METRONLab IE, energy procurement, demand response, energy optimization, energy mapping, and energy performance contracting. The company was founded by Vincent Sciandra and is headquartered in Paris, France.