Sponsors 2010

Gold Sponsors

DFJ Esprit is a leading cross-stage venture capital firm that invests in European technology companies. Members of the DFJ Esprit team have been active in technology investing for three decades. They have experience of investing in over 200 companies, generating strong returns for investors through building valuable global companies alongside founders and management teams.

The DFJ Esprit partners have invested and helped build many of Europe's most successful venture companies of recent years, including Apatech, Buy.at, Alphamosaic, KVS, CSR, Blackspider and Domantis. DFJ Esprit is the exclusive European partner for Silicon Valley based Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Global Network of venture funds. DFJ Esprit is currently investing from its newest fund DFJ Esprit III, which has been supported by leading institutional investors including Finnish Industry Investment, Harbourvest, LGT, Partners Group, JP Morgan, several corporates, the EIF and the UK Future Technologies Fund. DFJ Esprit invests across Europe and has partners located in London, Cambridge, Dublin, Helsinki and Paris

 

 

GrowthPoint Technology Partners is a different kind of investment bank. We provide research-driven and relationship-focused corporate finance expertise, exclusively to publicly traded and privately-held companies in the information technology and energy technology sectors. We are dedicated to supporting our clients to achieve their ambitions and increase shareholder value. Clients chooseGrowthPoint for our in-depth research expertise, our team's legacy of solid M&A work, and for our credentials in the formation of start-up businesses and their eventual acquisition. As former CEOs, executives, board members, investors and advisors, we bring a wealth of strategic and financial experience to our clients with the sole objective of helping them achieve success.

 

Open First is a research and advisory firm based in the U.S. and Europe, consulting on the open marketplace opportunities created by a mobile, social, connected populace. In the next decade companies will spend as much time and effort on publishing data to their markets through application programming interfaces (APIs) as they spent in the last decade on their corporate websites. These new cloud services will enable "mashups" that offer new customer experiences and improve a range of business processes. Our developer API programs team develops strategies and programs for our clients to make such programs a success.

 

Drawing on the resources of Taylor Wessing across the globe, the Venture Capital group provides specialist corporate, intellectual property, tax, employment, pensions and real estate advice. We also have a specialist group that works with companies and investors to create appropriate employee packages, share option and long-term incentive plans which have become an integral part of venture capital transactions.

Experience gained through acting for a wide range of institutions, venture capital trusts, founders and early and later-stage IP-rich companies gives us an in-depth understanding of the various transactional standpoints. This enables us to provide streamlined and cost effective solutions which balance the often conflicting objectives of the parties, focusing on their mutual interests and not on individual positions. From the outset, we can assist with tax planning to ensure the most efficient structures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silver Sponsors

 

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