VIP Club Members

Benefits of the VIP Packages include the following:

• Automatic registration at discounted fee;

• One complimentary Tech Tour binder per Tech Tour;

• Preview of selected company list prior to Tech Tour to set up personal appointments right before/during or after the Tour;

• Invitation to participate to press conferences; and

• Listing as VIP member on ETT communication and marketing.

For more information contact: info@techtour.com.

Corporate Members

Brown Rudnick is an international law firm of over 200 attorneys with offices in the United States and Europe whose clients range from entrepreneurial start-up businesses to nationally and internationally prominent institutions.

Logitech designs, manufactures and markets personal interface products that enable people to effectively work, play, and communicate in the digital world. The company's products combine essential core technologies, continuing innovation, award-winning industrial design and excellent price/performance.

With corporate headquarters through its U.S. subsidiary in Fremont, California, and regional headquarters through local subsidiaries in Switzerland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Logitech International is a Swiss public company traded on the Swiss Exchange under the symbol LOGN, and on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol LOGI. The company has manufacturing facilities in Asia and offices in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. At present, the company employs more than 4,500 people worldwide.

Venture Capitalist & Financial Members

Endeavour Vision is a premier European venture capital firm investing in high potential companies in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Since 1989, the principals have made over 63 investments in 12 different countries. The goal of Endeavour Vision is to contribute to the success of companies who demonstrate great potential by teaming up with entrepreneurs and sharing skills, expertise and network To better support Entrepreneurs, the firm has developed two institutions: the European Tech Tour Association, a non-profit foundation generating networking opportunities for Entrepreneurs with VCs, Corporations and other Entrepreneurs, and the CEO-Circle, a group of world-class entrepreneurial CEOs who are committed in helping with the development of portfolio companies.

Some investments made by the principals include Sandisk, Dolphin Interconnect, SCM Microsystems, Virata, Altitun, Cirpack, Media Lario, Tagsys RFID and Sequans, (Information Technology); and Actelion, Axovan, Endoart and Novimmune (Life Sciences).

Founded in 1999, ETV has committed over $70 million of venture loans to VC-backed companies in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland and the Nordic region over the last five years. ETV is the leading provider of venture finance in Europe today and is used by IT and Biotech Venture Capitalist to manage the cost of capital of their investee companies and extend the cash runway. Venture loans consist of senior loans coupled with warrants and are considerably less dilutive than financing early-stage companies with equity alone. They are suitable for early stage pre-revenue companies right through to later stage pre-IPO companies.

Kreos Capital, previously known as European Venture Partners (EVP), is Europe’s largest and leading venture debt provider. As the first dedicated venture debt provider in Europe in 1998, Kreos has adapted the experience of the US venture debt model to the European market. Since then, venture debt has become established as a complimentary financing tool for venture-backed companies in Europe and Israel.

Having completed close to 200 transactions in 12 countries across Europe and Israel, Kreos has a proven track record of helping portfolio companies grow throughout their business cycle whilst supporting the objectives of both the venture capital funds and Kreos’ investors.

Kreos is a value added venture partner that can offer more capital and higher flexibility at a lower equity dilution. Kreos has a local presence in the UK, Israel and the Nordic region and its team has extensive entrepreneurial and venture capital background.

Go4Venture is a London-based corporate finance advisory firm focused on providing European technology entrepreneurs and their investors with impartial advice to help them develop and execute growth strategies. Go4Venture is one of Europe’s premier advisers on international equity private placements in the technology sector and have built a particular reputation in the mobile telecom space.

Established in 1999, GP Bullhound is a research centric investment bank focused on providing advice on mergers & acquisition and institutional capital raising in the technology sector. GP Bullhound also provides strategic research to private and public companies and their institutional owners.

With offices in London and Palo Alto, GP Bullhound is recognised as one of the leading independent research and advisory teams focused on the technology sector. The firm has particular experience and expertise in Software, IT Services and Digital Media and is regularly asked to provide commentaries on CNN International, CNBC Europe and BBC World as well as print media and industry conferences. GP Bullhound has founded and continues to manage important industry events including the highly recognised Investor Allstars and Media Momentum.

GP Bullhound is Europe’s leading advisor to technology companies looking to raise institutional capital, having successfully closed over 15 private placements in the last three years. GP Bullhound’s mergers and acquisitions practice focuses on cross-border transactions between Europe and the US with the core M&A banking team being based in Palo Alto, California. The firm’s research is distributed to an exclusive group of leading institutional investors in both Europe and the US. GP Bullhound’s research team also advises entrepreneurs and investors in strategic situations.

GrowthPoint Technology Partners is a different kind of investment bank. We provide M&A, fundraising and strategic advisory services to a wide range of technology companies. 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. In 2005, four senior members of SVB/Alliant, formerly Alliant Partners (sold to Silicon Valley Bankshares in 2001) left to form GrowthPoint Technology Partners. We created a new firm to provide the very best advisory environment for our clients. Our highly experienced senior advisors deliver a quality, research driven service, in a variety of technology sectors.

Noble Venture Finance is a £45 million fund. The fund is focused exclusively on providing venture finance, to early stage technology rich venture backed companies throughout Europe.

Partech International has twenty years of supporting technology winners including Ascend, Cadence, Business Objects, Informatica, Vignette, etc. With present in U.S. and Europe, it supports its portfolio companies in Marketing, Strategic Planning, Sales, Recruiting, Networking, Business Development, Fund-Raising. Partech has $850 + million to support portfolio companies in all phases of growth.

Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC), a subsidiary of Siemens AG, is the 600 million euro corporate venture organization for all Siemens' businesses worldwide, playing a key role in the Siemens global network of innovation.

Wellington Partners invests venture capital in young and creative information and communication technology (ICT) and life science companies that embrace, create and utilize global technology trends. Wellington Partners is based in Munich. We invest in technology companies all over Europe – with a particular focus on German speaking countries. We manage venture capital funds of € 265 million and typically invest between € 1 and € 10 million in the first round and up to € 20 million in follow-on rounds.

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