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SHS Ventures, a joint venture of the energy industry and steel industry in the Saarland, is driving the corporate venture capital activities of VSE and SHS. SHS Ventures is specifically looking for young start-up companies including in the fields of Industry 4.0, infrastructure and the energy industry.

Rigby Group plc is the parent company for a portfolio of family-owned and highly successful businesses operating across Europe and the Middle East. Diversifying from its origins as a principally technology-led business, Rigby Group plc has evolved over the past 50 years - through smart, strategic acquisitions - into a £3.9bn British success story with over 8,500 employees. Rigby Group is a values-led business built around five core principles: foresight, hard work and enabling others. The Rigby Foundation, the family’s charitable trust invests over £2mn a year in good causes.

Multi-strategy Investment Fund helping its investors achieve great returns by dynamically allocating capital (and risk) to various investment universes: Public Equity, Fixed Income and Alternatives (PE/VC mostly) and various geographies given the dynamically changing global macroeconomic environment and regional perspectives and therefore the investment landscape and risk-return dynamics. Particular emphasis from mid-2018 has been on Venture Capital. The Fund started to invest in Late-stage venture companies, but we are selectively investing into Growth- and trying Early-stage as well. In Venture Capital, we always try to achieve high absolute returns, but also helping our companies achieve synergies by working with each other.

Founded in 2018, OBRATORI is the CVC fund of L'Occitane Group. The fund invests financial and human capital in early stage startups. As pre-seed | seed specialists, we support responsible founders with ambitious game-changing projects. Our role? We team up with entrepreneurs and support them to create, get started, take risks and reach the first decisive milestones.

AxSol makes investments in eminent businesses in the distributed energy industry. AxSol, the group's newest member, seeks to finance and support disruptive companies engaged in the solar energy industry.

Altavia Adventures is the Venture Capital arm of Altavia Group. It invests in start-ups seeking to raise seed or series A funding and co-invest with other investment funds. It takes minority stakes in BtoB technology start-ups with a recurring business model – SaaS or Marketplace – in retail tech and close to its expertise in communication and commercial activation. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris, Île-de-France.

Cognitive Corporate Finance is a cutting-edge, technology-enhanced, Big Data-powered third millennium merchant advisory firm Through an intimate knowledge of investors’ needs, as well as through unparalleled contacts, we bring our clients the most relevant advice, the optimal financial solution and the best and fastest service in finding capital or strategic partners for their corporate requirements

ERGO, a subsidiary of Munich Re, is one of the major insurance groups in Germany and the rest of Europe. Worldwide, ERGO has branches in over 30 countries with a focus on Europe and Asia. Within the ERGO Group of companies, three entities (ERGO Deutschland, ERGO International, and ERGO Digital Ventures) manage domestic and international business, as well as direct and digital business. ERGO Digital Ventures is responsible for all of ERGO Group’s digital and direct activities. It is focused on digital transformation of traditional business in Germany and around the world, as well as the development of new digital business models and the integration of ERGO into new ecosystems.

Leorsa Innovations invests in companies with big ideas that aspire to be the best in the world. Excited by technological breakthroughs and cutting-edge ideas, Leorsa invests in a variety of companies from the initial seed round through to series A. Leorsa provides these companies with unparalleled support from world class scientists and researchers to drive both growth and revenue.

West Coast Capital is a Private Equity Partnership that backs strong management teams in the retail, brands and property arenas. They are to take significant equity positions in order to accelerate growth by funding both expansion and consolidation in these principal markets. West Coast Capital is the investment arm of the Hunter family, run and managed by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs and investors with minimum investment levels at circa £5m.

Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures develops innovative business models for exchange trading and over-the-counter (OTC) trading in fungible products. It also invests in promising startups and enters into partnerships with selected partners to implement its digitisation strategy. Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart GmbH.

Diehl Ventures GmbH was founded in December 2015 as a subsidiary of the Diehl Group with the objective of driving innovation and new, promising technologies by supporting start-ups. As a corporate venture capital company they are looking primarily for technology-driven young enterprises with growth potential in the general business areas of their five corporate divisions Metall, Controls, Aviation, Defence and Metering. They assist start-ups not only in the early stages of their business operations but also as a strategic partner and reliable companion.