Investors
Netbiscuits was founded in 2000 by the pioneers in the Mobile Internet business in Germany: Michael Neidhoefer (CEO), Guido Moggert (CFO), Christian Reitz (CTO) and Martin Suess (COO). Currently Netbiscuits has more than 100 employees and offices around the globe in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Netbiscuits operates profitably since 2002 and in 2006 conducted a growth investment with Creathor Venture, one of the leading German Venture Capital companies. In 2011 T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom, and Creathor Venture provide Netbiscuits with expansion capital of several million Euro. The investment allows Netbiscuits to take the company’s growth strategy for the USA to the next level and expand business in core markets in Europe and Asia.
The Netbiscuits business is divided into:
- Web software platform for development, publishing of mobile websites and integration of advertising in the Mobile Internet
- Software services
T-Venture
T-Venture Holding GmbH is one of the most important corporate venture capital companies in the world. Founded in 1997 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, it has since then invested in young companies that demonstrate economic and technological synergies with the Deutsche Telekom business units as well as above-average growth potential. Its head office is in Bonn. It is supported and complemented in its activities by T-Venture of America, Inc. in Foster City, Silicon Valley, and in Seattle. Investment activities focus on Europe, the United States and Asia. T-Venture currently manages the T-Mobile Venture Fund, the Connected Life and Work Fund, the T-Home Venture Fund, the T-Systems Venture Fund and the T-Corporate Venture Fund. Further information is available at: www.t-venture.de.
Creathor Venture
CREATHOR VENTURE invests in technology-oriented companies and entrepreneurs from the fields of life science, IT, telecommunication, new media, new materials, electronics, nanotechnology and cleantech. With 25 years of experience in the venture capital market, acting as lead investor for more than 200 companies and participating in over 20 IPOs providing not only capital but also industry knowledge, expertise at building companies, and the network to develop a sustainable business model with a globally competitive advantage.The management team at Creathor Venture includes the founder of former Technologieholding, Dr. Gert Köhler as well as Ingo Franz and Karlheinz Schmelig. Examples of successful companies the partners have managed from the first round of financing to IPO are Micronas (SMI), SEZ (SMI), Intershop (Prime Segment), Infovista (NASDAQ, Nouveau Marché), POET (Prime Segment), Wavelight (Prime Segment), Epigenomics (Prime Segment) and ITN Nanovation (Prime Segment). For further information please visit www.creathor.de.
