Accel Partners

Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of excellence and innovation in the venture capital business and is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class companies.

Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California; London, UK; and Bangalore, India; as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership. With over $6 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: Actuate, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Baidu, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, Mu Sigma, Polycom/PictureTel, Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed, Sohu.com, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource, and Zimbra. For more information, visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com

Fidelity Ventures

Fidelity Ventures invests in technology companies ready to enter the market and those poised for the next phase of growth. Its 40-year track record includes hundreds of successful investments in the consumer, communications, systems and software markets. Fidelity Ventures is distinguished by the ability to accelerate market adoption for its portfolio companies' offerings and by a global network of senior technology and business executives. Fidelity Ventures actively manages over $800 million from offices in Boston and London. For more information, please visit: www.fidelityventures.com.

Atlas Venture

Atlas Venture is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies. Since inception in 1980, Atlas has helped build over 300 companies in more than 16 different countries. In the past decade, 44 portfolio companies have been acquired and 47 are now public companies with an aggregate market capitalization of over $15 billion. The firm is currently investing from its seventh fund and manages over $2.5 billion in committed capital.
For more information, please visit www.atlasventure.com.

Mangrove Capital Partners

Mangrove Capital Partners provides venture capital with a punch to entrepreneurs looking to build world class companies. Our mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience and deep industry relationships to our portfolio companies. Mangrove has invested in, among others, the following companies: Skype (www.skype.com), Lumension (www.lumension.com), Woome (www.woome.com), Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), Properazzi (www.properazzi.com), Zlio (www.zlio.com) and Jamendo (www.jamendo.com). For more information, please visit www.mangrove-vc.com.

Holtzbrinck Ventures

Since 1998, Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested, with risk capital, in young companies within the new media sector and has been involved with over 40 companies making it one of the largest start-up investors with a focus on internet, mobile and broadband companies. Active supervision and long-term support of the investments, as well as the utilisation of established brands and media services from the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, enables Holtzbrinck Ventures to offer optimal value management right up until exit. For more information, please visit www.holtzbrinck-ventures.com/?en.

Oliver Jung (AdInvest)

Oliver Jung is a serial entrepreneur and private venture capital investor. He specializes in private equity investments in seed and early-stage Internet companies including investments in Adconion Media Group (investor), e-Puls.pl (investor), exxeta GmbH (chairman and investor), Imagekind.com (investor), OpenBC AG (investor), Smava.de (investor), StudiVZ Ltd. (sold to Holtzbrinck), Webnews.de (investor), Imedo.de (investor), Netmoms.de (investor), Nimbuzz.com (investor), trivago.de (investor), FamilyOne.de (investor), Kyte.tv (investor) and Lokalisten GmbH (investor).
Mr. Jung studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. He subsequently founded entory AG, an IT and e-commerce software consulting company, which was sold to the German Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse) in 2001. Subsequent to the sale of entory AG, Mr. Jung served on the Board of Deutsche Börse Systems. He is a co-founder and chairman of exxeta GmbH, an e-commerce and IT consulting company operating throughout Germany and in Switzerland.