Adding value partners

CMEA
CMEA Ventures is a US-based venture capital firm with a clear focus on life sciences, high technology, and energy and materials investments. CMEA Ventures was founded in 1989 and maintains offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park.

ILB
The ILB is the Investment Bank of the state Brandenburg. The Bank finances local companies and entrepreneurs.

Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi is a serial entrepreneur with an extensive network in the financing and software scene. Until 2008 he was president of SAP’s product and technology group.

Arnon Katz
Arnon has been involved in Internet ventures since 1992, specializing in online media, e-commerce and online marketing. He co-founded Empire Online (today Livermore) in 1998, now a public company traded on the AIM in UK.

SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, delivering products and services that help accelerate business innovation for SAP’s customers. Today more than 45,000 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

Others
HPV maintains close contact to industry leaders especially in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) and the Clean Tech sector. With its extensive network HPV facilitates the development of your business.

Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa
HPV Africa started operation in February 2008. The fund focuses on early stage South African companies that embrace, create and utilize leading global technology trends.

HPI – Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam is the only university-level institute offering study programs in "IT-Systems Engineering" in Germany. The HPI has no tuition fees and is financed entirely through private funds donated by its founder, Professor Hasso Plattner.

D-School
In 2007 the HPI started the School of Design Thinking (D-School), an innovative and unique degree course directed by Prof. Ulrich Weinberg. Following the famous D-School of Stanford University, California, the studies aim to convey skills and techniques to develop user-friendly IT-related products and services in multi-disciplinary teams.