Target Partners is a European venture capital fund claiming ca. €300 million under management. It is located in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

and founded in 1999. The general partners are Waldemar Jantz, Kurt Müller, Berthold von Freyberg, and Michael Münnix.

Portfolio companies

The company predominantly invests in technology companies in the early stage or

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stage. Industry sectors include

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations include businesses, schools, interest-based user group ...

, consumer internet,

semiconductors A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. ...

and

cleantech Clean technology, in short cleantech, is any process, product, or service that reduces negative environmental impacts through significant energy efficiency improvements, the sustainable use of resources, or environmental protection activities. Cl ...

. * 1-2-3.tv * * * * (acquired by

Swisscom Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Ittigen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51.0 percent of Swisscom AG. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share o ...

) * * Cube Optics AG (acquired by Huber+Suhner) * * Dedrone * Falcon.io (acquired by

Cision Cision Ltd. is a public relations and earned media software company and services provider. The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois; with clients worldwide. The company went public via reverse me ...

) * Finanzchef24 * Simplaex * (acquired by

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finlan ...

, now part of

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) * G-Predictive * *

JouleX JouleX was a software company that specializes in monitoring and control of the power consumption of computers and associated devices attached to networks. Founded in 2009, with headquarters in Atlanta, USA, it was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Hi ...

(acquired by

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

) *

Instana Instana is a German-American software firm based in Solingen as well as Chicago and San Francisco. It specialises in developing application performance management (APM) software. Products Instana's software is intended particularly for use in mo ...

* * Mercateo *NavVis * Nawotec (acquired by

Carl Zeiss AG Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid t ...

) *

NXN Software Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) (formerly known as Nike Team Nationals) is an invitational cross country meet that serves as the unofficial team national championship of United States high school cross country. Sponsored by Nike, It was designed to ...

(acquired by

Avid Technology Avid Technology is an American technology and multimedia company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner. It specialises in audio and video; specifically, digital non-linear editing (NLE) systems, video ed ...

) * Quobyte * Scanbot *

Scoreloop Scoreloop, a subsidiary of BlackBerry, was a cross-platform social gaming network for the operating systems including BlackBerry (Tablet OS and BlackBerry 10), Android, Bada, iOS and Windows Phone 7. History The company, based in Munich, ...

(acquired by

Research In Motion BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets ...

) * Senic * Sicoya * So1 * Swarm64 *

tado° tado° GmbH is a German technology company headquartered in Munich (Germany) and a manufacturer of home thermostats and air conditioning controls. History tado° was founded in Munich by Christian Deilmann, Johannes Schwarz and Valentin Sawadski ...

* Theva * Treasury Intelligence Solutions * * Ubitexx (acquired by

) * WLAN AG (acquired by

)

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.targetpartners.de
Portfolio companies
Venture capital firms of Germany Companies based in Bavaria