Investors

Our investors build the foundation for our activities. amiando is backed by some of Europe’s best and most prestigious internet investors.

• Wellington Partners Venture Capital Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With some over $1.1 Billion under management and offices in London, Munich, Palo Alto and Zurich, the firm invests into companies throughout Europe that have the potential to become global leaders, in the areas of Digital Media, Cleantech, Electronics, Software and Life Sciences. Since 1998, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 companies in Europe and Israel, including now publicly traded Actelion, SAF and XING and successful privately held companies like Alando (acquired by eBay), Ciao (acquired by Microsoft) and ImmobilienScout24 (acquired by Deutsche Telekom). For more information please visit www.wellington-partners.com.
• Team Europe Ventures Team Europe Ventures' core business is founding internet startups. Furthermore, Team Europe invests in promising internet companies in early stages of development. Team Europe’s industry focus is consumer internet and internet technology; the goal for Team Europe’s companies is to generate revenues in the millions within a few years after founding. Team Europe Ventures is managed from Berlin by the its four partners Lukasz Gadowski (founder of Spreadshirt, co-founder of StudiVZ), Kolja Hebenstreit (early employee at Spreadshirt, seed investor in StudiVZ), Pawel Chudzinski (formerly Grennhill, Inc.) and Steffen Hoellinger. Team Europe is shareholders in 15 self founded companies or lead investments as well as 40 co-investments. Regional focus of the investments are the EU and the US.
• AdInvest AdInvest is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and specializes in making early stage investments in private companies. In the life sciences sector, Adinvest collaborates closely with its partner firm Montreux Equity Partners in Menlo Park. In Europe, Adinvest focuses particularly on young businesses building internet communities, e-commerce distribution channels, on-line advertis- ing and mobile technologies. Investee companies generally have a strong presence in Germany with ambitions to expand into broader markets. Apart from amiando AG, AdInvest’s invest- ments include Adconion Media Group Ltd, Brand4Friends, Seatwave Inc. and Xing AG.

Individual business angel investors include Stephan Glaenzer (last.fm, ricardo), Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt), Kolja Hebenstreit (Spreadshirt), Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz (vpod), Ehssan Dariani, (StudiVZ), Michael Brehm (StudiVZ) and Karel Doerner (Alando, eBay, Partner McKinsey).