Investors
Investors
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Seventure |
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SG Asset Management |
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BayTech Venture Capital |
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Sofinnova Partners |
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Saffron Hill Ventures |
| Cross-Atlantic Ventures |
Board Members
Valérie Gombart, Seventure
Valérie started her career as an analyst with Banque Populaire Creation seed investment fund. In 1997, she was involved with the launch of the first FCPI (Fonds Commun de Placement dans l'Innovation) in France, sponsored by SEVENTURE ; she has since invested more than 50 M€ around 25 high-tech start-ups. Valérie graduated from ESC Nantes and holds a Master degree in Law. Within SEVENTURE, she's the General Partner in charge of the ICT Department. Valérie funded and seated on the Board of Directors of Maximiles (Alternext), Memscap (Eurolist C) and VistaPrint ltd (Nasdaq), from first VC round to IPO. Valérie is a board member of Memscap, Parrot, Sefas, Quescom, Volubill and Xiring and has visiting rights on Tak'imaging Inc Board of Directors.
Rolf Schneider-Günther, BayTech Venture Capital
Rolf Schneider-Günther is the founder of BayTech Venture Capital. Before BayTech Venture Capital he was with Atlas Venture which he had joined in 1992. He became Managing Director Germany and General Partner in the same year.
His track record includes a substantial number of investments which resulted in extremely successful exits via their IPOs such as Morphosys AG, Micronas AG, WaveLight Laser Technologie AG, Medigene AG, Actelion AG and Cardima Inc. He started his career as CFO of a german high-technology company which is a world leader in chemical fiber processing. In 1986 he joined Merck, Sharpe & Dohme as director of Business Development and moved to director of Strategic Planning and Controlling in 1988.
Rolf Schneider-Günther holds a masters degree and a Ph.D. in Business Administration and studied Pharmacology at the Universities of Regensburg and Munich.
Gilles MEYER, President
Gilles is a technology entrepreneur and the CEO of QuesCom, a provider of advanced telecom appliances. Previously, he co-founded and was the CEO of Voxpilot, the first pan-European VoiceXML hosting service. Voxpilot was sold to Paris-based Eureka Soft in 2004. Following the sale of the Company, Gilles became CEO of Eurekasoft re-named Voxpilot and has led it to become a major player in its industry with important references all around the globe. Voxpilot was sold in 2008 to TETCO Technologies. Prior to Voxpilot, Gilles was an associate with top tier Management Consulting firm, Booz Allen and Hamilton in NYC and founded his first technology company, Tutticom in 2000. Tutticom was subsequently sold to Voxpilot in 2001. Gilles started his career as an injection moulding plant manager, based in Milan, Italy for a French/Italian company. Gilles holds a Master in Mechanical Engineering from INSA, a Master in Polymer Sciences from the Ecole d’Application des Hauts Polymeres (EAHP) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS).
