Target Partners Explained

Target Partners
Foundation:	1999
Location:	Munich
Industry:	Private equity
Products:	Venture Capital
Homepage:	www.targetpartners.de
Num Employees:	10+

Target Partners is a European venture capital fund claiming ca. €300 million under management. It is located in Munich 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 seed stage. Industry sectors include enterprise software, consumer internet, semiconductors and cleantech.

• 1-2-3.tv
• ^[1]
• ^[2]
  • (acquired by Swisscom)^[3]
  • Cube Optics AG (acquired by Huber+Suhner)
  • Dedrone^[4]
• Falcon.io (acquired by Cision)^[5]
• Finanzchef24 ^[6]
• Simplaex
• (acquired by Nokia, now part of Ovi)^[7]
• G-Predictive
  • JouleX (acquired by Cisco)^[8]
• Instana^[9]
  • Mercateo
• NavVis^[10]
• Nawotec (acquired by Carl Zeiss AG)^[11]
• NXN Software (acquired by Avid Technology)^[12]
• Quobyte
• Scanbot^[13]
• Scoreloop (acquired by Research In Motion)^[14]
• Senic^[15]
• Sicoya^[16]
• So1
• Swarm64^[17]
  • tado° Theva
• Treasury Intelligence Solutions
  • Ubitexx (acquired by Research In Motion)^[18]
• WLAN AG (acquired by Swisscom)

External links

• • Portfolio companies

Notes and References

1. Web site: German VC Target Partners invests in network abuse software company Abusix. 13 February 2014. AltAssets. 24 March 2014.
2. Web site: O'Hear. Steve. Adeven Launches Adjust.io Analyzer To Give Mobile App Advertisers Combined Analytics And Tracking. 12 September 2012 . TechCrunch. 1 March 2013.
3. Web site: Swisscom - The most important acquisitions in recent years. 28 February 2013.
4. Web site: Dedrone | Portfolio | Target Partners .
5. Web site: Cision Acquires Leading Social Media Company Falcon.io. 12 September 2019.
6. Web site: Panknin. Thorsten. Finanzchef24: Tarifvergleiche zu gewerblichen Versicherungen und Geschäftskonten, online gleich den Antrag stellen. 14 February 2013. Deutsche Startups. 14 February 2013.
7. Nokia completes acquisition of gate5. Nokia Corporation. 12 October 2006. 30 June 2009.
8. News: 2013-05-29. Cisco to Buy JouleX for $107 Mln Adding Energy Software. Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. 2013-06-08.
9. Web site: Instana Secures $30 Million Series C Investment Led By Meritech To Extend Automated Monitoring. Instana. en-US. 2019-04-26.
10. Web site: Indoor Mapping Startup NavVis Secures €7.5 Million in Financing | Target Partners.
11. Carl Zeiss SMT Acquires Partner NaWoTec .
12. Avid Acquires NXN and Expands Leadership in Digital Asset Management.
13. Web site: Butcher. Mike. Doo.net Lands Series A Funding To Organise Documents, Automatically For The People. 16 June 2012 . TechCrunch. 28 February 2013.
14. Web site: The Canadian Press. 2011-07-06. RIM buys social game maker Scoreloop. The Globe and mail. 2011-07-06.
15. Web site: Senic | Portfolio | Target Partners.
16. Web site: Target Partners backs Sicoya in €3.5m series-A. 9 November 2015 .
17. Web site: Swarm64 | Portfolio | Target Partners.
18. Web site: Rao. Leena. RIM Acquires Smartphone Security Software Developer Ubitexx. 2 May 2011 . TechCrunch.