ProSiebenSat.1

ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE is a German mass media company operating television, radio stations and print businesses. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the largest independent media corporations in Europe with a reported reach of 42 million household around Europe. The company operates 15 television stations across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE was established in 2000, with its headquarters in Unterföhring, Germany.  
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Ralf Gierig

Deputy Group CFO. EVP Group Finance and Investor Relations

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Nina Schmid

Manager of Investor Relations

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Birte Stein

Senior Manager of Investor Relations

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Dirk Voigtländer

Head of Investor Relations and SVP

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Julia Zielcke

Senior Manager of Investor Relations

Past deals in TV

Talenthouse

Series C in 2014
Talenthouse brings brands together with artists who create content that connects with people. The company’s suite of products and services unlock opportunity for artists, major brands and mainstream audiences. A powerful community of Talenthouse ARTISTS retain ownership of their work, earn compensation, and grow their reach. BRANDS connect authentically through premium content. PEOPLE worldwide engage with inspiring art across the leading social networks. Major brands on Talenthouse include: Absolut, adidas, BCBG, bing, Coca-Cola, Dolce & Gabbanna, Glaceau VitaminWater, HP, Intel, Kleenex, Microsoft, Nikon, Nine West, Nokia, P&G, Samsung, Sony, Spotify, Virgin Mobile, Volkswagen and more. Celebrated talent who have worked with Talenthouse to promote their tours, album or film releases, and other projects include: A$AP Rocky, deadmau5, Eric Clapton, Tom Ford, Lady Gaga, Nas, Stan Lee, Paul McCartney, Linkin Park, Rankin, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, and U2, among others. Talenthouse was co-founded in 2009 by Co-CEOs Amos Pizzey and Roman Scharf. It is based in West Hollywood, California and London, England. The privately-held company is funded by prominent investment groups including ProSiebenSat.1, Reliance Entertainment, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, 3TS Cisco Growth Fund, as well as high-profile individuals including Chris DeWolfe, William Lauder, Brett Ratner, Eurythmics Dave Stewart, Jean Pigozzi and Gerard Butler. For more information, please visit about.talenthouse.com business.talenthouse.com

meetOne

Corporate Round in 2011
meetOne GmbH owns and operates a social discovery network/an online contact portal. It enables its users to create profile pages; participate in rating games; upload media, such as photographs, texts, and games; and purchase virtual items or other services. The company also enables its users to meet new people and make friends; rate photos, pictures, and videos; make personality tests; learn about their personalities; and play games. meetOne GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Ripple Entertainment

Angel Round in 2015
Ripple Entertainment is a digital media company that is focused on the development and management of online video networks for millennial audiences. The networks are categorized according to FXated and Snarled. Ripple Entertainment offers Swell that provides businesses and brands with research and insights to find producers. Ripple Entertainment was founded by Jason Ziemianski in November 2015. It is based in Santa Monica, California.

Aeria Games GmbH

Acquisition in 2014
Aeria Games is a leading publisher of free-to-play online multiplayer games with a rapidly growing community of over 70 million registered players and a deep portfolio of development partners. A wholly-owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Aeria Games is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with offices in San Francisco and Seoul. Aeria Games publishes and develops high-quality online PC, mobile, and browser games in nine languages across the world. The company’s diverse portfolio includes titles like the popular anime MMORPG Aura Kingdom, action-packed shooter A.V.A., mobile soccer manager Goal One, and dozens more in a multitude of game genres. For more information, visit http://www.aeriagames.com.

Wrap Media

Series B in 2015
Wrap is a digital transformation platform that creates a mobile-app like experience for digital companions, commerce, or branded content in a few easy steps. It provides designs and functionality that delivers app-like user experience through mobile web. Wrap creates opportunities for companies to create new business models and deeper relationships that lead to the increasing of revenue and profitability through the SaaS platform. Wrap is founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Burda: ic

Acquisition in 2011
Burda: ic is develops online multiplayer video games, interactive games and role playing games.

Jaunt

Series C in 2015
Jaunt is developing the software, tools, and applications to enable cinematic VR and put the power of virtual reality in the hands of today’s best content creators. Jaunt’s proprietary algorithms for complex computational photography allow content producers to create incredible immersive cinematic VR experiences using existing production software. The company’s investors include The Walt Disney Company, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Peter Gotcher, Blake Krikorian, and British Sky Broadcasting (corporate.sky.com). Experience more at www.jauntvr.com.

weg.de

Acquisition in 2013
weg.de is one of the most famous online travel portals in Germany and the main brand of COMVEL GmbH. We make holiday dreams come true! In test and customer surveys, we regularly convince with top grades and have already been voted test winner several times. The secret of our success? Our 70-member team, the In addition to concentrated expertise and a decent portion of humor brings.

Flaconi

Acquisition in 2015
Flaconi GmbH operates an online portal which offers perfume, cosmetics, and beauty products. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

WindStar Medical GmbH

Acquisition in 2016
Windstar Medical AG manufactures and supplies healthcare products for private label products and branded products in Germany.

Esports.com

Corporate Round in 2019
eSports.com is a decentralized gaming ecosystem for gamers by gamers.
esome advertising technologies GmbH provides social media advertising and marketing solutions in a SaaS platform that include predictive data analysis and learning algorithms. It offers Esome Engine, a solution that provides workflow automation, predictive optimization, deep data integration, and near-time and comprehensive reporting tools. The company also provides bid, budget, and targeting optimization solutions; and manages regional, national, and international branding and performance campaigns. It serves clients in telecommunications, travel, e-commerce, fashion, and automotive industries. esome advertising technologies GmbH is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Lokalisten

Acquisition in 2008
Lokalisten is a social network originally started by 5 friends from munich. compared to facebook or studivz it has strong local ties with "homebases" in cities and villages in germany, austria, turkey, ....

eHarmony, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
eHarmony, Inc. develops and operates an online dating website for singles. It uses relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. The company serves its members in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and internationally. eHarmony, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in Pasadena, California. As of October 31, 2018, eHarmony, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of PARSHIP ELITE Group and NCG - NuCom Group SE.

Neverthink Oy

Venture Round in 2019
Neverthink Oy operates an online platform and develops a mobile application that collects video footage from multiple online sources and categorizes them under live channels. The company sources content form online sources such as Reuters, YouTube, and Reddit; and packages them under dedicated channels such as news, music, food, beauty, technology, adventure, and talk shows. Neverthink Oy was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Teatox GmbH

Corporate Round in 2016
teatox believes in the wholesome benefits of natural ingredients.

SMARTSTREAM TV

Acquisition in 2015
SMARTSTREAM.TV was founded in 2012. With 20 employees in Munich and Dusseldorf, They serve over 150 advertisers and all major media agencies and media networks. Each month They supply more than 100 national and international video campaigns - in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. Their team supports any time your campaign objectives with concepts and special solutions

Preis24

Acquisition in 2012
preis24.de GmbH operates a deal platform for mobile and broadband solutions in Europe. Its platform allows users to compare and order low-cost contracts in smartphones, tariffs without a mobile phone, car insurance, electricity and gas, and consumer electronics; and broadband contracts for Internet, landline, and TV. The company is based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Verivox Holdings Ltd.

Acquisition in 2015
Verivox is the largest independent consumer portal for energy in Germany. Besides offering Verivox comparisons of telecommunications, insurance and finance. Consumers can compare to www.verivox.de quickly and easily tariffs and directly go to the best suppliers for you. Since 1998 Verivox has helped more than 6 million consumers changing providers. No suppliers from the industries they compare, is involved in Verivox. This gives Verivox the necessary independence to be able to compare the offers of companies objectively and clearly can. The largest shareholder of Verivox is Oakley Capital, a private equity firm from England, which owns a 51 percent stake. The remaining shares are held by the two founders Andrew Goodwin and Alexander Preston. Verivox represents in its collective compare the respective market objective and neutral. While all providers are the same sustainable criteria and apply consumer protection directives . The use of price comparisons is Verivox-free. These services financed by Verivox agency commissions of their business partners and advertising. But they ask of course also represents providers and tariffs, of which Verivox receives no commission. So we provide the comprehensive overview of the market safely. The price comparisons in Verivox daily updated several times and kept up to date. Tenders will be mathematically sorted, what are easy to track with the calculator kann.Nicht only we ourselves, also compared companies continually monitor the presentation of their offers in the price comparison. The keen competition between providers, thus ensuring additional transparency. Consumer protection is very important to Verivox. We have strict guidelines for consumer protection and develop them further, in order to protect customers from unfair tariff condition. For this they draw if need be before court. They are committed to national and European level for better consumer protection. Verivox is a sustaining member of the conciliation body energy and advises the EU on regulatory issues.

tropo GmbH

Acquisition in 2012
Tropo is the most dynamic tour operator for low-cost and high-quality travel packages, last-minute vacations, and hotel reservations. Each day, Tropo offers up to 200 million vacation options to every popular beach as well as every vibrant city around the world. With us, you can travel to destinations such as Spain (from Mallorca to Fuerteventura), Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Dubai, and many other beautiful locations.

Pluto, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Pluto, Inc. provides streaming television services for watching live television channels and shows, movies, and Internet videos. The company also offers services in various categories, including news, sports, lifestyle, viral videos, cartoons, and more. It offers services through an app for mobile, web, and connected TV streaming devices. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California with additional locations in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin. As of March 4, 2019, Pluto, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc.

ferien.de

Acquisition in 2013
ferien.de is Germany's holiday portal. Whether last minute or package holidays, hotels, holiday apartments, rental cars, city or ski holidays - ferien.de offers millions of offers with low price guarantee. The portfolio of ferien.de includes millions of last minute offers, package tours and air fares from more than 60 tour operators. In addition, hotels and holiday homes, cruises, wellness, city, sports and round trips, travel insurance and car hire can be booked at ferien.de.

Pluto, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Pluto, Inc. provides streaming television services for watching live television channels and shows, movies, and Internet videos. The company also offers services in various categories, including news, sports, lifestyle, viral videos, cartoons, and more. It offers services through an app for mobile, web, and connected TV streaming devices. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California with additional locations in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin. As of March 4, 2019, Pluto, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc.

Stylight

Acquisition in 2016
Founded in 2008, Stylight is the leading aggregation platform for the fashion and lifestyle industry worldwide. They help online shoppers worldwide search more than 1,250 online shops at once, compare prices of more than 27 million products, get inspired and find all the best deals. They are not an online shop, and they don't sell products. They are an inspiration and aggregation platform that allows shoppers to price compare products and proceed with their order with one easy click. More than a search engine, the Stylight online magazine offers the best in beauty, fashion, and home & living inspiration. If you have questions concerning an order, please contact the respective online shop directly.

Fineartmultiple

Venture Round in 2015
Fineartmultiple is an online marketplace for art. On their platform, collectors can discover, buy and sell contemporary art from all over the globe. Their goal is to make the most outstanding contemporary and modern artworks accessible to art lovers everywhere. They make this possible by working with the most prestigious galleries in the world: Together they offer you a carefully curated selection of artworks that are significant both in the discourse of contemporary art and in their long-term, sustainable value. They only sell original artworks. All works that they offer on their platform are signed by the artist or accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

tink

Seed Round in 2016
They founded tink because they want to get everyone excited about Connected Home products. They focus on products that are easy to install, attractively priced and offer real added value for the customer. Example 1: In the past, an alarm system cost several thousand euros, today there is a smart security system at tink starting at 150 euros. Example 2: Thanks to smart solutions, your heating automatically shuts off when you open a window or leave home. So you can save up to 30% heating costs. So far, a comparison and advisory platform lacking navigation through the jungle of new products and applications was missing. With tink they have created exactly this platform. tink is your cross-brand contact for your Connected Home and helps you to make your home smart.

BuzzBird GmbH

Venture Round in 2017
BuzzBird to make influencer marketing easy and scalable. Only with the experience of technology, brands / agencies and influencers was this possible. The three of us share exactly these competencies.

Booming

Acquisition in 2012
Booming is specializes in search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO).

Virtual Minds

Acquisition in 2015
virtual minds AG is a technology holding company specializing in the fields of media technologies, digital advertising and hosting. Our companies are young, innovative, led by specialists and are among the top players in their respective business segments across Europe.

Minute Media

Series C in 2015
Minute Media is a global, digital, sports media company, powered by socially driven content created by the fans, for the fans. Their products let fans create, publish, share and distribute content to more than 85 million people per month. Their content fuses sports stories with everyday culture, creating a fresh new voice in the world of sports media.

Dynamic Yield

Series B in 2014
Dynamic Yield is an AI-powered Personalization Anywhere™ platform that delivers individualized experiences at every customer touchpoint: web, apps, email, kiosks, IoT, and call centers. The platform’s data management capabilities provide for a unified view of the customer, allowing the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield daily for launching new personalization campaigns, running server-side and client-side A/B tests, leveraging machine-learning for product and content recommendations, and employing algorithms for smartly triggered email and push notifications. Headquartered in New York, the company serves more than 300 brands across the world.

Travador.com

Venture Round in 2014
Based in Munich, Travador was founded in 2013 to focus on the rapidly growing event travel opportunity. It offer its clients a unique experience at unbeatable prices. Whether they are looking for wellness, music, sports or the arts - They always offer their customers something special that turns their short trip into a unique experience. Up to date they have served over 100,000 customers.

RapidApe GmbH

Acquisition in 2015
RapidApe GmbH offers RapidApe, a TV analytics and monitoring platform for advertisers and agencies to track the performance of their TV campaigns and monitor their competitors. The company’s RapidApe enables users to access detailed spot and brand profiles with airing information and media budgets, get industry benchmarks, and compare their TV marketing to their competition. Its RapidApe also connects the tracking and monitoring data source to various external data sources, such as weather, public holiday calendars, news feeds for special events (elections, soccer tournaments, etc.), and more. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of May 27, 2015, RapidApe GmbH operates as a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.

Yieldlab

Acquisition in 2015
Yieldlab was the first company in Germany to develop its own optimization technology for providers of advertising space which integrates Real Time Bidding (RTB). The Yieldlab AG was founded in September 2010 as a technology and consultancy company in Hamburg. Yieldlab develops the operating system for real time trade and the processing of advertising in digital channels with a long-term strategy. This assists websites, marketers, media companies and publishers in increasing revenue generated from online activities.

Etraveli

Acquisition in 2015
Etraveli is an Online Travel Agent in the Nordic region, offering a wide range of airline tickets, hotel accommodations, and other travel related services. It operates in 46 countries on 5 continents through brands such as Supersaver/Supersavertravel, Gotogate, and Travelstart. In Sweden, the company also operates the price comparison website Flygresor.se. With a booking value of over 10 billion SEK in 2015, Etraveli is one of Europe’s three largest air-centric Online Travel Agents.

Kaeuferportal

Private Equity Round in 2016
Aroundhome is a online broker for household products and services.

Parship

Acquisition in 2016
PARSHIP.co.uk is the UK's first compatibility-based online dating service, specifically for people who are serious about forming a lasting relationship. It is the British subsidiary of Europe's largest and most successful serious online dating service with millions of members, who are predominantly affluent, educated men and women between 28 and 55 years old. Since its launch in Germany in 2001, PARSHIP has matched thousands of single people who are serious about forming a long-lasting relationship. The first step is an 80-question psychometric test, which is free of charge and takes about 20 minutes to complete. The results of the test create a fascinating profile of each member's personality. Using methods based on years of scientific research, this profile is then carefully matched with the profiles of other members whose balance of similar and complementary characteristics marks them out as a potential partner for the new member. PARSHIP.co.uk operates a 3-tiered pricing system: £35 for 1 month, £57 for 3 months, £84 for 6 months. 75% of people who register with the PARSHIP site go on to complete the psychometric compatibility test. In fact, 2,500 people across Europe complete the test every day. PARSHIP GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, is 87%-owned by Holtzbrinck networXs AG, part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, one of Germany's largest publishing companies with financial interests in more than 80 companies including the Macmillan Group. Driven primarily by revenue-share partnerships with leading names in print and online media, including Express Newspapers, Hellomagazine.com, FAZ, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, as well as Tiscali and T-online, PARSHIP GmbH has expanded to cover UK, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France.

Jochen Schweizer GmbH

Acquisition in 2017
Jochen Schweizer GmbH retails gift coupons and vouchers for various outdoor activities and adventure sports online. The company offers individual events through its online portal. The activities include pilot training, professional photo shoots, Husky workshops, wilderness excursions amongst others. It also provides incentive planning and event bonus schemes for companies. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Munich, Germany. As of October 16, 2017, Jochen Schweizer GmbH operates as a subsidiary of ProSieben Travel GmbH.

HolodeckVR GmbH

Corporate Round in 2019
Spree Interactive is a pioneer in the field of virtual reality developing technologies and products for location based virtual reality systems for children from 6 years on. Spree Interactive is using a tracking technology, which enables the user to experience a fully immersive virtual world. Not only is it possible to walk freely within the virtual world but also to interact with it in a fun, exciting and mind-blowing way. Spree Interactive reveals the possibility to present the users a completely unique form of entertainment. Up to 20 people at the same time can enjoy the VR experience. Spree Interactive is teaming up with best-in-class partners for bringing its tech to market.

Studio71

Acquisition in 2015
Studio71 understands that entertainment is changing. As a leading multi-platform entertainment company, they develop, produce and distribute original entertainment programming. They are a home for creators, because the content is everything. They are the ideal partners for digital talent aiming to build on their passion for video as well as for advertisers who want to present their brand online to their target group. Are you looking for a partner, who will offer you all the support you need related to YouTube and who does not just see you as another channel, but who shares your passion and wants to promote your talent? Then Studio71 is the right place for you.

Helpling

Venture Round in 2019
Helpling is an online booking and payment platform that provides on-demand home services outside the U.S. On the website or via an app, customers can book a vetted and insured cleaner and gain back free time within a couple of clicks. For cleaners, the innovative online service makes it easier than ever to access new clients and to manage when and where they want to work. Helpling allows people more time for the beautiful things in life such as family, friends, and leisure. The cleaners charge a flat rate of £10 per hour and pay a fee when they find a regular customer through the platform or 10% of the value of the booking for one time cleans. Helping was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Amorelie

Acquisition in 2015
Amorelie is a fashionable onlineshop for Lovelife.