VM Capital

VM Capital is a private equity firm founded in 2000, based in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Specializing in buyout and growth equity investments, the company focuses on technology-oriented companies in communication, IT, and renewable energy sectors. VM Capital seeks out companies with technological distinctive features and provides equity financing. Their investments are primarily in companies headquartered in Europe with a global distribution.

Pierre Strittmatter

Investment Manager

13 past transactions

1366 Technologies

Series C in 2013
1366 Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies silicon wafers. It offers 3D direct wafers and silicon solar wafers. 1366 Technologies Inc. has strategic partnerships with Hanwha Q CELLS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. It has locations in Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India.

QSIL

Acquisition in 2006
Qsil is a supplier of silica glass products to the semiconductor and fiber optic industry. The proprietary and unique plasma fusion process has significant cost advantages over traditional multi-stage production processes.

1366 Technologies

Series E in 2019
1366 Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies silicon wafers. It offers 3D direct wafers and silicon solar wafers. 1366 Technologies Inc. has strategic partnerships with Hanwha Q CELLS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. It has locations in Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India.

Medos Medizintechnik

Acquisition in 2006
Medos Medizintechnik develops and manufactures medical devices for cardiac surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and ventricle assist devices. Its products include VAD-Atrium-Cannulae; VAD-Apex-Cannulae; Arterial-VAD-Cannulae; X-Flow; DELTASTREAM; HILITE; HILITE Reservoirs; tubing Sets, which include machine-sets, table-sets, cardioplegia-sets, infusion-/transfusion-/re-transfusion and perfusion-sets, haemofilter-sets, pressure-measuring-sets, and pre-bypass-sets; surgical Sets; VAD System; heparin coating; arterial filter; and haemofilter. The company offers tubing sets and surgical sets, as well as provides assembly of indication specific surgical sets.

Rioglass Solar Holding

Private Equity Round in 2012
Rioglass Solar Holding operates through its subsidiaries Rioglass Solar S.A. which produces parabolic mirrors used in thermo solar energy modules; and Solúcar Energia S.A. which provides construction and operation of electric energy generating plants. Rioglass Solar Holding, S.A. is based in Spain. As of November 14, 2011, Rioglass Solar Holding, S.A. is a subsidiary of Abengoa SA.

ersol Thin Film

Private Equity Round in 2008
ersol Thin Film is produces and markets photovoltaic products. It focuses on thin-film photovoltaic technologies and future-oriented wafer.

SSP Technology

Acquisition in 2008
SSP Technology A/S is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, and optimization of wind turbine blades for the wind turbine industry. The company’s solutions include blade design, tooling and mold manufacturing, production of test blade, prototype blade set, and execution of static and fatigue testing. It also offers consulting/R&D services, such as aerodynamic design, structural design, FEM calculation, material selection, process development, lightning protection, production layout, and tooling manufacture. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Svendborg, Denmark. As of February 1, 2017, SSP Technology A/S operates as a subsidiary of Nordex SE.

Roche Innovatis

Series B in 2002
Innovatis AG develops, produces and sells automated analyzers for the detection and evaluation of cell cultures (bioprocess analysis). The systems eliminate the disadvantages of manual analysis such as work and time intensity, limited data and susceptibility to errors. The core competence of Innovatis is the interdisciplinary combination of biotechnological knowledge with digital image and pattern recognition in cell culture analysis. Reference customers include nearly all major pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies such as Aventis, Bayer, Pfizer, Roche, Amgen or Genentech.

1366 Technologies

Series B in 2010
1366 Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies silicon wafers. It offers 3D direct wafers and silicon solar wafers. 1366 Technologies Inc. has strategic partnerships with Hanwha Q CELLS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. It has locations in Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India.

Thomas-Krenn

Acquisition in 2011
Thomas-Krenn.AG manufactures and sales custom server systems through its online shop to customers in Europe. It offers rack servers, tower-systems, workstations, IPC systems, storage systems, low energy systems, PCs and thin clients, appliances, system engineering, software, and accessories; and virtualization, software defined storage, backup solutions, pfSense firewall, CAD workstations, database server, mail server, and hot fluid computing solutions. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Freyung, Germany with sales office in Tübingen, Japan.

Exceet AG

Private Equity Round in 2006
exceet Group AG, through its subsidiaries, designs and develops control electronics and card based security technology solutions. The company provides radio frequency identification and multifunctional cards. Additionally, the company offers circuit boards and electronic micro systems.

Bosch Solar Energy

Acquisition in 2004
Bosch Solar Energy is a German solar wafer and solar cell manufacturer, based in Erfurt, which specialized in crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) products, as well as thin-film modules using amorphous silicon and CIGS absorber materials. The company consisted of the various divisions for silicon, wafers, solar cells and modules, research and production facilities in Germany and France and plans were made to open a production line in Malaysia.

1366 Technologies

Series B in 2010
1366 Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies silicon wafers. It offers 3D direct wafers and silicon solar wafers. 1366 Technologies Inc. has strategic partnerships with Hanwha Q CELLS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. It has locations in Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India.