Media Ventures

Make Music TV offers a video on demand service tailored to music enthusiasts and fans worldwide. The service offers a great variety on full length live concerts, music documentations and artists. With the subscription we offer access to the whole content library, which can be cancelled on a monthly basis. Partnering with producers, major labels and TV stations Make Music TV combines music passion with industry experience in order to offer the best product for their customers.

Sevenload is a social media network for WebTV, videos, and photos. The sevenload channels offer free premium-tv-shows, official music videos, exclusive internet television as well as user generated content. Every channel combines professional videos with independent, intelligent, and creative content from users producing content as well as professional production companies. Sevenload was founded in 2006. Sevenload is a global social media platform for photos, videos. and interactive show formats. The community enables users to manage and share photos and videos online for free. The site offers an array of different interactive WebTV or internet shows in more than 20 languages and various categories. In addition, some of the available channels are from famous and popular artists and musicians. As a new media company, sevenload positions itself as a provider for crossmedial marketing and modern video technology. Part of its business comes from the conceptualization, development, and production of IPTV based internet platforms, software solutions for Web 2.0 applications as well as technology development for third party companies looking for video player, video uploading, video linking, and distribution technologies. Sevenload has already worked with internationally renowned companies such as BMW, Endemol, National Geographic, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Sony Music, Universal Music, and offers companies individual white label solutions. Company executive are Andreas Heyden (CEO) and Dr. Roland Schlager. Company founders include Ibrahim Evsan (Founder), Thomas Bachem (Co-Founder) and Axel Schmiegelow (Co-Founder and Board Member). Company investors are DLD Ventures (Hubert Burda Media) and dw capital GmbH.

SellaBand is based in Munich and Berlin, the creative capital of Europe. Since its launch in August 2006, SellaBand has coordinated recording sessions for more than 80 artists or acts who had their albums funded by their fans. Over $4,000,000 have been invested in independent bands via www.sellaband.com. With SellaBand, artists retain complete ownership of the works created and have the flexibility to determine which incentives they will offer their fans who fund them. SellaBand’s fan funding engine also allows artists the freedom to enter into deals with any label, management company, or publisher and there are no advances to pay back. Artists maintain control over their career and have 100% freedom to create the music that they want to create. SellaBand can also be utilized by management companies, record labels, publishers, sponsors and media companies to fund projects for their own artists while also building the core fan base required to launch an artist or take them to the next stage of their career.

Spontacts is a social discovery application, connecting spontaneous people for joint activities. Spontacts makes the city more social, active, and fun. Through its unique notification service and chat client, Spontacts offers the easiest way to get in touch with people nearby and to meet in real life. Spontacts also inspires users with tailored deals, offers and locations it can activate together. Spontacts is based in Munich, Germany.

aha.de Internet GmbH is an internet portal which operates the women’s platform www.forher.de and the Live Shopping service www.rabattschlacht.de. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Twidox helps users and organisations to effortlessly upload, share and manage their documents. Twidox uses the latest technology to automatically optimise these documents for the internet, enabling them to be found more easily by users across the world wide web. The focus of the website is on: * professional and industry specific documents * research material * academic papers and articles * coursework and dissertations and; * data and statistics The site archives and indexes every published text and makes it searchable to other users, free of charge.

Tape.tv enables users to watch individualized music television on demand and to tune into a program that addresses various music tastes. In addition to licensed content from all major and some independent labels, tape.tv offers original programming such as roof top concerts and individually designed artist's channels. Currently the service attracts 2.5 Mio. Users and is available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since its founding, tape.tv has obtained an increasing number of strategic partners such as internet platforms, online networks, and traditional media companies. The company was founded by Conrad Fritzsch and Stephanie Renner in 2008. It is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Ströer Interactive offers online marketing services such as banner advertising.

Zapitano was a social TV startup from Berlin. The company went bankrupt in eary 2014. ZAPITANO offered a completely new interactive TV experience. While watching TV, viewers could login to ZAPITANO via a second screen device, such as a Laptop, Smartphone or Tablet-PC. They could then check into TV-Shows, talk about it with their friends, comment on TV-Stars, vote for their favourite TV-show and more.

Sevenload is a social media network for WebTV, videos, and photos. The sevenload channels offer free premium-tv-shows, official music videos, exclusive internet television as well as user generated content. Every channel combines professional videos with independent, intelligent, and creative content from users producing content as well as professional production companies. Sevenload was founded in 2006. Sevenload is a global social media platform for photos, videos. and interactive show formats. The community enables users to manage and share photos and videos online for free. The site offers an array of different interactive WebTV or internet shows in more than 20 languages and various categories. In addition, some of the available channels are from famous and popular artists and musicians. As a new media company, sevenload positions itself as a provider for crossmedial marketing and modern video technology. Part of its business comes from the conceptualization, development, and production of IPTV based internet platforms, software solutions for Web 2.0 applications as well as technology development for third party companies looking for video player, video uploading, video linking, and distribution technologies. Sevenload has already worked with internationally renowned companies such as BMW, Endemol, National Geographic, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Sony Music, Universal Music, and offers companies individual white label solutions. Company executive are Andreas Heyden (CEO) and Dr. Roland Schlager. Company founders include Ibrahim Evsan (Founder), Thomas Bachem (Co-Founder) and Axel Schmiegelow (Co-Founder and Board Member). Company investors are DLD Ventures (Hubert Burda Media) and dw capital GmbH.

nugg.ad GmbH provides a multichannel audience targeting and smart data management platform. The company offers Smart Audience Platform that provides technology for multichannel audience targeting, data management, and brand advertising. It serves online sales houses, publishers, agencies, advertisers, and data providers. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Berlin, Germany with additional offices in Paris, France; Milan, Italy; Warsaw, Poland; Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm, Sweden. As of August 24, 2010, nugg.ad GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG.

E2Ma GmbH is a leading company in the area of lead generation for direct marketing and market research in Germany. Active on the German market since 2005, the company expanded its business activities in 2014 to Austria and Switzerland. E2Ma GmbH works with more than 500 partners in generating data, and its own Internet consumer campaigns have already generated more than 20 million opt-in leads for its customers.

freeXmedia GmbH provides online marketing services.

TURBINA Energy develops innovative small wind turbines for sustainable and economic use. The company focuses on designing, manufacturing, marketing, and installing wind turbines and hybrid power systems for power production. After intensive research and development of the latest generation in the range 1kW and 4kW Since 2013 Turbina's available. Explore further and also make a contribution to a cleaner environment. TURBINA Energy was founded on 2006 and is based in Unterhaching, Bayern, Germany.

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.

yasni GmbH provides a platform for person-search and reputation management services in Germany and Europe. Its people search engine provides information on a person published on the Web. The company also offers reputation management, which lets its users to approve of results in a profile page. yasni GmbH is was founded in 2007 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany.

merkando GmbH provides individual print-on-demand service. The company enables its customers to create customized online merchandise shops which can be easily integrated into an existing website. The company also provides on-demand marker and label printing services. merkando GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Pkw.de's online car exchange offers dealers special sales packages for marketing cars and numerous free services for end customers. The site also includes a practical offer generator, putting an end to buyers having to search for cars and offering the dream car at advantageous prices. Instead of having to search through advertisements, the buyer simply enters the desired details in the offer generator and the pkw.de dealer receives the actual purchase request, filtered by the input specifications. This allows dealers to also market cars that are not advertised on the Internet or that will be coming up for sale. iPhone, iPad, and Facebook apps, dealer videos. Pkw.de is continuously extending its facilities and services for dealers and for users. As part of the Caroo Group located in Cologne and since 2011 also in Essen, pkw.de offers its partners and customers a considerable potential and a future-proof foundation for a long-term cooperation. pkw.de, caroo.de, autotest.de: three strong brands of the Caroo Group, a wide range of products. The German company is managed by its experienced founder Boris Polenske, who as Managing Director and Partner has been responsible for the successful expansion of Caroo GmbH since July 2008.

Blue Face Media GmbH provides Real-Time Social Media Analytics. We pursue relationships based on transparency, persistence, mutual trust, and integrity with our employees, customers and other business partners. Our team of specialists consistently delivers outstanding results combining creative ideas with our vast experience. We can help you build a sustainable, meaningful relationship with your clients by engaging them with your brand using social media.

dimensional Ventures is the holding/investment company of the dimensional Group. They are not a classical VC firm, they rather build companies or help them grow, so they're sometimes founders and sometimes an incubator if they meet amazing people. Several startups were either founded by us or developed with their intense participation, e.g. Make.TV Inc. (www.make.tv), Audiotool.com (www.audiotool.com), Hobnox (www.hobnox.com), defrac (www.defrac.com) and papaya (www.papaya-cms.com).

Global Group Dialog Solutions AG is one of the full-service marketing service providers for holistic customer and prospect management in German-speaking countries. We manage customer and prospect campaigns for the performance-oriented exploitation of the identified sales potential - cross-channel, B2C and B2B. Benefit from our experience in the 5 disciplines: Data Management , Customer Insight Analytic , Program Management , Campaign Implementation and Processes & Systems - as a complete solution or additional individual service for your goals.

The Aura restaurant in Cologne-Rodenkirchen is one of the best restaurants and addresses in Cologne and the surrounding area. International haute cuisine and seasonal dishes are served in a comfortable, attractive ambience with a terrific view of the Rhine and an atmosphere of absolute peace and quiet.

Shoppero.com offers an online platform which users can create reviews and recommendations about products and services. Participating users receive payments for page impressions of linked advertisments.

dailyme TV is a mobile application that provides TV entertainment on iOS and Android platforms. It offers a mobile video service for smart phones where its users can compile their personalized programs that are automatically updated through push download. The app operates as a content aggregator and technical distributor for video and TV content on mobile phones. The fact that it can work without an internet connection makes it an ideal on the go app. The app streams TV series and shows, movies, and shows on smartphones and tablets legally without an internet connection. dailyme TV was founded by Stefan Bielau in 2008 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

E2Ma GmbH is a leading company in the area of lead generation for direct marketing and market research in Germany. Active on the German market since 2005, the company expanded its business activities in 2014 to Austria and Switzerland. E2Ma GmbH works with more than 500 partners in generating data, and its own Internet consumer campaigns have already generated more than 20 million opt-in leads for its customers.

Jollydays is an online platform that provides travel agency services online. It also operates an online portal offering gift vouchers, wellbeing gifts, and vouchers of sports activities. The range extends over the 9 categories of driving, flying, action, water, gourmet, culture, wellness, lifestyle, and short trips. In addition to coupons and tickets that are only available online, we also offer value coupons, themed coupons and gift boxes that you can find online and in stores. Jollydays was established in 2003 by the two friends Jörg Schmiedl and Stefan Harder and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has offices in Germany and Switzerland.

Spotted is a social discovery app that applies a hyperlocal approach to real life and brings together people who cross paths every day.

Stylebop GmbH operates as a luxury fashion e-tailer. The company offers designer clothing products, including coats, dresses, jackets, jeans, knitwear, pants, skirts, sportswear, T-shirts, cashmere, beachwear, and tops; shoes, such as ankle-boots, ballerinas, boots, clogs, flats, kitten-heels, pumps, sandals, sneakers, and wedges; and bags, which comprise clutches, shoulder bags, small accessories, small leather goods, and totes.

SPOX is a sports portal that presents news, match reports, interviews, analysis, background and video highlights from the world of sport. It provides up-to-the-minute sports coverage. The company's editorial team have the skills and experience to create world class sports content. SPOX was founded on 2007 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Hiogi is a community that answers mobile ad hoc questions that are submitted via Twitter SMS, WAP, iPhone, and e-mail. It enables any user to participate in exchanging know-how, experiences, advice, research results or plain information. Hiogi was launched in 2007 and is operated in Berlin, Germany.

FOOBOO GmbH operates internet platform which contains around 60,000 recipes, with 300,000 members of the recipe community. FOOBOO GmbH was formerly known as Womenweb GmbH. The company is based in Unterfohring, Germany. FOOBOO GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Coretx Holdings plc.

TPNG combines four successful online agencies, aha.de, Performance Network, up-Value and E2Ma, with email marketing, online marketing, consulting, display marketing/RTA, lead generation and social media marketing. The focus lies on the creation and implementation of integrated online marketing concepts with the goal of acquiring new clients and increasing sales of our current, well-known national and international clients. TPNG is a part of Media Ventures GmbH, the private venture capitalist company of German media entrepreneur Dirk Ströer.

Hiogi is a community that answers mobile ad hoc questions that are submitted via Twitter SMS, WAP, iPhone, and e-mail. It enables any user to participate in exchanging know-how, experiences, advice, research results or plain information. Hiogi was launched in 2007 and is operated in Berlin, Germany.

DiaMonTech AG, a medical technology company, engages in the design, development, and commercialization of medical diagnostics devices based on its laser-based proprietary photo-thermal detection technology. The company offers non-invasive blood glucose monitoring solution that measures glucose levels without finger pricking, blood, or pain. It develops D-BASE, a shoebox-sized device to conduct human trials with its technology; D-pocket, a pocket-sized personal device for frequent tracking of blood sugar levels; and D-BAND, a wearable device that continuously measures blood glucose levels. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

The two web portals C-date and B2 combine casual dating with normal online dating for almost 40 million users around the world. Their product offerings are directed at all age groups and life circumstances, bringing people together.

Exactag is a marketing attribution technology company which transforms the way marketers evaluate, measure, and optimize their marketing spend.

Hoccer is a secure mobile messaging application for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android. Hoc­cer GmbH was founded in July 2010 to set the ball rolling with strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion part­ners who share their vision and want to seize the oppor­tu­ni­ties Hoc­cer provides.Today the team is focused on giv­ing the final touch to Hoc­cer. And of course they are on to cre­ate new fea­tures to offer even greater per­sonal experiences. Hoccer technology seeks to empower everyone by spontaneous information transfer between mobiles and all kinds of electronic devices.

LocalPerformance offers online marketing services for small and medium-sized companies. They also provide more coverage on the Internet and give your company a face in the regional and local area. It also offers display advertising, website services, search engine marketing, and social media marketing. In addition to high-performance online advertising and measurable campaign results, small and medium-sized customers in particular also benefit from professional support for their campaigns. The company is based in Munich, Germany.

make.tv, inc. develops live video cloud platform for publishers and video creators. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington. make.tv, inc. operates as a former subsidiary of SMT - Streaming Media Technologies GmbH. As per the transaction announced on September 9, 2019, make.tv, inc. operates as a subsidiary of LTN Global Communications, Inc.

make.tv, inc. develops live video cloud platform for publishers and video creators. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington. make.tv, inc. operates as a former subsidiary of SMT - Streaming Media Technologies GmbH. As per the transaction announced on September 9, 2019, make.tv, inc. operates as a subsidiary of LTN Global Communications, Inc.

up-value GmbH is an international digital marketing AdNetwork with offices in Heidelberg, Cologne and Istanbul. For customers, the company markets pass-through advertising space on premium websites with high reach. Advertisers benefit from a unique campaign performance: in the context of display, video and mobile advertising, up-value designs and optimizes advertising campaigns and successfully implements them for advertising agencies and advertisers.

Spontacts is a social discovery application, connecting spontaneous people for joint activities. Spontacts makes the city more social, active, and fun. Through its unique notification service and chat client, Spontacts offers the easiest way to get in touch with people nearby and to meet in real life. Spontacts also inspires users with tailored deals, offers and locations it can activate together. Spontacts is based in Munich, Germany.

freeXmedia GmbH provides online marketing services.

Zapitano was a social TV startup from Berlin. The company went bankrupt in eary 2014. ZAPITANO offered a completely new interactive TV experience. While watching TV, viewers could login to ZAPITANO via a second screen device, such as a Laptop, Smartphone or Tablet-PC. They could then check into TV-Shows, talk about it with their friends, comment on TV-Stars, vote for their favourite TV-show and more.

Spotted is a social discovery app that applies a hyperlocal approach to real life and brings together people who cross paths every day.

Hiogi is a community that answers mobile ad hoc questions that are submitted via Twitter SMS, WAP, iPhone, and e-mail. It enables any user to participate in exchanging know-how, experiences, advice, research results or plain information. Hiogi was launched in 2007 and is operated in Berlin, Germany.

EStores GmbH, along with its subsidiaries, owns and operates online shopping platforms for niche products.