Benjamin Wilkening

The Castella Nova platform offers comprehensive solutions for buy-and-build scale-ups. Castella Nova provides support in the areas of strategy, mergers and acquisitions, finance, human resources, appointments to company boards, as well as in all phases of a company's life, from start-up and growth to the sale of shares.

Vision Lab is a program that supports startups with founders who have recently migrated to Germany. We aim at providing participants with the entrepreneurial skills needed to create new opportunities for themselves and our society. More information is available on our website: https://earlybird.com/vision-lab/ Further reading (in German): https://lnkd.in/gANyNr7

The Founder Institute is the world's premier pre-seed startup accelerator.

MyDataModels revolutionizes AI/ML with its proprietary and patented TADA software that empowers business experts and researchers without data science expertise to employ ML for predictions and augmented analytics. TADA offers three disruptive features: 1) Super easy to use; 2) transparent and interpretable; 3) working with "Small Data" (<100 data entries)

The Skolkovo Foundation supports Russian high-tech startups with tax benefits, grants and acceleration services. The program supports more than 2,000 startups in four technology clusters: (1) IT, (2) Industry 4.0, (3) Energy Efficiency and (4) Biomed and Life Sciences. The Skolkovo “Go-To-Market” program supports Skolkovo startups with market entry and fundraising in Western countries with a focus on EU/Germany.

ZI Advisors source, execute, and manage investments in SME companies and commercial real estate with a dual focus on DACH countries and Russia/CIS.: 1) Investment strategy development; 2) deal sourcing for strategic investors, funds and family offices; 3) deal execution from business DD to deal closing; 4) active portfolio management with engagement on Board of Directors; 5) full alignment with investor through co-investment and equity compensation; 6) fully tri-lingual: English, German and Russian.

ZI Ventures invests seed capital in early stage ventures mainly, but not exclusively, in the Berlin area. Our focus is on companies with real technologies, products and services (online and offline), where the monetization results from a direct benefit to the end user - both B2B and B2C.

Managing Director of Nordic Yards Group real estate companies which hold, manage and let the shipyard assets: GHP Wismar Real Estate GmbH; GHP Warnemünde Real Estate GmbH; GHP Stralsund Real Estate GmbH

Elbrus Capital , launched in 2007, is a leading Russia and CIS-focused private equity business. Elbrus Capital currently manages two funds with total assets under management over $800 million. Key investors in the Fund are large international institutional investors and international development institutions.

Wermuth Asset Management GmbH is the exclusive investment advisor to the Green Gateway Fund. The Green Gateway Fund invests EUR 5-30 million growth capital in international (mainly European) best-in-class energy and resource efficiency companies and helps them enter the Russia/CIS market via the "gateway" of Tatarstan, the most investor-friendly region of the Russian Federation.

10EQS is a next-gen ‘virtual workforce in a cloud’ that combines proven management consulting with on-line mass collaboration/crowd solving to address critical strategic business issues faced by top companies. 10EQS allows clients to easily express complex business problems on-line and to receive high-quality solutions collaboratively solved by top experts from throughout the world. Visit us on www.10EQS.com

Mint Capital is a Russia-based PE fund manager that provides growth capital to entrepreneur-driven mid-cap companies in the CIS.

Developed turnaround, growth and investment plans and Management Buy-In proposals for two Russian FMCG companies.