The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Ingo Potthof, Helmut Schönenberger, Johannes von Borries, managing partners, UVC Partners

UnternehmerTUM Venture Capital (UVC) Partners, a firm closely affiliated with TU Munich’s innovation arm UnternehmerTUM, has a portfolio of 18 companies and is headed by three managing partners – Ingo Potthof, Helmut Schönenberger and Johannes von Borries.

Potthof joined UVC in 2011 and has considerable experience of working with entrepreneurs in Europe, the US, Israel and Asia. He was an investment manager with Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate VC arm of conglomerate Siemens, from 2001 to 2005.

Schöneberger has not only been a managing director of UVC since 2011 but has also been at the helm of UnternehmerTUM for more than 16 years, having co-founded the office.

Von Borries has been a part of UVC since 2015, having gained experience as an investment manager of Wellington Partners Venture Capital from 2001 to 2006 and managing director of JVB Venture Consulting from 2014 to 2015. He founded semiconductor wafer inspection equipment maker Nanda Technologies in between those two jobs.