Siemens Venture Capital GmbH

Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC) is the venture capital investment arm of Siemens AG. The firm specializes in seed/startup, early, and expansion stage financing. It focuses on networked storage, information technology, Internet security, distributed computing, industrial automation and control, power technologies, telematics, solid state lighting, microelectronics, and information and communications sectors. Industrial automation and control includes e-business and IT in industrial markets, intelligent and networked sensors, security systems, micro- and nanotechnology. Within IT, the fund invests in application software (SCM, CRM, ERM, procurement and business information management); infrastructure software (content management, security and distributed data storage techniques); electronic and mobile business; web services and new emerging Internet standards, IPv6, SOAP, UUDI, and XML. Networked storage investments include storage area networks (SAN), RAID, and networked attached storage (NAS). Internet security investments include administration, authentication, and authorization and transaction security, based on ipSec, SSl, VPN, and firewall techniques. Within telematics, it invests in communication, information, and diagnostics in fleet management. Microelectronics investments include new semiconductor technologies, Inp, GaN, and next generation SAN/NAS devices. Lighting investments include solid state lighting sources. Within power technologies, it focuses on alternative energy sources, Internet-based power distribution, quality and management (e-utility), and remote metering. In information and communications, it invests in mobile communications, convergence, broadband access, security, optical networking, fixed wireless, enterprise communication applications, and voice over IP. The firm focuses on companies in North America, Europe, Israel, and Asia. It invests between $0.64 million and $6.36 million per transaction. The firm was founded in 1999 and is based in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; San Jose, California; Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel; Beijing, China and Mumbai, India.