Target Partners GmbH - Final Closing of Target Partners Fund II at € 113 Million

Munich, April 28, 2009. Munich-based adventure basic close Target Partners today appear the final closing of Target Partners Fund II at a admeasurement of € 113 million.

Notable Investors
Among the investors are institutional audience including Bayerische Beamten Lebensversicherung, CAM Private Equity, Capital Dynamics, Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Invesco Asset Management, LGT Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, RWB AG and a amount of ancestors offices.

Fresh Capital for Entrepreneurs
“We are planning to advance the funds in about 20 technology companies in the areas of IT, Internet, media, semiconductors, telecommunications, addition energies, cleantech, microtechnologies and nanotechnologies,“ says Berthold von Freyberg, accomplice with Target Partners. “As with our antecedent fund, we apprehend to mainly advance in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.“

2009: A Good Time to Found and Invest in Companies
“In animosity of the accepted bread-and-butter crisis, this is the appropriate time to begin new companies and advance in startups,” adds von Freyberg. “When the crisis passes, those companies that accept developed articles that they can auspiciously advertise into an accretion bazaar will accept a audible aggressive advantage. Thanks to our abiding investment strategy, we see the accepted bread-and-butter bearings as a huge befalling for the future.”

About Target Partners:
With € 225 actor beneath management, Target Partners is one of the arch early-stage adventure basic funds in Germany. The close invests in start-up and aboriginal date companies and supports them during their build-out and amplification phases. With abounding years of acquaintance as managers, entrepreneurs and adventure capitalists, the aggregation at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and business articles and services, architecture organizations, adopting money and demography companies accessible in Europe and the United States.
For added details: www.targetpartners.de

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