Michael Hock

Novata is a certified B Corporation that empowers the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. Novata’s technology platform makes navigating the ESG landscape simple for private markets by identifying a clear starting point for selecting the metrics that matter, streamlining data collection, and contextualizing data to drive reporting and action. Novata is backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, Microsoft, Northern Trust, Omidyar Network, and S&P Global. Our mission is to empower the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. We’re building a platform to address the private markets critical and immediate need for simple, yet powerful tools to reduce the burden of collecting, managing, and benchmarking ESG data.

Xaver is the operating system for next-generation wealth and pension products. We enable financial institutions and trusted consumer brands to launch, sell and service investment and retirement products through a unified platform. Xaver combines an AI-empowered hybrid sales and servicing engine that increases sales efficiency and enables compliant advisory journeys across digital and advisor-led channels and a fully regulated product and asset management infrastructure through Xaver Asset Management to launch and operate modern investment and pension products. Together, this creates an end-to-end platform for activation, advisory, product infrastructure and lifecycle servicing. The result: partners can launch competitive wealth and pension products faster, scale distribution efficiently and operate them at significantly lower cost.

Penzilla integrates with your HR system and digitises all your corporate provision documents. Across all implementation channels. 
Everything from a single source. The all-round carefree package for your pension plan. The integration with your HR system and payroll allows a unique processing of your personal bAV offer for your employees. Once set up, the system takes care of all business transactions through automated and digitalised processes. A connection to your HR system can be established quickly and efficiently. Depending on how complex your existing pension history is structured, we can implement Penzilla for you within a very short time. This allows for very short return-on-investment cycles. Our top priority is always to offer you and your employees the best and most sustainable pension solution - regardless of the implementation path. Also in the administration of old contracts, we can manage and administer all commitments equally.

MYNE Homes – Your dream holiday home, made accessible through Managed Co-Ownership At MYNE Homes, we make owning a dream holiday home affordable and effortless through our innovative Managed Co-Ownership model – offering true real estate ownership, not timeshare. Most holiday homes are only used 6–10 weeks per year, yet buyers are still expected to cover 100% of the purchase price and running costs. That simply doesn’t make sense. With MYNE, 2 to 8 co-owners with complementary usage preferences share ownership of a carefully selected premium property. Each MYNE co-owner holds real equity in the home – starting from 1/8 up to 4/8 ownership shares. You only pay for what you actually use – without compromising on comfort, flexibility, or the holiday experience. All MYNE homes are beautifully furnished by professional interior designers and managed with care by our expert team. Owners enjoy hassle-free stays with access to local concierge services and seamless digital management. We believe in delivering both emotional and financial return. By combining smart technology, high-end service, and a unique ownership structure, MYNE is redefining what it means to own a holiday home.

The Aufinity Group is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe and has a vision of making Autonomous Finance the standard in the automotive industry. With its product brands bezahl.de in German-speaking countries and Aufinity for international markets, order-to-cash processes are digitized and accelerated. The aim is to simplify financial processes so that partners can concentrate on what matters most—their customers, their business, and their goals.

Qonto is the finance solution that creates the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business, and beyond. A few figures about Qonto: - Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi launched Qonto in July 2017 - Qonto’s international team is growing fast and we are actively hiring! - Hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe are already using Qonto - €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels. Legal Notice: 🇪🇺 https://legal.qonto.com/en 🇫🇷 https://legal.qonto.com/fr 🇩🇪 https://qonto.com/de/imprint 🇪🇸 https://legal.qonto.com/es 🇮🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/it 🇳🇱 https://legal.qonto.com/nl 🇧🇪 https://legal.qonto.com/be 🇵🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/pt 🇦🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/at

Penta und Qonto haben sich zusammengeschlossen, um der europäische Marktführer für digitale Finanzlösungen für Selbstständige, Start-ups und KMU zu werden. Innerhalb weniger Minuten kannst Du bei Qonto ein Geschäftskonto online eröffnen und erhältst Zugang zu umfassenden Finanzlösungen – von praktischen Unterkonten mit eigenen IBANs und Debitkarten, einem digitalen Ausgabenmanagement bis hin zur Integration von führenden Buchhaltungsprogrammen wie DATEV. Weitere Informationen findest Du hier: https://qonto.com/de. Du hast Fragen? Dann schreibe uns gerne über LinkedIn oder unsere Website.

The Company ‘bettermarks GmbH’ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Our goal is to improve maths education worldwide. Therefor bettermarks enables personalized maths learning online. » Founded in 2008 by Arndt Kwiatkowski, Marianne Voigt und Christophe Spéroni » Located in Berlin, Germany » Working with a team of more than 80 teachers, content creators and software specialists The Product: Adaptive Learning for Mathematics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • bettermarks is an online solution for learning maths at primary and secondary level, providing a powerful learning experience where students can consolidate their maths skills and achieve “better marks”. Teachers and parents are integrated in the process with a comprehensive set of features and reports. » Over 100 interactive maths books » Covering primary and secondary level (grades 4 - 10; age 10 - 16) » More than 100,000 questions with explanations » Help available for every exercise step » Automatic marking and result evaluation » Available in German, English, Spanish The content created by bettermarks offers state-of-the-art interaction tools, tailored to reach the widest range of learning abilities: » bettermarks offers a learning experience that goes beyond “correct” or “incorrect” » bettermarks analyzes all answers in depth, to detect the root cause of errors and/or to propose alternative resolution paths and improvements, thus guiding each student individually and adaptively » bettermarks helps teachers to manage different ability levels in the classroom

Lecturio is aiming to have a sustainable and positive influence on the education system and landscape. Lecturio is an adaptable learning system and therefore adjusts itself to the individual learning speed of its users. It indicates which topics should be revised and which ones can be considered completed in order to achieve the desired learning outcome. All services can be accessed via PC, mobile phone or tablet, including measuring and checking your progress Lecturio offers online courses on a variety of topics. Students and learning enthusiasts gain the opportunity to revise lecture content digitally in addition to their in-class lectures. Professionals can educate themselves in their area of expertise in an affordable way. Companies can offer training seminars (off-the-shelf and custom) to their entire workforce. With a globally accessible selection of topics, learning for an entire life has become as easy as it can get! Lecturers and instructors can use Lecturio to implement new teaching methods and secure a lucrative income without any additional effort.

Novata is a certified B Corporation that empowers the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. Novata’s technology platform makes navigating the ESG landscape simple for private markets by identifying a clear starting point for selecting the metrics that matter, streamlining data collection, and contextualizing data to drive reporting and action. Novata is backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, Microsoft, Northern Trust, Omidyar Network, and S&P Global. Our mission is to empower the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. We’re building a platform to address the private markets critical and immediate need for simple, yet powerful tools to reduce the burden of collecting, managing, and benchmarking ESG data.

Xaver is the operating system for next-generation wealth and pension products. We enable financial institutions and trusted consumer brands to launch, sell and service investment and retirement products through a unified platform. Xaver combines an AI-empowered hybrid sales and servicing engine that increases sales efficiency and enables compliant advisory journeys across digital and advisor-led channels and a fully regulated product and asset management infrastructure through Xaver Asset Management to launch and operate modern investment and pension products. Together, this creates an end-to-end platform for activation, advisory, product infrastructure and lifecycle servicing. The result: partners can launch competitive wealth and pension products faster, scale distribution efficiently and operate them at significantly lower cost.

Penzilla integrates with your HR system and digitises all your corporate provision documents. Across all implementation channels. 
Everything from a single source. The all-round carefree package for your pension plan. The integration with your HR system and payroll allows a unique processing of your personal bAV offer for your employees. Once set up, the system takes care of all business transactions through automated and digitalised processes. A connection to your HR system can be established quickly and efficiently. Depending on how complex your existing pension history is structured, we can implement Penzilla for you within a very short time. This allows for very short return-on-investment cycles. Our top priority is always to offer you and your employees the best and most sustainable pension solution - regardless of the implementation path. Also in the administration of old contracts, we can manage and administer all commitments equally.

MYNE Homes – Your dream holiday home, made accessible through Managed Co-Ownership At MYNE Homes, we make owning a dream holiday home affordable and effortless through our innovative Managed Co-Ownership model – offering true real estate ownership, not timeshare. Most holiday homes are only used 6–10 weeks per year, yet buyers are still expected to cover 100% of the purchase price and running costs. That simply doesn’t make sense. With MYNE, 2 to 8 co-owners with complementary usage preferences share ownership of a carefully selected premium property. Each MYNE co-owner holds real equity in the home – starting from 1/8 up to 4/8 ownership shares. You only pay for what you actually use – without compromising on comfort, flexibility, or the holiday experience. All MYNE homes are beautifully furnished by professional interior designers and managed with care by our expert team. Owners enjoy hassle-free stays with access to local concierge services and seamless digital management. We believe in delivering both emotional and financial return. By combining smart technology, high-end service, and a unique ownership structure, MYNE is redefining what it means to own a holiday home.

Motive Partners is a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology and technology-enabled business services companies, ranging from early-stage ventures to growth equity and buyout, primarily based in North America and Europe. The firm invests across five primary subsectors: Banking & Payments; Capital Markets; AI, Data & Analytics; Insurance; and Wealth and Asset Management; and Motive Partners portfolio companies benefit from the firm’s fully integrated, proven Investor, Operator, Innovator (IOI) model, which brings together world-class fintech leaders and capabilities with deep industry knowledge, insight and experience. With offices in New York City, London, and Berlin, Motive Partners delivers differentiated expertise, connectivity, and capabilities to create long-term value in financial technology companies. More information on Motive Partners can be found at www.motivepartners.com.