[Berlin, GERMANY] Together with their VC group IVC Venture Capital AG, five
technology companies financed by IVC will be exhibiting at the “Internet
World Fall 2000” trade fair in New York (October 23-27). At stand 4641 on
Level 1, IVC will present itself together with the top start-ups global
words, global remote, MSG/Canbox, snacker, and SymplOn. According to the
trade fair organizer Internet World Media Inc., IVC will be the only German
venture capital group at the new economy trade fair. The goal is to help
German start-ups in their search for U.S. partners as well as to support them
in the recruitment of American specialists.
IVC is the initiator of VentureLab, the self-declared breeding ground
for Internet start-ups in Germany. The initiative is sponsored by
alando/eBay’s founding team of Marc Oliver and Alexander Samwer, the
German Internet Industry Association, the Silicon City Club, the
European Business School (EBS), the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of
Management, and the University of Frankfurt (e-commerce chair). The
first VentureLab teams such as snacker, Yopass, and ProfessionPark are
supposed to be entering the market now.