Bayern Kapital GMBH

bayern kapital gmbh (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the lfa foerderbank bayern (bavaria‘s development bank). bayern kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications and expansion of the market share. the requesting company has to be located in bavaria. industries are e. g. it/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems & environmental technologies. bayern kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of eur 340 m. the five investing funds currently managed by bayern kapital are: seedfonds bayern, clusterfonds start-up!, innovationsfonds, innovationsfonds efre and wachstumsfonds bayern. partner of seedfonds bayern is often the high-tech gruenderfonds, bonn (www.htgf.de). the co-investing funds always cooperate with an independent private investor a co-operating private investor (investment company, business ange