Alexander Schmitz

Develops, manufactures and commercializes medical devices for heart surgery and intensive care treatment

Develops intraosseous nerve ablation systems to treat chronic back pain

Develops automation solutions for pharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturing products

Operates as a medical device company

Develops medical devices for treating lung diseases

Develops electro medical devices to treat gastrointestinal neuromuscular disorders

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

EV develops a long-term investment strategy with their entrepreneurs. Their investment objective is to grow firms and to create a market leader in a new field. They focus on developing businesses active in industries including information technology, biotech, medtech and cleantech. They concentrate on various stages such as early to expansion-stage as well as spin-offs and restarts. Their geographic focus is pan-European. Specifically, their technology-sector investments are concentrated in Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and Portugal. Beyond these countries, they also consider taking a co-lead or a syndicate role. For their life sciences investments, they primarily target Switzerland, France and Germany. Four key investment criteria they consider before investment are hyper-growth market potential, world-class technology, capital efficiency and ambitious management team. EV's preferred role is to be lead investor or possibly co-lead. They also consider being syndicate partner on some occasions. EV's investment horizon is generally 10 years, with that timeframe extended for firms in hyper-growth stage. On average, their investments typically take five years to mature. The majority of their exits are through a listing in one of the main markets while many of the VC-backed firms are acquired.