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Compagnie Benelux Participations SA (Cobepa) is an indepndant private equity firm, a subsidiary of Cobehold SA founded in 1957. The firm is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in New York, New York and Munich, Germany.

Henri Essers en Zonen Internationaal Transport NV engages in the provision logistics solutions. It offers transportation, warehousing, value added services, systems and solutions, forwarding, customs, and railport services. The firm serves the chemical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, general and air cargo, infrastructure, and food feed industries. The company was founded by Henri Essers in 1928 and is headquartered in Genk, Belgium.

Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV (PMV) is a private equity/venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Region of Flanders founded in 1995. Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen NV is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Part of Rosier SA, Rosier Nederland BV is a Dutch fertilizer company that works in long term partnerships with farmers in 120 countries all over the world. The company is based in Sas van Gent, Netherlands. The company proposes high quality fertilizers for optimal plant nutrition management to contribute to sustainable and efficient food production on the planet. Rosier began as a family business in 1880 with superphosphate production in Moustier and since 2013, Borealis has been actively strengthening Rosier’s market position through better feedstock integration as well as a more diversified and competitive product range. The CEO of the company is Willy G. A. Raymaekers.

IMEC VZW (Private Equity) (IMEC) is a operating division of Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum VZW founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

BIO NV, trading as Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries, is a private equity & venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Government of Belgium founded in 2001. BIO NV is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Apitope International NV develops therapeutic vaccines. It operates as a bio-pharmaceutical company that engages in developing peptide therapies. The firm specializes on the discovery and development of revolutionary disease modifying therapies for treating autoimmune and allergic diseases, including multiple sclerosis, and Graves’ disease, FVIII intolerance and uveitis. The company was founded by David Wraith in 2002 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Complix NVengages in the development of biopharmaceutical company developing Alphabodies, a pipeline of transformative protein therapeutics. The Company is currently focusing its internal research and development activities on oncology and autoimmune diseases. Its therapeutic Alphabodies focuses on the treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and multiple sclerosis, and infectious diseases, and viral diseases such as influenza, HIV, and RSV. The company was founded by Mark Vaeck and Ignace Lasters in 2008 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Founded in 1967, Mijnen NV is a Belgian company that provides photocopying, document preparation, and other office support services. Part of Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij NV, the company is based in Hasselt, Belgium.

Enex NV is a Belgian company that specializes in renting and leasing cars and light motor vehicles. The private company is based in Lommel, Belgium and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company was founded in 1986 and is led by CEOs Noel Essers and Hilde Essers.

H. Essers Transport Co. engages in the provision of personalized and integrated transport and logistics solutions. It offers transport services, including temperature-controlled, dangerous goods, container, high-security, air freight, and exceptional transport. The company was founded on September 2, 1998 and is headquartered in Genk, Belgium.

Part of Elia Group SA/NV, Elia Asset SA engages in power generation and distribution services. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2001. The CEO is Christiaan Peeters.

Blackfin Capital Partners SAS (Blackfin Capital Partners) is an independent Private Equity firm founded in 2008 by Eric May, Paul Mizrahi, Bruno Rostain, Laurent Bouyoux. The firm is headquartered in France, Paris with additional offices in Brussels, Belgium, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Amakem NV operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It uses kinase inhibitors for treatments of bowel, eye, and lung diseases. The company was founded by Jack Elands, Dirk Leysen, Olivier Raynald Defert, and Nadya Kaval on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in Diepenbeek, Belgium.

50Hertz Transmission GmbH provides electric transmission services. It offers balancing group management services, renewable and compensation energy services, and offshore extensions to systems. The company was founded in September 2002 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Eurogrid GmbH provides electric services. It invests in electric utility assets and provides support services. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Huktra NV provides logistic services. It offers fleet, tracking and tracing equipment. The company was founded by Roland van Poucke in August 1976 and is headquartered in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Man @ Thewheel BVBA is a business and Belgian management consulting company founded in 2004. The private company is based in Lommel, Belgium and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company provides consulting services to businesses.

Eurogrid International CVBA invests in electric utility-related companies and provides support services to customers. Its services include internal audit, financial consolidation, reporting, contract consulting and project management. The company was founded on March 3, 2010 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

icometrix NV provides software as a service for medical image analysis. It engages in the advanced quantitative image processing of human as well as animal data sets, including multi-modal and multi-subject image registration (PET/CT, PET/MR, and CT/MR), volumetric measurements, group analysis of diffusion weighted and tensor images, functional MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, atrophy measurement, automatic and semi-automatic tissue segmentation. The company was founded by Dirk Loeckx, Wim Van Hecke, Paul Suetens, Stefan Sunaert, Paul M. Parizel, Frederik Maes and Jan Sijbers in 2011 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

EPEX Spot SE operates physical short-term electricity markets. The company was founded on September 17, 2008 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Ontoforce NV creates and implements pioneering technology for information flow and management. Its disQover connects internal and private data with external and public information. The company was founded by Hans Simon Constandt in 2011 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Part of Borealis AG, Borealis Chimie SASU is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers. The company is based in Courbevoie, France and currently has around 6,800 employees operating in over 120 countries. In 2018, Borealis generated EUR 8.3 billion in sales revenue and a net profit of EUR 906 million.

Part of Borealis AG, Borealis France SAS is an investment holding French company. The company is based in Courbevoie, France. The CEOs of the company are Benoît Taymans and Jan-Martin Nufer.

C-Mine Crib NV operates a creative hub. It has a college that offers artistic graduation programs, an incubator for young entrepreneurs, a cultural center, a design center, and a cinema. The firm supports starting and young creative companies in their start-up and development by offering specialized guidance, coaching, and accommodations. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Genk, Belgium.

Corda Incubator provides incubator services. The company offers professional training and coaching services. Corda Incubator is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.

H. Essers Railport NV engages in the provision of rail transportation services. The company was founded on May 29, 1995 and is headquartered in Genk, Belgium.

UgenTec NV develops laboratory software. The firm delivers an independent diagnostic platform to help molecular labs with DNA (PCR) analyses. The company was founded by Tom Martens and Wouter Uten on April 30, 2014 and is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.

Ancoa Software Ltd. develops financial software. It services include AlertView provides a case management solution for investigating alerts, marketView offers a real-time dash board to markets, TradeView provides graphical view of the trading information, OrderView allows users to reconstruct and play the order book at any time, ReportView provides easy reporting capabilities and DataView provides access to the underlying market data. The company was founded by Andrew Louth and Stefan Hendrix in 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Hammer-IMS NV provides industrial measurement solutions based on the technology of wireless millimeter waves. The firm serves plastic sheet, paper processing, plastic cast film extrusion, synthetic foam extrusion, glass-fiber based composites, glass production, textile coating, and wood panels and boards industries. The company was founded by Tom Redant, Noel Deferm, Michiel S. J. Steyaert, Patrick Reynaert, Marian Kristien Helena Verhelst, Georges Gielen, and Robert Marcel Oscar Puers in 2016 and is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.

Part of Man @ Thewheel BVBA, Zephyress BVBA is a Belgian company that produces and distributes electricity. The company is based in Maasmechelen, Belgium and was founded in 2009.

Opdorp Finance BVBA operates in the finance industry. The private company is based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Droneport NV provides training services for military and aviation industries. The firm operates as a incubator that connects entrepreneurs in the drone industry. It offers accommodation options in various formulas in combination with test and flight areas, meeting rooms and workspaces. The company is headquartered in Sint-Truiden, Belgium.

H Essers Real Estate Co. NV is a Belgian company that was founded in 2013 and engages in the rental and operation of non-residential properties. The private company is based in Genk, Belgium.

Part of Elia Group SA/NV, Eurogrid International NV is an investment holding Belgian company that provides business management and computer consulting services. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium and was founded in 2010.

Huktra International NV is a Belgian company that rents residential real estate properties. The private company is based in Brugge, Belgium. The CEOs are Gert Bervoets, Hilde Essers. The company was founded in 2002.

Polymer Team NV is a market-leading company based in Tessenderlo, BE that specializes in the production and sales of atactic polypropylene (APP) and isotactic polypropylene (IPP) compounds for bitumen modification. The private company was founded in 1994 and prides itself on combining customized product development, technical support, and flexible service to be a reliable partner for your PP compounding projects or toll manufacturing. The Belgian company also offers a range of IPP compounds for injection molding and extrusion applications. In addition to compounding, Polymer Team is also active in trading of polymers.