please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . november 2013 the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources hydra ventures news newspapers books scholar jstor free images july 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message type private ownership industry venture capital founded 2011 headquarters herzogenaurach germany products venture capital website www.hydra ventures.com hydra ventures is an investment and business development firm that creates and develops new consumer brands in the apparel footwear and sports related areas . 1 it is basically formed as a venture capital fund but has the full backing of adidas . 2 the managing director is tom montgomery who was formerly head of corporate strategy at adidas . besides adidas ceo herbert hainer and adidas cfo robin stalker the board includes duncan fitzwilliams founder of nash fitzwilliams 3 and toby hoare ceo of jwt europe . 4 references edit http www.businessweek.com magazine multinationals venture into startup investing 07052011.html bloomberg businessweek june 2011 http business.transworld.net 67923 news adidas funds sustainability focused vc firm transworld business july 2011 http www.nashfitzwilliams.com team.htm http www.sginews.com ems base ems excerpt.aspx ttargeturl content adidas will back venture fund for startups.aspx sgi news july 2011 external links edit hydra ventures company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hydra ventures & oldid 662208662 categories venture capital firmscompanies of germanyhidden categories orphaned articles from november 2013all orphaned articlesarticles with topics of unclear notability from july 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 may 2015 at 21 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view