1998 headquarters london munich z rich products venture capital number of employees 25 website www.wellington partners.com wellington partners is a pan european venture capital firm with some 800 million under management and offices in london munich and zurich . the firm invests in young companies throughout europe mainly in the areas of technology life sciences and digital media e.g. interactive tv gaming web 2.0 . history edit in 1991 rolf dienst founded wellington partners after he had built one of the first and still one of the largest german venture capital firms tvm capital during the 1980s . in 1998 wellington partners closed its first fund wellington partners i. two years later the firm closed its second fund on 210 million . after considering suggestions from investors wellington partners initiated its first pure technology fund with 150 million in 2004 and its first life sciences fund in 2006 . at the beginning of 2008 the company closed its latest technology fund at 265 million . external links edit wellington partners bundesverband der kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften crunchbase gr nderszene references edit v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wellington partners & oldid 701568221 categories venture capital firms of the united kingdom 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 deutschsuomi edit links this page was last modified on 25 january 2016 at 08 25 . 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