Roland Pieper

Favonius Ventures (Favonius) is a European venture capital firm which was founded by Roel Pieper and Jan de Jong in 2001. In 2006 ABN AMRO Capital, the private equity business unit of ABN AMRO Bank NV, transferred management of their technology investments to Favonius. Based in Amsterdam and London, the firm was established to make venture capital investments in technology companies.

Oblicore, Inc. provides service level management software. Its flagship product, Oblicore automates, activates and accelerates the monitoring, reporting, and management of the service portfolio and service level agreements for enterprises and service providers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Eclipse Aviation Corp. manufactures and sells jet aircrafts. It applies modern electronics systems, manufacturing, and business practices to produce aircraft that cost half that of small jet aircraft. The company was founded in 1998 by Vern Raburn and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

Pursuit Dynamics Plc is an industrial engineering company. It engages in the developing and commercializing the PDX platform technology across a broad range of industries. The company provides energy efficient solutions to strategic industrial applications using the unique patented PDX reactor and atomizing technology improving output and reducing the use of natural resources. Pursuit Dynamics develops its technology both through its own internal research and development facilities and working together with external partners. The company was founded by John G. M. Heathcoat on March 8, 2001 and is headquartered in Huntingdon, the United Kingdom.

Part of Open Text Corp., Unix System Laboratories develops computer operating systems. The company is based in Basking Ridge, NJ. Unix System Laboratories was acquired by Micro Focus (US), Inc., a SUB of Open Text Corp. from AT&T Corp. /Old/ on June 21, 1993 for $286 million.

Part of Nokia Oyj, UB Networks is a networking hardware and software service vendor. The American company was founded by Robert Santore. UB Networks was acquired by Alcatel Networks Corp. from Tandem Computers, Inc. on January 21, 1997 for $100 million.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.