TBG
AG, named for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group (), is a private
venture capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...
firm based in
Zurich,
Switzerland. The company is the investment arm of the
Thyssen-Bornemisza family and is chaired by
Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza,
the eldest son of noted industrialist and art collector
Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
Hans Heinrich August Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (13 April 1921 – 27 April 2002), an industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title and heir to a German fortune, a long-time resident of Spa ...
.
TBG's CEO is Christoph von Grolman.
Associated entities include TBG Holdings (
Bermuda
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), Favorita Investment (
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
),
Conscientia Investment (Malta), TBG Limited,
and Urvanos Investments Limited.
Holdings and acquisitions
In April 2017 TBG acquired US-based weather and data analytics firm
DTN, purchasing it from
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automatio ...
for approximately $900M.
In September 2018 it acquired Netherlands-based weather company
MeteoGroup for an undisclosed sum.
Subsidiary TBG Holdings purchased a majority stake in Italian valve maker Petrolvalves in 2015.
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External links
TBG AG - Handelsregister, Zürich
References
Companies based in Zürich
Swiss companies established in 2014
Thyssen family
Venture capital firms