Current EEP Portfolio companies:  

CMC Biopharmaceuticals
PacketFront
Prenax
Transmode
Whatsonwhen (successfully exited in October 2006 ) 

CMC Biopharmaceuticals (www.cmcbio.com)
CMC Biopharmaceuticals A/S ("CMC") is a Contract Manufacturing Organization ("CMO") located in Denmark, providing high value-added services to the world’s pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. These services include process development, scale-up, and production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient ("API") protein material for pre-clinical, phase I, II, III and smaller commercial quantities. CMC was founded in March 2001 and today has strong managerial, commercial and scientific teams. In late 2003, CMC completed its state-of-the-art, 8,500m² biopharmaceutical pilot plant in Gladsaxe (just outside Copenhagen) and production began at the new facility in Q2 2004. Today, the Company employs more than 150 staff and services large, medium-sized and small biologics companies in the US and Europe.

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PacketFront (www.packetfront.com)
PacketFront develops and sells unique integrated end-to-end solutions for providing Ethernet-based broadband services (up to 100 Mbps) (including "triple-play") over an IP-based fibre network for residential users and small businesses. The Company was established in Q2 2001 by a core team of engineers from B2 Bregbandsbolaget, the Swedish IP-based operator, and sales executives from Cisco. PacketFront's solutions enable operators to offer differentiated service packages as well as pay-on-demand services to end-users regulated by conditional access service provisioning. PacketFront's customers are typically the owners of the last-mile rights-of-way ie. Local utility distribution companies, building owners and municipalities, who install Ethernet-based networks for their customers.

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Prenax (www.prenax.com)
Prenax provides web-based subscription management services of domestic and international publications (newspapers, magazines and other information sources) to companies, institutions and authorities. Prenax has over 1,200 customers, primarily in the financial, media, IT and pharmaceutical industries. These businesses have a great need for a wide variety of publications, making the administration regarding subscriptions quite considerable. By taking complete responsibility for the administrative tasks related to subscriptions, Prenax saves its customers time and money. The Prenax service includes customized management reports, consolidated invoicing and a single point of contact for all subscriptions. Prenax provides 24 hour, 7-day access to a database of over 250,000 titles from all over the world. The company was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Sweden.  It also has offices in London, Paris, New York and San Francisco.

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Transmode Holding (www.transmode.com)
Stockholm-based Transmode develops, markets and sells intelligent Optical Networking Systems based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing ("WDM") technology for the transport of data, voice and video traffic within and beyond Metropolitan Networks. The Company was established in 2000 and the first commercial installation of its Coarse WDM ("CWDM") system was in February 2001. Industrialisation and certification of the product were completed at the beginning of 2002 and the Transmode system is now running at several operators in Europe and the US. The Company has registered and filed a significant number of patents and is pursuing an extensive IPR strategy. The team has expertise in datacom and telecom networking, optical technologies and network management. In 2005, Transmode merged with Lumentis, a Stockholm-based company founded in 2000 by a top-level team of engineering professionals who had formerly been working with Ericsson's optical networking unit. The merger was an important step in the execution of Transmode's "Roadmap" in moving from being solely a CWDM vendor to being an integrated supplier of "metro access solutions" including Dense WDM ("DWDM") systems.

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Whatsonwhen (www.whatsonwhen.com)
Whatsonwhen ("WoW") is the leading UK multi-platform publishing company specialised in time and location specific leisure, entertainment and professional events content (20,000 leisure and 1,500 business event articles in 130 countries). The company sells factual and editorial content primarily to travel companies, carriers, portals, mobile operators, ISPs and travel guide companies. WoW licenses its content through co-branded hosted solutions or XML feeds across all platforms (e.g. interactive TV, wireless, internet, print, and video) to its clients. The company's revenues consist of (i) licensing its proprietary content, (ii) bespoke content written for clients, (iii) technical and event-related consultancy. WoW was founded in May 1999; the site was launched in October 1999 and the Company currently employs 20 full-time staff in London and a network of freelance journalists around the world. The Company was successfully sold to John Wiley & Sons Inc. in October 2006.  (Please click here to see press release ). 

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