# Smac Partners

> Smac Partners is a VC fund in Unterhaching backing Mobile and Software. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Unterhaching, Germany
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Dec 2010
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last fund: Oct 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.smacpartners.com

Smac Partners is a VC fund in Unterhaching focused on Mobile and Software. Smac Partners focused on early-stage ICT technologies and services of start-ups. The investment geographies are mainly Europe and Israel, with leverage of a global network.The secondary investments provide highly flexible customised solutions to optimise the value of single assets or entire portfolios of corporate and institutional venturecapital companies.In 2001 they started with Siemens Mobile Acceleration as a corporate venture arm of Siemens Mobile. In 2006 they performed a secondary transaction of the total Siemens fund with the new name Tempo Park Fund 1. smac | partners advises the fund with originally more than 30 ICT early-stage investments in the USA, Asia, Europe and Israel.In 2007 smac partners executed a typical tail-end secondary venture capital transaction by acquiring a portfolio from Vertex Venture Capital, Israel. This fund, smac partners Fund II, comprises nine ICT portfolio companies.In 2008 smac partners closed its third fund in 3 years, smac partners Fund III, and so far has acquired stakes in 10 ICT-companies in Finland, Israel and USA.Their exceptional background and remarkable global network in the ICT industry and relevant communities substantially underpins smac | partners’ passion for “leading entrepreneurs to success”.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $4.6M–$9.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 7 | 27% |
| Software | 7 | 27% |
| Wireless | 4 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 15% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 11 | 42% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series D | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 38% |
| Israel | 4 | 15% |
| Germany | 3 | 12% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dietrich Ulmer | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-dietrich-ulmer |
| Ingo Potthof | Partner and Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-ingo-potthof |
| Oliver Kolbe | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-kolbe |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mobixell Networks | Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptionaluser experience.Mobixell has dozens of deployments around the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, XLcom, TIM, and Telefonica. Founded in 2000, Mobixell has offices in the US, UK, and Israel, and presence in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, India, Indonesia, and China. | $10M |  | Dec 13, 2010 |  |
| Oversi Networks | Oversi is an Israeli OTT (over-the-top) caching and content delivery company. Oversi offers a multi-service platform for accelerating delivery of OTT content, including Internet video, P2P (peer-to-peer) and other media applications. Oversi's video cache and P2P cache solutions enable service providers to cope with the huge traffic load ontheir networks while improving subscribers' QoE (quality of experience). By assuring QoE, Oversi's solutions open up new monetization opportunities and facilitate the delivery of tiered services, increasing ARPU (average revenue per user). Oversi systems are deployed in service provider sites around the world. The Company has offices and representatives in EMEA, the US, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. For more information, please visit their web site, www.oversi.com. | $4.9M | Series C | Oct 18, 2010 |  |
| Alchip | Alchip Technologies, Inc. offers silicone design and manufacturing services for complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs.With the increase of the complexity of IC design technology and the demand of pushing products into the market, Alchip is dedicated to provide resolution schemes with the highest cost-benefit ratio for clients,making sure that clients can tape out successfully once and push their products into the market quickly, and it is committed to transcending clients' expectation of product quality, reliable service, and timely production in large numbers, becoming the best silicon design service partner of clients. |  |  | Jan 01, 2010 |  |
| BCD Semiconductor | BCD Semiconductor Corp. markets and sells analog and mixed signal interface circuits. Its products include linear regulator interface circuits, AC/DC and DC/DC switching converters, standard linear interface circuits, motor drivers, and audio power amplifiers. BCD Semiconductor Corp. is based in Fremont, California. BCD SemiconductorCorp. operates as a subsidiary of BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited. |  |  | Jan 01, 2010 |  |
| Actelis Networks | Actelis Networks is the leading provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can bedone by using fiber optics or microwave.The company was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Fremont, California. | $10M |  | Sep 09, 2009 |  |
| nLIGHT | nLIGHT is a technology company that manufactures next-generation fiber lasers based on the industry-leading diode and fiber technology and vertically integrated global operations. Primary end markets are industrial technology, microfabrication, defense, and medical. The company's semiconductor lasers are the industry’s brightest and operateat unique wavelengths and power combinations. Their high-power continuous wave fiber lasers provide significant advantages over legacy fiber lasers for programmability, serviceability, and reliability. They engage with customers early in the design cycle and use a platform approach to product development to optimize semiconductor and fiber laser solutions to meet customer requirements.nLIGHT was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. | $10.8M | Series D | Jan 26, 2009 |  |
| Mobixell Networks | Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptionaluser experience.Mobixell has dozens of deployments around the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, XLcom, TIM, and Telefonica. Founded in 2000, Mobixell has offices in the US, UK, and Israel, and presence in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, India, Indonesia, and China. | $6M | Series D | Jul 08, 2008 |  |
| Airwide Solutions | Airwide Solutions is a global leader in providing mobile infrastructure software to enable, enhance and ensure mobile communications for over 70 wireless operators worldwide. Airwide Solutions was founded in 2004 following the merger of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions (MSG) and Taral Networks. Airwide Solutions has a rich tradition of innovation;it sent the first commercial SMS (short message service) in 1992 and deployed the first A2P (application-to-person) MMS push gateway in 2004. Airwide Solutions has regional offices in England, Canada, India, Australia, Singapore and the United States. |  |  | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| CRF Health | CRF Health develops electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) solutions for home and site-based phase I-IV clinical trials for various therapeutic areas and patient populations in the United States and internationally. Its eCOA solutions include Patient Reported Outcomes, Observer Reported Outcomes, and Clinician or Rater Reported Outcomes.CRF Health also provides TrialMax Touch, a handheld diary that patients at home or the caregiver use, TrialMax Slate that is designed for use by clinicians and caregivers on the study site, TrialMax Web, a web-based diary that is primarily designed for late phase trials, TrialStudio that enables the client to design and adapt eCOA questionnaires, TrialManager, a role-based online portal that provides instant visibility to patient-reported data; medical device integration solutions, and TrialMax Synapse that links TrialMax to eClinical systems. Moreover, CFR Health offers project management, collaborative design, data management, real time trial management, data collection networks, and patient-facing helpdesk support services. It provides its solutions for central nervous system, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, infectious disease, pain, respiratory, and vaccine studies for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Timo Ahopelto, Jarkko Joki-Tokola and Jaakko Ollila founded CRF in 2000, which became CRF Health, with its headquarters in Plymouth Meeting in Pennsylvania. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Romania. |  |  | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| Olive Software | Olive Software develops and markets an enterprise level content management platform for publishers and libraries, featuring an automatic transformation of new and printed publications to XML, long term digital archiving, and powerful multi-media electronic publishing system. The platform offers multiple vertical applications driven from a singleworkflow and single XML repository. |  |  | Jan 01, 2008 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Smac Partners invest in?

Smac Partners invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Wireless startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Smac Partners's check size?

Smac Partners typically joins rounds of $4.6M–$9.3M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Smac Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Smac Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Smac Partners?

The team at Smac Partners includes Dietrich Ulmer (Managing Partner and Co-Founder), Ingo Potthof (Partner and Co-Founder) and Oliver Kolbe (Managing Partner and Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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