Portfolio
Our Projects as of Q1-2010
Free Media Group B.V. (aka IEX)
Hollands largest Financial Portal, ZEP runs it and is 40% shareholder. Partners are: Peter van Sommeren and Hunter Media. We've turned FMG into an industry leader. Brands include: iex.nl, debeurs.nl, depers.nl, eurobench.com, esquire.nl, fhm.nl
Free Media Group is a new media publishing company fusing print and online content in multiple businessmodels: advertising, deep partnerhips and integrated e-commerce.
+ www.iexmediagroep.nl
Trilab B.V.
At Trilab our technology people spend their time on our internal projects as well as third party clients. Trilab offices are integrated with ZEP's, so you could say that Trilab is the technical core of ZEP. We own 65% of it, our co-shareholders are Rene van der Meijden, Marc Laros and Eric Spaans.
+ www.trilab.com
Dutch Development B.V.
Started in 1999 Dutch Development is a now full fledged real estate development and architectural company, specialised in small to medium sized residential developments. A recent project is the exclusive 12 appartment development in Scheveningen, project zeerust. As of Q1 2007 we own 100% of DD. Since inception, DD has realised more than € 25 mioworth of real-estate. We utilize Dutch Development for our growing portfolio of ocean-front villa's on the canary islands. Current focus is on developing sites for EasyHotel Benelux, a joint venture with English entrepreneur Dan Metcalfe aimed at opening EasyHotels in the Benelux.
+ www.dutchdev.com
EBI Food Safety B.V.
Together with entrepreneur Mark Offerhaus we executed the buy out of this bio-technology startup. In 2006 we started the worlds first commerical PhageProductionCenter in Wageningen. In June 2007 EBI Food Safety B.V. received full FDA approval for its listex product. Through Eco Investment Partners B.V. we are a substantial shareholder.
+ www.ebifoodsafety.com
ZEPCAM.COM B.V.
Started as in idea in 2002; first proof-of-principle prototype in 2003 (check out this test footage); In 2008 Bart van der Aa stepped in as CEO and co-shareholder to accelerate the project. We've developed a robust and best-of-class electronics product platform.
PowerDNS.com B.V.
Leading DNS software company. Together with Bert Hubert we've taken one step back from mainstream DNS implementations and started from scratch to build the perfect DNS platform. PowerDNS software is now responsible for an estimated 20% of world internet DNS request (notable users: Wikipedia, OpenSRS, Deutsche Telecom, Google...) Check out here
+ www.powerdns.com
Jippy.com B.V.
Jippy.com is the worlds largest Friends and Family News service. It is a viral concept that we started in 1999 as an online birthday calendar system. During the dotcom meltdown of 2000-2002, we stopped development but kept italive. Currently there are more or less 1 million users inthe jippy database. Given all the myspace.com / facebook.com hype, we relaunched it with some fresh ideas and new angles. Still working on it to get back in the race. Not easy ;-)
+ www.jippy.com