Zimperium

In 2007, our founders Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash had a revolutionary insight: as enterprises moved to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat security model was broken. Legacy network security appliances couldn't protect users accessing applications from anywhere, on any device. So they founded Zscaler with a radical vision - the internet would become the new corporate network, and they would build the world's largest cloud security platform to protect it. They created the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, a platform that secures users, devices, applications, and data regardless of location, eliminating the need for traditional VPNs and firewalls. Today, with more than 160 data centers worldwide and trusted by 40% of the Fortune 500, Zscaler processes billions of transactions daily, using AI and machine learning to stop threats that perimeter-based security never could. Built on a cloud-native zero trust architecture from day one, Zscaler enables secure digital transformation by making security invisible to users while impenetrable to attackers. Our platform combines advanced AI with massive scale to provide cybersecurity, data protection, and identity management in a unified solution. We've grown from a bold idea to a public company valued at over $30 billion, serving the world's largest banks, governments, and critical infrastructure providers. Our culture of innovation attracts top talent who share our mission to make the cloud a safer place for everyone, proving that when you eliminate complexity from security, you unlock productivity and enable business agility at unprecedented scale.

In 2002, entrepreneur Susanne Klatten recognized a critical gap in Germany's innovation landscape: brilliant research from technical universities was often left sitting in labs, never making it to market as viable businesses. Together with the Technical University of Munich, she founded UnternehmerTUM as a non-profit center dedicated to bridging this gap - turning raw inventions into thriving startups that could drive real economic impact. What started as a bold experiment has evolved into Europe's largest center for innovation and business creation, annually supporting over 100 high-growth technology startups and partnering with 500+ established companies. Today, UnternehmerTUM empowers innovation enthusiasts to take entrepreneurial action, addressing society's biggest challenges from climate change to digital transformation. The organization has become an innovation engine that strengthens Europe's competitive resilience, helping established companies and ambitious founders navigate the complex journey from first idea to market leadership. With a focus on deep tech sectors like artificial intelligence, mobility, healthcare, and sustainability, UnternehmerTUM has nurtured successful ventures including Celonis, Konux, FlixBus, Lilium, and Isar Aerospace. The Financial Times has repeatedly recognized UnternehmerTUM as Europe's leading startup hub - a testament to the vision that sparked its founding two decades ago.

We founded Optiveum in 2020 after spending years building tech teams for large global firms. We wanted to create something different - a boutique consultancy where every partnership has a human face. We specialize in IT recruitment, outsourcing, and strategic consulting, helping companies scale their technology operations and access top Central European talent through flexible, transparent cooperation models. Our team brings over 20 years of combined experience in IT recruitment, outsourcing, and consulting across international markets. We maintain a database of more than 15,000 qualified IT and engineering candidates, and we currently serve clients across Poland, Switzerland, Israel, USA, Finland, Sweden, and Germany. We know every professional we represent, and we care deeply about every collaboration we build - because at the end of the day, this work is about people, not just placements.

Nexperia manufactures discrete semiconductors, logic devices, and MOSFETs at industrial scale - the unglamorous components that gate power, route signals, and switch loads in practically every automotive system, industrial controller, and consumer device on the market. The Netherlands-based company runs vertically integrated fabs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, shipping high-volume production optimized for cost and repeatability rather than cutting-edge process nodes. Spun out from NXP in 2017, it inherited decades of Philips semiconductor lineage and now operates with over 15,000 employees focused on keeping automotive and industrial supply chains moving. The security surface is exactly what you'd expect from a semiconductor manufacturer with global operations: SAP and Workday handle ERP and HR, SailPoint manages identity governance, and CyberArk secures privileged access across production and corporate networks. The threat model spans OT environments in fab facilities, supply chain integrity for automotive Tier 1s, and IP protection for wide bandgap devices like GaN FETs and SiC MOSFETs - technology that's increasingly strategic as electrification accelerates. Nexperia's scale means the attack surface includes both legacy infrastructure from its NXP days and newer tooling deployed post-independence. If you're evaluating risk in hardware supply chains or locking down manufacturing IT/OT convergence, this is the environment: high-volume production where downtime costs spike fast, regulatory scrutiny from automotive customers running ISO 26262 and ASPICE, and geopolitical attention on semiconductor capacity. The work isn't flashy, but the dependencies are real - compromise here ripples through automotive braking systems, industrial motor drives, and mobile charging circuits at volume.

ZF Friedrichshafen AG operates 161 production locations across 30 countries, manufacturing driveline systems, chassis components, and active safety technologies for automotive and industrial clients. The threat surface is substantial: a century-old supply chain now integrating software-defined vehicle architectures, autonomous driving stacks, and cloud-connected digital twins for production optimization. With €41.4 billion in sales and 161,600 employees, the attack vectors span legacy SAP and ERP systems, generative AI deployments, and emerging compliance frameworks like ISO 21434 and UN R155 for automotive cybersecurity. The security challenge centers on protecting intellectual property across electrified powertrain development and software-defined vehicle platforms while securing operational technology at scale. Digital twins create new exposure - virtual replicas of physical production lines that, if compromised, could enable supply chain manipulation or industrial espionage. The company's Chassis 2.0 concept and autonomous driving work means defending against both traditional IT threats and vehicle-specific attack patterns: CAN bus exploitation, over-the-air update hijacking, and sensor spoofing scenarios. Technical domains include driveline and chassis technology, active and passive safety systems, and polymer recycling partnerships with firms like BASF. The stack mixes cloud infrastructure, Microsoft tooling, and automotive-grade security standards - UN R155 compliance isn't optional for vehicles entering European markets. Security teams here work at the intersection of industrial control systems, automotive software stacks, and enterprise IT, defending components that end up in both passenger cars and commercial fleets globally.

Zalaris is a leading European provider of HR and payroll solutions, serving more than 1.5 million employees monthly with an annual revenue exceeding €300 million. Recognized by leading industry analysts for demonstrated excellence, the company holds #1 or #2 positions in most of its markets and benefits from over two decades of uninterrupted growth. Zalaris combines global presence with deep local knowledge, delivering seamless HR and payroll solutions to enterprises across 150+ countries worldwide through strategic hubs in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The company operates two distinct lines of business, both 100% focused on HR and payroll technology. Zalaris' outsourcing business offers PeopleHub, an integrated HR and payroll SaaS platform, along with award-winning administration services through Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) or Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). The specialized SAP HCM consulting practice delivers end-to-end support across the full SAP SuccessFactors suite, from strategy and implementation to live system support and optimization. With 25 years of experience powering HR success, Zalaris serves leading organizations such as Nordea Bank, Danske Bank, Ryanair, Roche, GSK, Novartis, Finnair, Eurowings, and Telefonica O2.