Tag: Start-ups
Start-ups: Financing record – yet there is still a lack of money
Julian Teicke (left), Verena Hubertz, Klaus Hommels The Wefox founder, the SPD politician and the investor are campaigning for better start-up financing. (Photo: Wefox Group, Carolin Lauer, Lakestar [Montage]) Berlin…
Apollo mega loan for Softbank
Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank In December alone, Softbank invested in numerous companies. (Photo: AP) Frankfurt. The credit market apart from the traditional banks is growing into new dimensions. The…
Hedge fund Elliott makes a profit of 200 million euros
Dusseldorf Paul Singer is known to German companies as tough, patient and successful. Be it the merger of the real estate groups Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia, the redevelopment of the…
That is the secret of CommerzVentures’ success
Commerzbank The venture capital subsidiary CommerzVentures was founded in 2014 by ex-boss Martin Blessing and has brought its parent company profits of several hundred million euros in recent years. (Photo:…
That is the secret of CommerzVentures’ success
Commerzbank The venture capital subsidiary CommerzVentures was founded in 2014 by ex-boss Martin Blessing and has brought its parent company profits of several hundred million euros in recent years. (Photo:…
That is the secret of CommerzVentures’ success
Frankfurt Anyone who invests in start-ups needs good nerves. When an investor referred him to the American company Marqeta in 2015, CommerzVentures co-boss Stefan Tirtey wrestled with himself for a…
The EU wants the unicorns – but Great Britain gets them
Last week, Apple’s market cap cracked the $ 3 trillion mark. That was more than the entire German stock market on that day. The digital revolution was an American one.…
German food tech start-up from Berlin becomes a unicorn
Infarm Growing Center A greenhouse module from Infarm needs 40 square meters – it should deliver the same crop yield as 10,000 square meters in conventional cultivation. Düsseldorf, Berlin With…
Remote-controlled taxi start-up raises $ 84 million
Dusseldorf With remote-controlled cars that move through city traffic, the Berlin start-up Vay wants to invent a completely new type of taxi. To this end, the company has found new…
Oatsome wants to roll up the breakfast market with smoothie bowls
Munich You don’t have to come from the food industry to establish a new product in the breakfast market. Philipp Reif and Tim Horn were IT specialists at Deutsche Bank…
Kraft Heinz takes over German spice start-up Just Spices
Founder of Just Spices Just Spices is to be continued as an independent company by the founders Ole Strohschnieder, Florian Falk and Béla Seebach (from left). (Photo: obs) Dusseldorf At…
SellerX buys KW-Commerce: takeover at Amazon consolidator
London, Düsseldorf SellerX buys KW-Commerce. But who is actually taking over whom here? Here is the 16-month-old start-up with a good 300 employees. There the almost ten year old company…
Start-up for CO2 emissions Planetly sells to US company
For many in the start-up scene, it should come as a surprise what the founders Anna Alex, 36, and Benedikt Franke, 38, are now announcing: They are selling Planetly to…
How deep-tech companies compete for government funding
Paris, Düsseldorf Aude Guo is developing a high-tech insect breeding program with which the world’s population can be fed in a climate-friendly way. Daniel Metzler wants to secure strategically important…
Employee participation: Europe’s start-ups are catching up
Dusseldorf The employees should also benefit from the many new billion-dollar valuations for start-ups in Europe: founders are allocating more and more company shares to their employees, shows an analysis…
The new power of the founders
Start-up founders (from left) Christian Hecker, Hung Dang and Nicolas Julia The founders’ bargaining power vis-à-vis investors is greater than ever. (Photo: Trade Republic, Y42, Getty Images) Lisbon, Berlin In…
The new power of the founders
Start-up founders (from left) Christian Hecker, Hung Dang and Nicolas Julia The founders’ bargaining power vis-à-vis investors is greater than ever. (Photo: Trade Republic, Y42, Getty Images) Lisbon, Berlin In…
In this way, you can earn money with your e-car on the side
Dusseldorf Anyone who buys an electric car not only benefits from a purchase bonus: From January 2022, one can even earn money with electric cars every year. Because private individuals…
Female Catalyst Fund – Gesa Miczaika & Bettine Schmitz
Dusseldorf Elisa Hertzler has come one step closer to her vision of being able to offer digital continuing education content quickly and easily throughout Europe. Not only because the founder…
Teamviewer competitor: Anydesk announces major financing round
Dusseldorf In the second year of the corona pandemic, more happened on the market for remote access software than was expected: While Teamviewer, the stock market star of last year,…