Tag: Start-ups
Nykaa, Paytm & Co .: These Indian tech companies are inspiring investors and Silicon Valley
India’s tech startups are having their best year ever. Investors bet billions on their growth. German donors also benefit. .source site
Start-ups in society & politics: let’s talk!
Baby boom in the German unicorn herd: In the first half of the year, eight newcomers joined the young companies with a valuation of more than one billion dollars. This…
Legal reform necessary: Germany needs fiduciary property
Germany needs a new legal form – a “society with tied assets” (GmgV) – I made this public demand a year ago together with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Michael Otto…
Capital for retirement and start-ups
In the context of the geostrategic disputes between the USA and China, the desire for European political and economic sovereignty is currently on everyone’s lips. But this also requires a…
Intelligent technology against climate change
Berlin It was another disaster summer. Huge forests burned down in California, and large areas in Siberia and the Mediterranean region were also in flames for weeks. It should not…
Europe is bursting with new start-ups
Web Summit Chief Paddy Cosgrave At this year’s edition of his huge trade fair, he sees promising developments in Europe above all. (Photo: imago images / NurPhoto) Hardly anyone noticed…
Start-ups: Despite the currency crisis: Turkish tech companies collect record sums
Economic crisis? Not in the Turkish tech sector. Start-ups on the Bosphorus received more than a billion US dollars in 2021. This is also due to the weak lira. .source…
World Fund wants to put 350 million euros into sustainable companies
Dusseldorf Most funds look to their investments for the chance of high returns. In the emerging market for air conditioning technologies, however, many are pursuing a completely different strategy. Like…
Start-ups in Germany: Funding could unleash entrepreneurial spirit
How does Germany become a start-up country? The McKinsey experts call for better use of the potential of start-ups. Her thesis: If things continue as before, only around 2,900 start-ups…
How screenwriters become entrepreneurs
Dusseldorf Oliver Ziegenbalg is a career changer, so to speak. The son of a family of mathematicians initially studied business mathematics before he discovered his love for film in a…
Tech start-ups offer the quality that was there in Germany
Dusseldorf Erotic shop founder Lea-Sophie Cramer, heating engineer Max Viessmann and soccer world champion Mario Götze have one thing in common: They have entrusted their money to the Visionaries Club.…
Start-up-Award: University Challenge 2021: Das sind die Finalisten
Die Jury hat die zwölf Finalisten nach den Kriterien Gründungsteam, Beschreibung der Innovation und Produkt und Marktchancen ausgewählt. Dabei wurden Fragen gestellt wie: Wie strukturiert und einzigartig ist das Geschäftsmodell?…
Sabine Engel wants to conquer the market with decaffeinated coffee
Sabine Engel “I am an entrepreneur with passion and love to always start from scratch and get ideas ready for the market.” Munich Sabine Engel has just survived the greatest…
With operating system for the cloud to the unicorn
Aiven Investors rave about the Finnish start-up: “Hardly any development-intensive deep-tech company has achieved such impressive hypergrowth with so little capital as Aiven,” says Earlybird founding partner Hendrik Brandis. Photo:…
Japan attacks – with German help
Tokyo When the world exhibition begins in Osaka in four years’ time, several start-ups want to usher in the air taxi business – including the German company Volocopter. “The aim…
Earlybird wants to find the best university spin-offs
Dusseldorf It could be the beginning of a great success story: As students in Potsdam, Jerome Lange, Marco Trippler and Lasse Steffen have jointly developed software for large construction sites…
Scandal in the VW supervisory board – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
In general terms, electromobility is the key to the future of automotive engineering. The apologists’ eyes always light up when it comes to the “clean” way of moving forward. But…
Risk capital: “Corona shock shaken off” – investment managers are on record course in Germany
The venture financiers see good investment opportunities in German start-ups in particular. Globally, however, there are the first skid marks on the market. .source site
Airfarm’s digital platform for farmers
Founder Hubertus Mai The founder used to work for the software company SAP – meanwhile, with his start-up, he has returned to the subject of agriculture. Munich Many farmers have…
Personio becomes the second most valuable German start-up
Munich It was only in January that the personnel software start-up Personio managed to become a unicorn valued in billions. Founder Hanno Renner has now reached the next milestone: In…