Tag: startups
Unicorns in green: Sustainable start-ups in Germany
Traceless Materials packaging The rotting outer packaging can end up in the compost. (Photo: Traceless Materials) Dusseldorf Green is trendy, including among German start-ups. According to the Green Start-up Monitor…
Unicorns in green: Sustainable start-ups in Germany
Traceless Materials packaging The rotting outer packaging can end up in the compost. (Photo: Traceless Materials) Dusseldorf Green is trendy, including among German start-ups. According to the Green Start-up Monitor…
Layoffs at startups continue
Taxfix app Around 120 employees have to leave the Berlin company. (Photo: Taxfix) Berlin The wave of layoffs in the German start-up scene continues. In the past few days, the…
How Sosafe frustrates hacker attacks
Berlin Sosafe knows how cyber criminals operate. And the Cologne start-up uses its knowledge to prepare companies to defend against digital attacks. “We want to improve the safety culture in…
How So Safe thwarts hacker attacks
Berlin So Safe knows how cybercriminals operate. And the Cologne start-up uses its knowledge to prepare companies to defend against digital attacks. “We want to improve the safety culture in…
US special forces order drones from start-up
Reconnaissance drone from Quantum Systems The Vector drone was developed for military purposes: Ukrainian soldiers are already using it, and a special unit of the US armed forces has now…
The number of start-ups is falling again – these are the causes and consequences
Berlin After a slight recovery in 2021, the number of business start-ups in Germany fell again last year by nine percent to 550,000. This is the result of the new…
Klaus Hommels: Lakestar investors had no disadvantage
Klaus Hommels The start-up investor is fighting for its reputation. (Photo: Hometogo, Revolut, Lakestar, Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf Klaus Hommels found himself in need of explanation. Over the years, the…
German unicorns become the founding forge
Delivery Hero According to a study, a particularly large number of new start-ups have emerged from the Berlin food delivery service. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Make 165 out of 25: That’s…
Verena Pausder succeeds Christian Miele
Dusseldorf/Berlin According to information from the Handelsblatt, the Federal Association of German Startups will have a new chairperson. After almost four years as CEO, Christian Miele does not want to…
Verena Pausder succeeds Christian Miele
Dusseldorf/Berlin According to information from the Handelsblatt, the Federal Association of German Startups will have a new chairperson. After almost four years as CEO, Christian Miele does not want to…
Climate start-ups collect record sums
Dusseldorf, Berlin Larry Fink already announced it a year and a half ago: “The next 1000 billion dollar start-ups will be created in the field of climate tech,” said the…
The customers’ money is as good as gone
Failed solar car Sion “Driven by the sun” was the advertising slogan, which was not entirely correct. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Munich electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for…
The customers’ money is as good as gone
Failed solar car Sion “Driven by the sun” was the advertising slogan, which was not entirely correct. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Munich electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for…
Investors for start-ups are taking courage again
Frankfurt The financiers of the German start-ups are regaining confidence for the future. This can be seen from the investor barometer, which is compiled jointly by the KfW development bank…
Are Thousands of Crowd Funding Platform Contracts Ineffective?
Berlin An investor in the Hamburg cloud start-up Protonet has won a victory in the Dresden Regional Court that could have far-reaching consequences. The operator of the crowd-funding platform Seedmatch,…
Head of e-scooter provider is preparing for consolidation
Various e-scooters are parked in a collective car park in Düsseldorf Voi is active in 29 cities in Germany. (Photo: IMAGO/Michael Gstettenbauer) Berlin In the spring, the e-scooters race across…
Tech investor Softbank mitigates losses from stock sales
Tokyo One of the world’s largest tech investors has struggled to avert a record loss. The Japanese company Softbank, which maintains two billion-dollar financing funds, announced a minus of the…
“The next 1000 unicorns will be green tech companies in the broadest sense”
Better Ventures co-founder Tina Dreimann “I’m convinced the next 1000 unicorns will be green tech companies in the broadest sense.” (Photo: Better Ventures) Frankfurt The venture capital market has come…
How start-ups harvest electricity from the sea
Visualization of a wave power plant The movement drives generators, which in turn produce green electricity. (Photo: Corepower) Munich Patrik Möller, CEO and co-founder of the Swedish start-up Corpower Ocean,…