Tag: Venture capital companies
German founders in the toughest accelerator in the USA
san francisco Airbnb, Stripe or Dropbox: The renowned start-up forge Y Combinator has produced some of the most valuable companies in the world. The Silicon Valley organization has funded around…
German founders in the toughest accelerator in the USA
san francisco Airbnb, Stripe or Dropbox: The renowned start-up forge Y Combinator has produced some of the most valuable companies in the world. The Silicon Valley organization has funded around…
Why more female capital is also more worthwhile
business angel On average, female founders generate more sales with their start-ups than their male competitors. (Photo: imago images/Addictive Stock) No, the book Female Money is not another book with…
A start-up culture should develop at universities
Dusseldorf The founding story of Jerome Lange, Marco Trippler and Lasse Steffen shows how much potential can arise at universities: They quit their student jobs in order to set up…
Schenker Ventures finds first investment
The founders of Warehousing1 The logistics service provider has been able to win Schenker Ventures as a new venture capitalist. Pictured: Nico Szeli, Nils Aschmann and Fabian Sedlmayr (from left).…
20-year-old receives 15 million euros for fintech
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Max Linden is 20 years old, has just dropped out of his economics degree after four semesters and is now receiving 15 million euros. Investors from venture capitalists…
Insurtech Wefox could increase the valuation significantly again
Frankfurt, St Gallen The “all-hands” meeting with his employees is still having an effect on Julian Teicke. A high double-digit number of employees at the Berlin insurance start-up Wefox have…
Millions of Microsoft users as customers
Bastian Nominacher The co-head of Celonis has just completed his fourth acquisition: PAF with 40 employees now belongs to the Munich company. (Photo: German Future Prize) Dusseldorf The Munich-based data…
German tech start-up wants to expand in the USA
Dusseldorf Jenny von Podewils and Kajetan von Armansperg have one mission in common: With the help of software and artificial intelligence, they want to establish a positive feedback and learning…
Popular takeover targets – especially in the US
German startups North American companies in particular were already interested in German start-ups in 2021. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Frankfurt. Innovative companies from Germany are right at the top of the…
Andreessen Horowitz joins Fintech in Berlin
Emre Talay, Orkhan Abdullayev and Nicolas Thouzea (left to right) The Payrails founders were largely responsible for processing payment transactions at Delivery Hero. Now they are starting their own company.…
Scalable Capital now has over 500,000 customers
Scalable Capital office space The fintech has been able to increase the number of customers by 67 percent to over 500,000 customers since July of last year. (Photo: picture alliance…
The Ukraine war and shaky stock markets are affecting financial start-ups
Frankfurt Neobank Penta needs money again. The Berlin company wants to collect 40 million euros. But it could be one of the first financial technology start-ups to feel that money…
Despite rising interest rates, many billion-dollar deals are expected with financial investors
Financial district in Frankfurt The activities of financial investors in Germany have been increasing for years. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt. The prospect of rising interest rates will not have a significantly…
Otto and Beiersdorf support impact funds
Dusseldorf With his platform, Christian Albrecht offers a possible solution to an urgent problem in the health sector. Few clinics are digitized, the processes mostly outdated and slow with paper…
The unicorn becomes a herd animal – Europe’s start-up scene becomes an alternative to big tech
After that, Europe has a good chance of becoming the new shooting star in the AI sky. We still have significantly fewer unicorns on the continent than the USA or…
Flixbus investor HV Capital launches first “continuation fund”
Dusseldorf The start-up investor HV Capital is bringing a new financing model to the German venture capital market: His company has “set up the first continuation fund in the German…
Ten billion euros for European tech start-ups
Paris France’s Minister of Finance and Economics, Bruno Le Maire, has spoken out in favor of greater independence for Europe when it comes to financing young companies in the field…
Softbank profit plummets 87 percent
soft bank The Japanese tech giant is currently going through difficult times. (Photo: AP) Rio, Tokyo The global slump in tech stocks has hit Softbank, the world’s largest tech investor,…
Start-up financing: millions for German venture capitalists
Start-up Funding Measured in terms of economic power, the market for venture capital in Germany and Europe is significantly smaller than in the USA or Great Britain. (Photo: imago images/MASKOT)…