Tag: Venture capital companies
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…
Volkswagen participates in energy investor EIT InnoEnergy
Volkswagen The automaker will build more electric cars in the future. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt / Hamburg Volkswagen is joining forces with the European energy investor EIT InnoEnergy in the transition…
Why many are currently collecting millions
Yokoy founder The founding team with Philippe Sahli (second from left) and Melanie Gabriel (center): On a growth path in Germany. (Photo: Oliver Hochstrasser / yokoy) Zurich For a long…
Lakestar toying with package tours after Hometogo-IPO
Berlin After the IPO of its portfolio company Hometogo, the finance company Lakestar, led by Klaus Hommels, is again looking for investment targets in the travel industry. “We are currently…
The founders lack the staff
Start-up The shortage of skilled workers is increasingly becoming a problem for young entrepreneurs. (Photo: imago images / MASKOT) Berlin The “German Startup Monitor” has good news and bad news…
The founders lack the staff
Start-up The shortage of skilled workers is increasingly becoming a problem for young entrepreneurs. (Photo: imago images / MASKOT) Berlin The “German Startup Monitor” has good news and bad news…
The founders lack the staff
Start-up The shortage of skilled workers is increasingly becoming a problem for young entrepreneurs. (Photo: imago images / MASKOT) Berlin The “German Startup Monitor” has good news and bad news…
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…
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.…
The technologies of the future lack capital
Berlin CO2 storage, synthetic kerosene, chargers for e-cars – many political hopes rest on the technologies of the future. Fighting climate change describes the exploratory paper by the Greens, FDP…
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:…
Enpal becomes the first green unicorn in Germany
Enpal More and more people are investing in building a solar system on their own home. Dusseldorf The solar start-up Enpal doesn’t have that many customers. Or a lot of…
Energy storage start-up Stabl Energy gets fresh money
The founding team The founders of Stabl Energy from left to right: Martin Sprehe, Arthur Singer, Christoph Dietrich and Nam Truong. (Photo: STABL Energy GmbH) Hamburg A winner of the…
Medical technology industry of the future: Is it worth investing?
In the first half of 2021, German start-ups were able to secure more capital than ever before: Almost 7.6 billion euros flowed into the start-ups. In the second half of…
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…
Gisbert Rühl is planning an IPO in Frankfurt
Gisbert Rühl The aim is to take over a start-up valued at between EUR 500 million and EUR 1.5 billion. (Photo: ddp images / Sven Simon) Düsseldorf, San Francisco He…
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
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…
Gorillas investor Christophe Maire launches food tech fund for 100 million euros
Dusseldorf Christophe Maire has a nose for disruptives. As the first investor, he believed in the business model of the Gorillas express delivery service. In summer 2020 he joined the…