Tag: Venture capital
Berlin start-up Mambu receives $ 4.9 billion valuation
Eugene Danilkis The Mambu boss founded the fintech together with Frederik Pfisterer and Sofia Nunes in 2011. (Photo: Mambu) Düsseldorf, Frankfurt The Berlin financial technology start-up Mambu is now valued…
Atomico introduces State of European Tech
Dusseldorf They have reached their billion dollar valuation in record time and have something in common: The four fastest unicorns in Europe all come from Berlin. The fabulous companies valued…
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…
The start-up founders are finally in charge
New relationships It is good that start-ups can now choose their financiers and that founders have the say over their companies. In Europe’s start-up scene, the situation is being straightened…
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…
$ 100 million for air taxi from China
Munich, Düsseldorf A German investor makes the next huge deal in the hotly contested air taxi segment: Lukasz Gadowski and Team Global are investing 100 million dollars in the Chinese…
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…
Start-up The Exploration Company plans spaceship
Dusseldorf Hélène Huby wants to go to the moon and back. More precisely, she wants to build a spaceship that can do this. “In the first mission we will fly…
These women are involved as business angels
Female business angels Beate Fastrich (volnur), Claudia Nagel, Gwendolyn Schröter, Patrizia Schützenhöfer, Verena Pausder, Cornelia Hörl and Katja Ruhnke. Dusseldorf At some point Luisa Dames couldn’t hear it anymore: When…
Siemens is negotiating with bidders about the Yunex traffic light technology division
Munich Siemens is pushing the sale of its traffic light technology division Yunex and, according to financial circles, has selected five bidders who can submit a binding offer until shortly…
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…
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…
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.…
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:…
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…
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…
Eight Roads starts with $ 450 million & Europe funds
digitalization The money is to flow into 15 to 20 companies in the tech industry. (Photo: obs) Frankfurt The global venture capitalist Eight Roads is launching a new fund with…
Climate-Tech: Venture capitalist Wenger: “Governments must fight climate change with 50 percent of GDP”
Union Square Ventures’ partner talks about investments in the new climate fund. The expert also classifies the high ratings in the start-up world. .source site