Tag: Venture capital
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…
Mars mission, internet satellites, rockets: war threatens Europe’s space travel
Ariane 6 rocket The new load carrier is scheduled to take off for the first time in 2023, but the launch has been delayed for years. Now it has to…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Klaus Harisch uses Corona boost to expand
Munich Remote customer service was often in demand during the corona pandemic. “Without a call and service center, we would certainly not have been able to cope with this crisis…
Peter Thiel and politics: The venture capitalists are coming
New York, San Francisco venture capital and politics. Actually, this combination is rarely found in the USA. But that could soon change with the midterm elections in the United States.…
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)…
How the major investor Softbank is struggling for trust
soft bank Softbank is considered a “kingmaker” that turns start-ups into global corporations. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty [M]) Berlin, Tokyo, London, New York “Stop, stop, stop!” David Nothacker and Nicolaus…
Five unicorn founders invest in the software start-up
Munich The list of investors in the software company Remberg reads like a who’s who of the German start-up scene. After the latest round of financing, five founders of start-ups…
How the major investor Softbank is struggling for trust
soft bank Softbank is considered a “kingmaker” that turns start-ups into global corporations. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty [M]) Berlin, Tokyo, London, New York “Stop, stop, stop!” David Nothacker and Nicolaus…
How Gothaer Versicherung wants to become more innovative
Oliver Schoeller The CEO of Gothaer sees the digital transformation of the insurer as a core element of his strategy. Frankfurt According to experts, German insurers made progress in digitization…
Start-up for e-bikes collects 80 million euros
Cowboy Founder Adrien Roose, Tanguy Goretti and Karim Slaoui want to expand with their e-bikes. Munich The bicycle industry is currently very popular with investors. The Belgian e-bike specialist Cowboy…
Healthcare startup Patient21 raises $142 million
Christopher Muhr “We want to bring the healthcare system into the 21st century,” says Muhr. Dusseldorf, Frankfurt “Testicular cancer,” says Christopher Muhr. It is the answer to the question of…
New fund for start-ups in the seed phase
The partners of Cherry Ventures (from left to right): Filip Dames, Alexander Langholz-Baikousis, Christian Meermann, Thomas Lueke and Sophia Bendz run one of the best-known German venture capital firms. Berlin…
Siemens sells traffic technology subsidiary Yunex to Italian Atlantia
Traffic lights at a street crossing Yunex offers intelligent road traffic control solutions. (Photo: dpa) Munich, Rome Siemens is selling its traffic technology subsidiary Yunex Traffic to the Italian infrastructure…
Whether an investment is worthwhile and how it can be successful
Dusseldorf Never before have founders in Germany collected as much money as they did last year. According to the management consultancy Ernst & Young, investors invested almost 17.4 billion euros…
Heating app start-up Tado wants to go public with a Spac deal
Munich The heating app provider Tado wants to go public with the help of a Spac deal. “We can provide the company with solid financing for accelerated growth over the…
Take my money, whatever the price”
The European market is highly attractive for US venture capitalists. In a global comparison, the valuations of start-ups still seem low here, but the opportunities for returns are all the…