As regional governments become increasingly aware of the social and economic threat posed by climate change, population growth and resource over-consumption, there is growing appreciation that improved energy efficiency, reduced use of non-renewable resources and environmental sustainability can only be achieved by successfully developing and harnessing new environmental technology –…
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Since 2010, the Munich startup eGym digitizes the fitness world. NGP Capital, Highland Europe, HPE Growth Capital and Bayern Kapital recently invested another $ 20 million in the company. Which was founded by Philipp Roesch Schlanderer and Florian Sauter. In 2016, the startup already collected $ 45 million. By the…
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The new «IFZ Fintech Study 2019» of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences shows a sizeable growth of 62 percent for the sector in 2018 compared to the previous year. But not only quantitatively does the importance of fintechs increase: The study also notes that the “scene” has become more…
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The London N26 competitor Revolut wants to drive expansion with local teams in 19 European countries, including Austria. Over the past three months, it has increased from three to four million users. In the medium term alone in this country will be a million. Ambitious goals are one of the…
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N26 CEO Valentin Stalf is bursting with self-confidence and wants to “turn one of the largest industries around with the best investors in the world” – the financial sector. If we had slipped the mobile smartphone bank N26 this week in our article N26 versus Revolut still slack 2 million…
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Airbnb, Uber, Slack, but not Stripe. The online payments specialist does not want to follow the other Californian “runaways” – these companies valued more than $ 10 billion – towards the path of the stock market this year. “We will not do IPOs. We are in no hurry and favor…
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There are exactly 30,285 founders who took the step into self-employment in 2018. More and more women as founders A particular trend in new start-ups: the proportion of women climbed to an all-time high of 45.3 percent in 2018. Ten years ago, the share was 40.7 percent. Thus, the Austrian…
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