“Founders, overconfidence is good!” Somewhere in Bonn, in a small pub near the Friedensplatz: Around 20 guests between the ages of 25 and 70 sit comfortably together with jazz music and a glass of wine. But instead of lasagne or steak, instead of knives and forks, every guest has brushes,…
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Banking via smartphone, car insurance per kilometer driven, interest rate comparisons for overnight money: German founders are banking on new business ideas on the Internet. International donors bring them much trust. German financial startups raised money at record levels for their digital businesses at the beginning of the year. In…
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Thousands of pitch decks of hopeful founders end up in the mailboxes of investors every year. And especially in the first rounds of financing, recipients often see chaotic decks. Good presentations are not rocket science! They should cast potential investors directly under their spell and not attract attention by unnecessary…
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At the end of January, the investor network was the first startup on the Vienna Stock Exchange (as Trending Topics reported). At that time, the reference price was 10.00 euros. On Wednesday, the price fell temporarily to 5.88 euros and the end of March, the shares had reached their all-time…
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Ex-Kreditech boss Sebastian Diemer has invested. The venture capitalist B10 also. And the business angels Thomas Knaack, Florian Huber, and Marcus Ewald also participated in Bullet. 500,000 euros came together in the pre-seed round a year ago. Now the operation of the Digital Post startup is discontinued, as it announced…
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The startup investor Rocket Internet recently found no companies in which he wanted to invest in a big way. The capital cushion was on 28 February at two billion euros, as Rocket announced on Thursday. This corresponds to the value of the end of October. All in all, Rocket, whose…
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Berlin-based startup Wirelane receives the Red Dot Award for its specially developed charging station. The international design award Red Dot has been identifying the best products of each year since 1955. In 2019, designers and companies from 55 countries submitted more than 5,500 products to the competition. Wirelane CEO Constantin…
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Peter Thiel is a startup investor and an agitator at the same time. In an interview, the billionaire now rails against conformism in Silicon Valley – and has bad news for Berlin. Paypal founder and billionaire Peter Thiel has again swung the verbal lobe against Silicon Valley. “The likelihood that…
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At the end of 2017, Google invested in the Viennese startup StreamUnlimited. Now, the company itself acquires shares in IoT specialist guh BmbH, which offers a solution for the Internet of Things with nymea.io. StreamUnlimited, which specializes in audio streaming and voice assistant solutions for consumer electronics, is gaining 20…
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The Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalusia held today at its headquarters a conference on “New opportunities for financing companies” which was opened by the Secretary General of CEA, Luis Fernández-Palacios, and the Director General of Analysis, Planning and Economic Policy of the Junta de Andalucía, Esperanza Nieto. Within the framework…
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