In Cologne, it is a good place to live, celebrate and start up. Recently, there were also some startups and Grownup, which have attracted attention through millenary financing rounds or extensive seed investments. Here again some exciting Cologne startups and Grownup, who are on the way to the top. Including ArangoDB, which could collect just 10 million dollars.
ArangoDB
Bow Capital and Target Partners recently invested $ 10 million in the young Cologne startup ArangoDB. Founded in 2014 by Claudius Weinberger and Frank Celler, the company offers an OpenSource NoSQL database. As part of the financing round, the startup moved its headquarters from Cologne to San Francisco. The software and product development will continue to take place in Cologne. ArangoDB has already collected $ 17 million. “With the financing round, we want to expand our global customer base and double the capacity in the US, our fastest growing market,” says co-founder Weinberger.
SoSafe
The well-known financier Global Founders Capital, part of Rocket Internet, has just invested in the young Cologne startup SoSafe. The young startup “tests, sensitizes and trains employees in the correct handling of cyber attacks”. In the self-description of the young company states: “Our goal: To prepare you and your employees through simulated phishing tests and accompanying materials for cyber security in the best possible way to cyber attacks and to train the right way to deal with it. So that your data really remain YOUR data “. SoSafe is led by Niklas Hellemann, Lukas Schaefer and Felix Schürholz.
WaschMal
Miele Venture Capital, the investment arm of the home appliance group, recently invested again in the young Cologne-based startup WaschMal, a pick-up and delivery service for textiles and linen. Founder Stefan Büssemaker describes his project as “Lieferando for the cleaning industry”. Unlike its big competitors, the WaschMal team does not rely on its own vehicles and its own drivers, who pick up the dirt from the customers. WaschMal only places orders with laundries who already have their own delivery fleets. “WaschMal offers a driver app to dry cleaners, which makes it possible to automatically route the drivers,” Büssemaker explains the concept.
grid scale
Endeit Capital, EnBW New Ventures, EnjoyVenture with the BLSW seed and growth fund and the High-Tech Gründerfonds have just invested 7 million euros in the Cologne startup gridscale, an infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a provider. service solutions. The fresh investment should flow into the international growth and the continuous development of the platform. gridscale was founded in 2014 by Henrik Hasenkamp, Michael Balser and Torsten Urbas.
m.Doc
The Stuttgart publishing group Thieme recently joined m.Doc. The Cologne-based company operates a digital health platform designed, among other things, to improve communication with patients and treatment processes during treatment. For example, m.Doc merges data from different systems. Interfaces make it possible, among other things, to connect to hospital information systems, electronic patient records and qualified applications. “With Thieme, we have a partner on the side who is closely networked in the healthcare sector and maintains a high-quality treasure trove of information,” says m.Doc founder Admir Kulin.
Enerthing
NRW.Bank has just invested in the Cologne startup Enerthing together with the Smart Energy Innovation Fund of the Swiss energy service provider Energie 360 and other former shareholders. Founded in 2016 by Michael Niggemann, the young company is positioning itself as a developer of photovoltaic technology that is “optimized for challenging lighting conditions” and as a developer of asset tracking applications and indoor navigation. The startup wants to free the Internet of Things from batteries and establish “completely new possibilities for the digitization of processes”.