Asset management is under pressure. In addition to challenging market conditions, growing competition from low-cost index products is also undermining the margins of fund providers. Last but not least, end users make demands: they want to invest independently. FinTech cooperation offers customers added value. Although the global financial industry has…
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A Spanish fintech closes one of the largest rounds of financing in the sector so far. Pagantis, former Digital Origin, has raised 66 million euros from three funds to finance its international expansion. Son Prime Ventures, SPF Investment Management, a recent spin-off of Credit Suisse and Rinkelberg Capital Group. This…
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As part of our retrospective review of “Chinese E-Auto Start-Ups: That’s what they did in 2018”, we had already made the following statement in the room: “You can be sure that we will hear more from WM Motor in 2019” and this seems to be true now. Because, as the…
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Zenloop As announced, the investment is now official. Nauta Capital and Piton Capital are investing 5.2 million euros in the Berlin-based software startup Zenloop, a software-as-a-service provider. The company was founded in 2016 by the then Flaconi founders Paul Schwarzenholz and Björn Kolbmüller. According to the company, the number of…
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Usually banks buy fintech companies because of their innovations. For once it is the other way around, this bank should now belong to a fintech. They have been working together for a long time, the Berlin Fintech Raisin and the Frankfurt MHB Bank. Because Raisin operates the fixed-term platform Weltsparen,…
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Having a suitable investor can be really easy with these steps The business idea stands. Maybe a company has already been founded, or your startup is already making first sales, but now wants to really get started in the growth phase. Most of the time, the limiting factor is not…
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The delivery service secures a high investment from the US to conquer more cities. Now the Münsteraner have to prove that they fix points of criticism. With 50 million euros in fresh capital, the beverage delivery service wants to advance Flaschenpost from Münster to other cities in Germany. Thus, Bremen…
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The Berlin startup Orderbird, which specializes in cash register systems, is to receive a capital injection in the tens of millions. In addition, ex-Leica CEO Kaltner will be the new chairman of the supervisory board. Reaching investors is the new black The Berlin startup Orderbird, which specializes in iOS checkout…
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The Berlner FinTech Smava is for sale. “Buyout group Vitruvian is putting German consumer credit online platform Smava up for sale, people close to the matter said” – reports Reuters. How much could Smava ask for its shares? The purchase price is 500 million US dollars. British private equity firm…
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Successful start-up promotes new investor funds Since its founding five years ago, the Fintech Start-Up Weltsparen has provided investments of EUR 10 billion to partner banks. Investors currently receive up to 1.25 percent interest on a one-year fixed-term deposit with the interest rate portal; in times of low interest rates,…
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