Once the German online payment service provider was more valuable on the stock market than the Deutsche Bank. The supervisory authorities are now considering Wirecard, which also operates in Switzerland, as the trigger for a conflagration – and are stepping in. This has never happened before. The Federal Financial Supervisory…
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Lavinia Rosen has done it. In 2007 she graduated from high school at Torgelow Castle, today she is an art dealer and gallery owner in Hamburg. It was not yet listed in the startup monitor, because this statistical survey of the founders in Germany has only existed for five years.…
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The British fintech will begin its international expansion in Ireland, France, and Germany. Starling Bank, one of the new digital banks operating in the United Kingdom, today announced that it has raised 75 million pounds (85 million euros) in its latest round of financing. Some 60 million come from the…
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Lime should collect media reports in a new round of financing $ 400 million. Two years after launch, the e-scooter startup would be worth about two billion dollars. The competing e-scooter startups Bird and Lime are among industry watchers, among the fastest growing companies of all time. According to Bird,…
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The German company Evonik acquires the American technology start-up for 3D printing materials Structured Polymers Inc., based in Austin, Texas. A corresponding purchase agreement and takeover plan have been signed and the transaction has recently been completed. The acquisition gives Evonik access to a new patented technology that will enable…
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The start-up location Germany is thriving: young companies from the fields of e-commerce, software and analytics, FinTech, mobility and health in particular were able to record high investment amounts again in 2018. Berlin is ahead in a comparison of countries, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia in fourth place. In order to…
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After the first investment announcements of startup300, capital300 or the aws Gründerfonds, the focus fund Speedinvest i (short for “Industry”) is starting the new year with a round of financing. Together with “strategic partners” a million sum will be pumped into the Stuttgart startup drag & bot. The spin-off of…
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The Düsseldorf-based company auxmoney financed over half a billion euros in new loans in 2018 via its marketplace. As a result, the volume of loans increased by 74 percent compared to the previous year. Overall, the largest credit marketplace in continental Europe made new loans totaling € 551 million last…
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TV formats such as “The Cave of the Lions” on VOX give you the feeling that everyone in Germany is starting a startup and employees are now rather boring and exotic. But if you look at the facts, a different picture becomes visible. According to KfW there were 1,548,000 founders…
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N26 got new money from the US and Singapore. The young company wants to expand into the USA. N26 has received a large amount from international donors. The financing round brings the young company around 260 million euros, the Handelsblatt learned. According to the report, this is the largest amount…
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