Good news for investors and startups: According to Statista, the global ones were Venture capital investment of $ 274 billion. 2018 was a record year. However, it is no great achievement that the proportion of women in top positions in venture capital (VC) is still below ten percent worldwide. A…
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Green startups find it harder to attract investors and funding opportunities because short term expected return on capital is often lower. The real added value of a green startup will only be apparent after some time. The focus of investors in green startups should therefore not be on short-term return…
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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 creativity, time, diligence or a strong founding team you can rely…
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Two years ago, the major Swiss insurance company Baloise Group founded digital car insurance Friday in Berlin. Now investing 75 million euros in the daughter. In addition, the startup of Sevenventures and German Media Pool will receive a media-for-equity deal worth over 39 million. Means: While the investors take over…
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Like few other insurers, Baloise is committed to a digitization strategy and invests in a wide variety of startups. The latest engagement in the founding scene of Berlin makes sense. Two years ago, Baloise founded a fintech in Mitte of Berlin, which specializes in digital car insurance. As was heard…
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N26 sets new standards within the banking industry when it comes to flexibility in terms of cash withdrawal or deposit. In Austria, in addition to the approximately 8,600 ATMs, the cash desks of the drugstore dm, the supermarkets Billa, Merkur, and Penny are now available. In total, the possibility of…
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CO2 emissions, equal opportunities, human rights, corruption – companies have a strong influence on these issues. Often they are in the middle of it. Unlike conventional “sustainable” investment (also known as SRI, socially responsible investment), impact investing not only avoids the biggest offenders. Instead, you can invest in impact investing…
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The sleepwear manufacturer Smartsleep has completed a seven-figure round of financing. The money comes from Media Ventures, the investment company of the Cologne publishing house Ströer, and is provided to the company based in Eckrath near Dusseldorf as an advertising budget. Ströer gets in return shares in Smartsleep. How many,…
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet. Through its investment fund, Bezos Expeditions, and together with investors The Craftory, Kaszek Ventures and Maya Capital announced the investment of US $ 30 million in NotCo, a Chilean startup. This is the first time that The Craftory and…
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In the past few months, Nico and Christina Poletti as well as Andreas Schuierer, the founders of Cluno, have collected around $ 36 million. Investors of the Munich startup are heavyweights such as Valar Ventures, the investor of Peter Thiel, Acton Capital Partners and Atlantic Labs. Behind Cluno hides a…
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