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The Austrian Finnest and the Finnish platform Invesdor are pooling their offerings to offer more different services in online financing. A new giant emerges among the European providers for online investments: The Austrian Finnest GmbH and the Finnish Invesdor Oy are merging their businesses and forming the new Invesdor Group.…
53 percent more financing rounds and 63 percent more money raised send a strong signal to the Austrian startup scene. The startup scene in Austria continues its financing boom This becomes clear from the Startup Report Austria 2018, which is published annually by GetFunding.how and analyzes the Austrian funding activities…
Investors still believe in the potential of young European entrepreneurs and their ideas. This emerges from a study by the consulting firm Ernst & Young, which was published today. Accordingly, investors put record amounts in European startups last year. The big winners are Parisian startups. In the past year, investments…
medbelle Mutschler Ventures, Cavalry Ventures and various business angels invest an undisclosed amount, but certainly a seven-figure sum, in the British startup medbelle. The company, which was founded in 2016 and is also based in Berlin, is positioning itself as a “digital hospital – an end-to-end platform for medical procedures”.…
Investor Michael Bornhäusser wonders that in Switzerland you only ever hear about financing rounds in the startup sector, but never about successful exits. There is silence in the forest, he says in this interview. Mr. Bornhäusser, you have already started various club deals. Why only abroad and mainly in the…
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…
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…
The key moment, says Marcella Hansch, was a dive on Cape Verde. Something touched her body and terrified her. However, it was not fish that grazed her, but plastic. Then she noticed that there were more of them around her than fish. From the experience came the idea for a…
Over the past few years, many startups have started to look after real estate investments. The Hamburg-based company Exporo, which started in 2014, now sees itself as the “market leader for digital real estate investments in Germany”. “Since its inception, we have financed more than 170 projects, raised more than…
Jens Schumann, co-founder of the online lottery platform Tipp24, has been investing in startups for several years now. “Even if it sounds a bit hackneyed: My investment strategy is team, team, team. A good team can also make a bad product successful by adapting it to the respective market requirements.…