Frankfurt When the top managers of billionaire private equity funds gather in Berlin this week for the Super-Return Conference, some will wonder whether the world’s most important meeting place for the industry is still rightly named. A whole range of stress factors is putting pressure on the business model of financial investors. The long phase … Read more
Düsseldorf The topic of greenhouse gas quotas creates covetousness. Since the beginning of the year, every owner of an electric car has been able to receive an annual bonus. Anyone who drives electrically saves emissions and can sell this saving – the so-called greenhouse gas quota or GHG quota – for around 300 euros to … Read more
Julian Teicke (left), Verena Hubertz, Klaus Hommels The Wefox founder, the SPD politician and the investor are campaigning for better start-up financing. – (Photo: Wefox Group, Carolin Lauer, Lakestar [Montage]) – – – – Berlin Never before have investors put so much money into German start-ups as in 2021. By September it was around 12.4 … Read more
Frankfurt The success of the Covid-19 vaccine developer Biontech has brought new attention to German biotech companies. However, regardless of the success of Biontech, the industry has again moved more into the focus of venture capitalists, even if financing and production are still more difficult in Germany than in the USA. The cancer specialist is … Read more
Start-up Young tech companies fail less often in Europe than in the USA. – (Photo: plainpicture / Mascot) – – – – Düsseldorf International venture investors are increasingly interested in young European technology companies – for good reason: The start-ups are now more attractive to investors than US start-ups. This is shown by a data … Read more
Katrin Alberding and Clemens Raemy The founders of Kenbi operate six outpatient care services with a total of 85 nurses and around 400 patients who are cared for using their own app. Foto: Kenbi – – – – – Berlin Kenbi founder Clemens Raemy was working on a project in South America when his grandmother … Read more
– Isar Aerospace The rocket manufacturer Isar Aerospace has collected a further 75 million euros from investors and sees it as “the first launch of a German launcher” secured. Photo: – / Isar Aerospace / dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – The company announced on Wednesday in Munich that there were already customer … Read more
– In the first nine months, 20 financial start-ups were also taken over, shows the paper available to the German Press Agency. For the year as a whole, this would translate into 26 fintech takeovers, a decrease compared to the record figure of 31 in 2019. “The Corona crisis led to a lot of uncertainty … Read more