After having invested in 28 start-ups over the past 4.5 years, Backbone Ventures is now raising a dedicated fund targeted at founders in Germany and Switzerland that combine an underprivilegedbackground with a history of outperforming their competition. Backbone Ventures announced today the first closing of its 5502 Fund. The fund geographically focusing on Germany and...
Unsere Founders' Sandwich Pilotfolge ist endlich da! Den Beginn macht Maraja Fistanic von LegalTegrity.
Frankfurt-based fintech Agora Innovation GmbH secures another six-figure financing for its iVE.ONE product in the Pre-Series A round.
Today we are presenting Talina Müller and The Candleporn. Talina is a student at EBS, a university in Oestrich-Winkel, and founded a startup alongside her studies. The Candleporn, sells candles made from beeswax and soy wax and is on a mission to change our world sustainably so that we don’t have to compromise between design...
Democracy ought to be progressive. Else, it perishes. When you combine democracy and philanthropy, however, the mental image of a promising tomorrow starts to take shape. Meet Vidya Munde Müller, the entrepreneur who is shaping that image for the corporate world, bit by bit, as she realises her dream of bringing technology and philanthropy together....
Frankfurt’s FinTech Agora Innovation, with its iVE.ONE platform, has brought a stock corporation to the Blockchain for the first time in the European Economic Area. With the tokenization of registered shares of WeStyle AG, iVE.ONE reaches another important milestone for alternative financial instruments on the blockchain. WeStyle Aesthetics AG, a workspace provider for entrepreneurs and...
Soon it´s time again: On September 17, 2020 the FinTech Germany Award will be presented to outstanding Fintechs for the sixth time. More than 200 startups have applied, of which exactly 43 have been shortlisted. Some from FrankfurtRhineMain also made it to the final round. The companies are honored in various categories from “Early Stage”...
Most of us entrepreneurs have lost ourselves from the true purpose of innovation – according to my guest today Nelson Javier Mejia – an Innovation enthusiast and entrepreneur from El Salvador, who moved to Germany 10 years ago. Nelson is one of the most active members at WeWork Labs in Frankfurt. That’s where we met...
After her son almost drowned, Mynia Deeg decided to take responsibility for the water competence of her family and started teaching him all the essentials. Soon she realized also other parents have a need for more flexible and individual swimming classes and she founded the online swimming school SWIMSTART. We spoke to entrepreneur Mynia about...
Our new interview series with Founder Institute, a local platform of the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator that roperates across 185+ cities with a $20B estimated portfolio value, continues! In February 2020, the first Frankfurt cohort has officially ended, and the result was eight graduates. With the deep- dive interviews you get to know the founders,...