Qualifyze from Frankfurt, a trusted company in supplier risk management in the Life Sciences industry, announced $54 million in Series B funding from global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, HarbourVest Partners, H14 and Cherry Ventures. With the new funding, Qualifyze aims to expand its operations into the US market,...
Last Monday’s demo day drew over 400 attendees, included a capturing keynote speech from Dr. Prof. Helmut Schoenenberger and 6 standout teams pitched their startups. The jury comprised of Sabrina Senzel (KfW Capital), Leon Sander (029 Group SE), Lucas Schaubel (DN Capital), Kim Felix Fomm (Raisin). Not all can win, but all startups are to...
Last week Frankfurt School Entrepreneurship Centre hosted its highly anticipated third Demo Day, attracting an audience of over 400 individuals, including investors and entrepreneurial visionaries on the campus. And a Linkedin post that went absolutely viral by Ram Shoham (Director of the Frankfurt School Entrepreneurship Centre). The Entrepreneurship Centre connects founders at Frankfurt School with...
Equipme, the ‘Everything-as-a-service’ enablement platform, has secured $3.8M in a seed investment round led by La Famiglia VC. Other investors include Lightbird, Anamcara and leading business angels like Ignaz Forstmeier, Co-Founder at Personio, and Charlie Songhurst, former Head of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft. While Netflix-like subscriptions and Uber kind on demand services have simplified our...
All six days on site were intensive and strictly planned for the Liberbyte co-founder and the Vice-Chancellor – Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Manaus and Bogota, four cities, two countries, hours on the road and little sleep. This feature was written by Alessandra Schuhmann, and is part of the guest-column “News from TechQuartier”. As a participating startup,...
The expansion of Frankfurt’s unicorn and leading global insurtech CLARK continues: CLARK Group announces the integration of British start-up Anorak. The transaction enables the Group to grow further and strengthens its presence in the important UK market. Anorak is the perfect fit to complement the brand portfolio and an addition to the digital broker journey...
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...