FinTech Germany – Fintech Startups, Banking Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™

EUR 100 million · Executive Summary The European · Circular Bioeconomy Fund — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) is a venture capital fund consisting of both public and private investors. It focuses on driving the transformation to a bio-based, sustainable economy throughout Europe. This venture underlines the EU's commitment to its Green...

Executive Summary We · DEEP Ecosystems · Munich. Today — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. We are back with quarterly cooperation with DEEP Ecosystems research from Munich. Today we talk about a few highlights of their extensive 2022 report. Our current impression is that the VC market could start a new cycle from the lows of Q4 2022. We already see a new uptick in seed investments...

Executive Summary The · Dr. Fritzi · Geib — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. The kfw surveys each quarter around 450 investors for this barometer, so it is one of the broadest and most reliable indicators of the current mood of private market investors in Europe's largest economy. In this episode, we have Dr. Fritzi Köhler-Geib, the chief economist of kfw, as a guest. She introduce...

$15M · $130 million · Welcome — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to our February 2023 wrap-up with the important news from the startup scenes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 30 minutes or less 🙂. We follow our top-down structure in the news: First the top news, then we look with a bird’s eye view at the startup ecosystem in the German language countries, dig deeper...

Happy · Chinese New Year · Rabbit — Regtech & Compliance on FinTech Germany. Happy 2023, as well as a happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. 2023 Chris and Joe will again bring you startup news once a month (with a small summer break) wrapping up what was going on — and we found noteworthy — in the GSA / DACH startups scene. WeFox is under fire for growing with acquisitions of insurance broker pool...

Executive Summary In · Paolo · Global Research Leader — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. In this episode, we have the privilege to explore fintech and banking in 2023 alongside Paolo, Global Research Leader for Banking and Capital Markets for IBM. He offers his insight into fintech and banking twenty years from now. We examine the strategies important for capital markets, fintech,...

Executive Summary In · Antonio Fatas · Professor — Digital Assets on FinTech Germany. In this bonus episode of our expert interview series, Antonio Fatas, Professor of Economics at INSEAD, joins us to provide insights into the current situation with FTX. We've gathered a good deal of information about the collapse so far but there is still much that remains unknown. We delved into some of the know...

Management Summary Welcome · Startuprad.io · December — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to a Startuprad.io tradition, airing on December 25th. A review of the most important events in Fintech from the perspective of our guests for the 8th year in a row right now. The most important development in the fintech world was for most guests the FTX collapse. During the recordings...

€855 million · $200M · $1.2 billion — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups, our startup news wrap-up for December 2022 by Startuprad.io with Chris from New York City and Joe from Frankfurt. We recorded this news episode on December 19th, 2022. Keep in mind, this news episode covers everything since our last news episod...

$1 billion · $182M · €100m — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. FTX may be history, BUT a German Blog reports there are several parties interested in buying the European Entity of FTX. FTX also triggered Bitpanda to order a special audit from KPMG. We have some more job cuts, this time the 2nd round. Gorillas may sell itself at 1 bn USD even though they have raised 1.3 bn USD in vent...

Executive Summary We · Meeri · INZMO — Insurtech on FinTech Germany. We hear from Meeri, who is the co-founder of INZMO (Insurance on Mobile). She co-founded the Berlin-based insurtech which helps to make simple insurance contracts via an app. The simple approach also made them one of the fastest-growing insurtechs in Europe. In the interview we talk about her journey from a corporate lawyer to an...

$37.6M · €2 billion · €270 million — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups in October 2022 by Startuprad.io with Chris from Essen, Germany, and Joe from Frankfurt. We recorded this news episode on Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Another one of our former guests gets a Snoop Dog investment. Quick delivery startup Gorillas...

Executive Summary Monite · Berlin-based · Seed Stage. With — B2B & SaaS-Fintech on FinTech Germany. Monite is a Berlin-based embedded finance startup, which is already active in the US, UK, and major European economies, despite being at Seed Stage. With their API partners like B2B neobanks, SaaS companies & marketplaces can embed Invoicing, AP Automation, and more in 3–5 weeks. They are lookin...

$232M · Now Environmental Action Germany · Deutsche Umwelthilfe — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Germany is preparing for a potentially rough winter, in many ways. Now Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe): Asked Germans not to put up any Christmas lights this season. Startups in GSA keep laying off staff, but also raising significant funds. We have our usually shor...

Executive Summary This · Subject Matter Expert Interviews · Kimmo — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. This episode is part of our Subject Matter Expert Interviews. It will be one in a series over time, keeping up with the development of the central banks and their digital currency. This episode is just the start! We talk to Kimmo, a regtech entrepreneur, who formerly worked at centr...

USD 400 million · Celonis · Insuftech Wefox — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Startups in GSA did better than expected. We had a few insolvency filings, but also amazing fundraisings like Celonis 1 bn US$ combination of equity and debt funding. Insuftech Wefox raises 400 m. One can already see the signs of a downturn, M&A activity going up, as well as the news about insolvenci...

Executive Summary French · Qonto · Euros — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Executive Summary French neobank unicorn Qonto announced their 486 m Euros in Series D funding at 4.4 bn Euro valuation in January 2022, with a global Who-is-Who of investors. 100 m Euros of this record funding will go into their expansion in the German market, competing with Penta, N26, Holvi, or Deutsche...

Welcome · June · Startuprad.io. My — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups in June 2022 by Startuprad.io. My co-host is again Chris from New York. This recording is sponsored by Invest-in-Hessen and Startupraven.com. It is in radio syndication with our very own station www.startup.radio , and our partner station IBGR.Ne...

Executive Summary AlphaQ · Berlin. They · Fund — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Executive Summary AlphaQ is a new fund of VC funds, headquartered in Berlin. They are not only raising money to invest in VC funds, but they also swap shares in existing VC funds for shares in their Fund of Funds. In our interview Stephan, the founding partner also elaborates on their investment strat...

Benedikt Schuppli · Co-Founder · Co-CEO — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. We want digital debt to be registered, issued, transferred and eventually traded on our infrastructure. Benedikt Schuppli, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FQX FQX is a Zürich, Switzerland-based fintech with great aspirations. They want to digitize company debt and this digital debt to be registered, issued, transfe...

Welcome · May · Startuprad.io — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups in May 2022 by Startuprad.io — in a news recording with Christian Fahrenbach from New York City and Jörn Menninger, from Frankfurt. This recording is sponsored by Invest-in-Hessen and Startupraven.com. It is in radio syndication with our very own stat...

Executive Summary Exaloan · Soon · SMEs — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Exaloan started out as a rating agency for digital assets. They developed into a global platform to connect crowdlending platforms and institutional investors. They started out with the rating of digital assets. Soon they realized that it makes more sense for them to help investors with the access to lending...

Klana · B2B · Billie.io — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. "Klana is all built beautifully around the consumer. … but many merchants also want a B2B checkout and here Klana decided to partner with the leading provider in the space [Billie.io]."Matthias Knecht, Co-Founder Billie.io “I was raised in Germany, with a stint at Columbia University before moving to McKinsey. After working...

Welcome · April · Startuprad.io — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in GSA Startups in April 2022 by Startuprad.io — in a news recording with Christian Fahrenbach ”Chris” from New York City today and me Jörn Menninger “Joe”, from Frankfurt am Main. This recording is sponsored by Invest-in-Hessen and Startupraven.com. It is in radio syndication with our very own...

Welcome · March · Startuprad.io — Fintech VC & Capital Markets on FinTech Germany. Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss and Austrian (GSA) Startups in March 2022 by Startuprad.io  — in a news recording with Chris — not from New York City today and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main. This recording is sponsored by Invest-in-Hessen and Startupraven.com. It is in radio syndication with our very own sta...