In total Rhine-Main raised 934.08 mn Euros (1.12 bn US$).

Most of the funding we have been tracking in all of 2020 was funding going to the Mainz-based NASDAQ listed unicorn BioNTech, which essentially avoided a decline of our tracked investments. BioNTech did prove worth the money and came up…

2020 started pretty well for startups headquartered in the Greater Rhine-Main Area with a record-breaking 310 mn Euros in new funding.

The quarter is surely record-breaking, especially given the nimble Q1 2019. …

2019 was an amazing year for startup funding in Frankfurt and Rhine-Main. They raised collectively more than 665 mn Euros, which equals ~ 725 mn US$ or 554 mn GBP. This is a year on year growth of a whopping 75%! …

Q3 of 2019 was another great quarter. The startup scene across the greater Rhine-Main Area raised more than 57 million Euros in total funding, beating Q3 2018 by 237%. This is what we would call booming. …

2019 Q2 saw record investments of Venture Capital (classical venture equity or venture debt) of 330,95 million Euros (371,4 million US$, 297 million GBP). This brings the total to 416,45 million Euros.

In the whole year of 2019, we only tracked VC money. …

We are posting on the startup financing in greater Rhine-Main, only a few days after the end of the quarter. This is quite a short time span for the information flow of venture capital deals. …

As we suggested in our first post on the 2018 venture capital numbers there was an update. We became aware of two more important data points. So we felt the need to update our 2018 Full Year Numbers, especially since we found deals worth more than 200 M US$.

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2018 marks the first year we are covering completely with our initiative. This year startups broke 150 mn Euros financing for 2018 in total. To be precise, the tracked money raised totaled 153,723 million Euros.

This is amazing work, congratulations to all involved parties. These congratulations include the hard-working people…