Everything changes, also Rhine-Main VC At the end of 2021, we decided to end the partnership for RhineMain.vc. We will keep trying to bring you updates. For the time being RhineMain.vc will become a project of Startuprad.io Invitation to the Venture Capital Forum (VCF) In 2022, we want to be an accelerator for financing in Frankfurt-Rhein-Main as part of the Venture Capital…

On December 9th NASDAQ listed Silicon Valley company Inpixon announced the acquisition of Eschborn (close to Frankfurt) based indoor navigation startup IntraNav. Now Inpixion filed their annual report 2021 with the SEC (Link) and we took a look. It turns out that IntraNav was acquired for 1 mn Euros, 1,123…

Volocopter raised 150 mn € (170 m US$) at a 1.5 bn € (1,87 m US$) valuation and joins the league of German unicorns. The investment is part of a Series E fundraising, which should raise up to 500 mn Euros (550 mn US$), so be ready for more news…

Vicampo Group is based in Mainz, which is part of Rheinhessen, Germany’s largest wine area. It is, therefore, no surprise that they are selling the fine wine and sekt (German version of Champagne) there. In August 2021 Vicampo Group announced its sale to Viva Wine Group AB. Now Viva Wine…

Startuprad.io posted about this, as it happened, and later reposted it on Medium (https://medium.com/@startuprad_io/frankfurt-has-its-first-unicorn-startup-e009a28ed7c5). The insurance broker Clark became in 2021 the first unicorn. Clark is a classical insurtech startup of the first generation in Germany, which allows management and comparing of insurance policies on its app for retail clients…

Corona appears to change everything. It did so with our time for publications as well. We are sorry about that and give you now an update of 2021 Q1 and Q2 in one post. We may have taken a break writing here, but we did not stop chasing data and…

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. One does not have to be a prophet to see that the impact of corona will be big…

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%! Some of it can be explained by the better coverage in…