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. …

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. …

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%! …

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. …