Startups in the greater Rhine-Main-Area have raised in H1 2022 more funding, than in all of 2021! So far we have tracked 28 deals worth 470+ m Euros ( ~ 480 m US$, ~460 m CHF). We also found 20 investments over 2020 and 2021 the state of Hessen made as corona aid investments valued at 8,8 m € in companies we classified as startups. Large Deals Drive Overall Volume The good news is that large deals drive the investments overall. We had an equal distribution of deals we tracked 14 deals in Q1 worth 393 m Euros and 14 deals in Q2 worth 77,8 m Euros. …