Cogia Just IPOed And Wants to Use the Access to Capital to Drive Market Consolidation

“To accelerate our growth, we need to buy companies”Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

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“My goal is 10 mn Euros revenue. To reach this we need to keep buying [companies]”Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

The Founder

Pascal Lauria (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascallauria/) has a very diverse background, raised in the Rhine-Main-Area his studies took him to Canada. He later worked in Taiwan, Silicon Alley (New York’s startup hub) and in Silicon Valley. He took his experience to go back to Frankfurt and set up Cogia there (https://www.cogia.de/?locale=en_us).

“Acquisitions are not always successful. We are very aware of that. We are working on it. For example in our last acquisitions we did not lose even one employee.”Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

The Startup

Cogia Intelligence (https://www.cogia.de/?locale=en_us) is a big data, ai startup. It provides in its current setup innovative products and solutions in the areas of web and social media monitoring, market research and open source intelligence. The company Cogia GmbH is the startup, the company Cogia AG is the listed entity. Pascal started Cogia in 2010 but listed Cogia AG only in 2021 in Düsseldorf. Then the two entities merged and so Cogia GmbH got listed. You can learn more about the listed entity here: https://cogia.ag/de/investor-relations/

“With the access to capital markets I want to do one to two acquisitions per year.”Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

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