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This is from the archives of Startuprad.io. The original interview was published on April 4th, 2019.

This is the audio track of a video interview: https://youtu.be/kSukV8PUrk4

In this interview, we talk to Yoram Wijngaarde, founder of the data platform Dealroom.co (https://blog.dealroom.co/). He is a former employee of Lehmann Brothers New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers), and during the interview, we talk about his experience of the collapse from the inside.  

“Germany is more restraint – conservative – with publishing [Venture Capital] numbers” 

Affiliated

After some stops in investment banking in New York, he went on to become employee No 2 of Noah Advisors, a boutique for startups in Berlin. During all of his work, he bumped into problems finding good data on the valuation of startups in Europe. Data for startups from the UK and US is easy to come by, but continental Europe was still a problem. He then set out to solve this problem with the founding of Dealroom.co. 

“Where venture capital ends and private equity begins or public markets begin, these lines are really blurring … this is what we are seeing and this is why the rounds get larger and larger”

During the interview Yoram and Joe talk about:

Mergers and Acquisition (Investment Banking – Takeovers, Mergers or Buyouts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions 

A small overview of company valuations

Multiples https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/multiplesapproach.asp

DCF https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dcf.asp

Real Options https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/realoption.asp

You can learn more about the valuation of options here (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/riskrewardratio.asp)

February Numbers 2019 https://blog.dealroom.co/february-broke-all-time-vc-investment-record-e2-9b-in-europe-e3-2b-including-israel/

“Are we in a bubble? Well, only time will tell … the market is still disciplined, with some exceptions … but we don’t see DotCom-Bubble Craze”

RhineMain.vc, the project Joern initiated, which publishes venture funding on an aggregated basis for the greater Rhine-Main area: https://rheinmain.vc/ (the URL RhineMain.vc will redirect you to the same page)

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