Startuprad.io - The Authority on German, Swiss and Austrian Startups and Venture Capital

By Jörn "Joe" Menninger

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What's Startuprad.io - The Authority on German, Swiss and Austrian Startups and Venture Capital about?

Germany has a rich history when it comes to entrepreneurship. From Konrad Zuse, Carl Benz, and Ferdinand Porsche to Werner von Siemens, there is no shortage of success stories that can be told about German-based companies looking for global expansion opportunities abroad or investors seeking out fresh investment prospects at home/abroad. We continue this with Startuprad.io keeping you up to date with the latest on the German-speaking startup scene in Germany (Europe’s largest economy), Switzerland, and Austria, collectively known as the GSA or DACH region. We are an English-only startup podcast with exclusive startup content, including regular news, and interviews. We are the international voice of the German-speaking startup scene.
We focus on interviews with startups mostly around their Series B funding or even scale-ups from GSA. Once a month we bring you an exclusive startup new wrap-up as well.
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01.26.2023 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - January 2023 WeFox is under fire for growing with acquisitions of insurance broker pools, BioNTech makes largest acquisition in its history, DeepL confirms unicorn status and snipes at Grammarly, Solarisbank in trouble with BaFin, Trade Republic has to disclose numbers and Sono ...
01.19.2023 Fintech and Banking 2023 and Beyond \| Strategy In this episode, we have the privilege to explore fintech and banking in 2023 alongside Paolo, Global Research Leader for Banking and Capital Markets for IBM. He offers his insight into fintech and banking twenty years from now. We examine ...
12.26.2022 Bonus: What We Know About the FTX Collapse? In this bonus episode of our expert interview series, Antonio Fatas, Professor of Economics at INSEAD, joins us to provide insights into the current situation with FTX. We've gathered a good deal of information about the collapse so far but ...
12.25.2022 Fintech Review 2022 - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Welcome to a Startuprad.io tradition, airing on December 25th. A review of the most important events in Fintech from the perspective of our guests for the 8th year in a row right now. The most important development in the fintech ...
12.22.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - December 2022 Our Highlights: Enpal makes huge fundraising in the current environment, more than 800 mn €. Sennder doubles its valuation in the next funding round to 2 bn US$ and has already 60 mn commitments. The funding environment may be bleak, ...
12.20.2022 9am.works Is The "Operating System" for Freelancers 9am.works is a startup platform explicitly designed for freelancers. Founded by Marc, a serial entrepreneur formerly with Team Europe Ventures and the founder of Sommelier Prive, Huus, code control, and 9am.works. The platform makes it easy for freelancers to find ...
12.15.2022 Meet the German Entrepreneur of the Year - Co-founder of Flix, which now owns Greyhound #GSA22 Jochen Engert won the German Startup Award 2022 as German Entrepreneur of the Year. He is the co-founder of Munich-based Flix a unicorn recently valued at 3 bn US$ and the owner of Greyhound Lines. He shares in this interview ...
12.13.2022 UNIAPP Helps Students to Find the Best International University for Them UniApp is an ed-tech startup from Germany, that helps international students to prepare for their study abroad and helps in the application process, both on their platform. They help students to find the right place to study for undergraduate and ...
12.08.2022 Meet Filip, One of Germany's Most Successful Early Stage VCs from Cherry Ventures #GSA22 Filip is a founding partner of Cherry Ventures, one of Germany's most important seed investors. Their portfolio includes unicorns like Flixbus, Auto1 Group, Forto, Infarm, and well-known startups like Amorelie, Kitchen Stories, Flaschenpost, Spryker, and Superlist. Their portfolio also includes ...
12.06.2022 QiTech Recycles Plastic Waste in 3D Printing Filament #GSA22 Milan graduated in 2022 from Highschool and is the founder of QiTech, a company that recycles bottle caps to create the plastic filament used in 3D printers. He was recently awarded the Newcomer of the Year at the German Startup ...
12.01.2022 UnternehmerTUM Helps Entrepreneurs to Start World-Class Companies #GSA22 UnternehmerTUM helps experienced entrepreneurs and students to start, accelerate or fundraise to build world-class companies including but not limited to Flix, Celonis, Blickfeld, Isar Aerospace, Konux, tado, e-bot7, ProGlove or Lilium. At the 2022 German Startup Awards, UnternehmerTUM won the ...
11.29.2022 MedTech Startup Selfapy Offers Psychological Help Without Wait #GSA22 Nora is the CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based Medtech Selfapy, a major provider of prescribable digital therapy solutions in Germany. She is the winner of this year's German Startup Award for Female Founder of the Year 2022 and a Forbes ...
11.24.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - November 2022 Wrap-Up Our Highlights: FTX may be history, BUT a German Blog reports there are several parties interested in buying the European Entity of FTX. FTX also triggered Bitpanda to order a special audit from KPMG. We have some more job cuts, ...
11.22.2022 Green Startup Traceless Replaces Plastics With Compostable Materials #GSA22 Johanna Baare is the founder of Traceless Materials, a startup that produces compostable materials to replace plastic. She was recently awarded the German Startup Award for "Female Newcomer of the Year 2022." Congratulations, Johanna! The award is presented by the ...
11.17.2022 Green Startup CleanHub Fights Ocean Plastic Together with Brands Meet Joel Tasche, CEO, and Founder of CleanHub, a green startup on a mission to fight ocean plastic pollution. They enter partnerships with brands to remove plastic waste. They use the proceeds to collect plastic waste in areas, that don’t ...
11.15.2022 Female Founders at the European Angel Investment Summit (2/2) Welcome to the second Episode, brought to you from the European Angel Investment Summit 2022. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN) is an organization that brings together business angels from all over Europe. The aim of the organization is to ...
11.10.2022 Meet INZMO one of Europe's Fastest Growing Insurtech Startups We hear from Meeri, who is the co-founder of INZMO (Insurance on Mobile). She co-founded the Berlin-based insurtech which helps to make simple insurance contracts via an app. The simple approach also made them one of the fastest-growing insurtechs in ...
11.08.2022 Interviews from the European Angel Investment Summit (1/2) We bring you new interviews from the European Angels Investment Summit 2022 in Brussels, hosted by EBAN. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN) is an organization that brings together business angels from all over Europe. The aim of the organization ...
11.03.2022 The Network of European Startup Hubs 101 The Network of European Startup Hubs 101 (Podcast)You have it all wrong. Europe is not full of competing startup hubs. They are increasingly forming a network for startups. The startups start at one knot in the network (frequently a university), ...
10.26.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - October 2022 Wrap-Up Another one of our former guests gets a Snoop Dog investment. Quick delivery startup Gorillas seems to sell itself to competitor Getir, according to Bloomberg, despite an earlier announcement they are looking for more investments. Gadget rental service Grover adds ...
10.19.2022 Meet Tvarit - Hidden Industrial AI Champion Making MJanufacturing Sustainable The industrial ai startup Tvarit is focused on optimizing the process of casting metals. This process is abundant for parts in robots, cars, all kinds of machines, and heavy equipment. With their approach they help their clients save up to ...
10.13.2022 Berlin-based Green Startup Trilleco is on a Mission to help Businesses Analyze and Manage their Environmental Impact Executive Summary Berlin-based green startup Trilleco is on a mission to help businesses analyze and manage their environmental impact, with their industrial IoT data platform. The startup's non-code data platform makes it easy for companies to see how they can ...
10.06.2022 Meet Monite - They Make the Life of CFOs Easier Monite is a Berlin-based embedded finance startup, which is already active in the US, UK, and major European economies, despite being at Seed Stage. With their API partners like B2B neobanks, SaaS companies & marketplaces can embed Invoicing, AP Automation, ...
09.28.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - September 2022 Germany is preparing for a potentially rough winter, in many ways. Now Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe): Asked Germans not to put up any Christmas lights this season. Startups in GSA keep laying off staff, but also raising significant funds. ...
09.21.2022 Fintech Opportunities in Central Bank Digital Currency - Part 1 This episode is part of our Subject Matter Expert Interviews. It will be one in a series over time, keeping up with the development of the central banks and their digital currency. This episode is just the start! We talk ...
09.15.2022 Meet Hidden Giant in Shoppers Rewards: Global Savings Group The Global Savings Group (GSG) is not a fintech. They are a hidden champion as Europe’s leading shopping rewards company, founded in 2012. They are offering an alternative to the GAFA channels and are active in 20+ countries under different ...
09.08.2022 Meet COMPREDICT, the Startup Where Blackberry and Michelin Invested Executive Summary COMPREDICT is a Darmstadt, Germany-based deep tech startup, offering virtual sensors for cars. They already convinced Michelin and Blackberry to invest, so we thought it would be about time to catch up with the team around Rafael.
09.04.2022 Startup News GSA - Summer Wrap-Up (July & August '22) Our Highlights Startups in GSA did better than expected. We had a few insolvency filings, but also amazing fundraisings like Celonis 1 bn US$ combination of equity and debt funding. Insuftech Wefox raises 400 m. One can already see the ...
08.24.2022 Meet Germany's Effortless All-In-One HR Software Startup Kenjo Kenjo is Germany's rising HR Tech star. They are the main competitor of Personio but are more standardized with a larger potential customer base. Despite being very young, they have already customers across Europe and the US. They count amongst ...
08.10.2022 Meet Byways - The Startup of Sennder's Former Head of Product - And They Have the US in Sight BYWAYS is a SaaS tool, which connects warehouses, clients, and logistic companies to order transportation at the time and date needed, like a Calendly for logistics. They already have ASOS, Maersk, and Sennder amongst their clients.
07.27.2022 Asvin Provides Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things We interview Mirko, CEO of Asvin a cybersecurity startup. During the interview, we touch on data leaks in Star Wars, vulnerabilities in IoT, IoT devices, software, supply chains, and even in space (think cube satellites). ASVIN provides many tools to ...
07.13.2022 Instigo Started on its Way to Become an Autonomous Growth Hacking Ad Platform for Digital Marketers Executive Summary Instigo is a multi-platform marketing tool, based in Vienna. Dror has been a marketing manager, working across multiple platforms. With this experience, he set out to create a platform that allows advertising frictionless, with consistent data across as ...
07.06.2022 Learn How French Fintech Unicorn Qonto Wants to Conquer the German Market French neobank unicorn Qonto announced their 486 m Euros in Series D funding at 4.4 bn Euro valuation in January 2022, with a global Who-is-Who of investors. 100 m Euros of this record funding will go into their expansion in ...
06.30.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - June 2022 Welcome to This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups in June 2022 by Startuprad.io. My co-host is again Chris from New York. This recording is sponsored by Invest-in-Hessen and Startupraven.com. It is in radio syndication with our very ...
06.23.2022 Germany has approved Cannabis For Medical Use, and Legalization for Recreation Is Next Management Summary Germany has a coalition government in power. The coalition contract of the three governing parties “Koalitionsvertrag” wants to enable the recreational use of cannabis in Germany, during this term. Jakob and Benedikt give us an update on the ...
06.15.2022 Meet AlpahaQ - They Are on Their Way to Becoming a One Billion Euros Fund of VC Funds Executive Summary AlphaQ is a new fund of VC funds, headquartered in Berlin. They are not only raising money to invest in VC funds, but they also swap shares in existing VC funds for shares in their Fund of Funds. ...
06.08.2022 Endosane Brings New Hope For Patients With Mental Health Conditions Executive Summary Endosane is a new take on developing drugs. Endosane is a joint venture of a group of researchers (Prof. Leweke and Dr. Rohleder) and the Sanity Group. Their goal is to apply cannabinoid compounds to develop drugs for ...
06.06.2022 Pulse of the European Startup System - Update Q1 2022 The European startup scene is changing fast. There are new players, old ones fading away, and even more to come in their place- all vying for a piece of this growing pie! In order not to get left behind you ...
06.01.2022 FQX brings Companies’ Debt Funding to the Blockchain FQX is a Zürich, Switzerland-based fintech with great aspirations. They want to digitize company debt and this digital debt to be registered, issued, transferred, and eventually traded on their infrastructure.
05.26.2022 Meet Kranus Health the Startup Behind Germany's Most Successful Digital Health Launch This is the English world premiere for Kranus Health, a digital health care startup. The company runs a health care app on prescription (in Germany) focused on the health issues of men. Currently, their only therapy assistance available is for ...
05.25.2022 This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups - May 2022 We can proudly announce unicorn No 29 Taxfix, No 30 Onefootball and on the downside, RaisinDS loses its unicorn valuation. Really bad news for car sharing: BMW and Mercedes pull the plug on their joint venture. Our 2018 guest ProGlove ...
05.18.2022 ROWS brings Spreadsheets to the Age of APIs Torben started the company after stints as a consultant in Germany and Brazil, as well as a Master's in the US. Rows turns spreadsheets into a webpage or a web app with a few clicks. It takes spreadsheets to the ...
05.11.2022 EXALOAN Wants to Bridge the Funding GAP of SMEs Across the Globe Exaloan started out as a rating agency for digital assets. They developed into a global platform to connect crowdlending platforms and institutional investors. They started out with the rating of digital assets. Soon they realized that it makes more sense ...
05.04.2022 Billie brings - Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) - to the B2B Market Billie’s business is disrupting the B2B market by allowing consumers to buy now and pay later. They are one of the most successful startups in Germany and they have raised more than 140 m US$ from well-known investors. It sounds ...
04.27.2022 This Month in GSA Startups - April 2022 Welcome to This Month in GSA Startups in April 2022 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris from New York City today and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main. Our highlights: Despite slightly declining global VC investments GSA ...
04.20.2022 Exclusive Data on Startup Funding in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Equidam This time we speak to Daniel. His startup equidam has helped to value more than 130.000 startups. He shares exclusive data with us on funding for German, Swiss, and Austrian startups.
04.13.2022 CO2BIOCLEAN turns CO2 into Biodegradable Fiber That can be used in Clothing In this interview, we hear the story of Fabiana, from her Ph.D. in Chemistry to a startup, which converts CO2 into plastic replacements for clothing. Tune in to learn more
04.06.2022 The City of Mainz Just Started on Its Way to Becoming a World-Class BioTech Hub The city of Mainz is home to BioNTech and wants to use the tax revenues from this to turn itself into a world-class BioTech-Hub.
03.30.2022 This Month in GSA Startups - March 2022 We have the 100 most influential women in startup and venture capital in Europe. There are two new unicorns to announce in GSA. Unicorn Personio set up a charity fund and Germany's largest fintech exit (at approx 1 bn US$) ...
03.24.2022 What Founders and Investors Can Expect from the New German Government We talk to Tara, a political Analyst with Europe's No 1 software for political analysis for associations and industry groups called PANALIS. We talk with her about what will be the broad outlines of the new Scholz government for startups ...

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