We are reporting live from Germany’s largest unicorn wave ever. We discuss two new unicorns (Scalable Capital and Forto (formerly FreightHub)) and Germany’s first Decacorn Celonis. Austria gets a new most valuable startup with GoStudent.

Plus SolarisBank is rumored to be in talks of a 100 mn Euro VC Deal, which would make them a unicorn as well, to buy up a competitor.

Especially active in this frenzy of unicorn creation is Softbank from Japan and Tencent from China.

This interview is in a media partnership with the German startup association. Their German Startup Awards (GSA21) honor each year outstanding female and male founders and investors in special categories.

The 2021 award goes to Finn Hänsel, founder of Sanity Group. They are looking to utilize the components of cannabis in medicine to make new treatments available e.g. psychological disorders.

They are looking to build a new kind of pharma company, based on cannabis: All over the world, scientific discoveries and their medical potential are redefining the way society, politics and the medical community think about Cannabis as a plant.

Our team looks back on a strong track record in building and scaling companies in various industries, creating hundreds of jobs and millions in shareholder value in the process. Being joined by renowned industry leaders and medical experts, Sanity Group continuously positions itself on the brink of innovation and is equipped to shape the Cannabis industry in Europe.

We provide a unique community of industry experts, excellent talent, operational backing, and capital to our fast-growing portfolio of ventures.

Finn is also a mentor at TechStars' Berlin-based accelerator program.

Palturai is a business intelligence platform, aggregating important data about companies in their database. The company provides the information as a business graph. The company was founded in 2014, but re-branded in 2020 with the opening of its first international location close to Philadelphia.

This interview is in media partnership with the German startup association (Bundesverband Deutscher Startups https://deutschestartups.org/). Their German Startup Awards (GSA21) honor each year outstanding female and male founders and investors in special categories. You can learn more about the winners in our interview and on our website: https://germanstartupawards.de/

The idea of LIVEDAB started with the idea to work with NGOs to draw attention to important causes. The Corona pandemic made the startup change this and now they are working with sports clubs, the entertainment industry, or virtual event organizers.

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Other solutions allow you to do similar stuff, after up to 6 months of working to integrate them. Our tool only takes you about an hour. Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool

The Startup

Our customers usually use only cloud-based tools, so basically all modern startups. Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool

The company already counts amongst its investors HTGF. They have already raised more than 1.6 mn Euro in Venture Capital. Likely they will look for a new funding round “very soon” according to Gordian.

We got an email “You are invited to the final interview for Y-Combinator”. Oh, yeah it looks like we applied Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool

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