Our April 2022 wrap-up, recorded with Christian 'Chris' Fahrenbach from New York and Joe from Frankfurt, covering the German-speaking startup scenes. With Jörn “Joe” Menninger.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Reading each month's rounds is how operators anticipate the next cycle. April 2022's highlights show where German startup capital concentrated.

In this episode, we cover:

• The month's biggest German startup rounds
• Standout companies and sectors of April 2022
• What the figures signal about investor appetite
• Which names to watch across the region
• How the month fits the year

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA)… · This Month in GSA Startups - March 2022

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CO2 can be a clean way to produce biopolymers — that's the bet behind CO2BioClean. Founder and MD Fabiana Fantinel joins Jörn “Joe” Menninger on turning CO2 into biodegradable fiber for clothing.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Turning a climate liability into a material is exactly the kind of German deep tech worth backing. CO2BioClean shows how startups can build products from captured carbon.

In this episode, we cover:

• How CO2BioClean turns CO2 into biodegradable fiber
• Fabiana Fantinel on producing biopolymers from CO2
• Why CO2 is a clean feedstock
• Where the fiber can be used, from clothing up
• Lessons on building climate deep tech

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: Tvarit: The Industrial AI Champion in Manufacturing · Etalytics: AI and Sustainability for Energy

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Our March 2022 wrap-up, recorded with Chris and Joe from Frankfurt, covering the German-speaking startup scenes. With Jörn “Joe” Menninger.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Monthly deal flow is the pulse German tech operators read. March 2022's rounds show where capital and attention were moving.

In this episode, we cover:

• The month's biggest German startup rounds
• Standout companies and sectors of March 2022
• What the figures signal about investor appetite
• Which names to watch across the region
• How the month fits the year

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in GSA Startups - April 2022 · This Month in GSA Startups - February 2022

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Qualifyze makes supply chains in the life-science and chemical industries more transparent — buying on-site audit data and reselling it to other customers of the same supplier. CEO and Co-Founder David Schneider joins Jörn “Joe” Menninger.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Supply-chain transparency is a high-value B2B problem, especially in regulated industries. Qualifyze shows how a German startup turns audit data into a scalable platform.

In this episode, we cover:

• How Qualifyze makes supply chains transparent
• David Schneider on the audit-data model
• Why life science and chemicals need it
• Turning audits into a reusable data asset
• Lessons on building B2B data platforms

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: Twinsity's AI Approach to Safeguarding Infrastructure · Scavenger.ai on AI Solutions for Enterprises

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Our February 2022 wrap-up covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, recorded with Chris from New York and Joe from Frankfurt. With Jörn “Joe” Menninger.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Reading each month's rounds is how operators anticipate the next cycle. February 2022's highlights show where German startup capital concentrated.

In this episode, we cover:

• The month's biggest German startup rounds
• Standout companies and sectors of February 2022
• What the figures signal about investor appetite
• Which names to watch across the region
• How the month fits the year

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in GSA Startups - March 2022 · This Month in German Startups - January 2022

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Chris Fahrenbach in New York City and Jörn "Joe" Menninger in Frankfurt am Main open 2022 with This Month in German Startups for January 2022 — the deals, rounds, and momentum shaping the German-speaking startup scene at the start of the year.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: For anyone building or backing German tech startups, the monthly news cut is the fastest read on the ecosystem's capital map — who raised, who scaled, and which sectors are heating up across the DACH region.

In this episode, we cover:

• January 2022 funding rounds and deals across the German startup scene
• The DACH ecosystem entering the new year: sectors and momentum
• Emerging tech-startup trends flagged by Chris and Joe
• Where German venture capital was flowing at the start of 2022
• Startuprad.io's syndicated news format co-hosted from Frankfurt and New York
• Context for founders, operators, and investors tracking the German market

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in German Startups - December 2021 · This Month in German Startups - November 2021

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Recorded December 20th with Chris Fahrenbach in New York City and Jörn "Joe" Menninger in Frankfurt am Main, This Month in German Startups for December 2021 wraps the year's final funding rounds and deals across the German-speaking startup scene.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: A year-end news cut is a useful vantage for German tech-startup founders and investors: it shows how the ecosystem closed out 2021 in funding, exits, and sector momentum before the new year.

In this episode, we cover:

• December 2021 funding rounds and deals across German startups
• How the German-speaking ecosystem closed out the year
• Sectors and companies drawing capital heading into 2022
• Startuprad.io's syndicated monthly news format from Frankfurt and New York
• Chris and Joe on the year-end DACH startup landscape
• What the December deals signal for German tech-startup investors

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in German Startups - January 2022 · This Month in German Startups - November 2021

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&Charge co-founder and CSO Simon Vogt joins Jörn "Joe" Menninger to unpack the German startup's seed round and its model connecting online shopping rewards to electric-car charging — turning e-commerce spend into EV charging credit.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: &Charge is a textbook German tech startup at the climate-plus-consumer intersection: a seed-stage team tackling the real friction of EV charging for B2B and B2C customers while building an e-commerce loyalty engine around it.

In this episode, we cover:

• &Charge's seed funding round and what it funds
• Co-founder and CSO Simon Vogt on the charging problem for B2B and B2C
• Turning online-shopping rewards into EV charging credit
• Why charging electric cars remains a hard consumer-experience problem
• The climate-plus-e-commerce angle for German tech startups
• Building a loyalty-driven mobility model in the German market

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: Fastbill’s Exit to Canada Based Unicorn FreshBooks · Cogia Just IPOed And Wants to Use the Access to Capital…

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Cogia founder and CEO Pascal Lauria talks with Jörn "Joe" Menninger about taking the German data-intelligence company public and using access to capital to buy companies and drive market consolidation.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: Cogia's IPO is an instructive path for German tech startups: a founder using public-market capital as an M&A engine, betting that consolidation — not just organic growth — is the way to scale in a fragmented market.

In this episode, we cover:

• Cogia's IPO and the founder's rationale for going public
• CEO Pascal Lauria on buying companies to accelerate growth
• Using public-market access as a consolidation strategy
• What an IPO changes for a German tech-startup operator
• Market consolidation as a scaling playbook in the DACH region
• Lessons for founders weighing public capital versus venture funding

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: Fastbill’s Exit to Canada Based Unicorn FreshBooks · &Charge Just Raised Seed Funding to Help Online…

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Recorded November 19th with Chris Fahrenbach in New York City and Jörn "Joe" Menninger in Frankfurt am Main, This Month in German Startups for November 2021 runs through the month's funding rounds and deals across the German-speaking startup scene.

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Why this matters for German tech startups: The November news cut keeps German tech-startup founders and investors current on the ecosystem's capital map — the rounds, exits, and sectors defining momentum heading into year-end.

In this episode, we cover:

• November 2021 funding rounds and deals across German startups
• Sectors and companies drawing venture capital in the DACH region
• How the German ecosystem was tracking into year-end 2021
• Startuprad.io's syndicated monthly news format from Frankfurt and New York
• Chris and Joe on the month's standout German startup stories
• Context for operators and investors tracking the German market

Related Tech Startups Germany episodes: This Month in German Startups - December 2021 · This Month in German Startups - October 2021

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