German Startups Group VC GmbH is a venture capital provider that supports the set-up, development, funding, and – at the appropriate time – exit of young growth companies by providing them with business expertise and venture capital to create shareholder value. Since the second half of 2013, German Startups Group also engages in acquiring secondary shares from founders and business angels.[1][2] German Startups Group was founded by Christoph Gerlinger[3][4][5] in May 2012. The operating business was launched in June 2012, and the public release was on 27 July 2012.[6]
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| SGF | |
| ISIN | DE000A1MMEV4 |
| Industry | Venture Capital |
| Founded | May, 2012 |
| Founder | Christoph Gerlinger |
| Headquarters | Frankfurt , Germany |
Key people |
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| Products | Investments |
| Website | german-startups.com |
German Startups Group went public on 11 November 2015 and became listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.[7][8]
Holdings
editAs of 10 May 2018, German Startups Group considers 20 of their 37 minority stakeholdings in operationally active companies to be of particular significance to the group. Together they comprise 89% of all 37 active minority stakeholdings.[9][10] The portfolio consists of (amongst others):
- Amorelie (Exit)
- Armedangels
- ayondo
- Finiata
- Book a Tiger[citation needed]
- Ceritech
- Customer Alliance
- CRX Markets Archived 22 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine (sold)
- Delivery Hero (Exit)
- Dr. Z
- Exozet (majority holding)
- Fiagon
- Friendsurance
- Fyber (Exit)
- Itembase
- Juniqe
- Mister Spex
- Onefootball
- reBuy
- Remerge
- Savedo
- Scalable Capital (sold)
- Service Partner One
- Simplesurance
- SoundCloud
- Tictail
- TVSmiles
References
edit- ^ gruenderszene.de
- ^ "Pflege.de, Changers, Imedo, German Startups Group". deutsche-startups.de (in German). 15 January 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Kurzmitteilungen: German Startups Group, Audiomagnet, Doogood, myMobai, Picopay". deutsche-startups.de (in German). 1 August 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ vc-magazin.de
- ^ Giersberg, Georg. "Start-ups in Deutschland: Die Weltmarktführer von morgen". Faz.net.
- ^ www.german-startups.com Archived 21 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine. German Startups Group provides Berlin with breath of fresh capital – press release 27 July 2012
- ^ [1] Archived 1 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Going Public, German Startups Group debütiert an der Börse über Platzierungspreis - 11 November 2015
- ^ "German Startups Group wagt nach Verzögerung den Sprung aufs Parkett - VC Magazin".
- ^ [2] holdings
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
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