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Meet Palturai – The Google of Business Data
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06/24/21 • 24 min
Meet Palturai – The Google of Business Data We used to store data in paper-based handwritten cards. We bring this to the 21st century ... so you can get some great insights from it. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai Subscribe Here
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We talk in this interview to Tilo Walter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tilo-walter-18b90567/), the CEO and Founder of Frankfurt-based business intelligence platform Palturai (https://palturai.com/?lang=en).
Tilo first started out with an apprenticeship at a bank, after studying industrial engineering he was a consultant and then spent quite some time working in Germany’s largest credit bureau called Schufa.
This gave him the idea of Palturai, which allows one to aggregate important business data to companies.
We have data from more than 7 mn companies, from public sources, building a graph with more than 1 bn relations. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai Is your Startup in Need of a Bank Account? - Affiliate Links
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Palturai (https://palturai.com/?lang=en) is a business intelligence platform, aggregating important data about companies in their database. The company provides the information as a business graph. The name also originates form a Hungarian mathematician named Pál Turán, who contributed a lot to graph theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Tur%C3%A1n). The company was founded in 2014, but re-branded in 2020 with the opening of its first international location close to Philadelphia.
We have been bootstrapped, but with the international expansion we needed a proper funding round. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai Funding Round
Palturai raised 4 mn Euros Series A investments, and their investors include a German bank and SBI Holding (Softbank’s Berlin entity).
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doks. innovation enables indoor drone flights for next level digital logistics
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10/15/20 • 31 min
doks. innovation enables indoor drone flights for next-level digital logisticsInside a building GPS does not work. We use a combination of global mapping and local mapping... it is very very complex.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Benjamin Federmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminfedermann/) the CEO and Co-Founder of Kassel-based drone startup doks. innovation (https://www.doks-innovation.com/). D oks.innovation is not a hardware startup, they only provide Benjamin has spent some time after university in marketing and consulting for some smaller and also well-known companies like Leica.
The feedback from the interviews I conducted was so good, I was sure I needed to found the company
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
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When we started with our first prototype, we crashed 30 to 40 drones.
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Our drone is a flying camera to collect data for the inventory management.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
The Startup
The startup doks.innovation enables companies to monitor their warehouses via drones, which can fly indoors without smacking on any shelf or wall. Doks is not a hardware startup. doks.innovation provides only the ai software for the drones to enable them to fly indoors. On the other hand, they are also working closely with hardware providers, since they have very specific requirements for their drones. The drones are using cutting-edge drone hardware, which is not yet publicly available.
The company is still small, but they have reference customers like Mars and BMW.
Our clients have to press a button and come back 3 or 4 hours later. The data collection is totally automated. The customer can ask almost any question and can find the answer in our data.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
Venture Capital Fundingdoks.innovation is open to talking to new investors from Europe and the US. They are looking for the next financing round in Q1 2021 and to expand to the US in 2021.
When we stared there was no hardware available for what we have been looking for.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
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Drones are good for land surveying, but are there areas where drones are currently not working? So I made more than 100 interviews in one and a half year.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
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Interview with CoModule, the Android of Light Electric Vehicles and producer of an autonomous eBike
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10/25/19 • 30 min
From the archives of Startuprad.io, originally published on April 13th 2016.
We talk with Kristjan Maruste, co-founder of CoModule Homepage. The company produces Software for light electronic vehicles (LEV) and an autonomous eBike. It monitors battery characteristics, displays them to the end user's smartphone and collects usage data. One of the reasons he ended up in this space and gave up acting as a potential profession was his father, who took him to places like this Technology Museum Sinsheim and Technology Museum Speyer (they work together and are not far apart). He also took part with CoModule in the Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy, which lead him to Berlin and they kept the HQ in Talin. CoModule already received investments in 4 rounds, the last one from five investors, one of them German High Tech Gruender Fonds (HTGF). None the less they are looking for investors for a Series-A Venture Capital Financing and fast movers can still be included. Tune in to learn more.
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This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups — February 2023
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02/23/23 • 22 min
Welcome to our February 2023 wrap-up with the important news from the startup scenes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 30 minutes or less 🙂.
We follow our top-down structure in the news: First the top news, then we look with a bird’s eye view at the startup ecosystem in the German language countries, dig deeper by looking at interesting startup cities and end with general news. And for those of you who are really serious about startups, there is even a collection called: Stay ahead of the curve where we share interesting reads, articles, studies, and podcasts.
Welcome to our startup news wrap-up for February 2023 by Startuprad.io with Chris from New York City and Joe from Frankfurt. We recorded this news episode on February 21st, 2023.
All news not yet included here will be published in our next news episode. Find all links to the quoted news on our Medium blog, link below.
Our Highlights:
Rising interest rates are leading to an interest rate war between the neobrokers. We covered the troubled company Windeln.de, which is now liquidated. Farewell! Moonfare extended it’s Series C funding to more than 130 m US$, but we are not sure who invested in the last batch, since a fund is mentioned, that was also founded by Moonfare’s founder. The City of Mainz goes live with its quest to become a world-class biotech hub. N26 was reportedly in advanced talks to buy dutch broker Bux, but buxed out shortly before the closing. AAAAAAnd, we like to end on a high note: Raising is in the process of reclaiming its unicorn status with new funding. We have also some event recommendations for you and discounts from 20% to 100% for the events listed in our show notes.
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Neobrokers Just Started — What May Be An Interest Rate War (Chris)After german unicorn Trade Republic had a smashing success with offering 2% interest for money deposited there now also fellow unicorn Scalable offers even 2,3%, BUT only from 100k € on and only if you are a subscriber (4.99/month)
Farewell Windeln.deWe have often talked in our news about the precarious position of windeln.de. Now it is finally liquidated
Who Extended Moonfare’s Series C?Moonfare is a fintech from Germany, allows individuals to invest in Private Equity Funds, founded by former KKR Germany Head Steffen Pauls. They cap their Series C extension round at about $15M, bringing its Series C funding to $130 million+ the Berlin-based fintech allows HNWI, family offices, banks, and their advisor's access to top-tier private markets investments. BUT German business magazin Manager Magazin reports that for this extension the only investor mentioned by name is one that Mr. Pauls has co-founded.
You can find his profile at 7 Global Capital here on their website as Managing Partner and Founder.
City of Mainz Starts to Invest some of Their Billions in the BioTech HubYou may remember that we told you the story of Mainz? A lovely city with a normal annual budget of 100 million Euros, the capital of one of Germany’s states. Since they are also the headquarters of BioNTech they got flooded with tax revenues as soon as the corona vaccine was rolled out. They showed more than 1 bn € profit as a city in 2021 alone and they want to invest the money to become a world-class biotech hub. Now the company they want to use to drive this initiative is operational: biomindz | Newly established company to promote Mainz as hub for life science and biotechnology now operational and supporting the city of Mainz.
Here is the interview with the person in charge of the BioTech Hub:
The City of Mainz Just Started on Its Way to Becoming a World-Class BioTech Hub
N26 Bux(ed) Out?According to a press repo...
KONVOI Helps with AI and Sensors to Prevent the Theft of Truck Cargo
Deep Tech Germany - Startups and Venture Capital
03/04/21 • 21 min
KONVOI Helps with AI and Sensors to Prevent the Theft of Truck CargoEach year cargo is stolen from at least 26.000 trucks each year in Germany, worth 2.2 bn Euros.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
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... there is organized crime stealing from parked trucks. ... We want to be preventive, before the theft happens.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
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Our solution will be a combination of hardware and software.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Heinz Luckardt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heinz-luckhardt-a77a351a0/), Co-Founder of Hamburg-based startup KONVOI. He is originally from Frankfurt, but his studies took him to Hamburg University, where he met his co-founder. But Heinz has already traveled the world, he studied in Milano (Italy), he has been a sales intern in India, as well as working with Fraunhofer Institute. At Fraunhofer, he was working on salt-based 3d printing.
The vision is later to go deep into predictive analytics, like generating heatmaps for truck thefts.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
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We are looking for innovative trucking companies in Germany, to give us feedback.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
Venture Capital FundingKONVOI is currently not actively looking for external investors. They are currently on a government grant, funding the company at least until end of 2021.
We are not focusing on one technology. We are working with radar, as well as ultra-sonic sound at the moment.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI
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Further Readings / Additional ResourcesMilan, Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan
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Scriptbakery taught an AI to analyze manuscripts and the emotions of a potential reader
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11/05/20 • 26 min
Scriptbakery taught an AI to analyze manuscripts and the emotions of a potential reader98% of the manuscripts sent to publishing houses are not read right now.
Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery
Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program (https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/programme/for-startups/), which we follow since its inception. CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association. Below you will find more interviews from past batches. We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair, but since it is canceled this year due to Corona, we resorted to remote only interviews. At the time of the recording, we did not know who won the final award. The winner of this year's batch is SciFlow (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-sciflow/). We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year.
The FounderWe talk to Patrick Kaiser (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-kaiser-5978ba1b6/), the COO of Scriptbakery (https://www.scriptbakery.de/), a Freiburg based startup, which taught its AI to analyze a book script and analyze the potential emotions of a reader.
Patrick got his job as COO because he has a black belt in Kungfu. The founder of the company knows him from the Kungfu gym, where the founder was Patrick’s student.
We taught our AI with 1.7 mn data points, to make it work with all European languages
Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery
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The largest chunk we get here as scripts are biographies by Professors and Teachers who have retired
Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery
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Meet COMPREDICT, the Startup Where Blackberry and Michelin Invested
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09/08/22 • 20 min
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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.
Virtual sensors in a car take data from physical sensors and fuse them to generate additional measurements.Rafael Fietzek, MD and Co-Founder COMPREDICT
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A normal car has four physical wheel speed sensors to measure each wheel. With us, you need only two physical sensors and save money.Rafael Fietzek, MD and Co-Founder COMPREDICT
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This Month in German Startups - November 2021
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11/25/21 • 23 min
Welcome to This Month in German Startups in November 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris from New York City and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.
We recorded this new episode on Friday, November 19th. All news not included here will be published in our December News (to be published on December 23rd). There will also be our annual Fintech Review on December 25th and we will be back with an AI startup interview on January 13th. So we take a few weeks off around the holidays. We are not there yet, so let's get started:
Today we have escooter Tier’s newest funding and acquisition, N26 pulling the plug on their US operations already in January 2022, and the amazing IPO of Sono Motors on NASDAQ. There are also new unicorns, we proudly present Frankfurt’s first unicorn, the insurtech Clark.de. Also, Razor Group (an Amazon shop buyer) becomes a unicorn with a 125 mn US$ fundraising. In November, there is no unicorn tracker. We will keep our eyes open and maybe the next news will have a unicorn tracker companion.
Happy Thanksgiving to our US audience!
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Minutes Left German Startup Awards 2021 – Special Award for Lukasz Gadowski
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09/05/21 • 40 min
German Startup Awards 2021 – Special Award The secret to winning is to have the right vision. To bet on the right pattern. ... the execution is a lot about the nitty gritty details. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards Subscribe Here
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It is not desirable to sell a company. ... there may be instances where it makes sense. ... there are exceptions to every rule. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards Media Partnership
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It always starts with a general pattern. ... if you want to get ideas in a specific area, expose yourself to this area. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards The Founder
In this interview, we talk to Lukasz Gadowski (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukaszgadowski) (known as one of the co-founders of Delivery Hero (Lieferheld) or Mr Spex). He received a special award for his special merit with and for the German startup scene. Among his many ventures, he co-founded or is invested in are Spreadshirt, studyVZ, Point Nine Capital, brands4friends, Aroundhome, Vertical Media (Gründerszene), the escooter startup Circ, Volocopter, Enpal, Mr. Spex and of course, Delivery Hero. He works with his private investment company Team Europe https://www.teameurope.net/ During his interview he also shares insights in big enablers shaping the future, which will opening up opportunities for entrepreneurs. He also shares advice for entrepreneurs on how to win, even if you are entering a market late.
Congratulations to Lukasz! Tune in to the interview to learn more.
I think Circ went from zero to 1.000 employees in 15 months. That is what I would call hypergrowth. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards Feedback
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Meet One Of The Investors Investing 300 m Euro For Europe’s Green Deal To Become Reality
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03/16/23 • 34 min
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The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) is a venture capital fund consisting of both public and private investors. It focuses on driving the transformation to a bio-based, sustainable economy throughout Europe. This venture underlines the EU's commitment to its Green New Deal and sets higher standards for venture capital projects. Backed by venture capital, those companies funded must not only demonstrate economic growth potential but also uphold principles of environmental, social, and governance through their work. This fund stands as one part of a larger and definitive effort by the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050.
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Michael is one of the three founders and General Partners of the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF). The German entrepreneur wrote and executed the business plan of High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), the most active early-stage fund in Europe, investing in innovative technologies and business models since 2005. As the first managing director, he led HTGF until 2019. Michael has 25 years of experience in investment and management in the venture capital industry.
The ECBF
The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) is an impact investment fund. Initiated by the European Union, it contributes alongside others as a financial instrument to achieve the goals of the European Commission's (EC) EU Green Deal.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the main investor in the ECBF with EUR 100 million. Additional funds were invested by another public investor, NRW.BANK, as well as numerous private investors such as Nestlé, Neste, Corbion, BÜFA, Koehler Group, Volkswohlbund, Hettich, Invest NL, Telos, Heino, and more.
The fund invests the available capital of 300 Mio. euros in ambitious and visionary companies that advance the bio-economy and circular economy with innovative technologies or business models and thus have a sustainable impact on the European economy. The goal is to accelerate the growth of bio-economy companies and create pan-European, global players. The goal of generating a very high return on investment is directly linked to this and is on the same level as the impact goal.
The regional focus of the investments includes the EU-27 countries and the 16-Horizon2020 associated countries.
Current Portfolio
The current portfolio includes (amongst others) the following companies:
Peel Pioneers
ProLupin
Aphea.Bio
Nuritas
Elicit Plant
InOvo
Protix
Biosyntia
Trapview
Pitch the ECBF
ECBFs Vision is to build up a prosperous economy realigned with nature. To get there they aim to identify the most promising investment targets in the European Bioeconomy, with both good financial returns and a huge impact on the environment. Thus, ECBF is interested in connecting with entrepreneurs, investors, and business promotion stakeholders with robust business networks in the bioeconomy. Find all requirements and the email to pitch in our show notes on our medium blog.
Hiring!
You can learn more about the investor, that is still hiring (link on our blog).
Find all links, show notes, and the email to pitch them on our medium blog here: https://medium.com/@startuprad_io/meet-one-of-the-investors-investing-300-m-for-europes-green-deal-to-become-reality-b6b0fa27a01
Topics Discussed in this Interview
#innovation #startup #startups #startupradio #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurship #business #motivation #success #entrepreneurship #businessowner #believe #positivevibes #innovation #techstartups #germany #startupinvesting #startupnews #startupcompany #greenstartups #venturecapital #investor #bioeconomy #bio #economy #startupinvestor
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