Meet Palturai – The Google of Business Data

06/24/21 • 24 min

Deep Tech Germany - Startups and Venture Capital

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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The Startup

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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With the outbreak of corona, all of our US expansion plans have been blown to pieces. We had to change our strategy fast. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

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You can use our tool for example in the KYC process. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai The Founder

This gave him the idea of Palturai, which allows one to aggregate important business data to companies.

Try the account of our Affiliate Partner Penta: http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d

The Startup

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).

Is your Startup in Need of an Office? - Affiliate Links

Try the account of our Affiliate Partner WeWork: https://we.co/2GYbxvS

With the outbreak of corona, all of our US expansion plans have been blown to pieces. We had to change our strategy fast. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

Learn more here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-palturai-the-google-of-business-data/

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The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Gordian Braun (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordianb/?locale=en_US), the CEO and co-founder of onetool (https://onetool.co/), a Berlin-based cloud startup. The startup is also a Y-Combinator Alumnus ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onetool ), and an alumnus of the German Accelerator program (https://www.germanaccelerator.com/companies/#onetool).

Gordian already had great experiences in his life before he even started onetool. He founded companies before, including one in Austin, TX. He worked at a VC, as an investment scout and is currently a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

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

onetool (https://onetool.co/) was founded by Gordian since he always ran into the same problem: What accounts did the employee use, that just left. How can I make sure I don’t overspend and no one has access to my customer's data, that is not working here anymore?

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

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 onetoolFind all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/onetool-helps-to-cut-your-saas-costs/

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Bonus: This Month in German Startups – Unicorn Stampede

Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io – in a news recording with Chris (from New York City) and me Joe (from Frankfurt am Main).

This is a Bonus Episode covering the Unicorn Stampede in German-speaking countries. This recording is from June 29th, 2021 and all-new unicorns, formed afterward will be covered in our next news podcast, to be published End of September!

You may remember that we had another bonus episode last month covering the rise of Berlin-based fintech Trade Republic to become Germany’s most valuable startup? There is already a new king in the country with Celonis becoming Germany’s first Decacorn (valuation above 10 bn US$, here even 11bn US$). We also see that all of these monster fundings are driven by international investors, especially Softbank from Japan and Tencent from China.

Find all links and show notes on our blog post here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/bonus-this-month-in-german-startups-unicorn-stampede/

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