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Welcome to the FinTech Germany Podcast, a dedicated sub-podcast of Startuprad.ioTM, your premier source for insights and news on German, Austrian, and Swiss startups! Ranked among the top 20 entrepreneurship podcasts on Apple Podcasts worldwide, we bring you the best of the vibrant GSA fintech scene in English only. Dive into the dynamic world of fintech, where innovation is reshaping banking, investment, and insurance. Over the past decade, fintech startups have secured billions in venture capital and skyrocketed in valuation. Our podcast features breaking news, exclusive interviews, and live events, spotlighting the latest in insurtech, crypto, AI, and machine learning. We uncover hidden gems driving digitalization and innovation in the German-speaking fintech landscape. Our podcast hosts a diverse range of guests, including Emmy winners, New York Times best-selling authors, Forbes 40 under 40, Capital 40 unter 40, Forbes 30 under 30, influential investors, and game-changing entrepreneurs. We take pride in introducing you to guests you may not know yet but who are set to make a significant impact in the future. Explore the thriving fintech hubs of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, and Frankfurt. Stay updated on fintech bank developments, crucial finance insights, and captivating fintech news. Whether you're a fintech enthusiast, a startup founder in the making, or simply eager to grasp cutting-edge trends in banking and capital markets, this podcast is your go-to source for all things fintech in Germany. Chartable ranks us in the global Top 60 Science, Top 75 Tech, and Top 275 Business podcasts, and Listen Notes places us in the global Top 0.5%. Join the FinTech Germany Podcast and stay informed about the latest developments in Europe's largest economy. Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/startupradio Subscribe here: https://startupradio.substack.com/ Startuprad.ioTM - The Authority on GSA Startups. Our platform has expanded from a single audio podcast to a 24/7 internet radio station, blog, YouTube channel, TikTok channel, eight sub-podcasts, and more than two dozen social media accounts. Tune in and be inspired by every conversation at the FinTech Germany Podcast.
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Welcome to the September 2024 Startup News from Startuprad.io! This episode covers the most impactful developments in the startup scenes of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Stay informed about key trends, funding rounds, and industry shifts that could influence your business or investment decisions.

Key Highlights:

  1. Intel Pauses €30B Chip Factory in Germany Intel has halted its €30 billion chip manufacturing project in Magdeburg due to cost-cutting measures and financial challenges, despite a €10 billion investment from the German government. We discuss the implications for Europe's tech industry and startups.
  2. Magic AI Secures $320M Led by Eric Schmidt Vienna-based Magic AI has raised $320 million, led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, elevating its valuation to $1.5 billion. Magic aims to revolutionize coding with its AI-powered developer assistance software. Learn how this could impact the European AI landscape.
  3. Flink Raises $150M for Quick Commerce Expansion Berlin's Flink secured $150 million to expand its quick-commerce services in Germany and the Netherlands. Despite a volatile market and a valuation just below $1 billion, Flink aims for profitability and growth. We explore their strategy.
  4. Northvolt Faces Financial Challenges Swedish battery maker Northvolt is experiencing financial difficulties linked to troubled partnerships with automotive giants like Volkswagen. We examine how this affects Europe's green energy goals and the startup ecosystem.
  5. Germany's WIN Initiative Unveiled Germany introduces the WIN Initiative to inject €12 billion into its startup ecosystem by 2030. Backed by major players like Deutsche Bank and Allianz, the initiative aims to improve access to capital and foster innovation.
  6. DePoly Tops Swiss Startup Awards Swiss startup DePoly wins the 2024 Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards for its innovative plastic recycling technology. We highlight what sets DePoly apart in the Swiss innovation scene.

Additional Insights:

  • Austria's Hydrogen Valley: Austria plans to invest €578 million to build Europe's first Hydrogen Valley, aiming to produce over 10,000 tons of green hydrogen annually by 2030.
  • Berlin's Startup Revival: Mayor Kai Wegner outlines plans to rejuvenate Berlin's startup scene, targeting a top-three position in Europe.
  • Major VC Fundraisings:
    • Insight Partners nears a $10 billion fund closure.
    • Atomico raises €1.12 billion to invest in Europe's top founders.
    • Headline secures an $865 million growth fund focused on European startups.
    • Redalpine launches its largest fund yet at $200 million.

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - This Month in German Startups - February 2020

This Month in German Startups - February 2020

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03/03/20 • 17 min

This is the fintech track of Startuprad.io. Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fintech_germany

Learn more about us at www.startuprad.io

This Month in German Startups - February 2020If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.

Find the hosts here:

Jörn “Joe” Menninger [email protected] / Twitter / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018)

Chris Fahrenbach [email protected] / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)

This February our news is quite short. This is due to the fact that we try to shrink them, as well as that we had only approx. 3 weeks since the last news.

Affiliated LinksThe hard thing about hard things

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - Do you know creditshelf? It is Germany‘s only listed pure play fintech
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11/14/19 • 24 min

This is the fintech track of Startuprad.io.

Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fintech_germany

Learn more about us at www.startuprad.io

This is from the archives of Startuprad.io. The podcast was originally published on April 4th, 2019.

In this interview, we talk to Dr. Daniel Bartsch, COO, and Co-Founder of Frankfurt-based creditshelf. It is a novelty since it IPOed successfully in Frankfurt in summer 2018 with a volume of 16.5 m Euros and so became (as of October 2018) the first - and for now, the only - listed pure-play fintech from Germany to be listed. Creditshelf is a credit market place, where small and medium businesses can lend money up to 5 mn Euros.

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During this interview we talk about the startup, the IPO process and Daniel describes why the preparations for an IPO need as long as a baby.

In the interview, you will also learn why they are different from LendingClub or FundingCircle. If you speak German, you can also listen to the first interview from Joern with the CTO of creditshelf in the Fall of 2016 here: https://hearthis.at/startup/f09f948ainterviews-mit-3-gruendern-von-startups-auf-dem-letzten-coden-new-new-festival-in-karlsruhemp3refdown/

or here the interview with ZenCap, a Rocket Internet-backed startup, now part of FundingCircle: https://podtail.com/podcast/startupradio-de/zencap-im-interview/

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - BITA allows the calculation of tailored indices

BITA allows the calculation of tailored indices

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09/13/19 • 20 min

This is the fintech track of Startuprad.io. Find us on Twitter: Twitter: https://twitter.com/fintech_germany

Originally published on September 5th 2019 on Startuprad.io. Find the original interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/bita-allows-the-calculation-of-tailored-indices/

This interview is a Labor Day Special.

We talk to Victor Hugo Gomez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-hugo-gomez-2b65a719/) who is the founder of Frankfurt-based fintech BITA (https://www.bitadata.com/). Victor is originally from Venezuela, but his education and jobs brought him to Frankfurt. He is also an MBA alumnus of WHU (https://www.whu.edu/) and Northwestern Kellogg (https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/). Big *high five* to the guys from Tech.eu, where we found the publication of BITAs 1.25 mn VC round (https://tech.eu/brief/german-fintech-startup-bita-raises-e1-25-million-to-bolster-its-indexation-software/).

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BITA is a “deep fintech” so to speak, it allows the calculation of tailored indices. Any investor, asset manager, bank, wealth manager, pension fund or insurance company can pay BITA to calculate indices, which they are putting together (given the data is available). You can learn more about him, the company and ideas in our interview.

We are sorry for the sometimes-blurry video, but we are sure you can get the important information anyways.

During the interview Victor and Joe are talking about:

Asset allocation / Asset selection (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/assetallocation.asp)

Pension fund (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pensionplan.asp)

Financial Index (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/index.asp)

DAX – Germany’s leading stock market index (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dax.asp)

“Dow Jones” – Dow Jones Industrial Average (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/djia.asp)

S&P500 (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sp500.asp)

MSCI Emerging Markets (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/emergingmarketsindex.asp)

ETFs (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/etf.asp)

Lehman Aggregated Bond Indices / Now Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Barclays_US_Aggregate_Bond_Index)

Commodity Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_price_index)

Weather Derivatives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative)

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - This Month in German Startups - October 2020

This Month in German Startups - October 2020

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10/30/20 • 20 min

This Month in German Startups - October 2020Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City.

Today we are wrapping up October 2020 for you with a monster round in the making at N26, new information on the Wirecard insolvency and questions about published information of Heidelberg based insurance startup Getsafe.

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - The BISON App Allows Uncomplicated and Reliable Trading of Cryptocurrencies on the Smartphone
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12/15/20 • 28 min

The BISON App Allows Uncomplicated and Reliable Trading of Cryptocurrencies on the Smartphone

We were the first to provide crypto buying and selling from an in Germany licensed institution.

Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

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This podcast is in media partnership with the Crypto Assets Conference, an event taking place each year in spring and autumn in Frankfurt, organized by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and their Blockchain Center.

You can learn more about the conference here: https://www.crypto-assets-conference.de/

You can learn more about Philipp Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center in our interview with him here:

https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-german-bill-to-permit-crypto-securities/

The Chief Digital Officer

This time we talk to Ulli Spankowski (https://de.linkedin.com/in/ulli-spankowski-08652916, https://twitter.com/uspankowski?lang=en, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ulli-spankowski ) a fintech and blockchain entrepreneur, who sold his company to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange, which than promoted him to be the CDO (Chief Digital Officer). He is an economist by training, who did his PhD in market microstructure. He co-founded his fintech startup with co-founders from Slovenia.

We met with the CIO of Börse Stuttgart - back then - and discussed what can be done with financial markets in the future, if you completely rethink it, based on blockchain technology.

Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

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Bitcoin was much bigger in Slovenia. When my co-founder told me to do something in bitcoin, I said ... Bit-What?

Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

The Startup

Back in 2013, Ulli founded his startup Sowa Labs together with co-founders from Slovenia, which he met during an EU funded project during his Ph.D. Thesis. The idea of aggregating data from across the web and social media on cryptocurrencies evolved into cryptocurrency trading. They then sold the startup to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange in 2017 and developed what has become their BISON app: https://bisonapp.com/en/ (App Store, Google Play Store). This was not a bad move, since Börse Stuttgart is the market leader in Europe as a trading venue for retail structured products and one of the 10 largest stock exchanges in Europe.

We started out with cryptocurrencies, but we are planning to move gradually into security tokens.

Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

When I was attending conferences [at the beginning of cryptocurrencies] I always said “The biggest problem of cryptocurrencies is that no one cares about them”

Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

Further Readings / Additional Resources

Market Microstructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_microstructure

Börse Stuttgart: https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/

Multilateral trading facility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_trading_facility

Euwax (The market for retail structured products, not related to BISON, but we talk about it as an offering of Börse Stuttgart): https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/investing/euwax-segment/

OTC Trading: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/otc.asp

AML: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp

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The Interviewer

This interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him:

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - Bonus Episode: Trade Republic becomes Germany’s most valuable Startup with 5.3 bn US$ valuation
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05/27/21 • 20 min

“It’s our ambition to be present across the entire Eurozone in the next four months,” Christian Hecker according to TechCrunch

Welcome to This Month in German Startups - A bonus episode since we have a new king in town. Trade Republic just became Germany’s most valuable startup with a 900 mn USD funding round backed by investors like Sequoia.

Chris joins Joe for this episode.

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Start in 2015 - at comdirect Startup Garage

The story of Trade Republic starts with the comdirect startup garage. comdirect is Commerzbank’s online broker, founded during the late 1990s. Commerzbank again is Germany’s 2nd largest listed bank.

So, the founding team Christian Hecker, Thomas Pischke, and Marco Cancellieri started out with the idea of a German RobinHood Trading app (What is today called a neobroker). The Garage helped at the start in 2015 but did back out at funding the startup. The team did not receive funding from comdirect Garage, because one million Euros was too much to invest in a company at a seed stage

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - Meet TIS - The World’s Leading SaaS-B2B Outbound Payment Platform

Meet TIS - The World’s Leading SaaS-B2B Outbound Payment Platform

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11/11/21 • 31 min

Meet TIS the world’s leading SaaS-B2B outbound payment platform The problems we are solving for our clients now are the problems I had in my former corporate job. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS Subscribe Here

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Our goal is for the topline 3x in the last three years. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Jörg Wiemer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerg-wiemer/) the co-founder, former CEO and current CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of the grown-up tech company TIS (https://www.tis.biz/). Jörg had already an extensive corporate background with stops at Deutsche Bank and Douglas Holding (a beauty retailer). Was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Treasury at SAP, where he saw an opportunity and took a leap into entrepreneurship. In 2010 he co-founded TIS.

Joe always wanted to interview them, because they have been an important early success story that made startups sexy again. Also, any current or aspiring entrepreneur can learn a lot from Jörg in the interview.

Jörg has a lot of good advice from his early times starting TIS. You will find it in the last 1/3rd of the interview.

For us ... getting venture capital early was a good decision. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TISYou don’t want to optimize your shareholdings in the company, you want to maximize your chances of success.Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS The Tech Company

TIS has been part of FT 100 Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

TIS stands for Treasury Intelligence Solutions (https://www.tis.biz/) and is headquartered in Walldorf. Yes, the Walldorf is also home to SAP. The company has routes within SAP but is by now an independent grown tech company with more than 200 employees worldwide and a strong presence in Europe and North America. Startuprad.io always aims to bring you interesting founder stories, so it was about time to bring you the founder of a successful tech company.

Founders first have to do the hard work and then hire someone. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS The Interviewer

This interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email

Find all links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-tis-the-worlds-leading-saas-b2b-outbound-payment-platform/

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - The Digital Euro and Why Stable Coins Matter

The Digital Euro and Why Stable Coins Matter

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03/08/22 • 48 min

Nobody knows what a digital euro will look like. ECB is in the process of exploring the possibility. Philipp Sandner, Blockchain Expert

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China is with its digital Yuan ahead of Europe or the US. The ECB is investigating the possibility, with the aim of having a digital Euro 2025. We will see China launching the digital Yuan this year. That is almost 5 years ahead.Philipp Sandner, Blockchain Expert

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CBDC is a variant how the Euro will run on a modern infrastructure.Philipp Sandner, Blockchain Expert

The Expert

This interview is part of our series with subject matter experts. Our guest today is Philipp Sandner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippsandner/), Professor at Frankfurt School of Management and Finance. There he is head of the Blockchain Center. He is also a member of the fintech advisory council to the German federal government (FinTechRat), Chairman of the International Toke Association, as well as a contributor to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/philippsandner/). According to one of Germany’s largest newspapers Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Philipp is also one of the 30 most influential economists in the German-speaking area in their ranking for 2018 and 2019. He is also co-founder of the German Blockchain Association.


The situation of the Federal Reserve in developing a digital central bank Dollar is like the ECB. Both are early in exploring the topic. Philipp Sandner, Blockchain Expert

The Digital Euro

Central banks take inspiration from cryptocurrencies and are actively thinking about introducing their own cryptos, called central bank digital currency (CBDC). There are many podcasts out there talking about CBDC, especially US$, but Startuprad.io is headquartered in the city of the Euro, Frankfurt. So, we thought we shed some light on the perspective from Europe. The European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve are both in the first steps of exploring the possibilities and implications of CBDCs for the Euro and the US Dollar. But there is already a growing market in US$ stable coins, where stable coins in Euro have to stomach losses, due to the negative interest rates in the European Monetary Union (EMU). Tune in to learn more...

The difference in the US is that there is already a working alternative, the US$ stable coins. Philipp Sandner, Blockchain Expert

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Fintech Germany  - Startups and Venture Capital - This Month in German Startups - December 2021

This Month in German Startups - December 2021

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12/23/21 • 31 min

HoHoHo Welcome to This Month in German Startups in December 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 Monday, December 20th. All news not included here will be published in our next news episode. 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. Happy Holidays!

We are not there yet, so let's get started:

Today we bring you another new unicorn, a monster funding of 266 mn US$ at Mambu, Volocopter calls off its SPAC IPO and gets a backlash from its early crowd investors, also Jokr is now the 3rd quick delivery unicorn - in record time - and we have an update on Sono Motors. We also take a look at the State of European Tech survey by Atomico and several news pieces on the German Venture Capital Market, as well as VC in general.

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