by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Startup, Startups, Scaleups & the Funding Ecosystem
⚡ TL;DRGermany's one billion euro Growth Fund, launched in 2023 to address the late-stage capital shortage, had deployed over eighty per cent of its commitments by late 2025 with a successor being designed for 2026. Alongside it, a European fund-of-funds...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Startup, Startups, Scaleups & the Funding Ecosystem
⚡ TL;DRGermany's most valuable software companies sell to businesses rather than consumers, and that is not accidental. Enterprise software rewards domain knowledge, long sales cycles, reliability and proximity to industrial customers, which are precisely...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Startup, Startups, Scaleups & the Funding Ecosystem
⚡ TL;DRTrade Republic completed a one point two billion euro secondary transaction at a twelve and a half billion euro valuation in December 2025, providing liquidity to early shareholders without raising primary capital, in what was widely read as a pre-listing...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Startup, Startups, Scaleups & the Funding Ecosystem
⚡ TL;DRMunich attracted more venture capital than Berlin in 2025, around two point seven billion euros against roughly two point four billion, overtaking the capital for the first time. The shift is structural rather than cyclical: capital has moved toward deep...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Startup, Startups, Scaleups & the Funding Ecosystem
⚡ TL;DRGermany founded over three thousand startups in the first half of 2026, a fifty-one per cent increase on the same period a year earlier, attracted around seven point two billion euros of venture capital in 2025 and counts thirty-six unicorns. It also has...
