20.05.2022

Deal of the Month |

May |

2022

Car Subscription Platform FINN Raises $110M In Equity and $720M In Debt To Supercharge Its Growth in the U.S. and Europe

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 110M €

USD 390M

Valuation

Investors: Climb Ventures (https://climbventures.com/) Greentrail Capital (https://www.greentrailcap.com/) Heartcore Capital (https://www.heartcore.com/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) Keen Venture Partners (https://www.keenventurepartners.com/) Korelya Capital (https://www.korelyacapital.com/) Picus Capital (https://www.picuscap.com/) UVC Partners (https://www.uvcpartners.com/) Waterfall Asset Management (https://www.waterfallam.com/) White Star Capital (https://whitestarcapital.com/)

19.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Berlin’s zolar announces €100 million round as rising energy costs see surge in demand for solar solutions

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Energy Impact Partners (https://www.energyimpactpartners.com/) GIC (https://www.gic.com.sg/)

19.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Everstream Raises $24M to Conquer Supply Chain Complexity and Disruption

Founded: 2000

Investment Raised: USD 24M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Columbia Capital (https://colcap.com/) DHL (https://www.dhl.com/at-de/home.html) Morgan Stanley Investment Management (https://www.morganstanley.com/im.html) StepStone Group (https://www.stepstonegroup.com/)

16.05.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 21 |

2022

Car Subscription Platform FINN Raises $110M In Equity and $720M In Debt To Supercharge Its Growth in the U.S. and Europe

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: USD 110M €

USD 390M

Valuation

Investors: Climb Ventures (https://climbventures.com/) Greentrail Capital (https://www.greentrailcap.com/) Heartcore Capital (https://www.heartcore.com/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) Keen Venture Partners (https://www.keenventurepartners.com/) Korelya Capital (https://www.korelyacapital.com/) Picus Capital (https://www.picuscap.com/) UVC Partners (https://www.uvcpartners.com/) Waterfall Asset Management (https://www.waterfallam.com/) White Star Capital (https://whitestarcapital.com/)

04.05.2022

Deal |

2022

HiveMQ Closes €40 Million Series A Funding to Accelerate Adoption of MQTT Messaging Platform for IoT Data

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: EUR 40M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Earlybird Venture Capital (https://earlybird.com/) Illusian Family Office (https://illusian.org) Molten Ventures (https://www.moltenventures.com/) Mubadala Capital Ventures (https://www.mubadala.com/en/what-we-do/capital/ventures) New Forge (https://www.newforge.de/) Senovo (https://senovo.vc/)

03.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Tubulis Closes €60 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate its ADC Pipeline and Expand its Breadth of Platform Technologies

Founded: 2012

Investment Raised: EUR 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Andera Partners (https://www.anderapartners.com/en/) Bayern Kapital (https://bayernkapital.de/) BioMedPartners (https://biomedvc.com/en/) coparion (https://www.coparion.vc/) Evotec (https://www.evotec.com/en) Fund+ (https://fundplus.be/) High-Tech Grunderfonds (https://www.htgf.de/) OCCIDENT (https://www.occident.group/) Seventure Partners (http://www.seventure.fr/en/)

02.05.2022

Deal |

2022

ecoworks rakes in €7.7 million to boost carbon-free retrofitting for housing

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: EUR 7.7M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Blackhorn Ventures (https://blackhornvc.com/) JLL Spark (https://spark.jllt.com/) Motu Ventures (https://motu.vc/) PropTech1 Ventures (https://proptech1.ventures/) Warema group (https://www.warema-group.com/en/) Zacua Ventures (https://zacuaventures.com/)

02.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Scompler raises 7 million euros

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: EUR 7M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bayern Kapital (https://bayernkapital.de/) Reimann Investors (https://www.reimann-investors.com/)

01.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Getquin raises USD 15 million

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: USD 15M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: APX (https://apx.vc/) embedded/capital (https://embedded.capital/) Erik Podzuweit Horizons Ventures (https://horizonsventures.com/) Maximilian Tayenthal Portage Ventures (https://portagevc.com/) Sino AG (https://www.sino.de/)

01.05.2022

Deal |

2022

Automated Software Testing Platform Code Intelligence Raises $12 Million in Series A Funding

Founded: 2017

Investment Raised: USD 12M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: High-Tech Grunderfonds (https://www.htgf.de/en/) LBBW VC (https://www.lbbwvc.de/) OCCIDENT (https://www.occident.group/) Thomas Dohmke Tola Capital (https://www.tolacapital.com/) Verve Ventures (https://www.verve.vc/)

28.03.2022

Deal |

2022

H2 Mobility raises EUR 110m to expand hydrogen refuelling infrastructure

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: EUR 110M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Air Liquide (https://www.airliquide.com) Daimler Trucks North America (https://northamerica.daimlertruck.com/homepage/) Hy24 (https://www.hy24partners.com) Hyundai Motor Company (https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/) Linde (https://www.linde.com) OMV AG (https://www.omv.com/en) Shell Oil Company (https://www.shell.com) TotalEnergies (https://totalenergies.com)

24.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Berlin’s Leapsome welcomes $60 million in first-ever funding round

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Creandum (https://www.creandum.com) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com) Visionaries Club (https://visionaries.vc)

24.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Berlin’s HeyJobs raises €42.8 million to prevent the impending labour shortage crisis in Europe

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 42.8M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Creathor Ventures (https://www.creathor.com) Digital+ Partners (https://dplus.partners) FMZ Ventures (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fmz-ventures) Heartcore Capital (https://www.heartcore.com) Notion Capital (https://www.notion.vc)

24.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Sunfire raises €86 million to scale electrolysers production

Founded: 2010

Investment Raised: EUR 86M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Blue Capital (https://www.bluecapital.com.tr/en/) Carbon Direct (https://carbon-direct.com) Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (https://cipartners.dk)

22.03.2022

Deal |

2022

ITM Receives €33 million Equity Investment to Advance Precision Oncology Pipeline of Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals

Founded: 2004

Investment Raised: EUR 33M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Indigenous Critical Infrastructure Fund Canada (https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1628172767569/1628172789746) Portland Holdings (http://www.portlandholdings.com)

20.03.2022

Deal of the Month |

March |

2022

Berlin’s Leapsome welcomes $60 million in first-ever funding round

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Creandum (https://www.creandum.com) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com) Visionaries Club (https://visionaries.vc)

16.03.2022

Deal |

2022

KoRo raises 50 million – Tiger Global invests in pro store

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Five Seasons Ventures (https://www.fiveseasons.vc/) HV Capital (https://www.hvcapital.com/) Partech Ventures (https://partechpartners.com/)

15.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Ecosia injects $23m into solar energy platform start-up Zolar

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 20M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Ecosia (https://www.ecosia.org/)

15.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Employee engagement firm Staffbase becomes Germany’s latest unicorn; secures €106M in Series E round

Founded: 2014

Investment Raised: EUR 106M €

USD 985M

Valuation

Investors: General Atlantic (https://www.generalatlantic.com/) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com/)

14.03.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 12 |

2022

Berlin’s Leapsome welcomes $60 million in first-ever funding round

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: USD 60M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Creandum (https://www.creandum.com) Insight Partners (https://www.insightpartners.com) Visionaries Club (https://visionaries.vc)

10.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Xempus AG raises $70m in Series D Round

Founded: 2007

Investment Raised: USD 70M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Cinco Capital (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cinco-capital) Goldman Sachs Asset Management HPE Growth (https://hpegrowth.com/)

07.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Berlin-based Forto bags €230M; eyes global expansion to make the logistics industry sustainable

Founded: 2016

Investment Raised: EUR 230M €

USD 1.85B

Valuation

Investors: A.P. Moller Holding (https://apmoller.com/) Cavalry Ventures (https://cavalry.vc/) Disruptive (http://www.disruptivevc.com/) G Squared (https://gsquared.com/) Northzone (https://northzone.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/) Unbound (https://un-bound.com/)

04.03.2022

Deal |

2022

Volocopter Raises USD 170 million in First Signing of Series E Financing Round

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 170M €

USD 1.7B

Valuation

Investors: Whysol Investments (http://www.whysol.com/en) Honeywell (https://www.honeywell.com/us/en) btov Partners (https://btov.vc) Atlantia (https://www.atlantia.com/en/)

22.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Zenjob nabs $50M for its student job matching marketplace

Founded: 2015

Investment Raised: USD 50M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Acton Capital (https://actoncapital.com/) Aragon Global Management (https://aragonglobal.com/en/home/who-we-are) Atlantic Labs (https://atlanticlabs.de/) AXA Venture Partners (https://www.axavp.com/) Forestay Capital (https://www.forestay.vc/)

10.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Ada Health pulls in another $30M to expand in the U.S., internationally

Founded: 2011

Investment Raised: USD 30M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Bertelsmann (https://www.bertelsmann.de/#st-1) Farallon Capital Management (https://www.faralloncapital.com/) Red River West (https://www.redriverwest.com/)

10.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Hamburg-based Cofenster raises €8 million to bring video communication into the corporate world

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 8M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Capnamic Ventures (https://capnamic.com/) signals Venture Capital (https://signals.vc/)

09.02.2022

Deal |

2022

The Expert for Mobile High-Performance Battery Systems Instagrid Raises 33 Million U.S. Dollars

Founded: 2018

Investment Raised: EUR 29M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: SET Ventures (https://www.setventures.com/) Segnalita (https://www.segnalita.com/) Pierre-Pascal Urbon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/urbon/?originalSubdomain=de) High-Tech Grunderfonds (https://www.htgf.de/de/) Energy Impact Partners (https://www.energyimpactpartners.com/) blueworld.group (https://blueworld.group/)

07.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Vivid Money, a financial super app, raises $114M at an $886M valuation to expand in Europe

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

USD 886M

Valuation

Investors: Greenoaks (https://www.greenoaks.com/) Ribbit Capital (https://ribbitcap.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/)

03.02.2022

Deal |

2022

Marvel Fusion generates €35 million in new funding round as it focuses in on the Holy Grail of energy production

Founded: 2019

Investment Raised: EUR 35M €

Valuation Remains Undisclosed

Investors: Berggruen Holdings (https://www.berggruenholdings.com/) Earlybird Venture Capital (https://earlybird.com/) Heinz Dürr Invest (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heinz-d%C3%BCrr-invest) Possible Ventures (https://www.possible.ventures/) Primepulse (https://www.primepulse.de/) Taavet+Sten (https://taavetsten.com/) Thistledown Capital (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/thistledown-capital) Hartmut Neven Albert Wenger

31.01.2022

Deal of the Week |

Calendar Week # 6 |

2022

Vivid Money, a financial super app, raises $114M at an $886M valuation to expand in Europe

Founded: 2020

Investment Raised: EUR 100M €

USD 675M

Valuation

Investors: Greenoaks (https://www.greenoaks.com/) Ribbit Capital (https://ribbitcap.com/) SoftBank Vision Fund (https://visionfund.com/)