Invest Europe published its annual report on investment and fundraising for the European private equity and venture capital industry. The report covers activity on over 1,250 firms, directly verified by fund managers using the European Data Cooperative (EDC). The EDC holds data from over 3,000 European private equity firms on 8,000 funds, 64,000 portfolio companies and 250,000 transactions since … Read more
Digitization turns our world upside down – new business models, new organizational structures, new management, increasing automation and experimental strategies based on data. Corporate management, controlling and marketing demand completely different skills today, then just 10 years ago. Business is changing in all means and this can be felt most clearly in marketing. Growth Hacking, the evolution of marketing – … Read more
Raising capital is always difficult – on average Startups get rejected over 100 times before they close a sufficient seed-round (to be clear: Investors not FFF). It’s obvious that this process wastes a lot of times for founders, as they should be working on their products, services, technologies, and clients.
Having raised money for a lot of startups and SMEs … Read more
The Austrian startup media outlet derBrutkasten.com launched a new marketplace academy.derBrutkasten.com, which delivers workshops and training especially for founders and related players in the ecosystem. DerBrutkasten developed the academy in close partnership with Austria’s leading education platform and edu-tech marketplace-as-a-service Nilus.tech, powered by courseticket.com – a company that was founded by Alexander Schmid (CEO of courseticket), Markus Kainz (now … Read more
Note: You can read this article in German at DerBrutkasten.com.
For a long time, thinking about self-employment and entrepreneurship wasn’t a priority in Austria with high entry barriers (investments). Luckily, times have changed. Digitization has dramatically lowered these barriers. Today, anyone can come up with a good idea at the kitchen table and use it on their laptop, and … Read more
Last week, I traveled to San Francisco and Berkeley, California to join the exclusive professional classes of Innovation Orbit for the latest on leadership, innovation techniques, and how to change corporate culture. Innovation Orbit is a global executive training program focusing on innovation strategies, culture and tools used by leading corporates, public entities and startups. The classes rotate between Vienna, … Read more
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At this time of the year (September) Munich is full of people from around the globe where Lederhosen or Dirndls – it is the time of the traditional Oktoberfest. A festival rather known for beer, Volksmusik, celebrities, and traditional Bavarian food – but there is also the largest and one of the most impressive … Read more
On the 15th of January 2018, the Austrian law on Economic Ownership Register (wirtschaftliche Eigentümer Registergesetz – WiEReG) enters into force. The purpose of this register is to make ultimate beneficial owners transparent and verifiable and preventing money laundering and terrorist financing. The European Union ascertained a need to identify any natural person who exercises control over a … Read more
In cooperation with Venionaire Capital, DerBrutkasten.com publishes a four-part article series on the subject of artificial intelligence. We are concentrating on the economic aspects of how AI works to the current research and the future of artificial intelligence.
The fourth and last article will concentrate on how the artificial intelligence will turn out in the future.
According to … Read more
Der aus der Puls4-Show „2 Minuten 2 Millionen“ bekannte Startup-Investor Heinrich Prokop hat den Finanzexperten Raimund Solonar für seinen Fonds Clever Clover gewonnen. Solonar unterstützt als Senior Advisor die finanziellen Belange der Portfolio-Unternehmen und wird zudem bei Exitverhandlungen sein Know-how einbringen.
„Raimund Solonar ist ein erfahrener Fonds-Manager der 40 Jahre Wissen in der Finanzwelt mitbringt. Sein internationales Netzwerk wird uns … Read more
