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Professional Investors and the SPAC boom: Proceed with Caution
/in Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse /by VenionaireAs an investor, you pride yourself on your ability to rationally assess a startup’s potential. But how to proceed when it comes to SPACs?
Who is still investing during the crisis?
/in Know-how for Founders, Market Pulse, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicThere are quite a few investors who are still investing – see the published lists. You may expect them to be as selective as they were before and – beware – some of them might look for bargain deals during the crisis. Make sure you get proper introductions to the investors which make the most sense for your business.
AUSTRIA’S NEXT UNICORNS
/in Corporate Startup Engagement, Market Pulse, News /by Anna WeissmannInvestors are optimistic again – European Venture Sentiment Index Q4 2020
/in European Venture Sentiment Index, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicFocus CEE: Venture Sentiment Slides
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse, News /by Anna WeissmannIn light of the vast economic changes in the European venture capital market as a result of the COVID-19, we started to monitor the venture sentiment more closely and highlight important findings in an aggregate index on the European level. In today’s article we take a closer look at CEE.
CEO Insights & Outlook on Covid-19 Implications
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicHow is the startup community and investors doing in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis? It’s been a rather stormy ride for many over the last half-a-year and it’s far from calming down. Read on for Berthold Baurek-Karlic’s opinion, CEO of Venionare Capital, from an investor’s perspective.
Looking into the future of Private Equity strategies?
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse, News /by Anna WeissmannPrivate equity (PE) funds, the larger cousins of venture capital funds, typically invest in more mature companies. In this article, we will look into the past, present and future of private equity strategies. The evolution of private equity is driven by accidentally discovered effects that our team of experts and analysts identified recently.
M&A Deal: Blockpit acquires CryptoTax
/in Corporate News, Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicOur M&A team led a lighthouse M&A transaction for Blockpit, the Austrian expert for legally compliant reporting for digital asset trading to acquire its German competitor CryptoTax. With this acquisition of its biggest and larger European competitor, the company intends to drive international expansion into the US and other markets globally in 2021.
Total investments in 360kompany AG now EUR 14m
/in Corporate News, Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Anna WeissmannWe are proud to have closed the following deals during the last weeks: Health-Tech pioneer myBioma has secured a six-figure investment from renowned investors, which was also doubled by the COVID-19 relief fund of the Austrian Promotional Bank (Die Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH – AWS) and also the award-winning RegTech platform for Business KYC (KYB), kompany has secured a follow-up funding of €6 million, which was their largest single investment round to date.
Six-figure follow-up investment for health-tech pioneer myBioma
/in Corporate News, Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicHealth-tech pioneer myBioma has raised a six-figure follow-up investment from renowned investors, which is to be doubled by the COVID-19 relief fund of the AWS. The next step is for the founders to draw international attention to themselves.
New strategic partnership with startup300 AG in Dealmatrix startup valuation calculator
/in Corporate News, Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Anna WeissmannVenionaire Capital enters new strategic partnership with startup300 AG in the new Dealmatrix, offering startup valuation calculator after a pivot. Beta users will foreseeably be able to use the new service from August onwards.
New Book – 100 Startups – Made in Austria
/in Corporate News, Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicVenionaire Capital founder and managing partner Berthold Baurek-Karlic and co-autor Florian Kandler, announced a new book project “100 Startups – Made in Austria” today in Austria’s leading startup portal derbrutkasten. Future hidden champions, from deep-tech to digital competitors, will be featured through interviews. The book itself will be promoted globally, sent to selected VCs all […]
Overview of Startup Valuation Methods
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicThere are various ways to value a startup depending on their stages of development. We prepared an overview to help you distinguish between different valuation models so that you can choose the method that best fits your company or investment case.
Startup Valuation – Rating Method
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, Market Pulse, News /by Berthold Baurek-Karlic‘The Startup Rating model by Venionaire Capital’ is a proprietary model for investors, which may be applied across different stages, without limitations of pure qualitative or financial models. The model adjusts the average valuation you have calculated or observed from the market and makes it transparent how much you should over- or underpay compared to an average valuation in order to make a fair deal.
7 Hacks to Pitch your Startup
/in Know-how for Founders, Market Pulse, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicEntrepreneurs need to be prepared to pitch their company, anytime, anywhere. An elevator pitch should be short and crisp – you only have a few minutes (2 – 5 min.) to explain your vision and trigger a spark of interest from your audience / investor. Pitching a startup is really difficult and we have a lot of respect for that. Founders need to master this skill set, as there are many talents out there, setting the bars higher every day.