DGAP-News 302 0 Kommentare German Startups Group will move to the new Deutsche Börse quality segment Scale for small and medium-sized enterprises on 1 March 2017 - Seite 2

German Startups Group is a listed investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies, so-called startups. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital. The portfolio companies that German Startups Group holds also stand to benefit from German Startups Group's expertise, experience and network with respect to strategy development, financing rounds, restructuring necessities, M&A transactions or selling the company, including a possible IPO. According to its own assessment, German Startups Group provides startups with so-called "smart money" by acquiring a shareholding. Its focus is on companies whose products or business models represent a disruptive innovation, allow for a high degree of scalability to be expected, and in which it has a great deal of trust in the entrepreneurial abilities of the founders to whom it feels that it obtains early access to due to its close relationships to relevant players in the startup scene. The geographical focus is on the German-speaking region. Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a diversified portfolio of investments in young companies and become the most active private venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights 2015, PitchBook 2016). 25 of the 47 minority stakeholdings in operationally active companies are of particular significance to German Startups Group and together comprise 89% of the total value of all 47 active minority stakeholdings. The ten core holdings alone make up 60% of the value of all active minority stakeholdings. According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of promising German startups of various maturity stages ("Seed," "Early" and "Growth Stage," by German Startups Group's own definition) and includes some of the most successful and best known German startups.

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Language:	English
Company:	German Startups Group Berlin GmbH & Co. KGaA
	Platz der Luftbrücke 4-6
	12101 Berlin
	Germany
Phone:	+49.30.6098890.80
Fax:	+49.30.6098890.89
E-mail:	info@german-startups.com
Internet:	www.german-startups.com
ISIN:	DE000A1MMEV4
WKN:	A1MMEV
Listed:	Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Tradegate Exchange; Open Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt