On/Off relationship between politicians & founders Tech founders and tech investors are regularly surprised by the sudden interest of politicians that is bestowed onto our scene like clockwork — every 4 years. Can you (tech entrepreneurs and tech investors) still remember the numerous inquiries and visits from politicians in 2013 and 2017? Wasn’t that great, the…

Why we invested in ACCURE Battery Intelligence The past 10 years can be called the inception of a battery-based society. Everything is powered by mobile energy storages — from laptops, to phones, to home storages charging a car. While these examples come from our everyday-lives, the meta-move to renewable energy…

There are already countless articles and presentations with advice for startups in the corona crisis. According to the motto “Everything has been said — just not by everyone yet” I will not give any further advice to startups. However, the exciting question is what long-term effects the corona crisis will…

Does it help to hang pictures of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs in the office? Or is it a remnant of pubertal behavior when people hung posters of Superman or pop singers in their children’s rooms between the ages of 12 and 15? I don’t know any people who could…

German Tech Startups are bought Does anyone remember a German tech start-up which was so successful that it took over other technology companies, e.g. from the USA? Well, there were a few exceptions in the past, such as United Internet, SAP or Software AG. …

I’m very excited about our investment in Acellere. The company has developed an intelligent software analytics platform which supports teams in building high quality software — named ‘Gamma’. We led the Series A in December 2017 and I joined Acellere’s Advisory Board. Just after our investment, the company has launched…

About two years ago Process Mining has been intensively discussed in the German startup ecosystem after the first startup in this space got funded. I do recall that many venture capital investors including myself have evaluated the sector following this financing round. I invested some time in order to understand…

After reading a lot about the ‘AI based investment approach’ of some Venture Capital investors I take the liberty to share my thoughts on this matter. AI in one sentence: Software technologies that make a computer or robot perform equal to or better than normal human computational ability in accuracy, capacity…

I have been asked about our (Capnamic Venture) investment strategy several times. Here are some background information on it. In my last post I have underlined the importance of a thesis driven investment strategy: Key Learnings of a VC Two Decades in the Startup Ecosystemstartupsventurecapital.com Investors without a clear focus and strategy are lost Some investors claim to invest opportunistically in all…