Kai Malkwitz is an entrepreneur, a business angel and a startup mentor. He offers strategic consulting for organization development, innovation processes and entrepreneurship. His focus is on b2b (or b2b2c) businesses with disruptive potential in Energy, Mobility, and Smart Cities. Find out why he only… Read more
Marcus Dr Opitz has over 30 years of operational business experience. He is a Managing Director for companies with a turnover of up to €3.7 billion. He managed acquisitions, restructurings, carve-outs and disposals of more than 60 companies on behalf of corporates (i.e.BASF SE), private… Read more
If you’re a startup founder looking to raise funding, or an angel investor looking to invest smart capital, you should become familiar with the term high-resolution fundraising. It’s originally from California. The first person to use this term was probably Paul Graham (YCombinator) back in… Read more
Ronald Hans aka Nalden first came to prominence with his pioneering blog, Nalden.net, which he started as a teenager. He co-founded WeTransfer, bootstrapped it to profitability, raised $25M, opened an office in LA and left a decade later. In addition to WeTransfer, he is the… Read more
Sie haben bisher in öffentliche Aktien und Anleihen oder vielleicht in Immobilien investiert und möchten nun versuchen, als Business Angel in Start-ups zu investieren? Sie sind nicht der Erste! Am Wachstum eines neuen Unternehmens teilzuhaben, ist eine äußerst lohnende Erfahrung. Investitionen in Start-ups erfordern viel… Read more
Egal, was Sie denken, Sie sind wahrscheinlich nicht gut darin, die Gewinner unter den Start-ups herauszufinden. Ein auf Vermögensallokation spezialisiertes Wall-Street-Unternehmen hat einmal eine Gruppe von Finanzexperten mit großem Selbstvertrauen gebeten, aus einer Liste von Unternehmen in der Zeitung die besten Aktien auszuwählen. Sie trafen… Read more
Michael Friebe has been involved in HealthTech ventures as both a founder and business angel for quite some time now. He’s also teaching health startup entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Munich and seven years ago, he started the HealthTEC Innovation Lab at the University of… Read more
Pieter ter Kuile, ex-Vice Chairman at the Dutch investment bank Kempen & Co, is one of the early investors in Leapfunder. He studied law in Amsterdam, obtained an MBA at Harvard, and started his career at McKinsey & Co, after which he founded his own… Read more
Startups need money to grow. Therefore, they have to raise funding. The basic financial instruments for startups are the following: You can sell your shares You can get a loan Or you can use convertibles If you look at a company: the shareholders are the… Read more
Have you heard about Leapfunder’s new Priced Equity product yet? Although the convertible has become the standard financial instrument for pre-seed and seed funding, we’re hoping that our priced equity product will provide a less technical alternative for many situations. Learn more! Characteristics of a priced… Read more
