German Startups Group KEY CORPORATE FACTS / KPIs FUND DESCRIPTION Offices 2 German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital. Its Founded 2012 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. Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a Employees 10 (of which 10 in Europe) diversified portfolio of investments in young companies and become the second most active venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights, Germany Venture Capital Overview). According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of extremely promising German startups of Current Fund Size N/A various maturity stages and includes some of the most successful and best-known German startups. Use of Debt No SELECTED PORTFOLIO COMPANIES Assets under Mgmt N/A Target Investment Size €100k – €3m Target Geographies German-speaking regions E-Commerce, Online Services, Social Target Sectors Network/Sharing Economy, SaaS/BigData/AdTech, Digital Full Portfolio • www.german-startups.com/about-us/#holdings Content/Publishing/CRM, FinTech, High Tech Investment Style Active KEY CONTACTS Deal structures Minority, some control stakes • Christoph Gerlinger • Serial entrepreneur, two successful IPOs • Founderand CEO • Founder and CEO of FrogsterInteractive Pictures AG, >200 employees, IPOedin 2006 Key Investment Criteria Disruption, scalability, entrepreneurial talent • Founder and CFO of CDV Software Entertainment AG, >200 employees, IPOedin 2000 Website www.german-startups.com • Manager Finance & Administration of PsygnosisDeutschland (formerly member of Sony Group) Contact Email [email protected] • Nikolas Samios • Long-standing expert in venture capital investments • COO • Founder and CEO of CooperativaGroup (a leading Berlin Family Office for Business Angel shareholdings) Contact Phone +49036098890 80 • Formerly CEO of Brandenburg Ventures GmbH (VC fund of MP3 inventor)