German Startups Group KEY CORPORATE FACTS / KPIS INVESTOR DESCRIPTION Offices Berlin, Frankfurt TheGermanStartups Group, a publicly traded company comprises one of the leading VC providers in Germany with a digital agency employing 150 people in Berlin. With a focus on Germany’s young, fast growing companies – so called startups. Since starting operations in 2012, German Startups Grouphas become the most active private venture capital investor in Germany (CB Insights 2015, Pitch-book 2016). With the launch of G|S Market™ Active Markets DACH the company operates a secondary market platform for tech assets since June 2018. Its majority holding, German Startups Asset Management GmbH,will launch its own novel type VC funds in the future and provide SPVs for G|S Market™ on the buy side in order to enable several investors Founded 2012 to acquire larger investment opportunities through pooled investments. Employees 4 (of which 4 in Europe) Current Fund Size ca. €30m balance sheet SELECTED PORTFOLIO COMPANIES Use of Debt Yes The AdTech startup remerge enables app providers to place ads through an integrated retargeting platform in more than 350,000 other apps, according to the company. Thus, advertisers can reach, according to Remerge, up to AUM ca. €30m balance sheet 700,000 users worldwide per second. Chrono24 is the global online market leader for luxury watches, based in Karlsruhe. Founded in 2003 by Tim Target Investment Size €50k– €2m Stracke, Dirk Schwartz and Michael Kroska, the company is considered the first choice online for watch enthusiasts as well as traders when it comes to new, pre-owned and vintage luxury watches. Target Geographies DACH Mister Spex is an online retailer for branded eyewear. Through the Internet, the company offers an extensive range of high quality prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses at competitive prices. In addition to the broad product range, price transparency and price savings, customers also benefit from free services such as eye tests Target Sectors eCommerce, AdTech, FinTech/InsurTech, and the adjustment of glasses thanks to local partner opticians in Germany. Investment Style Active Full Portfolio • www.german-startups.com/index.php/about-us/#holdings KEY CONTACTS Deal Structures Minority, secondaries • Serial Entrepreneur, IPO’ed three companies including CDV Software, Name: Christoph Gerlinger Frogster Interactive and German Startups Group, strong capital markets Team, Track Record (Serial Title: Founder and CEO network Key Investment Criteria Entrepreneurs), Germany-based or • Companies: German Startups Group, German Startups Market, German German-speaking Email: [email protected] Startups Asset Management, Frogster Interactive, CDV Software Website german-startups.com Name: Marcel Doeppes • Supported IPO of German Startups Group, General Manager of German Startups Market and German Startups Asset Management, Degrees in Contact Email [email protected] Title: Head of IR, People and Projects Economics of Goethe University Frankfurt, JGU Mainz and RUG Groningen Email: [email protected] • Companies: German Startups Group, German Startups Market, German Startups Asset Management, Ketchum, Goethe University Frankfurt Contact Phone +49 30-54908603 INVESTOR BOOK 58