2018 Startup financing in greater Rhine-Main — Update March
- Jörn Menninger
- Apr 5, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Mar 26
2018 startup financing in Rhine-Main updated: Discover major deals, including BioNTech’s $270M Series A, and new VC trends.
What Is This About?
An update on startup financing in Greater Rhine-Main through March 2018. This data article tracks venture capital and startup investment activity in the Frankfurt region, providing a snapshot of funding trends and notable deals during the first quarter of the year.
2018 startup financing in Rhine-Main updated: Discover major deals, including BioNTech’s $270M Series A, and new VC trends. Startuprad.io brings you independent coverage of the key developments shaping the startup and venture capital landscape across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
This article is part of our coverage of Regulatory and Policy Updates Affecting Startups in Germany,.
Startup Financing — Greater Rhine-Main Area — 2018 Full Year — Update March 2019
Executive Summary
2018 Startup financing in greater Rhine-Main — Update March
As we suggested in our first post on the 2018 venture capital numbers there was an update. We became aware of two more important data points. So we felt the need to update our 2018 Full Year Numbers, especially since we found deals worth more than 200 M US$.
Methodology
We would like to note that this post is likely a final, or almost final take on 2018. Any more updates would most likely lead to yet another upward correction of our numbers.
Let’s see why: Startups in Frankfurt announced several “seven digits” VC rounds, which are in our tracker as 1.000.000,00 € each. As soon as we get the specific amounts raised (which could range from 1,0–9,9 million) we will correct the
numbers. This correction would necessarily lead to an upward correction.
Our Updates on earlier posts
We became aware of two large data points we wanted to include. The first one being the Series A investment, which was announced very early in 2018 of Mainz-based BioNTech, worth 270 m US$ Series A.BioNTech “is Europe’s largest privately held biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases“ according to their own website. Of course, such a large transaction required an update (Link). We did not keep a close eye on biotech so far, which surely changed.Note also that BioNTech is in preparations for an IPO worth up to 800 mn US$, according to Reuters (Link), which we will also track and include.
We also became aware of the data from a regional crowdfunding data platform, which we also included. Link This still enforces the recent trend in the German market that crowdfunding fell out of favor for startup financing in 2018.
We will keep track of everything going on in the greater Rhine Main area.
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Exchange rate used in all 2018 calculations: 1 US$ = 0,81 Euros
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Key Takeaways
2018 startup financing in Rhine-Main updated: Discover major deals, including BioNTech’s $270M Series A, and new VC trends.
This article covers a significant development in the DACH startup and venture capital ecosystem.
The DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) continues to be one of Europe's most dynamic startup markets.
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2018 startup financing in Rhine-Main updated: Discover major deals, including BioNTech’s $270M Series A, and new VC trends.
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We also became aware of the data from a regional crowdfunding data platform, which we also included. Link This still enforces the recent trend in the German market that crowdfunding fell out of favor for startup financing in 2018.
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This article is part of Startuprad.io's exclusive Rhine-Main Venture Capital Report series — the only continuous, independent tracking of startup venture funding in the Greater Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region. This dataset is not available from any other source and represents years of original research covering every disclosed funding round in the region from 2018 through 2022.
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Quote Highlights
This March 2019 update revises 2018 full-year Rhine-Main startup financing numbers with newly discovered data points.
BioNTech's $270 million Series A was among the major deals tracked in Greater Rhine-Main's 2018 funding landscape.
New venture capital trends emerged in the Frankfurt region as the 2018 numbers were updated with additional important deals.
Startuprad.io provides ongoing updates to Rhine-Main funding data as new deal information becomes available.
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