German Startups Group Explained

German Startups Group VC GmbH
Traded As:	SGF
Foundation:	May, 2012
Founder:	Christoph Gerlinger
Location City:	Frankfurt
Location Country:	Germany
Industry:	Venture Capital
Products:	Investments
Homepage:	german-startups.com

German Startups Group VC GmbH is a venture capital provider that supports the set-up, development, funding, and – at the appropriate time – exit of young growth companies by providing them with business expertise and venture capital to create shareholder value. Since the second half of 2013, German Startups Group also engages in acquiring secondary shares from founders and business angels.^{[1] [2]} German Startups Group was founded by Christoph Gerlinger^{[3] [4] [5]} in May 2012. The operating business was launched in June 2012, and the public release was on 27 July 2012.^[6]

German Startups Group went public on 11 November 2015 and became listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.^{[7] [8]}

Holdings

As of 10 May 2018, German Startups Group considers 20 of their 37 minority stakeholdings in operationally active companies to be of particular significance to the group. Together they comprise 89% of all 37 active minority stakeholdings.^{[9] [10]} The portfolio consists of (amongst others):

• Amorelie (Exit)
• Armedangels
• ayondo
• Finiata
• Book a Tiger
• Ceritech
• Customer Alliance
• CRX Markets (sold)
• Delivery Hero (Exit)
• Dr. Z
• Exozet (majority holding)
• Fiagon
• Friendsurance
• Fyber (Exit)
• Itembase
• Juniqe
• Mister Spex
• Onefootball
• reBuy
• Remerge
• Savedo
• Scalable Capital (sold)
• Service Partner One
• Simplesurance
• SoundCloud
• Tictail
• TVSmiles

External links

• German Startups Group Berlin GmbH & Co. KGaA

Notes and References

1. http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/german-startups-group-beteiligungen-2014 gruenderszene.de
2. Web site: 2014-01-15 . Pflege.de, Changers, Imedo, German Startups Group . 2024-07-11 . deutsche-startups.de . de-DE.
3. Web site: 2012-08-01 . Kurzmitteilungen: German Startups Group, Audiomagnet, Doogood, myMobai, Picopay . 2024-07-11 . deutsche-startups.de . de-DE.
4. http://www.vc-magazin.de/news/gruender/item/1345-german-startups-group-geht-an-den-start vc-magazin.de
5. News: Start-ups in Deutschland: Die Weltmarktführer von morgen. Faz.net. Giersberg. Georg.
6. http://www.german-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/120727_GSG_PM-launch_Eng.pdf www.german-startups.com
7. http://www.goingpublic.de/german-startups-group-startet-der-boerse-ueber-platzierungspreis/
8. Web site: German Startups Group wagt nach Verzögerung den Sprung aufs Parkett - VC Magazin.
9. http://gsg.vc/index.php/about-us/#holdings
10. Web site: Archived copy . 2 October 2015 . 3 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151003133756/http://www.german-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Press-Release_German-Startups-Group-Increases-Profitability-and-Performance.pdf . dead .