{"id":86581,"date":"2022-10-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/?p=86581"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:36:48","slug":"flixbus-founders-are-germanys-most-active-business-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/en\/86581\/flixbus-founders-are-germanys-most-active-business-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Flixbus founders are Germany&#039;s most active business angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>With 37 investments, the Flixbus founders lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addedval.io\/business-angels-liste-die-150-aktivsten-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ranking<\/a> of the 150 most active business angels in Germany by a wide margin. Second place, which is only listed anonymously, follows with 27 investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the authors of the ranking, there are around 10,000 business angels active in Germany. Based on an analysis of the commercial register between July 2019 and July 2022, the portal identified the 150 angels who invested in at least seven German startups during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Flixbus founders have invested in these startups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Through their joint investment company SEK Ventures, Flixbus founders Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss and Andr\u00e9 Schw\u00e4mmlein have invested in a whole series of Munich-based startups from various industries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, SEK Ventures has participated in a <a href=\"\/en\/85700\/awake-mobility-raises-money-again\/\">4 million round<\/a> at <strong>Awake Mobility <\/strong>The Munich-based company has developed a hardware and software solution that uses real-time vehicle data acquisition to detect the condition of buses. This is intended to improve the reliability, punctuality, and environmental friendliness of buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Edtech startup <strong>Simpleclub <\/strong>In July, with the help of the Flixbus founders, among others, <a href=\"\/en\/83838\/series-a-financing-simpleclub\/\">Series A financing round of 7.2 million euros<\/a> Complete. Simpleclub&#039;s learning app offers learning videos, exercises, and summaries for fifth grade and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the Munich-based angel investors joined forces as part of a <a href=\"\/en\/74014\/truckoo-seed-financing\/\">Seed round<\/a> on the platform for the purchase and sale of commercial vehicles\u00a0<strong>Truckoo<\/strong> involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEK Ventures has been involved in the <a href=\"\/en\/75033\/wellster-healthtech-group-aims-to-build-the-largest-and-most-caring-healthcare-company-in-europe\/\"><strong>Wellster Healthtech Group<\/strong><\/a>, an operator of online medical portals. Later, high-profile investors such as Sevenventures followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also at <strong>Freeway camper<\/strong> The three Munich residents were on board early on: Already at the <a href=\"\/en\/64813\/flixbus-founders-invest-in-freewaycamper\/\">first investment round<\/a> They have participated in the camping startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SaaS platform for website optimization <strong>Ryte<\/strong> rose SEK Ventures<a href=\"\/en\/67915\/ryte-growth-financing-with-6-5-million\/\"> Beginning of 2021<\/a> Co-founder and CEO Andreas Bruckschl\u00f6gl was delighted at the time with &quot;the support and trust of such renowned investors.&quot;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <strong>Skyroads <\/strong>(formerly <a href=\"\/en\/day\/d3-technologies\/\">D3 Technologies<\/a>), the Flixbus founders have another startup from the mobility industry in their portfolio alongside Awake Mobility: <a href=\"\/en\/67342\/urban-aviation-29-million-euros-for-d3-technologies\/\">Munich-based company is developing a traffic control system for air taxis<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online service Addedval.io has compiled a list of Germany&#039;s most active angel investors. At the top of the list are Flixbus founders Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss, and Andr\u00e9 Schw\u00e4mmlein. We&#039;ve compiled some of their Munich investments.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":86583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5633,1],"tags":[909,4575,376,3069,3411,4710],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flixbus-Gr\u00fcnder sind Deutschlands aktivste Business Angels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Die Flixbus-Gr\u00fcnder Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss und Andr\u00e9 Schw\u00e4mmlein sind die aktivsten Business Angels Deutschlands. 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