Startup Success in Germany (ICLA Conference @ TIGGES DUS 20170922)

These were my slides for the presentation on why Germany and the state of NRW is a great place for startups at the ICLA Conference of international lawyers @ TIGGES Solicitors in Düsseldorf September 22. 2017. Bookings: you@plusandersen.com

Transcript

1. STARTUP
 SUCCESS IN GERMANY SEPTEMBER 22. 2017 ICLA CONFERENCE @ TIGGES
2. MORE VIDARANDERSEN.COM VIDAR ANDERSEN • STARTUP FOUNDER • EDUCATOR • INNOVATION ADVISOR FOUNDING PRINCIPAL +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES
3. WHY GER MA NY STARTUP SUCCESS IN DE
4. 28% 
 OF EURO AREA ECONOMY #1 economy
5. WORLD CLASS
 UNIVERSITIES free education
6. STRONG INDUSTRY 33 GLOBAL F500 33
 F500
7. THE HEART OF EUROPE
8. BIOTECH & PHARMA CLUSTERS
9. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT CLUSTERS
10. FINANCE CLUSTERS
11. MEDICINE
 & HEALTH CLUSTERS
12. TECHNOLOGY
 & INNOVATION CLUSTERS
13. TRANSPORT
 & LOGISTICS CLUSTERS
14. STARTUP CLUSTERS #1
15. NUMBER 2 IN STARTUP DEALS
16. VC FINANCING ON THE RISE
17. MOST ACTIVE VC IN GERMANY
18. TIER ONE VC ALREADY INVEST HERE
19. NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS
20. Parstream → Cisco October 2015 Undisclosed 6Wunderkinder → Microsoft June 2015 €100 - 200 million Quandoo → Recruit March 2015 €202.5 million Fyber (SponsorPay) → RNTS October 2014 $150 million
21. TeamViewer → Permira May 2014 €830 million Sociomantic → Dunnhumby April 2014 €150 million Trivago → Expedia (only in part) December 2012 €477 million. DailyDeal → Google September 2011 €82.8 million
22. Bigpoint → Summit Partners 
 and TA Associates April 2011 €272.6 million brands4friends → eBay December 2010 €150 million
23. NOTABLE IPO
24. Ferratum February 2015 €110.8 million. Rocket Internet October 2014 €6.5 Billion Zalando October 2014 €5.3 billion
25. trivago December 2016 €4 Billion
26. WHY NRW? THE SECRET SAUCE
27. DENSITY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS 50M PEOPLE
28. DENSITY POTENTIAL PARTNERS 10 GLOBAL F500 COMPANY F500 CITY Deutsche Telekom 89 Bonn Deutsche Post DHL 98 Bonn Lufthansa 248 Cologne Bayer 187 Leverkusen E.ON 16 Duesseldor f Metro 72 Duesseldor f Franz Haniel 272 Duisburg RWE 124 Essen ThyssenKrupp 122 Essen Bertelsmann 492 Guetersloh
29. DENSITY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS 747.000 
 SME
30. DENSITY POTENTIAL PARTNERS #1 IN HIDDEN CHAMPS STATE RANK AMOUNT NRW 1 293 Baden Wutteberg 2 277 Bayern 3 211 Hessen 4 119 Rheinland Pfalz 5 59 TOTAL 1.147
31. REGULAR FLIGHTS SILICON VALLEY TEL AVIV NRW CHINA JPN
32. 3:20h 3h 4:30h 4:20h 2h 1:50h 4h FAST TRAINS
33. EMERGING VIABLE CLUSTER MAJOR STARTUP HUB #1 #2
34. LOCAL VC PRESENT HERE &MORE
35. MAJOR VC ALREADY INVEST HERE &MORE
36. CONNECTING SMB WITH STARTUPS DIGITAL HUBS
37. OFFICE SPACE PLENTIFUL
38. LOW COST QUALITY OF LIFE
39. COMMUNITY VIBRANT & CONNECTED &MUCH MORE
40. NOTABLE NRW EXITS STARTUP ACQUISITIONS
41. DAILY ONLINE DEALS FOR CONSUMER GOODS
42. DAILYDEAL COLOGNE, NRW FOUNDED 2009 - EXIT 2011 €83 MILLION
43. BIG DATA ANALYTICS 
 ONLINE PLATFORM
44. PARSTREAM COLOGNE, NRW FOUNDED 2011 - EXIT 2015 €XXX MILLION
45. ONLINE 
 SHOPPING PORTAL
46. HITMEISTER COLOGNE, NRW FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2016 €XXX MILLION
47. SECURE 
 COMMUNICATIONS
48. SECUSMART DUSSELDORF, NRW FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2014 €XXX MILLION
49. GOOGLE SEARCH 
 FOR HOTEL DEALS
50. TRIVAGO DUSSELDORF, NRW FOUNDED 2005 - PART-EXIT 2012 €477 MILLION
51. TRIVAGO DUSSELDORF, NRW TAKEN PUBLIC DEC. 2016 $ +4 BILLION IPO
52. GLOBAL CAMPUS DUSSELDORF 2018
54. WHO’S NEXT? NRW CONTENDERS
55. SILICON VALLEY TECH MADE IN NRW
56. ARANGO DB COLOGNE, NRW ArangoDB is a multi-model mostly-memory database with a flexible data model for documents and graphs. It is designed 
 as a “general purpose database”, offering all the features 
 you typically need for modern web applications
57. NRW FINTECH
 FUNDED BY NYC VC
58. AUXMONEY DUSSELDORF, NRW auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace,
 a “Lender’s Club” in Europe
59. FROM DUS TO
 SAN FRANCISCO
60. SHOP.CO DUSSELDORF, NRW 
 The Universal Online Shopping Cart
61. NRW HELPS SOFTWARE EAT WORLD
62. GIANT SWARM COLOGNE, NRW Simple Microservice Infrastructure, built for developers
63. NRW STARTUP TAKES ON AWS
64. GRIDSCALE COLOGNE, NRW Cloud Servers per Drag & Drop
65. A JET.COM FOR EUROPE
66. CROWDFOX COLOGNE, NRW Online members marketplace
 cheaper than Amazon
67. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) PLATFORM
68. CUMULOCITY DUSSELDORF, NRW IoT Services for Consumer Products
69. SURPRISE!
70. CUMULOCITY DUSSELDORF, NRW FOUNDED 2013
 EXIT 27.03.2017 €XXX MILLION
71. WORLD FAMOUS &
 CONTROVERSIAL
72. EYEO COLOGNE, NRW “Making the Internet better for everyone -
 Starting with bad ads”
73. FROM CGN TO
 SAN FRANCISCO TOO
74. QUINTLY COLOGNE, NRW The professional social media benchmarking 
 and analytics solution
75. WELCOME! NRW A GREAT PLACE FOR STARTUPS
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 A SERVICE INNOVATION OUTPOSTS DEMO DAY PITCHING MASTERCLASS EXPERTS AS A SERVICE MENTORS AS A SERVICE TRAIN THE TRAINER SPINNING OUT +ANDERSEN PROGRAMS AT ALL STAGES
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