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STARTUP SUCCESS IN NRW
MARCH 28. 2017HUNGARIAN TECH DAY
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NORWEGIAN (12 YEARS IN NRW) • STARTUP FOUNDER • EDUCATOR • INNOVATION
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WHY NRW?WHAT MAKES NORTH-RHINE WESTPHALIA SO SPECIAL
THE SECRET SAUCE
DENSITY OF POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
50M PEOPLE
DENSITY OF POTENTIAL PARTNERS
10 GLOBAL F500
NAME F500 CITY
Deutsche Telekom 89 Bonn
Deutsche Post DHL 98 Bonn
Lufthansa 248 Cologne
Bayer 187 Leverkusen
E.ON 16 DuesseldorfMetro 72 DuesseldorfFranz Haniel 272 Duisburg
RWE 124 Essen
ThyssenKrupp 122 Essen
Bertelsmann 492 Guetersloh
DENSITY OF POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
747.000
SME
DENSITY OF 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
DAILY FLIGHTS
SILICON VALLEY
TEL AVIV
3:20h
3h
4:30h
4:20h
2h
1:50h
4h
FAST TRAINS
EMERGING VIABLE CLUSTER
MAJOR STARTUP HUB
#1
#2
LOCAL VC PRESENT HERE
&MORE
MAJOR VC ALREADY INVEST HERE
&MORE
CONNECTING SMB WITH STARTUPS
DIGITAL HUBS
OFFICE SPACE PLENTIFUL
QUALITY OF LIFE
COMMUNITY VIBRANT & CONNECTED
&MUCH MORE
NOTABLE EXITS
IN NRWSTARTUP ACQUISITIONS
DAILY ONLINE DEALS FOR CONSUMER GOODS
DAILYDEAL COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2009 - EXIT 2011 €83 MILLION
BIG DATA ANALYTICS ONLINE PLATFORM
PARSTREAM COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2011 - EXIT 2015 €XXX MILLION
ONLINE SHOPPING PORTAL
HITMEISTER COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2016 €XXX MILLION
SECURE COMMUNICATIONS
SECUSMART DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2014 €XXX MILLION
GOOGLE SEARCH FOR HOTEL DEALS
TRIVAGO DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2005 - PART-EXIT 2012 €477 MILLION
TRIVAGO DUSSELDORF, NRW
TAKEN PUBLIC DEC. 2016 €XXX MILLION
IPO
GLOBAL CAMPUS DUSSELDORF 2018
WHO’S NEXT?SOME CONTENDERS IN NORTH-RHINE WESTPHALIA
SILICON VALLEY TECH MADE IN NRW
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
NRW FINTECHFUNDED BY NYC VC
AUXMONEY DUSSELDORF, NRW
auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace,a “Lender’s Club” in Europe
FROM DUS TOSAN FRANCISCO
SHOP.CO DUSSELDORF, NRW
The Universal Online Shopping Cart
NRW HELPS SOFTWARE EAT WORLD
GIANT SWARM COLOGNE, NRW
Simple Microservice Infrastructure, built for developers
NRW STARTUP TAKES ON AWS
GRIDSCALE COLOGNE, NRW
Cloud Servers per Drag & Drop
CROWDFOX COLOGNE, NRW
Online members marketplacecheaper than Amazon
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) PLATFORM
CUMULOCITY DUSSELDORF, NRW
IoT Services for Consumer Products
SURPRISE!
CUMULOCITY DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2013 EXIT 27.03.2016 €XXX MILLION
WORLD FAMOUS &CONTROVERSIAL
EYEO COLOGNE, NRW
“Making the Internet better for everyone - Starting with bad ads”
FROM CGN TOSAN FRANCISCO TOO
QUINTLY COLOGNE, NRW
The professional social media benchmarking and analytics solution
CONSLUSION
NRW IS A GREAT PLACE FOR STARTUPS
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