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