{"id":10575,"date":"2020-12-18T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/v4\/2021\/million-investment-for-influnate-gmbh-from-erfurt\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T07:34:53","slug":"million-investment-for-influnate-gmbh-from-erfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2020-en\/million-investment-for-influnate-gmbh-from-erfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Million investment for Influnate GmbH from Erfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Erfurt-based Fin\u00adTech start-up has closed a seven-fig\u00adure seed financ\u00ading round. The ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal com\u00adpany bm|t, MBG Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen and NT Neue Tech\u00adnolo\u00adgie AG invested in the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Influ\u00adnate GmbH offers a rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary tech\u00adnol\u00adogy in the field of \u2039social media pay\u00adment\u203a.&nbsp; With Influnate\u00b4s tech\u00adnol\u00adogy, it is easy to make mon\u00ade\u00adtary trans\u00adac\u00adtions directly within the com\u00adment sec\u00adtion of social media plat\u00adforms. This devel\u00adop\u00adment not only greatly enhances the poten\u00adtial for artists and cre\u00adators to mon\u00ade\u00adtize their con\u00adtent, the way char\u00adity dona\u00adtions are made and social com\u00admerce trans\u00adac\u00adtions are processed, but also fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtally improves the way value is cre\u00adated on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Dis\u00adrup\u00adtive redi\u00adrects to sep\u00ada\u00adrate pay\u00adment web\u00adsites and the dis\u00adclo\u00adsure of sen\u00adsi\u00adtive pay\u00adment data are now a thing of the past. Influ\u00adnate enables users to send and receive money directly on the respec\u00adtive plat\u00adform, quickly, eas\u00adily and securely just by post\u00ading a com\u00adment. Espe\u00adcially in times of a pan\u00addemic, Influ\u00adnate pro\u00advides artists and cul\u00adture cre\u00adators a sim\u00adple and afford\u00adable solu\u00adtion to con\u00adtinue fol\u00adlow\u00ading their pas\u00adsion and to finance them\u00adselves with Influnate.<\/p>\n<p>Influ\u00adnate also offers numer\u00adous addi\u00adtional func\u00adtions for live stream\u00ading events, which are already used in large show for\u00admats, where Influ\u00adnate is inte\u00adgrated as a part\u00adner and exclu\u00adsive pay\u00adment ser\u00advice provider.<\/p>\n<p>The enor\u00admous breadth of appli\u00adca\u00adtions and growth oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties con\u00advinced MBG Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen, in addi\u00adtion to the exist\u00ading investors NT Neue Tech\u00adnolo\u00adgien AG and bm|t, to jointly invest slightly more than one mil\u00adlion euros in the com\u00adpany in a seed financ\u00ading round to increase mar\u00adket aware\u00adness and user growth. \u00abInflu\u00adnate is cur\u00adrently inte\u00adgrated on Insta\u00adgram, Twit\u00adter, Twitch and Red\u00addit and more plat\u00adforms will fol\u00adlow. It is only a mat\u00adter of time until the team around founder Philipp Jahn will suc\u00adcess\u00adfully pen\u00ade\u00adtrate fur\u00adther mar\u00adkets,\u00bb stated Stephan Beier, Senior Invest\u00adment Man\u00adager at bm|t.<\/p>\n<h3>About Influnate<\/h3>\n<p>Influ\u00adnate GmbH was founded in 2019 and went to mar\u00adket in 2020 with its rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary social media pay\u00adment and com\u00admerce tech\u00adnol\u00adogy. The Fin\u00adTech startup enables social net\u00adwork users to send and receive money eas\u00adily, securely and quickly. This can be done with a sim\u00adple com\u00adment, a link or directly through Influnate\u2019s web application.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/influnate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.influnate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About bm|t<\/h3>\n<p>bm|t is the lead\u00ading Ven\u00adture Cap\u00adi\u00adtal and Pri\u00advate Equity investor in the State of Thuringia. The entrusted cap\u00adi\u00adtal is prof\u00aditably invested by bm|t in start-up teams and com\u00adpa\u00adnies in the Free State. This is how inno\u00adva\u00adtions and eco\u00adnomic growth in Thuringia are financed. bm|t cur\u00adrently man\u00adages ten funds with a total vol\u00adume of approx\u00adi\u00admately 440 mil\u00adlion euros and invests in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies across almost all sec\u00adtors and in all phases of com\u00adpany devel\u00adop\u00adment \u2014 in the start-up and growth phases or in com\u00adpany suc\u00adces\u00adsion situations.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bm-t.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bm\u2011t.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About MBG<\/h3>\n<p>As a strong and reli\u00adable part\u00adner, Mit\u00adtel\u00adst\u00e4ndis\u00adche Beteili\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsellschaft Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen mbH (MBG) offers equity and equity-like invest\u00adments to small and medium-sized com\u00adpa\u00adnies for start-up, con\u00adsol\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion or suc\u00adces\u00adsion pur\u00adposes to strengthen their bal\u00adance sheet. Com\u00adpa\u00adnies thus have a good basis for solid devel\u00adop\u00adment and sus\u00adtain\u00adable growth.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mbg-thueringen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mbg-thueringen.de<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About NT Neue Technologie&nbsp;AG<\/h3>\n<p>NT.AG is a group of com\u00adpa\u00adnies that dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adizes busi\u00adness processes and thus redesigns, expands or deep\u00adens value chains. In this way, NT.AG accel\u00ader\u00adates and pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adizes the dig\u00adi\u00adtal ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adtion of its cus\u00adtomers. As an incu\u00adba\u00adtor, NT.AG also sup\u00adports young, inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies with oper\u00ada\u00adtional and strate\u00adgic know-how to develop promis\u00ading busi\u00adness mod\u00adels to mar\u00adket maturity.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nt.ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.nt.ag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influ\u00adnate GmbH offers a rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary tech\u00adnol\u00adogy in the field of \u2018social media pay\u00adment\u2019. With this it is pos\u00adsi\u00adble to make mon\u00ade\u00adtary trans\u00adac\u00adtions directly within the com\u00adment sec\u00adtion of a social media plat\u00adform. This not only changes the pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties of mon\u00ade\u00adti\u00adza\u00adtion for artists and cre\u00adatives, the way char\u00adity appeals are cre\u00adated or social com\u00admerce trans\u00adac\u00adtions are processed, but also fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtally changes the value cre\u00adation on social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-en","tag-thuringia-growth-fund"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}