{"id":15935,"date":"2022-06-30T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/2023-en\/bmt-venture-insights-2-22-the-times-they-are-a-changing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T10:41:26","slug":"bmt-venture-insights-2-22-the-times-they-are-a-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2022-en\/bmt-venture-insights-2-22-the-times-they-are-a-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"bm|t Venture Insights 2\/22: The Times, They Are a Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We at bm|t  have also joined the ranks of many (if not all) VCs in com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading clearly about this changed envi\u00adron\u00adment to our Investee-Part\u00adners and work\u00ading closely with them to assess appro\u00adpri\u00adate steps and the best paths for\u00adward. How\u00adever, we cer\u00adtainly should all remain cog\u00adnizant not to let fear itself pre\u00advent us from achiev\u00ading impact\u00adful progress<\/strong> and con\u00advert\u00ading on value-cre\u00adat\u00ading opportunities.<\/p>\n

In many ways we feel some\u00adwhat (although cer\u00adtainly not entirely) insu\u00adlated from the imme\u00addi\u00adate dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adties many are expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading and believe that the start-up ecosys\u00adtem in Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen will, for many rea\u00adsons, prove to be quite robust rel\u00ada\u00adtive to other inno\u00adva\u00adtion invest\u00adment ecosys\u00adtems. Firstly, we have not rid\u00adden the big ven\u00adture wave of the last 10\u201315 years so high as most of the well-known inno\u00adva\u00adtion geo\u00adgra\u00adphies<\/strong>. The val\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions and the round sizes never over-extended so that the often exis\u00adten\u00adtial threat of larger down-rounds is not pro\u00adnounced here. Sec\u00adondly, the Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen inno\u00adva\u00adtion ecosys\u00adtem is very focused on B2B mar\u00adkets such that large mar\u00adket\u00ading expen\u00addi\u00adtures, that may now prove to have much lower impact than was orig\u00adi\u00adnally planned, are nearly non-exis\u00adtent. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, the region\u00b4s focus on deep-tech gen\u00ader\u00adally has been accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by longer-term plan\u00adning and con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, largely tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal-mile\u00adstone-based cor\u00adpo\u00adrate devel\u00adop\u00adment<\/strong>, so that very few com\u00adpa\u00adnies are caught off-bal\u00adance by the recent macro developments.<\/p>\n

With gen\u00ader\u00adally smaller financ\u00ading rounds (due to lower burn-rates) focused largely on value-cre\u00adat\u00ading tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal devel\u00adop\u00adments, which often have a spe\u00adcial strate\u00adgic appeal to longer-term focused investors (includ\u00ading fam\u00adily offices and cor\u00adpo\u00adrates), we believe Th\u00fcringen\u00b4s top inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies will con\u00adtinue to receive the nec\u00ades\u00adsary fund\u00ading to progress and grow in most cases<\/strong>. In fact, as you can read in this Newslet\u00adter, our Investee-Part\u00adners closed sev\u00aderal seven-fig\u00adure plus rounds in Q2 \u2013 a strong val\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion of this view.<\/p>\n

We would like to con\u00adclude with an impor\u00adtant acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment: no mat\u00adter the state of the world, and in some cases dri\u00adven even faster by tur\u00adbu\u00adlence, the need for inno\u00adva\u00adtion in order to con\u00adtinue to advance human\u00adity and pro\u00adtect the planet will remain extremely high<\/strong>. In this essen\u00adtial way, the more things change, the more they stay the same!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading to push for\u00adward, bm|t Team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We at bm|t  have also joined the ranks of many (if not all) VCs in com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading clearly about this changed envi\u00adron\u00adment to our Investee-Part\u00adn\u00aders and work\u00ading closely with them to assess appro\u00adpri\u00adate steps and the best paths for\u00adward. How\u00adever, we cer\u00adtainly should all remain cog\u00adnizant not to let fear itself pre\u00advent us from achiev\u00ading impact\u00adful progress and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,216],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-2022-en","tag-insights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}