At bm|t we have pre­viously writ­ten about the power of bold­ness as an intan­gi­ble, but vital asset in Foun­ders and their Start-ups. In our February

This news­let­ter will be the last that I write as CEO of bm|t. After a ful­fil­ling and pro­duc­tive seven and a half years of investing

We recently atten­ded the  Fede­ral Minis­try of Eco­no­mic and Cli­mate Action´s inau­gu­ral Startup Sum­mit in Ber­lin, and we were genui­nely impres­sed and moti­va­ted by the

In April, we par­ti­ci­pa­ted in a trip to Japan with a Thü­rin­gen dele­ga­tion and were able to inter­act with the startup com­mu­ni­ties in Osaka and

The famous line “I feel the need, the need for speed” was spo­ken in a very cava­lier and risk-ori­en­­ted way in the movie Top Gun.

This adapt­a­tion of Goethe´s famous quote “What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; bold­ness has genius, power, and magic in it” is

Because of their extre­mely deep and broad rea­ching appli­ca­ti­ons and impli­ca­ti­ons, two com­pa­nies stood out in our mind as cle­arly revo­lu­tio­nary and with rele­vance for

Ven­ture invest­ment in the start-up world is gene­rally rai­sed and deployed in order to “(blitz)scale the orga­niza­tion”, “capi­ta­lize on a mar­ket win­dow”, “acce­le­rate time to

This state­ment is not sug­gest­ing that in times of high Beta influence, foun­ders should stop focu­sing on their busi­nesses and become macro-ana­­lysts or day-tra­d­ers. However,

We at bm|t  have also joi­ned the ranks of many (if not all) VCs in com­mu­ni­ca­ting cle­arly about this chan­ged envi­ron­ment to our Inves­­tee-Par­t­­ners and

We believe that com­pel­ling invest­ments should be able to meet BOTH of the fol­lo­wing cri­te­ria: The invest­ment is fun­da­men­tally attrac­tive AND There is an evident

The estab­lish­ment of an opti­mal inves­tor mix is indeed a pro­cess rather than an achie­ved state and in many cases is never com­ple­ted, as the optimal

Most newly foun­ded com­pa­nies initi­ally want to go it alone and aim to blaze their own trail to ulti­mate suc­cess. Gene­rally, some­where along this adventurous

A her­cu­lean effort is requi­red for a young com­pany to break into an estab­lished mar­ket with a new product/service/solution or to estab­lish a new market

This mar­ket test­ing, as oppo­sed to mar­ket stu­dy­ing, is often cha­rac­te­ri­zed as a busi­ness ›test­ing its foot­print›. Typi­cal ques­ti­ons that need ans­wers in this footprint-testing

One sce­na­rio ari­sing from this innate dif­fe­rence that we peri­odi­cally encoun­ter in Ger­many, where smal­ler early-stage tickets for strong ideas are rea­dily available but larger