1.
STARTUP
SUCCESS
IN NRW
APRIL 26. 2017
HANNOVER MESSE

2.
MORE
VIDARANDERSEN.COM
NORWEGIAN
• STARTUP FOUNDER
• EDUCATOR
• INNOVATION ADVISOR FOUNDING PRINCIPAL
+ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES

3.
WHY
NRW?
THE SECRET SAUCE

4.
DENSITY
POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
50M
PEOPLE

5.
DENSITY
POTENTIAL PARTNERS
10
GLOBAL
F500
COMPANY F500 CITY
Deutsche Telekom 89 Bonn
Deutsche Post DHL 98 Bonn
Lufthansa 248 Cologne
Bayer 187 Leverkusen
E.ON 16 Duesseldor
fMetro 72 Duesseldor
fFranz Haniel 272 Duisburg
RWE 124 Essen
ThyssenKrupp 122 Essen
Bertelsmann 492 Guetersloh

6.
DENSITY
POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
747.000
SME

7.
DENSITY
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

8.
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SILICON VALLEY
TEL AVIV
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NRW

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ALREADY INVEST HERE
&MORE

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DIGITAL
HUBS

14.
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PLENTIFUL

15.
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OF LIFE

16.
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&MUCH MORE

17.
NOTABLE
NRW
EXITS
STARTUP ACQUISITIONS

18.
DAILY ONLINE DEALS
FOR CONSUMER GOODS

19.
DAILYDEAL
COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2009 - EXIT 2011
€83 MILLION

20.
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
ONLINE PLATFORM

21.
PARSTREAM
COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2011 - EXIT 2015
€XXX MILLION

22.
ONLINE
SHOPPING PORTAL

23.
HITMEISTER
COLOGNE, NRW
FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2016
€XXX MILLION

24.
SECURE
COMMUNICATIONS

25.
SECUSMART
DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2007 - EXIT 2014
€XXX MILLION

26.
GOOGLE SEARCH
FOR HOTEL DEALS

27.
TRIVAGO
DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2005 - PART-EXIT 2012
€477 MILLION

28.
TRIVAGO
DUSSELDORF, NRW
TAKEN PUBLIC DEC. 2016
$ +4 BILLION
IPO

29.
GLOBAL CAMPUS
DUSSELDORF 2018

30.
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NEXT?
NRW CONTENDERS

31.
SILICON VALLEY TECH
MADE IN NRW

32.
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

33.
NRW FINTECH
FUNDED BY NYC VC

34.
AUXMONEY
DUSSELDORF, NRW
auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace,
a “Lender’s Club” in Europe

35.
FROM DUS TO
SAN FRANCISCO

36.
SHOP.CO
DUSSELDORF, NRW
The Universal Online Shopping Cart

37.
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SOFTWARE EAT WORLD

38.
GIANT SWARM
COLOGNE, NRW
Simple Microservice Infrastructure,
built for developers

39.
NRW STARTUP
TAKES ON AWS

40.
GRIDSCALE
COLOGNE, NRW
Cloud Servers per Drag & Drop

41.
A JET.COM FOR EUROPE

42.
CROWDFOX
COLOGNE, NRW
Online members marketplace
cheaper than Amazon

43.
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
PLATFORM

44.
CUMULOCITY
DUSSELDORF, NRW
IoT Services for Consumer Products

45.
SURPRISE!

46.
CUMULOCITY
DUSSELDORF, NRW
FOUNDED 2013
EXIT 27.03.2016
€XXX MILLION

47.
WORLD FAMOUS &
CONTROVERSIAL

48.
EYEO
COLOGNE, NRW
“Making the Internet better for everyone -
Starting with bad ads”

49.
FROM CGN TO
SAN FRANCISCO TOO

50.
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COLOGNE, NRW
The professional social media benchmarking
and analytics solution

51.
WELCOME!
NRWA GREAT PLACE FOR
STARTUPS

52.
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