Jörn "Joe" Menninger

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1,749 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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FinTech Germany – Fintech Startups, Banking Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™ · E 768 — Unicorn Atlas #2: Moss — Berlin's Finance-AI Unicorn Betting on Control, Not Autonomy · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

It is matched

A capital efficient unicorn round moss reached the billion Euro line at a much better capital efficiency ratio than the 2021 class of European fintechs, and it did it after a downturn, reset that, um, and we'll come back to this. matched

That's part of why this round is interesting, even before you get the II thesis. matched

Why portage matters more than the size? matched

Here's the piece I think most coverage will underweight. matched

The identity of lead investor is a bigger signal than the size of the round. matched

Portage is Sagat's FinTech specialist investment arm. matched

Sagat is a Canadian asset manager. matched

Portage's FinTech portfolio is not generalist like Roku. matched

growth equity money looking for the next big thing. matched

It is people who spend all day looking at financial services businesses. matched

Their prior investments include, for example, with simple matched

in Canadian retail retail brokerage, Fint de Munich Vehicle Subscription Unicorn, also for my guest, on this side of the Atlantic. matched

This is the fund that gets caught when a fintech business is a real fintech business with a license, with unit economics that behave like financial services rather than like SaaS. matched

And with a strategic thesis. matched

that specialists want to expose to. matched

Portage leading a European FinTech round in 2026 is a data point about which European fintech thesis are still investable at the specialist level. matched

Spend management as a standalone category at a unicorn space scale in 2026? matched

Probably not. matched

Finance AI on a specific control first thesis backed by real customer survey data from an incumbent with about 50%. matched

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