Jörn "Joe" Menninger
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1,749 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Jörn "Joe" Menninger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the first two weeks of July, two further announcements confirmed that the H1 pattern was not slowing down.
Helsing raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation.
the largest European defense round in history.
It also makes Helsing, Germany's most valuable startup, and Proxima Fusion raise 411 million euros for nuclear fusion with RWE and Google as strategic investors.
I'm not counting these in the H1 numbers, but they reinforce the direction.
Strategic necessity capital is accelerating, not stabilizing.
For the end, we have an announcement.
Before I close, there is one more announcement.
This review has shown that capital is no longer moving to the German startup economy in the same way it did during previous cycles.
But that raises a larger question.
What does Germany's billion-dollar startup landscape actually look like?
Which companies remain genuine unicorns?
Which have gone public, been acquired, fallen below the threshold or disappeared?
Which cities and sectors are producing the next generation?
And where are capital, talent, founders and strategic demand concentrating?
Starting next week, Startuprate.io will begin publishing the German Unicorn Atlas.
This will be our data-led map of Germany's billion-dollar startup economy.
Active unicorns, former unicorns, public companies, major assets, regional clusters, founders, investors, and the structural pattern connecting them.
It builds on our existing unicorn coverage, but it goes considerably further.
The Atlas will not only tell you which companies crossed the valuation threshold,
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