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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That is 58% of the entire German venture capital market volume in Q1 26.
The 25 average was 43%.
So AI is not just dominating in Germany, its share is rising fast.
The other names that show up in EY's top 10 financings of 25 tell us what kind of country this market is now financing.
Helsing 600 million for defense AI.
Green Flexibility 400 million for battery storage.
Tubulis 340 million for biotech.
Black Forest Labs, 257 million for AI.
AMBOSS, 240 million for medical knowledge.
Quantum System, twice in one year for unnamed defense systems.
Scalable for FinTech.
No Robotics for Humanite Robotics.
This is not the German startup scene of 2015 or 2018.
This is not apps and consumer SaaS and direct to customer brands.
This is strategic technology, defense, energy storage, biotech, AI, robotics, hardware, climate.
The same sectors where government in Washington, Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin are increasingly making policy decisions about national security and industrial sovereignty.
And here is the structural problem.
Companies in these sectors do not just need seed capital and smart angels.
They need full-on capital, procurement access, industrial partners.
regulatory navigation and patient scale-up financing across multiple rounds.
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