ACTIVE VENTURE PARTNERS APPOINTs 2 KEY TEAM MEMBERS

ACTIVE Venture Partners has announced the appointment of two new team members with strong entrepreneurial and venture capital experience. ACTIVE has doubled its team from 5 to 10 team members in the last three years and is one of Europe’s fastest-growing venture capital firms. Sebastian Blum joins as Partner coming from previous senior roles in Silicon Valley’s mobile technology and VC market while Georg Stockinger takes up his role as Venture Advisor bringing large-scale digital business expertise to the firm.
Like all team members at ACTIVE, both Sebastian Blum and Georg Stockinger bring many additional skills to their roles. They both have international business experience and networks and speak a variety of different languages.

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Wikifolio CLOSES €6M ROUND LED BY SPEEDINVEST - OLIVER HOLLE's EARLY STAGE FUND

Alternative investing startup Wikifolio has just raised €6M for its international expansion. 

The round was led by European early stage venture fund Speedinvest - founded by Venturepreneur Oliver Holle, who backed the company together with existing shareholders (VHB Ventures, Lang & Schwarz, Michael Grabner Media, and Michael Altrichter). 

Wikifolio is a platform for alternative investing, which enables traders to turn their portfolios into mature financial products -  “wikifolios”. Later on these products are being listed on the stock exchange in Stuttgart - Börse Stuttgart.

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