For the entire month of April, APX will dedicate its social media channels to showcase and spotlight sustainability through our network. Every year on April 22, Earth Day serves as a significant anniversary of the modern environmental movement. More than ever, it also serves as a reminder to all of…

On our vision for APX, the journey from accelerator to Long-Term Venture Partner, and the goal to support even more of the best startups from Europe and beyond. — At APX, our dream is systemically investing in the best founder teams. We launched APX in 2018 as a tailor-made accelerator program succeeding the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator (AS PnP), which from 2013 to 2017 was the first investor in more than 100 startups, including fintech unicorn N26…

How can you put, keep, and lead your company on the venture capital growth path? Should you (more on this later)? — There are lots of questions around early-stage venture capital. Here are some thoughts of Tilman and me on how very early stage valuation works. Some preconditions for this to work: Your company can be a venture capital case. What makes a startup a venture case? Good question — people have written entire books on this. In a nutshell…

I just finished reading Unignorable by Oliver Aust. I read it over the last few days, and as I had a few days off, I worked a bit on my “reading system.” Oliver’s book is about building your personal brand, and one of the things to do is sharing. This…

Going from idea to execution is easier said than done. Or it simply doesn’t work. With reality always looking different than anticipated, this should not be frustrating. Instead, it should be motivating to emphasize the missing link in the middle: strategy. At APX, we love to share best practices. One…

Tl:dr We decided to double our pre-seed deal: companies we invest in now get EUR 50,000 at a EUR 1 million post-money valuation. This means we become a 5% shareholder. Towards the end of 2018, my co-managing director Henric and I were in the US for a few weeks meeting…

Great you are here. This is my new website. It’s actually an aggregation of most of the things I post online. It’s automatic. And the best thing is: it was created by one of my sons as a gift. How cool is this? Please enjoy! Cheers, Joerg

This is my speech at HHL Handelshochschule Leipzig. Since I gave it in German and the translator asked for a transcript I have written it down. I have published it on my blog already some days ago but I want to share it here as well. Festrede HHL 25. August…

Yesterday we had the second founder confessions session here at APX. Anne Kjaer Riechert talked with the audience and Corinne and Robert about ReDI School. While Anne was in discussion with us she did one of her favourite things to relax: Ikebana. There were lots of learnings shared and discussed…