In the third episode of the podcast series "Road to IPO" Florian Heinemann from Project A Ventures, Eric Leupold, Head of Pre-IPO & Capital Markets at Deutsche Börse and the podcaster Joel Kaczmarek talk about the characteristics as well as do's and don'ts of Later Stage financing in Germany.

The following questions are being discussed amongst others:

What is Later Stage financing and who invests in this phase? How can a potential financier identify a wise investment in the Later Stage field? To which problems can high investments lead in the long run if done in early financing stages? And what kind of structural impact could insufficient Later Stage investments have for the business location Germany.

Listen to the full discussion between Eric Leupold, Head of Pre-IPO & Capital Markets at Deutsche Börse Group and Florian Heinemann from Project A Ventures here (German only).

Joel Kaczmarek, chief editor at digital kompakt, presents the show and moderates the discussion.

Background

In the series “Road to IPO”, we are going to have more podcasts sessions on topics related to finance for young companies in the pre-IPO sector and also on how to prepare for an IPO exit.

Previous sessions:
“What are investment platforms and how do they work?”

“Matchmaking – How do investors and start-ups find each other?"

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This podcast was created in cooperation with digital kompakt, an online magazine for digital business models, companies and developments in the digital scene.