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Sustainability will eat the World

I always get asked as many other investors: “what’s the next big thing to invest in…?” The standard answer to this is: AI, Voice platforms…

7 min readJun 24, 2017

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Sustainability will eat the World

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Thomas Grota

Winning in Fintech & Insurtech Ecosystem — Big Win for Technology Innovators & Crunch-time for…

As promised I deliver an update to my post from last year on Fintech & Insurtech Ecosystem (post can be found here).

4 min readMay 19, 2017

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Predictions #2017 — Return of the Empire striking back

It’s the time of the year to make some predictions for the techworld in 2017.

9 min readDec 28, 2016

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Predictions #2017 — Return of the Empire striking back

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Thomas Grota

Next phase of #Fintech and #Insurtech is coming in 2017

Beginning of the year I blogged about the Outlook on #Fintech and #Insurtech in Europe here. I predicted a shift in this space for the…

5 min readDec 13, 2016

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Next phase of #Fintech and #Insurtech is coming in 2017

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Thomas Grota

We are losing – Stand Up and Fight!

Just a reminder: Saying people are stupid because they voted for Brexit or Trump is achieving only one thing: electing populists in France…

2 min readNov 12, 2016

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We are losing – Stand Up and Fight!

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Thomas Grota

Moon Shots — the new trend in corporate venturing

While the world is discussing the impact of Unicorns and Internet giants on this century and which of those will prevail into the next…

4 min readSep 10, 2016

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Moon Shots — the new trend in corporate venturing

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Thomas Grota

Missing Quantative Easing for unicorns will change private investment markets

Some months ago I was arguing the end of the unicorn era — meaning startup companies driven to +1bn valuations by a funding strategy to…

6 min readJul 31, 2016

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Missing Quantative Easing for unicorns will change private investment markets

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Thomas Grota

What is wrong between VCs and Corporates?

Lately I encountered the historic discussion about the „dark side“ (venture capital) and the „darker side“ (corporate venture capital) with…

4 min readJul 26, 2016

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VC Fund raising in Germany — A Status Quo

Earlier this year I was giving my view on the development of Corporate Venture Capital markets with a focus on Europe. Since then I was…

7 min readJul 3, 2016

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The end of the Brexit as we know it

In April I predicted here on my blog the United Kingdom would vote for “Leave” in the EU Referendum. As to many people I was right on this…

5 min readJul 2, 2016

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The end of the Brexit as we know it

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Thomas Grota

Thomas Grota

Venture Capitalist with Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile, Investor in flaregames, Gini, NumberFour, Lookout. exit/sold: mytaxi, 6wunderkinder, Swoodoo.

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