P+P advises Thiel Capital on its investment in Cologne Fintech Startup
Brothers Manuel and Dominic Heyden developed the internet portal Nextmarkets, an e-learning platform, which aims to explain the stock market to its users, using the expertise of 20 German and English stock exchange coaches.
The Startup Nextmarkets was founded in 2014 together with the Fintech incubator Finlab. After two years of development, the site was launched in early 2016. The Cologne-based company now has 15 employees.
Nextmarkets now receives investments of around EUR 3 million from the investor Thiel Capital, the investment company of Facebook and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, the Fintech incubator Finlab and the family office of the Austrian entrepreneur Falk Strascheg.
P+P Pöllath + Partners comprehensively advised Thiel Capital on the investment round with the following Berlin team:
- Amos Veith (partner, private funds/venture capital)
- Dr. Joachim Mogck (senior associate, private funds/venture capital)
- Eva-Juliane Stark (associate, venture capital)
