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With a minimum investment threshold of €100, everyone has a chance to build their individual portfolio.
Trust can only be gained through transparency and fairness. We always aim to make sure that our offer remains balanced and understandable.
We aim to provide financing for companies that offer exceptional and sustainable ideas, and that’s why we look for founders that seek to turn this vision into reality.
2012, a cool summer evening in Berlin: Patrick Ulmer, Ingo Schröder, André Kramp, Eike Pazulla, and Moritz Weeger asked themselves the question: What’s the easiest way to get a cup of tea that suits your individual tastes? The five founders wanted to find out: They launched their start-up 5 CUPS and some suguar with the mission of bringing custom tea to the masses. After one year, their first recorded sales figures exceeded their expectations. In their pursuit of additional growth, they they offered investors on Companisto a fith of their company: 742 Companists jumped at the opportunity to become a part of the start-up and invested €300,000. By March 2012, the investors bought back their shares, and the investors received a 45% return. Shortly thereafter, a large company from the tea industry got on board. And 5 CUPS and some sugar? The Berlin-based crew is still firmly anchored in the tea business.
When Olaf, Andreas, and Alexander started Foodist in 2012, e-commerce and gourment food were still considered to about as compatable with one another as oil and water. But this didn’t disuade the Hamburg-based trio from trying to open minds and palates of online shoppers: As one of the first providers of its kind in Germany, they started out by delivering boxes filled with gourmet delicacies on a monthly basis. 6 months after making their first shipments, Foodist began its first round of financing on Companisto and added 350 convinced foodies to its loyalty card plan. Through the equity-based crowd investors, the start-up was able to grow more than they had anticipated. In total, the Companists invested €1.5 million. Quickly thereafter, the ProSiebenSat.1 accelerator acquired a taste for the concept and got on board. In just three years, Foodist’s revenue increased by 5,000%. In 2016, Foodist was purchased by the publically traded MDAX company, Ströer. The Companists that participated in Foodist’s purchasing price saw high returns. Today, the e-commerce platform employs over 30 people.
Not all start-ups are founded in the garage: When it comes to Doxter, the booking platform for doctor’s appointments, the founders first started out in a bare office located in suburban Berlin. Financed through an EXIST founder’s grant, Nikolaos Swoch, Dr. Ron Lehnert, Kai Rubarth, Julian Hoffmann, and Marius Eike Ehrlinger developed their platform together at edge of Germany’s buzzing captial. Through long hours and a unified vision, they were able to turn their idea into reality: In 2012, the start-up opted to carry out a financing round through Companisto, making it the first start-up on the site. It didn’t take long for Martin Sinner, serial entrepreneur and founder of Idealo, among other projects, to recognize the potential of Doxter and make his own investments. Four years after its foundation, the start-up was purchased by its Luxumburg-based competitor, Doctena and is now conquering the market for booking doctor’s appointments. After four years, the Companists received a six-figure payout. Doxter went from an EXIST-supported start-up to the largest provider for booking doctor’s appointments.
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