Munich — EQT Ventures leads a Euro 12 million finan­cing round at Berlin-based online plat­form Time­l­ess, through which shares of luxury goods and coll­ec­ti­bles can be sold and traded. In addi­tion to EQT Ventures, other backers include Porsche Ventures, C3 EOS VC (FinLab EOS VC Fund) and La Roca Capi­tal. — CEO Jan Karnath foun­ded the company in 2018 toge­ther with Andreas Joeb­ges (CTO) and Malte Häus­ler (CFO). They laun­ched the plat­form Time­l­ess in Febru­ary 2021.

Time­l­ess, a brand of Berlin-based New Hori­zon GmbH, is a digi­tal plat­form for selling and trading shares in luxury goods and memo­ra­bi­lia through toke­niza­tion, provi­ding access to this asset class for a broad base of retail inves­tors. The company is thus making the market for rare coll­ec­ti­bles — inclu­ding watches, art, vehic­les, snea­k­ers and wine — acces­si­ble to ever­yone, using block­chain tech­no­logy to docu­ment digi­tal tran­sac­tions in a relia­ble, traceable and secure way. Users can buy and trade shares start­ing at 50 euros via the Time­l­ess app.

EQT Ventures is the venture capi­tal fund of EQT, a purpose-driven global invest­ment orga­niza­tion. EQT Ventures invests in fast-growing, inno­va­tive and tech­­no­­logy-driven compa­nies in all sectors world­wide, with a focus on Europe and the US.

The DLA Piper team was led by part­ner Andreas Füch­sel (Private Equity/M&A, Frank­furt). The core team included Senior Asso­ciate Domi­nik Wege­ner (Corporate/M&A, Hamburg) and Asso­ciate Phil­ipp Meyer (Private Equity/M&A), and also included Part­ner Dennis Kunschke (Finance), Coun­sel Miray Kavruk (IPT), Senior Asso­cia­tes Elena Bach­mann (Finance), Juliane Poss (Capi­tal Markets, all Frank­furt), Florian Jeske (Employ­ment), Asso­cia­tes David Sanchio Schele (Data Protec­tion, both Hamburg) and Theresa Schenk (Capi­tal Markets, Frankfurt).

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