{"id":43333,"date":"2020-06-22T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/early-stage-fly-ventures-raises-second-venture-capital-fund\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:33:52","slug":"early-stage-fly-ventures-raises-second-venture-capital-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/early-stage-fly-ventures-raises-second-venture-capital-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Stage: Fly Ventures raises second venture capital fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin \u2014 <strong>Fly Ventures<\/strong> was able to raise its second venture capi\u00adtal fund. Like the first gene\u00adra\u00adtion of funds, Fly Ventures II, with a total volume of <strong>53 million euros<\/strong>, focu\u00adses its invest\u00adment on tech\u00adno\u00adlogy start\u00adups. Fly Ventures (photo from left to right: Gabriel Matuschka, Marie Wenne\u00adgren, Felix Wolf, Matt Wichrow\u00adski, David Mali\u00adgne, Frede\u00adrik Bergen\u00adlid) recei\u00adved compre\u00adhen\u00adsive legal, regu\u00adla\u00adtory and tax advice on the struc\u00adtu\u00adring of the fund from a team led by <strong>SMP part\u00adner<\/strong> <strong>Jens Kretz\u00adschmann<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspe\u00adci\u00adally in these chal\u00adlen\u00adging times, it is important to set an exam\u00adple and signal that topics such as deep tech must conti\u00adnue to be advan\u00adced despite econo\u00admic uncer\u00adtain\u00adties\u201d says Jens Kretzschmann.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Fly Ventures<\/strong><br>\nFly Ventures is an early-stage inves\u00adtor based in Berlin. The Berlin-based VC has its invest\u00adment focus on deep-tech start\u00adups. The main focus here is on soft\u00adware compa\u00adnies that use machine lear\u00adning to drive busi\u00adness auto\u00adma\u00adtion. The VC fund was one of the first of a new gene\u00adra\u00adtion in Europe to specia\u00adlize in one sector rather than being gene\u00adral or purely local.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advi\u00adsor Fly Ventures: SMP<\/strong><br>\nJens Kretz\u00adschmann (lead), Part\u00adner; Julian Albrecht, Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Part\u00adner; David John, Asso\u00adciate; Michael Blank, Asso\u00adciate; Florian Wilbrink, Associate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About SMP<\/strong><br>\nSMP is a specia\u00adlist tax and commer\u00adcial law firm opera\u00adting in the core areas of corpo\u00adrate, funds, liti\u00adga\u00adtion, tax and tran\u00adsac\u00adtions. SMP attor\u00adneys and tax advi\u00adsors repre\u00adsent a wide variety of clients. These include emer\u00adging tech\u00adno\u00adlogy compa\u00adnies and family-run medium-sized enter\u00adpri\u00adses as well as corpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons and private equity\/venture capi\u00adtal funds. Since its foun\u00adda\u00adtion in 2017, SMP has become one of the leading addres\u00adses for venture capi\u00adtal, private equity and fund struc\u00adtu\u00adring in Germany. The firm and its part\u00adners have been reco\u00adgni\u00adzed natio\u00adnally and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally by JUVE, Best Lawy\u00aders, Legal 500, Focus, and Cham\u00adbers and Part\u00adners. Today, SMP employs over 50 expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced lawy\u00aders and tax advi\u00adsors in three offices in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin \u2014 Fly Ventures was able to raise its second venture capi\u00adtal fund. 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