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German Startup News – April 2025: €1.3B Raised as Trade Republic Wobbles
In April 2025, DACH startups raised over €1.3 billion — even as one of Europe's top fintechs, Trade Republic, hit a crisis of outages and trust. Joe Menninger's investor-grade briefing on where VCs are betting across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and why startup funding booms while the economy stagnates.
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Why this episode matters: A month that captures the paradox of 2025 DACH: record funding alongside a marquee fintech stumble and a stagnating macro economy. The signal is in where capital actually moved.
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