The financing rounds from Companisto and Doxter kicked off the process. Both companies convinced the investors and received the maximum investment amount of €100,000. At that time, the investment model was a silent partnership.

Just one year after the launch oft he Companisto website the € 1 million barrier for the total investment volume raised via Companisto was cracked during the funding round for the start-up Tame.

Up to this point, the silent partnership had been the executed investment model, but this was changed to the patriarchal subordinated loan. This change enabled start-ups to obtain a financing volume of more than € 100,000 as part of their financing rounds on Companisto.

With the financing of Weissenhaus, Companisto has once again demonstrated its courage. Never before in Europe had a luxury property been financed via crowdinvesting. This courage was rewarded - at € 7.5 million, this was the largest crowdfunding round in the world for a long time.

Companisto was the first crowdinvesting platform in the DACH region to exceed the threshold of € 25 million in total investment volume.

"For 17 months in a row, Companisto has raised the largest volume of crowdfunding capital in a platform comparison. It makes us proud that we were able to break through the € 25 million mark after only three and a half years. There are very few crowdinvesting platforms that have achieved this"
, says David Rhotert, founder of Companisto.

The lighthouse of the first quarter was Companisto's own second round of funding, which closed after only 72 hours. 2,012 Companists invested the maximum amount of € 2 million in Companisto for the first time. "We love our crowd. Thank you."

Foodist and Doxter are very good examples of how innovative ideas can be turned into successful companies through the funding of many.

Foodist was acquired by the listed media company Ströer with around EUR 1.5 million in Companisto funding.

The first start-up financed via Companisto, Doxter, established itself as the market leader and was taken over by Doctena, a Luxembourg-based competitor. The Companists received a six-figure payout.

Information helps to make informed decisions. This idea led to the decision to launch the Investors' Academy. The goal is to create a place where people can inform and educate themselves on all aspects of investing.

Companisto presents its investors with a new logo for the first time, which has endured to this day. The inspiration for the logo was inspired by the mission statement at the time, which emphasises three important points: "community, pioneering spirit and return on investment."

Despite the difficult political environment, Companisto developed the new Companisto equity investments, which made it possible to invest on Companisto in the way professional investors and business angels prefer to do - in real GmbH shares.

The first equity financing round was conducted by Companisto itself within the framework of a new investment format. In this format, a maximum of 20 investors could invest directly in business shares worth €10,000 or more in a closed area. This was the starting signal for today's Angel Club.

After the Angel Club had already made the start, the first equity prospectus round was now also carried out in Companisto's public financing round. The financing round set a new record with more than € 2 million in investment announcements.

It takes many to achieve great things. So it is a considerable success that the entrepreneurial private investor network Companisto now has 100,000 investors in its network. This brings Companisto a step closer to its vision of creating an innovation society in which many people participate in innovation.

Not only is the number of investors growing constantly, but the number of partners is also increasing. Christoph Schweizer has joined Companisto as Head of Investment. Furthermore, Carsten Brandt, Stephan Beyer and Wolfgang Schmidt are supporting Companisto as venture partners in further developing the investments and jointly leading them to success.

The first "Business Angel Talk" goes on air. With Matthias Helfrich as the first interview partner, David Rhotert laid the foundation for many interesting interviews in which business angels, investors and founders talk about investing in start-ups, their motivation and experiences.

Companisto, the market leader for professional online corporate finance cracks the € 100 million mark and is thus the highest equity financing volume for start-ups and growth companies in the German-speaking world. This clearly shows how much can be achieved together.

With its Series C financing round, the AMERIA AG closed the largest equity round in the history of Companisto. Within a few weeks, more than 600 Companists invested the regulatory maximum of € 8 million.

In March, the majority of the Companists invested in KoRo decided to sell their shares to internationally renowned venture capital companies. They thus achieved an exit with a 6-fold return. The KoRo exit is the largest exit in the company's history.