Interview

June 24, 2025

Germany’s plan to hit €30bn in VC investments per year

KfW CEO Stefan Wintels is on a mission to get more private capital behind his country's high growth startups

Stefan Wintels, the CEO of German state bank KfW, is — like his peers at other public banks and funds in Europe — on a mission to get more private capital behind his country’s high growth tech businesses. 

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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