Opinion

September 9, 2020

Rethinking Rocket Internet

Rocket Internet: European startup pariah — or pioneer?


Nicolas Colin

5 min read

Credit: Jean-Philippe Delberghe, Unsplash

A few days ago, the German startup builder Rocket Internet announced it would cease to be a public company, delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It was widely interpreted as bad news, both for the company itself and for the German tech ecosystem as a whole. After the demise of fraud-ridden Wirecard, Rocket Internet is another major player in the German entrepreneurial ecosystem to disappear from the reach of public market investors.

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Nicolas Colin

Nicolas Colin is cofounder of VC firm The Family. He writes a regular column for Sifted

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