Dr. Frederik Gärtner

Education and Career

Frederik studied law in Berlin and Kiel as well as law and management at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law of the University of St. Gallen. Frederik began his legal career with Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. Before co-founding YPOG, Frederik worked at SMP, was Counsel at the FinTech Raisin (weltsparen.de) and founded the LegalTech start-up Conny.legal.

Experience

Frederik's recent work highlights include advising:

• Electrolysis start-up Sunfire on its €215 million Series E financing round with LGT Bank, GIC, Lightrock, Planet First Partners, and others
• Neobroker Trade Republic on various corporate law issues
• DefenseTech start-up ARX Robotics on all financing rounds (most recently €31 million Series A with HV Capital and the NATO Innovation Fund)
• DefenseTech start-up Alpine Eagle on all financing rounds
• Shopping community operator Pepper (including mydealz, hotukdeals) on its merger with Global Savings Group and the acquisition of Savings United
• Shareholders of affiliate marketing company digidip on its sale to Waterland Private Equity/Yieldkit
• Digital health start-up Formel Skin on all financing rounds (most recently €30m Series A with Singular)
• Allianz X on investment in mobility joint venture Heycar (with VW, Daimler, and Renault)
• FinTech start-up Pile.capital on financing round with Anthemis, Ilavska Vuillermoz, w3fund, Barclays Female Innovators Lab, and Auxxo, as well as on exit to Vivid Money
• Recommerce tech start-up reverse.supply on acquisition by Trove
• Founders of Ninetailed on exit to Contentful
• Shareholder of AI start-up AskBrian on exit to think-cell
• Founder of PropTech start-up Homeday on exit to Axel Springer
• Project A Ventures on numerous VC investments (including Anyline, Baobab, Black Semiconductor, Casavo, Dalma, Heyflow, Knowunity, Laserhub, Trade Republic, Vaeridion, Vay, Yababa) and exits (Gabi to Experian (volume: $320 million), Eyeota to Dun & Bradstreet (volume: $165 million))
• Logistics start-up Everstox on all financing rounds (most recently €30 million Series A with Acton Capital)
• Rethink Ventures on numerous VC investments
• Shareholder of big data start-up Data Artisans on sale to Alibaba (ETR: AHLA)
• Formwork and scaffolding manufacturer PERI on the acquisition of the formwork division of Implenia (SWX: IMPN) and on the investment in the ConTech start-up Cosuno
• APEX Ventures on various VC investments (including Mindpeak, Mobius Labs, Ororatech, Yuri Gravity)
• 42CAP on numerous VC investments (including Qdrant, KYP.ai, go autonomous, Gridraven, Noodl) and on the exit of biotech start-up Allcyte to Exscientia (NASDAQ: EXAI)
• Keen Venture Partners on investments
• FinTech start-up Otterspace on financing round with Cherry Crypto, Inflection, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coinbase Ventures, btov, and Paua Ventures
• B2Ventures, Endeit Capital, and Project A Ventures on the exit of Comtravo to TripActions
• FinTech start-up Mistho on financing round with Lightbird, Nauta Capital, GFC, and FinVC
• B2Ventures on investment in Vestigas
• Shareholders of FinTech start-up TTMzero on sale to United Fintech
• PropTech start-up Gropyus on acquisition of BSH production from Mayr-Melnhof
• Five Season Ventures, among others, on Series B financing rounds for Air-up (EUR 40m), YFood, Her1 and VF Nutrition
• Shareholder of product comparison platform LionsHome on sale to Waterland Private Equity
• Business angels on the sale of FinTech start-up Cash Payment Solutions (barzahlen.de) to the Japanese Glory Group
• FinTech start-up CrossLend on Series B financing round with Santander InnoVentures, ABN Amro, Lakestar and Earlybird (€35m)
• Shareholder of Testroom on the merger with Contentfleet (Ströer Group)
• Various international VC funds such as Partech, OTB, Seedcamp, Tola Capital, Emerge, DFF Ventures, Indico Capital Partners, Lightbird Ventures and Pale blue dot on investments in German companies