Laura Franke

Education and Career

Laura completed her Master‘s degree programme in „German and European Economic Law“ at the University of Siegen with a focus on „Corporate Law“. During this time, she worked as a research assistant for the Chair of Civil Law, Family Law and the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Corporate Law and completed an internship in a major international law firm in Dubai, UAE.
Before joining YPOG, Laura worked at Oppenhoff focusing on corporate law as well as M&A.

Experience

Laura's recent work highlights include:

VC-Funds, inter alia:

• EIC Fund on investments in Marvel Fusion, LiveEO, constellr, Xelera, Last Mile Semiconductor, Headmade Materials, Bioweg, FarmInsect, Reactive Robotics, Nuventura, HighLine Technology and kiutra
• Ventech on investments in amber, einwert, Lissi, Bounti, Custom Surgical, OKAPI:Orbits and YGO
• amberra on investments in syte, Gardia, ubiMaster and Lillian Care
• Green Generation Fund, SET Ventures, IRIS Ventures, Movendo Capital, Samaipata, Indico Capital Partners, Connect Ventures, Peak, Matterwave Ventures and NRW.BANK on investments in various portfolio companies

Start-Ups, inter alia:

• MILES Mobility on the acquisition of WeShare from Volkswagen
• Flixcheck, JUCR, Mondu, Clue, Comet Rocks, Sensorberg, Naro, Cansativa, Roofline and Sympatient on financing rounds
• Quantum Systems and Moss on their Series C financing rounds, each at a valuation of over €1 billion
• Keyrock S.A. on the acquisition of fija finance GmbH
• Personio on the acquisition of expense management platform Circula

Corporate Venture Capital units, inter alia:

• REWE on investments in various portfolio companies, including the $150 million financing round in Flink, the $61 million financing round in Formo and the $58 million financing round in Infinite Roots

• Lufthansa Innovation Hub on various investments in portfolio companies
• Katjesgreenfood on the financing round and subsequent acquisition of a majority stake in mymuesli
• OBI SQUARED on the financing round and subsequent acquisition of a majority stake in cleantech company 42Watt