key points
- Investors are rapidly ready for Europe amid tariff uncertainty, but startups still face obstacles on European exchanges.
- Swiss real estate heir Robin Lubber and German billionaire Christian Angermeer are joining the army to get a startup to go publicly in Sweden.
- Lubber told CNBC about its startup pipeline and why Sweden is a bright place for ambitious firms in Europe.
A version of this article appeared with Robert Frank in the Inside Wealth Newsletter of CNBC, a weekly guide for the high-net-world investor and consumer. Sign up to get future versions, directly on your inbox. Ultra-Velty’s investment firms are rapidly investing in Europe, demanding stability and tariffs are demanding a diversification from the US amidst uncertainty. The CNBC has learned that two European families offices are motivated to capitalize on the speed of this market from the financing of startups to publicly in Sweden. The partnership brings together the family offices of Robin Lobber, a third-generation successor to a Swiss real estate fate, and German billionaire Christian Angermeer, whose high-profile bats includes psychidelic biotech atai life science and enhanced sports in high-profile bats, an Olympic-style competition where performance-prosperous drugs are encouraged. Lauber’s Infinitas Capital and Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group, ELEDAT3 Capital, Apeiron’s Venture Capital Arm, along with the Founders Founders Fund and Family Office Theal Capital of Peter Theron, supported by Apeiron’s Venture Capital, are capitalizing for investment participants. Regarding Europe’s IPO market, Lubber said, “It seems that things are moving again in the long run.” “We are creating this blueprint for some types of businesses to tap the capital markets quickly.” Lubber said that he and Angermeer are co-directors for nearly six years, supportups in longevity and psychide, as well as the Italian football team support a sports advisory firm with a stake in Venezia. The first startup in the pipeline is Kanan Sellers Group, a group of e-commerce brands including kitchen equipment; Storypod, an early childhood audio and education company; And Houseworthy, a Fintech that allows the owners of the house to sell bets in their residences and still lives there. Lubber told CNBC that he hoped that the trio woke up publicly by the end of the year. He said that there are three more companies in the pipeline but refused to give the details. While European startups are attracted more attention, they can face harsh opposition when trying to go publicly on European stock exchanges, according to Lubber. “In general, I think there is a lack of deep capital markets for technology-loving businesses in Europe,” he said. “In the US, you can go publicly without being profitable, but I think in Europe, especially in Germany, you cannot already be public without being a profitable business so that you cannot get any credit for your future professional planning and your growth.” One of Lubber’s goals is to showcase that there can be a successful IPO without going abroad in ambitious startups, he said. “I think what is important to us from an European point of view is that we basically do not lose all our gems in America,” he said. Lubber said Lubber and Angermeer chose Nasdac Stockholm for future listing as Sweden have more flexible capital markets, which allow companies to release new stocks faster than other countries like Germany. Nordic bonds also allow assets-ivory companies to increase the loan “very easily and cheaply”, Lobar said. He said that Sweden has a strong retail investor culture because the shares are not taxed on the shares when the tax-skilled investment savings account is organized. To appeal to the investors, they are considering the firms with tangible and accessible business models. Portfolio companies can increase financing and get better assessment than a large enterprise capital or private equity firm. It can be just a step stone, perhaps at some point, Nasdac in the main market. “
