OUR STORY

 


Founded in 2010 Davenport Invest GmbH has invested and advised numerous start-up and early stage companies in Germany, Ireland, US, UK.
We assisted various founders in defining their product strategy, raising capital and protecting their interests and independency in funding rounds and commercial cooperations.
We like to work closely with founders, to every individual need and request. 

For over ten years now we have been involved in dozens of transactions or exits. We enjoy teaming up with inspired founders to share our experience and protect growing businesses.

 

Burkhard Blum
LL.M. University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

Burkhard is a director of Davenport Invest GmbH and has over 15 years experience in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. He specializes in providing corporate finance advice on acquisitions, capital rounds, and IPOs.
Prior to forming Davenport Invest in 2010, Burkhard was Corporate Counsel of a telecom network provider and COO of Germany's largest social network and responsible for a number of five mostly cross border M&A transactions, corporate development and all legal aspects of an IPO in 2006.
He has advised on numerous M&A transactions and capital rounds on both the buy-side and sell-side. These transactions have included a range of different earn-out strategies and mile stone agreements mostly in the online industry.
He has negotiated capital rounds with venture capital investors as well as big corporations in the automotive, oil and consumer electronics industry.