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AUTO1 Group
Fintech · Berlin, Germany · Founded 2012 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
Europe’s leading digital automotive platform
AUTO1 Group mafia
Startups founded by AUTO1 Group alumni
Former AUTO1 Group employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Anatole BlancFrance
Christopher MuhrCanada
Ben StaudtGermany
Marcus Aurel EngelsGermany
Maximilian GeißingerGermany
Vitalii ZurianSweden
Timur NohutGermany
Peter WellensBelgium
Salim KAYABASITürkiyeGlobal footprint
Where AUTO1 Group has talent and traffic
(47 of 4,787 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$4M patent portfolio · 15 active families
Where AUTO1 Group concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across AUTO1 Group and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
AUTO1 Group's 1 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where AUTO1 Group appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2018–2018. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
1 deals across AUTO1 Group's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where AUTO1 Group deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
AUTO1 Group's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about AUTO1 Group
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about AUTO1 Group on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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