App builder Roq Technology gets nine million euros

The start-up of two former Rocket managers has completed its seed financing. The founders plan to use this to build a global team.

Berlin-based software start-up Roq Technology has raised an unusually high seed funding of almost nine million euros. The money comes from Berlin-based Rocket subsidiary Flash Ventures, reports Gründerszene. "We are now developing our products further, accelerating our growth and expanding our global team," co-founder Fabian Wesner told the magazine.

Besides Wesner, the second founder also comes from the Rocket universe. Wesner was CTO at Rocket Internet, while his co-founder Tim Niemeier oversaw investments abroad. Together, they launched their startup Roq Technology, which offers an app construction kit designed to help tech companies build apps quickly and easily. "If you want to build, say, the next Airbnb or Uber, you really only have two options: Painstakingly develop everything yourself on the drawing board or rely on app construction kits," Wesner told Gründerszene.

So far, so-called no- or low-code platforms have offered this service. Roq is supposed to fill the bridge between programming yourself and ready-made construction kits. The start-up provides ready-made code snippets for common solutions such as chat windows or subscriptions, while programmers can write the rest.