Atheneum receives $150 million

Jan Schulte Jan Schulte | 30.08.2021

The start-up wants to use the money to expand its "Research as a Service" platform for virtual surveys and interviews.

Atheneum has set itself the goal of providing industry experts to its customers and operates a platform for this purpose. In order to grow further, the start-up has closed a financing round, as it has now announced. This is worth 150 million US dollars. The money comes, among others, from the US VC Guidepost Growth Equity and existing investors such as Crosslantic Capital, Vogel Communications Group and serial founder Michael Brehm.

Specifically, founder and CEO Mathias Wengeler plans to use the money to hire new employees and expand into more markets. "We want to further expand the global platform as well as focus on expanding the technology and new products" the founder told Handelsblatt.

Atheneum currently offers its service in 40 countries. The company has around 500 large enterprise customers, according to a statement on Techcrunch . Clients come from life sciences, strategy consulting, investment services, telecommunications, media and technology, among others. Atheneum's network includes 680,000 experts, according to the report. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, the start-up also has a location in New York.


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