Rocket Internet

Rocket Internet SE
Company typePrivate (Societas Europaea)
IndustryOnline retailing, venture capital
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007)
FounderMarc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Oliver Samwer (CEO), Peter Kimpel (CFO), Alexander Kudlich (Group managing director)
RevenueIncrease €2.2 billion (2016)[1]
Number of employees
300 (2015), incl. ventures 30,000
Websiterocket-internet.com

Rocket Internet SE is a German Internet company headquartered in Berlin. The company builds startups and owns shareholdings in various models of internet retail businesses.[2][3][4] The company model is known as a startup studio or a venture builder.[5]

It provides office space to new companies at its headquarters in Berlin, with IT support, marketing services and access to investors. As of 2016, Rocket Internet has more than 28,000 employees across its worldwide network of companies, which consists of over 100 entities active in 110 countries.[6][7] The company's market capitalization was €3.49 billion as of 3 November 2017.[8] On 12 July 2021, the market capitalization was €3.7 billion.[9]

  1. ^ "Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the Period Ended June 30, 2015 (prepared in accordance with IFRS)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
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  3. ^ "Global Founders Capital: new €150m VC fund from Rocket Internet's Samwer brothers". VentureVillage. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  4. ^ Abboud, Leila (27 April 2016). "Kinnevik Values at Odds With the Samwers". Bloomberg Gadfly. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  5. ^ "How 'venture builders' are changing the startup model". VentureBeat. 18 January 2015.
  6. ^ "The E-Commerce Icarus". handelsblatt.com.
  7. ^ "Rocket machine". The Economist. 16 January 2014.
  8. ^ "RKET:Xetra Stock Quote - Rocket Internet SE". Bloomberg.
  9. ^ "Rocket Internet SE Fundamentale Kennzahlen Aktie - A12UKK - DE000A12UKK6".