We, RPM Invest, are the strategic investment unit of the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe and conduct investments into new areas of business. We focus on fast growing technology and digital media companies with a proven business model.
In addition to capital, know-how and an extensive network, we offer founders and entrepreneurs long term partnerships of equals, a high degree of autonomy and flexible transaction structures.
What are we looking for?
Topic clusters
Technology and digital Media companies with a focus on:
- Content driven / Content-enabled business models
- Classifieds and digital marketplaces
- HR- and recruiting-solutions
Investment criteria
- Annual revenue of 5 to 100m EUR and ongoing solid growth
- Profitable or with a clear path to profitability
- Significant minority / majority position
- Strong and long-term motivated founder /- management team
What do we offer
Long term partnerships of equals
Our portfolio companies
Venture capital fund investments
Since more than a decade RPM Invest acts as a Limited Partner in leading Venture Capital Funds and has thereby supported more than 100 Start-ups. The regular exchange allows insight into new business models, innovative technologies and different markets. Today substantial participations in Capnamic Ventures, Neoteq Ventures, the German Media Pool, b2venture, and Cavalry Ventures.
We are looking forward to exciting ideas!
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The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe
The Rheinische Post Mediengruppe is a media company with its headquarters in Düsseldorf. Its daily newspapers, consisting of the name-giving “Rheinische Post,” the Bonner General-Anzeiger, and the Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe (majority position), reach some 1.6 million readers daily with a paid circulation of around 450,000 copies. This makes the media group one of the five highest-circulation newspaper publishers in Germany. At the same time, the media group operates wide-reaching German daily newspaper online portals with around 160 million page impressions per month and holds shares in several radio stations as well as advertising paper publishers.
Hamburg and London are the headquarters of the DVV Media Group, an internationally specialist media publisher with more than 80 newspapers, magazines and online offerings covering all aspects of logistics, transport and shipping. The publishing program also includes corresponding digital offerings as well as international high-profile events and congresses.
The annual turnover of the Mediengruppe was around 500 million euros in 2022. It employs more than 3,000 people in Germany and abroad.