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Hypoport SE: closer collaboration between the Hypoport Group and the start-up ecosystem in Germany, Austria and 
Switzerland 
2021-03-03 / 07:05 
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Press release 
Hypoport SE: closer collaboration between the Hypoport Group and the start-up ecosystem in Germany, Austria and 
Switzerland 
 
- New Hypoport team established for strategic partnerships 
- Chris Heyer appointed as the Hypoport Group's Chief Investment & Partnership Officer 
- First success achieved thanks to partnership with insurtech start-up Helvengo 
 
Berlin, 3 March 2021: Hypoport SE is stepping up its collaboration with the start-up ecosystem in Germany, Austria and 
Switzerland by forming strategic partnerships. The focus will be on fintech, insurtech and proptech start-ups that have 
significant synergies with the existing Hypoport network. The team working on these activities is headed up by Chief 
Investment & Partnership Officer Chris Heyer and the work falls under the Management Board remit of CEO Ronald Slabke. 
Thanks to its network of technology companies serving the credit, property and insurance sectors, the Hypoport Group 
has a wide range of tie-ins with numerous developments in the start-up ecosystem. This provides scope for partnerships, 
in which the aim is to combine the start-ups' speed of innovation with the Hypoport network's business activities in 
order to derive shared benefits. 
Chris Heyer, who helped to establish three start-ups and worked as an innovation advisor before joining Hypoport in 
2018, is delighted with his new role within the Hypoport Group: "We set great store in establishing long-term, 
strategic partnerships that bring tangible benefits for both parties. Hypoport itself began as a start-up in the field 
of B2B online marketplaces in the early 2000s. Over the last 20 years, it has progressively added to its network and 
created a unique corporate culture characterised by entrepreneurial freedom. I want to combine the experience that I 
have gained at Hypoport over the past three years with my previous start-up activities to bring these two worlds 
together profitably. To this end, we are commercialising and scaling up strategic partnerships in which we are 
contributing our Hypoport market expertise, our customer network and our product development experience. If we believe 
a start-up has particular strategic relevance to Hypoport, we may also consider an equity investment in it." 
The first success has already been achieved with a recently formed strategic partnership with Swiss insurtech start-up 
Helvengo AG, which includes an equity investment and provides a number of opportunities for collaboration within the 
Hypoport Group. Helvengo specialises in tailored, needs-based insurance policies for small and medium-sized 
enterprises. The founders intend to expand into Germany and Austria this year. Helvengo is being built up by Vedran 
Pranjic, Benedikt Andreas and Felix Huemer. All three are former employees of wefox, an insurtech company in Berlin. 
Further information on the strategic partnership of Hypoport in the start-up ecosystem can be found on the new website: 
www.hypoport.io 
 
About Hypoport SE 
Hypoport SE is headquartered in Lübeck (Germany) and is the parent company of the Hypoport Group. The Group is a 
network of technology companies for the credit, real-estate and insurance industries with a workforce of more than 
2,000 employees. It is grouped into four segments: Credit Platform, Private Clients, Real Estate Platform and Insurance 
Platform. 
The Credit Platform segment operates Europace, which is an online B2B financial marketplace and the largest German 
platform offering mortgages, building finance products and personal loans. A fully integrated system links more than 
750 partners - banks, insurers and financial product distributors. Several thousand loan brokerage advisors execute 
approx. 35,000 transactions per month on Europace, generating a volume of more than EUR7 billion. Besides Europace, the 
FINMAS and GENOPACE sub-marketplaces and the B2B distribution companies Qualitypool and Starpool support the growth of 
the credit platform. REM CAPITAL AG provides specialist advice on the arrangement of complex public-sector development 
loans for companies and financing for SMEs in Germany. At fundingport GmbH a corporate finance marketplace is being 
established. 
The Private Clients segment, made up of the web-based, non-captive financial product distributor Dr. Klein Privatkunden 
and the consumer comparison portal Vergleich.de, brings together all business models aimed at directly advising 
consumers on mortgages, insurance or pension products. 
All real estate-related activities of the Hypoport Group, with the exception of mortgage finance, are grouped together 
in the Real Estate Platform segment (previously Institutional Clients) with the aim of digitalising the sale, 
valuation, financing and management of properties. 
The Insurance Platform segment operates SMART INSUR, a web-based B2B platform for advice, comparison of tariffs and the 
administration of insurance policies. The segment also incorporates the insurance unit of Qualitypool, a B2B 
distribution company. 
The shares of Hypoport SE are listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse) and 
have been included in the SDAX since 2015. 
Contact 
Jan H. Pahl 
Investor Relations Manager 
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 42086 - 1942 
Mobile: +49 (0)176 / 965 125 19 
Email: ir@hypoport.de 
Hypoport SE 
Heidestr. 8 
10557 Berlin 
www.hypoport.com 
Key data on Hypoport's shares 
ISIN DE 0005493365 
WKN 549336 
Stock exchanges symbol HYQ 
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Language:     English 
Company:      Hypoport SE 
              Heidestraße 8 
              10557 Berlin 
              Germany 
Phone:        +4930420861942 
Fax:          +49/30 42086-1999 
E-mail:       ir@hypoport.de 
Internet:     www.hypoport.de 
ISIN:         DE0005493365 
WKN:          549336 
Indices:      SDAX 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, 
              Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange 
EQS News ID:  1172594 
 
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