Managing director and co-founder of smava
“Earlybird is the ideal partner for us while our company is still developing. Our objective is to gain a reputation with private and institutional clients as an alternative to commercial banks – and we have many ideas about how to achieve this.”
Alexander Artopé learned two things from spending time in Silicon Valley: you can do whatever you want to do, but whatever you do, do it with passion. These principles are characteristic of a true entrepreneur. In 2007, his idea went online: Smava is the first online platform dealing in person to person loans in Germany.














