Celonis Raises $1 Billion At $11 Billion Valuation, Making It New York’s —And Germany’s — Most Valuable Startup

Celonis co-CEO Alexander Rinke sits in front of prints of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan, his favorite. In the early days of Celonis, Rinke and his co-founders would pass the time under the recording artists’ faces at their favorite nightclub in their university town of Munich, Germany. When the joint closed years later, Rinke bought the art of the walls; it now forms his preferred Zoom background aesthetic when he’s home in Munich, alongside views of the local skyline and of New York City, home to Celonis’ co-headquarters.

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