The spin-off of the IT service provider Adesso wants to use its software to determine when electric cars should be optimally charged. Only a good 80,000 electric cars are still allowed in Germany, but market observers expect that the number will rise sharply in the coming years. For power grid…
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Just a few months after the last round of financing, Valar Ventures once again invested a million in the Berlin startup Taxfix. The fund of controversial star investor Peter Thiel is already involved in the company with a tax return app. Also the other old investors Redalpine and Creandum are…
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The payment giant PayPal has made its first investment in a blockchain company. They have invested in Cambridge Blockchain. A company that helps financial institutions and other companies manage confidential data, such as personal identification in shared ledgers. The PayPal financing was part of an extension of the Series A…
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As the startup300 AG announced that it plans to buy the agency MINTED with a stock swap deal. On April first, startup300 AG announced that it would take over 100% of the startup and SME agency MINTED with a share or share swap of € 800,000. As MINTED founder Michael…
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The recently published Green Startup Monitor shows that sustainable startups have left the niche. In 2018, 26 percent of young innovative growth companies in Germany were operating with products and services that contribute to a green economy. They are summarized under the term “Green Startups”. The key findings from the…
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In an apparent first global online payments company, PayPal has made an investment in a blockchain startup that focuses on leveraging technology to give users more control over their digital identities. The news was reported by Forbes on April 2. The investment is part of an extension of a round…
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In the framework of the second edition of the CEO Summit Open Innovation, the main banks of Peru expressed the importance of betting on open innovation hand in hand with the fintech. The central theme of the meeting was “Open Innovation in Financial Services and Banking” and reflected on the…
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The Bank of Spain is concerned about the progress that large technological corporations such as Google and Facebook can have within the financial sector. Although it is still not clear what role they will play, nor what will be adopted by the big fintechs, the regulator does believe that it…
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The process is different thought, developed from scratch – and he convinced. How Neo-Bank Yapeal takes new customers on board. The FinTech Yapeal is building a completely new digital bank on a greenfield site – “front-to-back”, complete with a state-of-the-art cloud native backend, scalable system (low costs), own APIs and…
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Not only did we have a good start to this week, but we are also eagerly awaiting the Hub Battle in Duisburg. Before that, let’s take a look at the latest VC deals in the country. All deals of the last 24 hours are compact again today in the latest…
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