The US mattress startup Casper, also active in Germany, is rising to become a unicorn. After a $ 100 million financing round, Casper is now worth $ 1.1 billion. About five years after the start, New York based mattress startup Casper has now risen to the Einhorn Club. In a…
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The Berlin software startup Teraki has collected in a recent round of financing about two million euros which 2.3 million in dollars. In the process, a prominent investor has recently joined, Horizons Ventures from Hong Kong. Behind the VC stands the 90 year old Chinese entrepreneur Li Ka-shing. With a…
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GoTrendier and Chicfy merge to create the largest second-hand clothing buying and selling platform in Latam and Spain The companies are leaders in Mexico, Colombia and Spain, with more than 8 million users Mexico City, March 2019: GoTrendier (https://www.gotrendier.mx/) announces its merger with Chicfy (https://www.chicfy.com/), the largest merger of fashion…
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More than ten years ago, four Viennese students started the startup Smart Information Systems with a semantic product search engine. From this project, the internationally successful AI startup Smartassistant developed. Which landed almost unnoticed a million dollar deal. And another brand change went through is Zoovu. It is called now…
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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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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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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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Since 2010, the Munich startup eGym digitizes the fitness world. NGP Capital, Highland Europe, HPE Growth Capital and Bayern Kapital recently invested another $ 20 million in the company. Which was founded by Philipp Roesch Schlanderer and Florian Sauter. In 2016, the startup already collected $ 45 million. By the…
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