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Amazon Web Services opens Pop-up Loft in Berlin

2024-01-122015-09-02

Co-working space, workshops, lectures and more: AWS offers startups a free tech program from October 15th to November 13th! Amazon Web Services: technology on demand for customers of all sizes Agility, flexibility, low costs: It’s not without good reason that numerous startups decide to deploy cloud software. For many years Amazon Web Services (AWS) has … Read more

Green Search Engine Ecosia Announces New Co-Owner

2024-04-122014-04-04

Berlin-based startup Ecosia announces new co-owner Tim Schumacher, known as founder and former manager of multiple Internet projects (such as Sedo, Affili.net and Eyeo/Adblock Plus).

The King of Shoes: The Story of Zalando Founder Robert Gentz

2024-04-122014-03-31

The story of the rise of the business economist from Düsseldorf Robert Gentz to becoming the boss of the e-commerce success Zalando starts on a beach in Guatemala. Gentz was vacationing there at the beginning of 2007 and read in a newspaper that StudiVZ was sold to Holtzbrinck Publishers for a giant €85 million. “I found it fascinating,” Gentz later recalled. He asked himself, “How can a website be so valuable? What is valuable about it?”

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Ready, Set, Expand: Blacklane Launches in the UK

2024-04-122014-03-26

100 cities in 100 days. That is how Berlin-based chauffeur portal Blacklane describes its rapid expansion spree that has led to its current presence in 130 cities across 45 countries. To reach these numbers, the startup announced today its expansion to eight more cities with its official launch in the UK.

LOL, WIN, OMG: founder Jonah Peretti about Buzzfeed’s recipe for success

2024-04-122014-03-03

Is this what the future of journalism looks like? Cute animal pictures, funning listicles, with a few quick news stories in between – oh, and some serious coverage. That’s the exact recipe that took US media startup Buzzfeed to success. The site attracts 140 million visitors per month, founder Jonah Peretti said.

Rocket Internet is getting ready to launch peer-to-peer lending platform “Lendico”

2024-04-122013-10-30

The Samwer brothers are planning a new startup in Germany according to our sister magazine Gründerszene – “Lendico”, a peer-to-peer platform for loans.

Lendico will be led by Christoph Samwer, Philipp Petrescu, Dominik Steinkühler and Clemens Paschke. According to Linkedin, Petrescu recently became Vice President Corporate Finance at Rocket Internet after stints working at JP Morgan and McKinsey. Steinkühler, according to Xing, previously worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Both Paschke and Christoph Samwer previously worked at McKinsey.

Greylock Partners raises $1bn fund – with marketplaces and enterprise in mind

2024-01-122013-09-11

Greylock Partners, one of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, will be eyeing up marketplaces and the enterprise cloud with its new $1bn fund. It’s the firm’s 14th fund since 1965 and first since moving from Boston to Silicon Valley. The firm has managed several big internet hits over the last decade: including … Read more

Rocket Internet provides $15m to boost Easy Taxi’s global expansion

2024-04-122013-06-24

Brazilian taxi booking app Easy Taxi has secured $15m funding from Latin America Internet Holding – Rocket Internet’s holding company in the region, which is now also partially owned by telecommunications and internet giant Millicom.

Delivery Hero invests $5m in India’s TastyKhana

2024-01-122013-06-13

Berlin-headquartered online food ordering empire Delivery Hero is delivering a new $5m investment to its partner in India, TastyKhana. The news – with the size of the deal confirmed by TastyKhana founder and CEO Shachin Bharadwaj in a tweet today – follows an earlier seed investment in 2012. Since the seed deal, TastyKhana, founded in 2007 in Pune … Read more

German limousine service Blacklane scores “several million euros” funding and aims for US rollout

2024-04-122013-05-21

German chauffeur and limousine booking service Blacklane has closed a funding round in the “several million euros” range from existing investors Carsten Maschmeyer, RI Digital Ventures, B-to-V Partners and Car4You. With the new financing, the Berlin-based startup is looking to expand to the US.