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As Amen cofounder leaves, how is the much-hyped Berlin startup really doing?
It’s rarely a good sign when a founder unexpectedly leaves their business – and that’s what seems to have happened at much-hyped Berlin startup Amen, which counts actor Ashton Kutcher among investors. Amen cofounder Caitlin Winner
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Zuckerberg’s Choice… which Berlin startup should Facebook buy?
So Mark Zuckerberg, boss of some social networking site or other and all-round really rich guy has been traipsing round Berlin in the last few days. The excitement here was more than if Jesus,
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Amen’s new social recommendations app Thanks launches in iTunes
Berlin startup Amen’s latest app Thanks, which pools social recommendations and provides a search engine for users, has launched in the app store. The app gathers data that is already collaborated on Amen in
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You’re welcome. The details of Amen’s follow-up app, named Thanks
Berlin startup Amen is cooking up a second mobile app – a new peer-powered recommendation engine called Thanks. The new app takes the data already on Amen and turns it into a product geared
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Peter Read-backed HowDo raises seed funding, makes the move to Berlin
Swedish startup HowDo is making the big move to Berlin. The just-announced shift in headquarters (from the founders’ Stockholm living room) follows a seed financing round in October led by Wellington Partners with Horizon Ventures and prominent UK angel
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Investor spotlight: Partech’s Gabriel Matuschka – “The VC model has to be improved”
Gabriel Matuschka is Partech International’s new senior associate in Berlin. Before that, he did the pitch rounds with a fair number of Europe’s VCs as the founder of TripHunter, followed by stints at solar power
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This changes everything. “The world’s coolest GIF animator” now rocks SoundCloud tracks
Loopcam raises the LOL levels by announcing partnership with new mashup editor Weavly The problem with GIFs is that they’re eerily quiet. It’s like peering in at a party from outside the double-glazing, shivering in
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Investor Spotlight: Sunstone Capital’s Jimmy Nielsen – “VCs get a lot of opportunities to screw people”
Jimmy Nielsen is a founder of Sunstone Capital, an early-stage VC that c0unts Amen and Gidsy among investments in Berlin. Sunstone Capital is based in Copenhagen and also has offices in Menlo Park (California) and Båstad (Sweden) – it specialises in
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“That sounds pretty stupid to me” – why chats with my 80-year-old grandma are the best antidote to tech hype
Adam Fletcher tells us why chats with his grandmother give him the freshest perspectives on the tech scene and make him question whether he really *does* need that monthly subscription service for butter… My
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Spätschicht October 2012 – the party, the people, the picture gallery
The biggest movers and shakers of Germany’s internet scene turned out in force last night for our fourth edition of our now legendary Spätschicht networking event. Representatives from Google, Team Europe, Rocket Internet, Earlybird, Amen, Wooga,
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