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End of an affair: eDarling Managing Director Christian Vollmann steps down
German dating site eDarling, which last week bought back its shares from US partner eHarmony, has lost its Managing Director, Christian Vollmann. The news was broken on Gruenderszene and while the information has not yet
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German stress prevention app SOMA expands to the US, takes on B2B model
Stress prevention and early warning system SOMA Analytics, developed by students in Munich last year, is now spreading to the US – first stop, New York. The team behind the startup has also changed
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Kinnevik acquires extra 10 per cent of Zalando for €287m
Swedish investment bank AB Kinnevik has stepped up to become Zalando’s largest owner – acquiring another 10 per cent equity for €287m, purchased from fellow investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tengelmann and Rocket Internet. The move, announced
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Auctionata – Berlin’s “Sotheby’s meets eBay” – readies expansion plans
Online auction platform Auctionata is preparing to close a further investment round less than a month after its official launch from Berlin. Auctionata – think Sotheby’s meets eBay – combines a shop for private sellers
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Bertelsmann, Holtzbrinck, Project A invest in Semasio
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Holtzbrinck Ventures and Berlin incubator Project A are teaming up to invest an unknown amount in online advertising targeting platform Semasio. Semasio, founded by Kasper Skou and Thomas Rask
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YouTailor insolvency surrounded by fraud accusations
The insolvency announcement of online made-to-measure clothing site YouTailor can be considered the surprise of the year. According to inside sources who spoke to Gruenderszene, the demise of YouTailor and the bowing out of
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Rocket Internet sells Fashion For Home shares to Acton, Holtzbrinck – as first Berlin shop announced
Rocket Internet has sold its stake in Fashion For Home to Acton Capital Partners and Holtzbrinck Ventures, as part of a new funding round for the online furniture retailer in the “low double-digit millions”. Fashion
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Is StudiVZ – Holtzbrinck’s once-proud “German Facebook” – on the brink of collapse?
UPDATE VZ Netzwerke and its owner, Holtzbrinck Digital, have confirmed that 25 staff have been laid off and that a “major restructuring” is underway. All IT staff have been moved into Devbliss, a new IT
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Plays of the week – Rocket Internet and Access Industries, hub:raum, Better Marks, Pebble
Berlin Web Week – what a week! Re:publica, Betapitch, Heureka!, Startupweekend Berlin, European Venture Market, NEXT and all the deals and parties in between. Now it’s nearly over, here’s a selection of important moves
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