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Startup of the Week – Numbrs, bringing all your bank accounts under the one roof
In a world where having only one bank account seems to be increasingly becoming a rarity, jumping from one app to the other to check the state of your financial affairs can be a
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Berlin incubator Project A exits Amerano
Berlin incubator Project A Ventures has sold its shares in online men’s fashion store Amerano. According to an entry on the Amerano website, its new majority shareholder is the von Grünberg family with close to
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Deutsche Telekom-backed vintage platform Stylemarks launches at hy! Berlin
At Sunday’s hy! Berlin event, mobile second-hand marketplace Stylemarks launched its iOS-only app after two months in Deutsche Telekom’s Berlin incubator, Hubraum. In February, the startup received funding from Hubraum, Venista Ventures and Family’s Venture Capital, to
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ProSieben’s incubator Epic Companies launches Valmano – inspired by The Iconic?
ProSiebenSat.1’s new incubator Epic Companies has unofficially launched its first company, eCommerce site Valmano, which looks suspiciously like one of Rocket Internet’s portfolio companies – Australia-based The Iconic. The Valmano website hosts designer watches
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German optical shop Fielmann eyes up startups with incubator Fielmann Ventures
Missed the latest German corporate to jump on the incubator bandwagon? Looks like one of Germany’s biggest optical shops, Fielmann, launched Hamburg-based Fielmann Ventures without a big press junket or showy announcement last year.
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Bayer HealthCare unveils new Berlin startup incubator and Grants4Apps scheme in Germany
Health industry heavyweight Bayer HealthCare is keen to get closer to startups, with a just-announced incubator for young life science companies in Berlin and a new “Grants4Apps” scheme to fund healthcare apps in Germany. The new CoLaborator
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Hub:raum incubator expands to Krakow to target southern and central European startups
Deutsche Telekom is bringing its hub:raum incubator to Krakow to support startups from Southern and Central Europe. Both Polish startups and startups from other countries in the area will be able to participate in
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German supermarket chain Rewe to soup-up its online business with startup incubator
German supermarket giant Rewe wants to soup-up its online business activities – and intends to open a startup incubator as part of that plan. Speaking to Germany’s Wirtschafts Woche, Rewe CEO Alain Caparros (left) conceded
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Axel Springer’s Plug and Play accelerator partners up with Betahaus
It’s launched an accelerator, acquired German social TV startup TunedIn, invested in startup competition hy! Berlin and collaborated with Silicon Valley investor and accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center. Now, German media conglomerate Axel
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Online reputation manager Reputami the latest to join hub:raum incubator
Online reputation management tool Reputami is the latest startup accepted to Deutsche Telekom’s incubator hub:raum. This is the fourth team to join the programme in Berlin, which is already supporting Blinkist, Stylemarks and Salonmeister. Founded in Cologne
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