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High-end secondhand fashion marketplace Glamloop secures funding boost
It’s getting very crowded in Germany in the area of online secondhand marketplaces – and the latest funding scoop sees one more startup trying to cash in on consumers’ love for vintage clothing. According
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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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Delivery Hero invests $5m in India’s TastyKhana
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
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Rocket Internet’s Lamoda receives “record-breaking” €130m to push eCommerce in Russia
Lamoda – Rocket Internet’s online fashion retailer in Russia and a sister company to Zalando – has announced a $130m funding round lead by Access Industries with Summit Partners and Tengelmann also taking part. The company
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Video: Global Founders Capital’s Fabian Siegel on career changes and working with the Samwers
It’s been a whirlwind of a year for former Delivery Hero co-CEO Fabian Siegel. In January, he announced he would leave the food delivery platform, despite its status as a rising success story from
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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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“There will be 50 million Thais online by 2015″: The founder of Zalora Thailand on why we should brace for a Southeast Asian boom
With news just in of Rocket Internet’s Southeast Asian Zalora retail platform bagging $100m investment, we look at how this area is bursting onto the internet scene. Julian Leitner, former head Rocket Internet Thailand and founder
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Rocket Internet’s Zalora bags $100m from Summit, Kinnevik and others
Big news from camp Rocket – Zalora (the Berlin-based company builder’s South-East Asian Zalando clone) has received $100m from Summit Partners, Investment AB Kinnevik, Verlinvest and Tengelmann Group. The news comes just two months
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Rocket Internet invests $2.5m in “Brazilian Etsy” Airu and announces new mobile partnership
Berlin-based incubator Rocket Internet has made a couple of announcements – it is increasing its investment in Brazilian portfolio company Airu and will be partnering up with German mobile marketing service Somo. Rocket is
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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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