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Rocket Internet’s Wimdu rumoured to be struggling to find buyers

Michelle Kuepper January 29, 2013 3

Berlin-based peer-to-peer accommodation service and Rocket Internet portfolio company Wimdu is causing the company builder strife, according to online magazine Focus. According to Focus, industry insiders say potential investors have been put off due to the

Rocket Internet’s Lazada raises “close to $20m” from Tengelmann Group

Nina Fowler January 22, 2013 5

Lazada, Rocket Internet’s answer to Amazon in Asia, has raised what is believed to be close to $20m from family-owned German retail company Tengelmann Group. Tengelmann is already an investor – through Tengelmann Ventures – in Rocket

An inside look at Rocket Internet – This is how their HR machine works

Joel Kaczmarek November 8, 2012 1

Rocket Internet continues to polarise people. But how does the Berlin incubator manage to build teams so quickly and successfully, teams that then go on to roll-out businesses worldwide? We talked to Rocket Internet’s

Rocket Internet’s Westwing loses 15 per cent of its staff

Magdalena Räth October 2, 2012 1

First a big finance round, then the huge growth in staff, then the mass letting go of staff. Last June Westwing, the Rocket Internet shopping site for furniture and home accessories, received a handsome funding round

More Groupon troubles as Daniel Glasner and Philipp Magin jump ship

Linsey Fryatt June 12, 2012 6

Two senior executives at Groupon, Daniel Glasner and Philipp Magin, have announced their departure from the couponing deals group, adding to the recent troubles of the company. Glasner was an original co-founder of CityDeal,

Westwing secures $50m deal led by Summit Partners to push international appeal

Linsey Fryatt June 8, 2012 1

The high-end shopping club WestWing has just announced record funding round of $50 million. New investors Summit Partners from the US will join existing investors Access Industries, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Investment AB Kinnevik and Rocket Internet

Access Industries’ billionaire Len Blavatnik sinks $200m into Rocket Internet

Joel Kaczmarek May 9, 2012 9

Rocket Internet – the Samwer brothers’ famous Berlin incubator – is netting $200 million from US billionaire Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, industry sources report. In terms of direct investment, that sum would place Access Industries

Rocket sets its sights on Middle East and Turkey

Maximillian Heimstaedt April 5, 2012 9

The Samwer brothers seem to be casting the Rocket Internet net further than ever before – not content with expanding their empire into South East Asia, they also appear to be setting their sights on

Rocket Internet lands in Munich

Nina Fowler March 28, 2012 3

The Samwer brothers’ incubator Rocket Internet has confirmed plans for a subsidiary office in Munich, just weeks after expanding into new offices in Berlin. Rocket Internet managing director Alexander Kudlich confirmed the news to

“I would love to ask the Samwers to be mentors…” Startupbootcamp’s Alex Farcet on the burning need to be in Berlin

Linsey Fryatt March 26, 2012 3

Startupbootcamp – the hardline moniker and logo may conjure up notions of spindly-legged CEOs, their hornrimmed glasses caked in mud while being barked at by a jackbooted VC, but Alex Farcet, the tall, affable Dane