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Flea market app Stuffle raises €500K from HTGF

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Thomas Ohr

Only eight months after being launched, the Hamburg-based startup Stuffle has closed its second financing round. Following SEDO-founder Tim Schumacher’s six-figure investment just a few weeks before, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is now joining as well. HTGF is acquiring a minority … Continue reading →

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Credit scoring: Kreditech raises $4M for its European expansion

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Kreditech, a Hamburg-based startup (founded earlier this year), today announced that it closed a new funding round with Blumberg Capital, the management of a German investment bank and Point Nine Capital. Several angel investors (…Michael Brehm, Heiko Hubertz, Felix Haas, … Continue reading →

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YieldKit raises $750k from Tim Schumacher and HackFwd

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

YieldKit, a Hamburg-based competitor of VigLink and Skimlinks, today announced the closing of its Series A round with Tim Schumachers and HackFwd. Tim Schumacher, founder of Sedo, worldwide domain marketplace leader, is one of Europe’s most experienced Online Marketing experts. Lars … Continue reading →

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Pictorama: A new app that lets you earn money with your smartphone

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Pictorama, a Hamburg based startup that aims to enter the market of microstock photography, recently launched its Pictorama app. It enables users to sell their smartphone pictures on a digital market place and to earn up to 50% of the selling … Continue reading →

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Game developer MobileBits secures new funding

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

The Hamburg-based investor iVentureCapital has just acquired a share in the German development studio MobileBits. The young games company, whith offices in Hamburg and Hannover and was founded in 2009. The founding team and more than twenty employees concentrate on developing games for … Continue reading →

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ProSiebenSat.1 invests in flirt service meetOne.com

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Through its subsidiary SevenVentures, the German media company ProSiebenSat.1 Group has just acquired a 29% stake in the social discovery network meetOne. Bloomberg just wrote about this investment: “The deal values meetOne at about 25 million Euros”. A team assembled by … Continue reading →

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Updates about 9flats and its major financing round

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Last Tuesday Stephan Uhrenbacher, the co-founder of 9flats, announced a “major” investment round via twitter. Now we have some more details: The German Airbnb-clone secured an investment of $10 million from Redpoint Ventures and eVenture Capital Partners. The fresh capital … Continue reading →

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Majority stake in Bigpoint got purchased for $350 mm

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Bigpoint, the Germany based online gaming giant, today announced that Summit Partners and TA Associates have signed definitive documentation to invest $350 million to recapitalize the company and position it for a stronger global growth. The two private equity firms … Continue reading →

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A second CEO for Bigpoint aside from Heiko Hubertz

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Bigpoint, the online gaming giant out of Germany, announced today that it has appointed Arthur Bastings as co-CEO. Heiko Hubertz will from now on focus on the US expansion while Aurthur Bastings is going to set his focus more on … Continue reading →

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tolingo – a translation service plans its expansion

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

The Hamburg based online translation agency tolingo plans its international expansion. The next step will be, according to the CEO Gunnar Piening (former CEO of Swoopo), to build of a sales-team in the USA, UK and France. tolingo was founded in 2008 … Continue reading →

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