Tag Archives: seed investment

Amsterdam-based PastBook secures $250K

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Pastbook, the startup on a mission to save your digital memories, today announced a $250k seed financing round with Noro Venture Capital, Vidoze BV and a group of undisclosed angel investors. The funding comes in the form of a convertible … Continue reading →

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Silk secures $1.6m in a seed funding round led by NEA

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Silk, an Amsterdam-based startup that helps you to visualize, store and share content-rich information, today announced the completion of a $1.6 million seed funding round led by leading global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing … Continue reading →

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3D-printing startup MakieLab secures a $1.4m seed investment

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

The London-based “Smart toys”-startup MakieLab today announced the open alpha launch of MAKIES, the first ever user-designed, 3D-printed action doll. On makie.me customers are enabled to design and share digital avatars that are brought to life via 3D-printshops across London. … Continue reading →

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Russia’s Internet giant Yandex invests in Seedcamp

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Russia’s leading search engine company Yandex has just announced its investment in Seedcamp, a London based early-stage seed investment fund and mentoring programme for IT companies. According to a representative of Yandex, the Russian Internet giant invested the maximum amount … Continue reading →

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Spanish accelerator: Mola.com secures €1.2 million

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Mola.com, a Palma de Mallorca based startup accelerator, has just completed a €1.2 million round of financing. The fresh capital will partly be used to invest in 7 brand new Spanish startups (WannaTaxi.com, Myntmarket.com, Mutant-Games.com, Matchball.com, Divescover.com, ReviewsReporting.com and TriaVIP.com. This … Continue reading →

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Gidsy receives $1.2m from Ashton Kutcher & others

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

Gidsy, a platform where people can discover, offer and book unique experiences, just announced a seed round investment. The round is led by Sunstone Capital and is joined by Index Ventures, Werner Vogels, Peter Read and Ashton Kutcher. The fresh … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany-Startups | Tagged Ashton, Berlin, community marketplace, Edial Dekker, Gidsy, phishing, seed investment, Sunstone Capital, Twitter | 2 Comments

HTGF and Bayern Kapital invest in tiramizoo

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

tiramizoo.com, an online marketplace for fully automatic booking of local courier and delivery services, recently closed a Seed Financing round with High Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Bayern Kapital. The German startup aims to create the first world-wide platform where private & business customers … Continue reading →

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Mysterious: Amen secures $2m from prominent investors

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary (Madonna’s Manager) have recently invested in a mysterious Berlin based startup called Amen. This first round of financing (worth $2 million) was led by Index Ventures. As the platform is in private beta right now … Continue reading →

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Music discovery: Hitlantis receives $1.5m of funding

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

Hitlantis, the Finland based discovery platform for indie music, just closed a round of angel funding worth $1.5 million. The list of investors who participated in this round is long and mainly consists of Finnish investment companies and individuals. The … Continue reading →

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InfluAds is re-launching as a crowdsourced Ad Network

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

The advertising network InfluAds, which is based in Copenhagen, is going to re-launch its platform on June 21st as “the first crowd-sourced Ad Network that is powering the Quality Web”. The new version of InfluAds allows publishers to team up … Continue reading →