| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.03.2014 | New Berlin incubator aims to foster ‘deep tech’ in the heart of Europe | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
How will the incubator model continue? The past y... |
| 16.01.2014 | FullContact Acquires Cobook | FullContact, a Denver, Colorado-based provides a contact management solution for businesses, developers, and individuals, acquired Cobook.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Founded in 2011 by Kaspars and Janis Dancis and back... |
| 15.01.2014 | FullContact Acquires Cobook To Build A Better Universal Address Book | Cobook, the scrappy startup out of Latvia which grew its universal address book application to over a million users, is being acquired by FullContact, a larger Denver-based operation also working on contact management solutions for business... |
| 15.01.2014 | FullContact acquires rival contact management app maker Cobook (Latvia) in cash-stock deal | Denver, Colorado-based FullContact aims to solve a gigantic (and growing) problem – properly managing contacts across different platforms and devices – and it needs kick-ass tech and people for that.
To that end, the U.S. company is today a... |
| 13.09.2013 | Quote of the Day: Lars Hinrichs (Founder HackFwd) | “I have been active as an investor for over a decade and will continue to do so. I’ve had many ups and down, successes, IPOs, trade-sales, small wins, zombies, big losses and even dead companies. I’ve seen it all and I’ve felt it all“.
In a... |
| 03.08.2013 | A list of top European accelerators and incubators | Even smaller countries like Lithuania, Bulgaria and Estonia are getting in on the action
So, here we are at last: we've finally come to end of our accelerator/incubator series.
It all started when I decided to take a look at what was going ... |
| 07.03.2013 | Live From Berlin — German Chancellor Angela Merkel Shines Spotlight On Tech Startups | We’re live in Berlin at a major announcement due to be made shortly by German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. I’ll be covering the event which has been rumoured to be a major policy shift by the German government towards technology startups. ... |
| 21.12.2012 | YieldKit Raises $750K in Series A Funding | In November 2012, YieldKit, a Hamburg, Germany-based provider of a solution that turns links into affiliate links allowing publishers to monetize their content, raised $750k in Series A funding.
Backers included Tim Schumacher and HackFwd.
... |
| 20.11.2012 | YieldKit raises $750k from Tim Schumacher and HackFwd | 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... |
| 16.10.2012 | Infogr.am Launches To Kill The Careers Of Struggling Infographic Designers | Infogr.am wants to create a sort of Adobe Illustrator in the Cloud, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in February European accelerator HackFwd invested in the startup from Riga, Latvia, and now it’s fully launche... |
| 26.09.2012 | Everything You Need To Know About The Startup Ecosystem In Russia And Eastern Europe | As Dave McClure and Geeks on the Plane are touring Moscow, Tallinn and Zagreb this week, I have finally written this post summarizing the result of a year-long research project exploring the Russian and Eastern European startup ecosystem. T... |
| 17.08.2012 | Dear Czech and Polish entrepreneurs – ditch Silicon Valley, come to Berlin | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Many German digital and media companies, corporat... |
| 18.06.2012 | Honestly Wins Pitch In Berlin Competition, As HackFwd’s Event Grows Up | Participants of the quarterly event Build organized by the European accelerator HackFwd usually stay in Motel One in Berlin, where Honestlybranded posters suggest guests leave anonymous feedback in exchange for discount vouchers. As it happ... |
| 03.05.2012 | New Finds At TNW Shows Europe Is Nailing It | European startup conference The Next Web (and now competing blog, hello guys), which took place in Amsterdam last week, was covered in full by seven TNW bloggers who wrote over 30 posts about all major announcements, speeches and competitio... |
| 09.02.2012 | Infogr.am gets HackFwd backing to democratise cool info-graphics | European accelerator HackFwd just announced that Infogr.am from Riga in Latvia as its latest investment. Infogr.am’s product is gunning to be a kind of adobe illustrator for online, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics.
The web-base... |
| 09.02.2012 | Infogr.am Gets HackFwd Backing To Democratize Cool Info-graphics | European accelerator HackFwd just announced that Infogr.am from Riga in Latvia as its latest investment. Infogr.am’s product is gunning to be a kind of Adobe Illustrator for online, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics. The web-base... |
| 09.02.2012 | Live from Riga – TechCrunch Baltics meetup | We’re running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries, but punch above their weight i... |
| 07.02.2012 | First speakers for the London Web Summit | As I mentioned the other day, the startup competition aspect of GeeknRolla and the Dublin Web Summit, have come together to create the London Web Summit on March 19th in The Brewery Venue, London.
I’ll be co-curating the Summit along with P... |
| 31.01.2012 | New accelerator launches in Europe offering Valley road trip | Accelerators, Accelerator, Accelerators! There’s a rash of them appearing everywhere, and the latest is the Rockstart Accelerator, a new startup program aimed at Europe’s most promising startups that want to hit a global scale (but then don... |
| 23.01.2012 | Fantasy Shopper becomes one of Europe’s hottest startups with $3.3m from Accel and NEA | Fantasy Shopper is a social shopping game where players discover and share the latest fashion from real-world online and offline retailers. It’s gained a lot of traction since it’s launch last October, especially amongst women and we’ve hea... |
| 23.01.2012 | Fantasy Shopper Confirms Its Hottness With $3.3m First Money From Accel And NEA | Fantasy Shopper is a social shopping game where players discover and share the latest fashion from real-world online and offline retailers. It’s gained a lot of traction since it’s launch last October, especially amongst women and we’ve hea... |
| 23.12.2011 | New startups pitch in Berlin at HackFwd Build event [TCTV] | HackFwd, the pan-European accelerator created by Lars Hinrichs, the founder of LinkedIn competitor XING, recently held its open PitchInBerlin session, where startups are invited to enter the programme. It’s a sign that HackFwd, one of the f... |
| 12.11.2011 | NOAH 2011 brings a pan-European networking space to London | What I like about NOAH is that it feels a bit like a big cocktail party. Yes, there are the panels and presentations, hidden elegantly behind the black curtains that separate the exhibition area from the conference hall, where the big guys ... |
| 10.11.2011 | Crowdsourced website translator Easyling wins How to Web startup competition in Romania | At How to Web today I got to be invited to judge its startup competition. One of the judges was nowhere to be found and I was considered a suitable replacement. My rookie level of judging experience has not skewed the results dramatically, ... |
| 19.10.2011 | How To Web to bring busloads of tech entrepreneurs to Romania | Bogdan Iordache, the founder of How To Web, the eastern European web technology conference, is busy promoting it across Europe. He is presenting at the events in Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia and native Romania, where the conference about web ... |
| 14.10.2011 | Startup madness in Poland: three events in one week and a launch of a new fund | This week startup contests at Startup Weekend Poznan, E-nnovation and Startup Fest have been keeping entrepreneurs and investors out of the office. For some it may appear unproductive but for Chris Kowalczyk, the founder of HardGamma ventur... |
| 03.10.2011 | Eastern Europe creates waves at HackFwd event | Eastern Europe was featured prominently at the latest HackFwd event Build 0.7 in Berlin. During our conversation at an outdoor gathering of “pirates” during the European Pirate Summit in Cologne, Germany, Lars Hinrichs, the executive geek a... |
| 15.08.2011 | HackFwd – The slow-burn European accelerator is speeding up | Back in June last year Lars Hinrichs, the founder of LinkedIn competitor XING who exited for €48.3 million created a new startup investment vehicle dubbed HackFwd.
At the time it was announced that HackFwd would tale a 27% stake of a compan... |
| 18.07.2011 | Filmaster Raises €191K from HackFwd | Filmaster, a Polish startup that develops a movie recommendation app, has raised €191k (approximately $250k) from HackFwd, with a valuation of 636.000 EUR (around $1m).
The company intends to use the funds to continue to further develop the... |
| 17.07.2011 | HackFwd invests $250k in Filmaster | Filmaster, a Warsaw based movie check-in and discovery service, has just received some early stage funding from HackFwd. The European pre-seed fund invested 191.000 Euro (about $250.000) into the Polish startup – with a valuation of 636.000... |
| 20.06.2011 | Seedcamp named top European accelerator, with Startupbootcamp closing in | Seedcamp, the London-based startup accelerator program which has been operating in Europe for the past four years, has been named the top European startup accelerator by a year-long independent study. However programmes run by Startupbootca... |
| 11.05.2011 | Startupbootcamp to sponsor development of Startup Weekend in Europe | Earlier this week, we announced the launch of yet another startup accelerator in Europe. Oxygen Accelerator joined the growing list of YCombinator-like programs in the UK, including Hackfwd, Springboard, Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp.
Yet, w... |
| 28.04.2011 | Guest post: The mindset of Tetuan Valley | This is a guest post by Alex Barrera. Alex is Partner and Associate Director at Okuri Ventures, CEO and co-founder at Tetuan Valley, founder at Inkzee.com and mentor in several accelerator programs including Tetuan Valley, StartupBootCamp a... |
| 02.02.2011 | Xing founder buys ticket into space | At this year’s DLD there was a presentation from Virgin Galactic, the venture with the rocket-powered SpaceShipOne (pictured). It turns out it’s $200,000 for a sub orbital flight.
At one point someone asked, “How much to go around the moon?... |
| 23.09.2010 | #AngelGate in Europe? We should be so lucky | Here in Europe we’ve been fascinated by what has become known as AngelGate. But after talking all day to many contacts today across the tech scene in Europe, I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that I’m not about to blow the lid on anyt... |
| 11.06.2010 | TechCrunch 5th year anniversary meetup in London tonight | On June 11 (today), it will be exactly five years since Michael Arrington hit the ‘Publish’ button and started TechCrunch with his very first post.
So we’re celebrating this fifth anniversary with a world-wide series of meetups today. The e... |
| 08.06.2010 | Startup Life, Visualized (Infographic) | Always delighted to see savvy entrepreneurs and investors in Europe launch initiatives that can help young tech startups, wherever they’re located, go from idea to product without going bankrupt and disillusioned even before making it to th... |
| 08.06.2010 | XING founder Lars Hinrichs launches HackFwd, a product-oriented pre-seed fund | Like a Klingon Romulan starship de-cloaking in the middle of Europe, Lars Hinrichs the founder of LinkedIn competitor XING who exited for €48.3 million last year is putting his efforts onto a new startup investment vehicle dubbed HackFwd. B... |
| 08.06.2010 | XING Founder Lars Hinrichs Launches HackFwd, a European Startup Investment Company | XING founder Lars Hinrichs has launched a new pre-seed investment company, HackFwd.
Although HackFwd provides financial support and mentorship to tech startups, HackFwd is not an incubator. In other words, rather than expecting startups to ... |
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