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| - | Mountain Alliance CEO Daniel Wild: “Major step towards 100 million euros” | |
| - | - | Every year, we are privileged to meet extraordinary people during the annual Mountain Partners Entrepreneurs’ Day by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee. It is our pleasure to share our discussion with you. Today, we meet Dr. Philipp Rösler. Phili... |
| - | Albo raises USD 19m Series A to scale Mexico’s largest neobank | Mexican challenger bank Albo has secured a USD 19m extension to its Series A financing, led by U.S.-based Valar Ventures. The neobank previously raised USD 7.4m at the beginning of 2019, bringing the company’s total Series A funding amount ... |
| - | Simplesurance forms distribution partnership with Numbrs | Simplesurance, one of the leading InsurTech companies, based in Berlin and Tokyo, has expanded its partner network with a new in-app partnership with Numbrs, one of the leading independent financial apps in the German market. The two compan... |
| - | Berlin-based fintech Myos raises €10 million for its lending platform for merchants | Berlin-based startup Myos, a fintech that provides merchants with working capital, has raised €10 million from Mountain Partners, Berlin Technologie Holding, Avala Capital and renowned business angels such as the founders of Raisin, Tim Mar... |
| - | realXdata wins Built Innovation Contest 2019 | realXdata, one of the technologically leading companies for AI- and smart-data-supported real estate market and portfolio analytics, won the renowned Built Innovation Contest in the investment and finance category at Expo Real in Munich on ... |
| - | Exasol Announces Availability Of Its Data Analysis Platform On AWS | The AWS service allows users to deploy Exasol clusters of any size to optimize cost and performance. They can also be combined with local servers to meet data governance requirements. In addition, Exasol easily integrates with the Hadoop an... |
| - | mentavio launches Pay-As-You-Go solution for video consultation hours | The Berlin-based mentavio UG (limited liability), which operates one of the largest special interest portals for web-based psychological counselling, coaching and psychotherapy at www.mentavio.com, announced the market launch of a new produ... |
| - | Myos - new approaches to risk assessment | Goods as security: Myos applies principles of real estate financing to trade. Fintech is thus breaking new ground in the assessment of risks and collateral that e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon have made possible in the first place. |
| - | Thomas Middelhoff is back with a new book, co-authored by Cornelius Boersch | After his reckoning with the judiciary following almost three years in prison ("A 115 - Der Sturz"), his religiously motivated renunciation of the greed for wealth ("Schuldig: Vom Scheitern und Wiederaufstehen ") and aft... |
| - | EXASOL: Big Data Analyses in the Sports Industry | The use of data analysis in sports is booming – and Exasol works with teams around the world to give them a strong competitive edge by using data analytics and data science in near real-time. |
| - | reBuy Expands To Italy And Spain | reBuy, an online platform offering consumers used and refurbished electronic products for sale, has expanded with in Europe. With their online platforms available already in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, and the Netherlands,... |
| - | Meet our entrepreneurs: Michael Shangkuan, Lingoda | |
| - | Kärcher acquires Service Partner One | The takeover by the medium-sized company Kärcher, which sells cleaning equipment and generated sales of 2.5 billion euros last year, is an accolade for the Berlin-based software provider. With the new owner, the company wants to expand agai... |
| - | Lingoda and Cambridge Assessment English reinvent English tests | Lingoda, the online language school when it comes to customer trust, and Cambridge Assessment English, the key authority on English qualifications, now offer easy and flexible access to language tests together. Students can take the Linguas... |
| - | "Missed the Future?": "We will soon see the German economy being on sale" | Investor Cornelius Boersch and ex-manager Thomas Middelhoff talk about mistakes in digitalization - and present reform proposals. |
| - | Mountain Alliance AG realizes a successful partial sale of Exasol AG in the course of its IPO | Mountain Alliance AG (MA, ISIN DE000A12UK08) has once again realized a successful partial exit with the sale of a part of its stake in Exasol AG, thus impressively demonstrating its sustainable investment approach even in challenging times. |
| - | Unternehmertag 2019 | From March 27th – 29th, the 13th Unternehmertag took place at Lake Tegernsee. Among this year’s speakers and participants were the “Grüne” politician Cem Özdemir, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, together with his wife Soyeon Kim,... |
| - | HUMANOO takes over French corporate health platform wePulse | The Berlin-based digital health platform HUMANOO and the French corporate health platform wePulse will in future take a joint approach to the corporate health market. Both companies are specialized in this field and motivate employees and i... |
| - | Seattle startup Human looks to stand out with distinctive $399 over-the-ear wireless headphones | After nearly five years of development, Seattle technology startup “Human” is releasing its long-awaited $399 wireless headphones, promising premium audio quality, 32-point touch control, seamless integration of digital assistants, real-tim... |
| - | Proptech company realXdata closes financing round with lead investor Signa Innovations | Signa Innovations, the venture arm of Signa Holding, is taking over the lead in a mid-seven-figure financing round of the Berlin-based start-up realXdata, which specializes in AI- and Smart-Data-based real estate market and portfolio analys... |
| - | Discovergy and Com-Metering Launch Joint Smart Meter Offer | As of today, the responsible Federal Office BSI has not yet certified enough Smart Meter gateways. But at some point this year the starting signal could be given. The installation of smart meters for around one million photovoltaic systems ... |
| - | Portland Private Equity Leads US$14M In Merqueo | Merqueois based in Colombia and is one of the fastest growing startups of Latin America, achieving over US$1Min sales in just 8 months. In its first year of operations,Merqueo fundraised US$5Mdollars, and nearly two years later, in January ... |
| - | Mexican challenger bank albo raises $45 million to expand | With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech i... |
| - | Urbvan Raises $9 Million for its Private Shuttle Service in Mexico | As cities in emerging markets grapple with increasingly traffic-clogged and dangerous streets, Urbvan, a startup providing private, high-end transportation shuttles in Mexico, has raised $9 million in a new round of financing. |
| - | Drake Star Partners earns two awards at annual M&A awards ceremony in New York City | Drake Star Partners earns two awards at annual M&A awards ceremony in New York City |
| - | - | Every year, we are privileged to meet extraordinary people during the annual Mountain Partners Entrepreneurs’ Day by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee. It is our pleasure to share our discussion with you. Today, we meet Dr. Andreas Muschter. Sin... |
| - | Platzi and Facebook launch scholarship program for aspiring developers | Platzi and Facebook partnered to develop a more diverse and equitable ecosystem in Latin America. In this new coalition, the two companies will grant around 1,000 scholarships to people with scarce programming knowledge to learn web develop... |
| - | "Missed the Future?": The lost decade | When and how did German companies lose the race against tech giants from the USA and China? A story of collective failure. By Thomas Middelhoff and Cornelius Boersch. |
| - | - | Every year, we are privileged to meet extraordinary people during the annual Mountain Partners Entrepreneurs’ Day by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee. It is our pleasure to share our discussion with you. Today, we meet Roland Koch. Roland serve... |
| - | - | The investment will see both companies expedite their business expansion more rapidly in the areas of technology development, product innovation as well as sales and marketing. |
| - | New digital platform for the organization of building management | Several factors have traditionally played an important role in facility services: people, machines and materials. Service Partner ONE, a subsidiary of Kärcher, has developed software that combines all these elements. |
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| - | Cornelius Boersch & Thomas Middelhoff discuss why Germany has missed out on digitalisation & what can be done to turn things around | In his last two books, the former star manager Thomas Middelhoff, 67, addressed his personal fate and his time in prison. In his third, he takes on the role of an economic expert: Together with the tech investor Cornelius Boersch, 52, Midde... |
| - | Bio-Gate Reaches Milestone | Bio-Gate AG (ISIN DE000BGAG981), a leading provider of antimicrobial products and multifunctional surfaces for medical devices, has completed a pre-submission application to the FDA for its HyProtect™ coating technology. HyProtect™ is an ul... |
| - | Platzi Raises $6 Million to Bring More Online Education to Latin America | Founded in 2013, Platzi offers Spanish- and Portugese-language live-streamed classes for courses that include programming, marketing, design and business. Now, the company has raised $6 million in a Series A round led by venture capital fir... |
| - | Wefox, the Berlin-based insurtech, raises USD 110m Series B extension | Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurtech startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox, is disclosing USD 110m in a second tranche of Series B funding. |
| - | realXdata: When your house knows where you are | realXdata, a Berlin-based start-up that combines real estate, general economic and other data, has just been added to the list of the ten most promising artificial intelligence start-ups from German-speaking countries by the business magazi... |
| - | Thomas Middelhoff & Cornelius Boersch: Germany's CEOs are digitalisation failures | Since his prison sentence, the former Bertelsmann and Arcandor boss has been the outlaw of the manager caste. In his new book, co-authored by Cornelius Boersch, he now criticizes Germany's business elite. According to him, they are analogue... |
| - | Singaporean Fintech Startup C88 Acquires Indonesia’s IDX Optus to Ramp Up Credit Scoring Capability | In a bid to become a leader in Southeast Asia’s credit decision analytics and scoring space, Singapore-based fintech company C88 Financial Technologies has acquired Indonesian analytics and information management company IDX Optus. |
| - | Volders: Pay TV, dating portal, tanning salon: These aids protect you from expensive contract traps | Termination service providers are useful helpers when it comes to the timely termination of contracts. Often a lot of money can be saved by changing or renegotiating electricity, telephone & Co. FOCUS-MONEY has tested this young industr... |
| - | World Bank Group’s IFC invests USD 10 million in Mountain Nazca II Fund | The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced that it invested USD 10 million in Mountain Nazca II. Venture capital firm, Mountain Nazca, will be in charge of this fund. |
| - | Space startup Momentus to go public at USD 1.2 billion valuation via blank-check merger | Space transportation company Momentus Inc said on Wednesday it will go public through a merger with blank-check firm Stable Road Acquisition Corp SRAC.O in a deal valued at $1.2 billion including debt. As part of the deal, Momentus will get... |
| - | "We want to keep pushing & grow even faster" - Financial.de interview with Daniel Wild | Following the takeover of Mountain Technology AG, the Munich-based investment company Mountain Alliance AG is on its way to becoming a "leading investor for digital companies" in the DACH region. In an interview with Financial.de,... |
| - | Bio-Gate AG: Bio-Gate AG decides on and places cash capital increase | Bio-Gate AG increased the company's share capital from authorized capital and excluding subscription rights. All new shares are subscribed by Syntos Beteiligungs GmbH and a fund advised by the French investment company ALTO INVEST SA. |
| - | RIB Software strengthens German business with acquisition of BI startup datapine | RIB Software SE, the world’s leading provider of iTWO 4.0 cloud enterprise platform technology for the construction and infrastructure industries, announced the acquisition of a majority stake in datapine, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.... |
| - | Germany’s New Unicorns | Aaron Auld likes to explain what his company Exasol does as following:“The data streams in the companies are something like their lifelines – and the database in which this information is stored and processed is the heart”. Since 2000, the ... |
| - | Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurance tech startup, raises $125M Series B led by Mubadala | Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurtech startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox, has raised $125 million in Series B funding. Notably, the round is led by Abu Dhabi government-owned ... |
| - | Mexico City-based TrueHome, a tech-enabled real estate broker, raises $8.8M Series A | TrueHome, a leading real estate broker in Mexico City with over 1’300 listings, was able to raise a $8.8 million Series A round, co-led by Brazil’s Monashees and San Francisco-based Class 5 Global. The round marks Class 5 Global’s very firs... |
| - | - | Every year, we are privileged to meet extraordinary people during the annual Mountain Partners Entrepreneurs’ Day by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee. It is our pleasure to share our discussion with you. Today, we meet Julian Teicke. Julian is ... |
| - | SoftBank-backed used-car startup Kavak becomes first Mexican unicorn | SoftBank-backed used-car platform Kavak has become Mexico’s first tech “unicorn” after reaching a USD 1.15 billion valuation in its latest funding round last month, Chief Executive Carlos Garcia told Reuters. |
| - | Exasol again leader in market overview Analytical Data Infrastructure (ADI) | Top position in the areas of manufacturer credibility and customer experience. |
| - | - | Every year, we are privileged to meet extraordinary people during the annual Mountain Partners Entrepreneurs’ Day by the beautiful Lake Tegernsee. It is our pleasure to share our discussion with you. Today, we meet Jeremy Gilley. In 1999, J... |
| - | Exasol study on corporate data analysis: Organizations struggle to derive actionable insights | Exasol study on corporate data analysis: Organizations struggle to derive actionable insights |
| - | MYBESTBRANDS personalizes luxury online shopping with Dynamic Yield | MYBESTBRANDS personalizes luxury online shopping with Dynamic Yield |
| - | Mountain Nazca announces its exit from Kavak and Creze | The VC fund Mountain Nazca announced its exit from Kavak, the platform for buying and selling used cars. Its participation in the company led by brothers Carlos and Loreanne Garcia Ottati and Roger Laughlin Carvallo was acquired by General ... |
| - | Mentavio is part of Deutsche Telekom's TechBoost startup program with immediate effect | By being included in Deutsche Telekom's TechBoost Startup Program, mentavio can further expand its infrastructure and get the opportunity to use the Open Telekom Cloud. |
| - | AlphaPet Ventures gains Capiton as new lead investor and acquires Healthfood24 (Wolfsblut) | AlphaPet Ventures gains Capiton as new lead investor and acquires Healthfood24 (Wolfsblut) |
| - | Are Munich startups sexy enough? Interview with Mountain Alliance CEO Daniel Wild | The VC firm Mountain Alliance is involved in 33 European scale-ups in the digital economy, including in particular e-health, new work and digital education. In the ten years of its existence, the venture capitalist has recorded several exit... |
| - | Meet our entrepreneurs: Thorben Croisé & Alexander Balzer, atfinity | The Zurich-based Regtech company atfinity is less than four years old and has already reinvented itself twice - with crazy ideas, passion and a sense of community. atfinity combines strong banking expertise with an engineering DNA. Their mi... |
