On the 5th of April the time has come: The startup week Düsseldorf starts. Ingo Stefes from Wirtschaftsförderung Düsseldorf is one of the organizers of the event. We talked to him about how the startup week came about and what the biggest milestones were. He also told us what role…
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Fliit Carsten Maschmeyer and the shipping company Maersk are investing 10 million euros in the Berlin-based food logistics company Fliit. The startup, which arranges transport for food and generates a monthly turnover of just under one million euros, was founded in 2016 by Flavio Alari. With the fresh capital Fliit…
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In 2015, Kaya Taner and Emma Tracey founded the start-up Honeypot in Berlin – around four years later, they took care of it. The careers network Xing takes over Honeypot for initially 22 million euros. Depending on the success, another 35 million will be added after three years. Both founders…
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Argentine digital bank Ualá is looking to double its size, expand its product range and take advantage of the experience of new investors such as Chinese technology giant Tencent and Japanese SoftBank, said the founder of the “Startup” Pierpaolo Barbieri. Ualá, a personal finance application, announced this week that it…
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The first cohort of Lakeshore Advantage’s 12-week entrepreneur startup program graduated. There were nine startups involved in SURGE’s first BoostCamp cohort. Based on curriculum developed at Stanford University, BoostCamp is meant to help founders rapidly develop and test ideas through focus on customer and marketplace feedback, using data to establish…
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Five new startup businesses or non-profits, all in different stages of development, will kick-off the event by pitching their business ideas to the audience. Once all pitches are complete, each business owner will then have an opportunity to receive small group feedback and positive suggestions from attendee mentors as the…
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Promising Florida startups in technology, engineering and life sciences could get a boost at a critical early stage, thanks to a new investment fund launched by Florida Funders and the University of South Florida. The Seed Florida Early Stage Investment Fund has its roots in a $250,000 grant from the…
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Kamatan, an agricultural-technology startup that focuses on the agricultural logistics and supply chain segment, has raised Rs 30 crore ($4.18 million at current exchange rate) in funding from Chennai-based Samunnati Agro Solutions, according to reports. The Kamatan Farm Tech Pvt. Ltd-operated startup raised the money through a mix of equity…
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Last year, the Dolphins, owned by billionaire Stephen Ross (photo), tweeted urging Floridians to vote no on a ballot initiative that would have made it harder to legalize sports betting statewide. illionaire Stephen Ross has invested in the sports gambling startup the Action Network, yet another move by a National…
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India’s flat-share platform, Zolostays, is in talks with Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse to raise around $100 million, according to a report by Press Trust of India. “We are in talks with Credit Suisse to raise $100 million in a Series C round to fund our expansion plans to increase…
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