E-commercin’ ain’t easy. Especially when you’re just starting off and have very little to offer as a personal guarantee (read: debt funding) when trying to find some backing. To help bridge the divide, Berlin-based fintech Myos has developed a system to employs AI to evaluate risk assessment based not on the founders, but rather, on […]
Sound that bell ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got another unicorn. Berlin-based digital freight forwarding and supply chain solutions (read: logistics) provider Forto has raised a hefty $240 million. With this round, Forto now weighs in at a $1.2 billion valuation. To date, the startup has raised $360 million. Forto, a.k.a. FreightHub shipped in 2016, and […]
It’s a banner day at Berlin’s coliving platform Habyt, as they’ve closed a Series B round totaling €20 million, and have announced their third acquisition in six months, this time Frankfurt’s homefully. Let’s unpack. The €20 million Series B round saw HV Capital, Vorwerk Ventures, P101, and Picus Capital, participating, but no lead was indicated. […]
Berlin’s “Near Me” marketing SaaS solutions platform Uberall has raised $115 million in a new capital investment led by Bregal Milestone, Level Equity, United Internet, and Uberall management. Simultaneously, the company is announcing its definitive agreement to acquire Santa Monica, California-based proximity search optimisation tool MomentFeed. Uberall reports that the new funding will be used […]
Berlin/Remote-based culture-building platform Remi has raised €1.2 million in a pre-seed round led by btov Partners. The round also saw participation from angel investors including Tim Schumacher (Eyeo), Georgie Smallwood, CPO at TIER (as part of the Accel Starter programme), Emma Tracey, co-founder at Honeypot, former VP Finance at Personio, Michael Kuntz, and Trivago Founder […]
Berlin’s human-machine interfaces maker Incari has raised €15 million in a Series A round led by Delivery Hero/Volocopter/Team Europe’s Lukasz Gadowski. Early investors include Armin Pohl’s Wunderkind Invest, Pius Equity, and angel investor Gunnar Gräf. Having demonstrated succes in designing complex interfaces with a no-code approach in the automotive industry, Incari is slated to use […]
Berlin-based financial app for Gen Z wajve has raised €5 million in a seed round led by EQT Ventures with participation from 468 Capital. Angel investors Lucas von Cranach (CEO of OneFootball), Roland Grenke (co-founder of Dubsmash and Acapela Group), and Christian Gaiser (CEO of COSI) are also on board. Wajve is reporting that the […]