Tag: startup

  • Datenreichtum

    Datenreichtum bei Flexbooker, 3.7 Millionen Benutzer betroffen.

  • Contentful valued $3B++

    Contentful, a Content-Management SaaS company, raised another round of financing. With the latest investment the Berlin founded and Headquartered is valued at over $3B. Contentful locked in a $175 million Series F and a $3 billion-plus valuation as it looks to take advantage of a more digital-first marketplace From Crunchbase Source: Contentful Hits $3B-Plus Valuation…

  • German AI-Startup Landscape 2021

    The start-up ecosystem with AI founders is buzzing and it’s difficult to keep an overview. The Initiative for Applied Artificial Intelligence has a comprehensive overview. The 278 most promising German AI startups working across enterprise functions, enterprise intelligence, technology type and industries. Source: German AI-Startup Landscape: 2021 – appliedAI

  • Third-Party API Economy.

    How to Give Your Users Superpowers Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, thrive and give companies an edge for focusing on very specific issues. While the pattern has been around sind the early 2000s, the ecosystem only started to develop this rapidly recently. Only to make an example, Twilio started their service as an API only…

  • ‘We’ve created a privacy industry’

    ‘We’ve created a privacy industry’ was a statement you could often hear when Europe introduced General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the German implementation DatenSchutz GrundVerOrdnung (DSGVO). Already back in 2016 first predictions arrived, that GDPR will boost European software industry and give them a unique selling point. After the regulation became effective in Europe…

  • Tech layoffs spread (a bit)

    Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters? TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very much profits, as Alex Wilhelm summed up on Thursday, especially after the failed WeWork IPO and subsequent valuation and headcount decimation. We’ll…

  • More Female Founders

    Not only more Female Founders, but also more successful Female Founders, measured by unicorns, have entered the startup universe. Those are companies that passed the $1 billion in valuation. Crunchbase, the leading platform for professionals to discover innovative companies, has the data: Crunchbase data shows what ‘overperforming’ really means: 2019 has been a historic year…

  • Munich-based Mylivn raises €5.5 million

    Munich-based Mylivn raises €5.5 million and launches social network for next-Gen content creators

  • Idea meets Market

    Unternehmensgründung gehört im Spätkapitalismus ja zum guten Ton, Startup ist eine Szene in der man in ist, wenn man drin ist. Das die Realität häufig härter ist, liest man ja meistens nur in den unteren Teilen der Berichterstattung. Sehr schön fasst das Video, das vergangene Woche auf Facebook aufgetaucht ist, den Prozess von der Idee…

  • Here's What Real 3D Touch Looks Like | WIRED

    With all the advertisements from Apple about their 3D touch technology, virtually everybody that actually got their hands on the devices was somewhat disappointed with the advancement. There must be options beyond peek and pop, and startup Qeexos develops this real 3D touch technology. Wired has an article on the possibilities. You may soon be…