Samdock

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Million-dollar investment for Samdock

The Munich-based company Samdock has closed a Series A2 financing round with a seven-figure sum. The capital will be used for product development and…

Cooperation with family businesses

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How startups and family businesses can collaborate

Family businesses have a reputation among many startups for being conservative and slow-moving—is this justified? A recent study examines how…

Celonis German Future Prize Siemens

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Celonis takes over automation platform Integromat

Munich-based unicorn startup Celonis is acquiring the Czech automation platform Integromat. The Prague-based startup's solution is designed to integrate seamlessly into…

The founding team of Peter Park: Patrick Bartler, Maximilian Schlereth, Stefan Schenk and Florian Schaule (from left)

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Million-dollar investment for Peter Park

EXCLUSIVE – An unnamed German family office has invested a “mid-seven-figure sum” in Munich-based IoT startup Peter Park, according to…

Juan A. Sanmiguel, Founder and CEO of Hotelbird

Inside Stories

Hotelbird CEO Juan A. Sanmiguel: “The market is really demanding digitalization”

Hotelbird digitizes typical hotel processes like check-ins. After the coronavirus crisis hit the industry particularly hard, we partnered with…

The 4titoo founders Tore Meyer and Stephan Odörfer (from left).

Deals

Gaze control: 3.1 million euros for 4tiitoo

4tiitoo has completed a €3.1 million financing round. The Munich-based startup specializes in computer operation via gaze control…

Andreas Knürr, CEO and Co-Founder of Timify

7 Questions

Online appointment planner Timify: “We were clearly ahead of our time”

Timify offers companies an online solution for scheduling employee and customer appointments. Andreas Knürr, CEO and co-founder of Timify, answers our…

Good to know

Risk and security: What we can learn from the crisis for the future

Startups are used to sailing close to the wind and taking deliberate risks. During the pandemic, many have found themselves in…

Marcus Englert, co-founder of Julep

Deals

Julep secures 2 million euros

The podcast platform Julep has successfully completed a Series A financing round and raised more than 2 million euros.

Digital bonus continues

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Bavarian digital bonus continues

With the Digital Bonus, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs promotes investments in digital technology, for example to convert analogue business models or to streamline operational processes.