What’s new? In ours #WeeklyReview we provide a quick overview of what was really important in the German-speaking startup scene recently!
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#Weekly Review – What was really important recently!
STARTUP RADAR
Brand new
+++ In the past few days we have presented the following startups: Flowstate, OB7, Lexaru, StaySOTA, raaaw, Patronus Protect, Velth, hey mela, Netz & Werke, Tokura, Wakeline, Zapdeck, valueverde, Previty, ROSI, Justima, manugy, Zulio, Luure and Carl. More on the startup radar
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+++ In the Startup Radar newsletter, our paid newsletter, we report on these startups: Alawyer, PoLightFilters, Sherpa, Nerdsip, NextGO Epi, Sophia, Hofsync, titanspear.ai, tripbot, Magister Compliance Safety, alqem, Versipedia, LexGraph, VoltExchange and Generative Robotics.
INVESTMENTS
Helsing
+++ Dragoneer Investment Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Disruptive, Iconiq, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, JPMorganChase, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), General Catalyst, Plural and Stepstone are investing $1.8 billion (Series E) in Helsing. DefenseTech’s valuation rises to $18 billion as a result of this record investment round. More about Helsing
SWISSto12
+++ Unnamed investors are investing $70 million (Series C). SWISSto12. More about SWISSto12
microagi
+++ The London investor Hummingbird, Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine are investing a record-breaking $55 million in microagi in the seed investment round. More about microagi
Project Q
+++ The Warsaw early stage investor Expeditions, the defense company Hensoldt, the Frankfurt financier Heliad and old investors such as Project A are investing 15 million euros (Series A) in Project Q. More about Project Q
Scalar
+++ The Berlin investor Headline, the young AI investor futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD and Foreword as well as business angels are investing 12 million euros (pre-seed, seed) in skalar. More about angelfish
Sodex
+++ The Munich B2B financier Capmont Technology, Bloomhaus Ventures, Look AI Ventures, Superangels as well as the existing investors SOSV, OMA Business Angels and 12 Rounds Capital are investing 4 million euros in Sodex. More about Sodex
MAIA
+++ TGFS Technologie Gründerfonds Sachsen and SBG – Sächsische Beteiligungsgesellschaft are investing 4 million euros in MAIA. More about MAIA
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
FairCap – InterNations
+++ The Munich investment company FairCap is taking over the company InterNations, a network for people who live and work abroad, from New Work. More about InterNations
Ardian – Pflegia
+++ The French investment company Ardian, via Ardian Growth, is taking over the majority of the Berlin startup Pflegia, a job service for nursing staff and an “AI-supported reverse recruiting platform”. More about Pflegia
VisualLogix – refyne
+++ The New York software company VisualLogix, which is supported by Insight, is taking over refyne. More about refyne
Apryse – PDF tools – Smallpdf
+++ The American company Apryse (formerly known as PDFTron) takes over PDF Tools (which has been part of Smallpdf since 2022). More about Smallpdf
Omio – RailEurope
+++ The travel unicorn Omio is taking over the long-established French train and bus ticket service Rail Europe. More about Omio
Adzuna – Job lift
+++ The English job service Adzuna, founded in 2011, is taking over the insolvent Hamburg HR growup Joblift. More about Joblift
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