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Issue #58 (03 Jul) – Design & UX/UI and other jobs; highest rent; lowest amount of cars; Catholic church in trouble; top 100 employers in Berlin; July events in Berlin and plenty more!
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🇩🇪 idealo internet - UX Designer Apps - Elternzeitvertretung
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😎 Cool stuff:
Adi of Arbeitnow fame prepared this great overview of his experience with B1 Telc exam, which you will need for citizenship.
🔍 Searching for roles:
Boglárka is looking for an HRBP/People Partner role. She has strong recruitment background and recently expanded to people partnering. Great business acumen that can support/lead employee experience and other on HR projects. Reliable, driven team player excelling under pressure.
Tom (e-mail) is a seasoned, creative product marketing specialist with a unique breadth of communication, business strategy, and operational experience working in the alternative investments space. Leveraging his background and experiences, he is eager to work in a similar capacity at a fintech company in Berlin!
Patrick is a recent American FU grad looking for a Operations/Program manager role at a tech firm. He has years of global fintech experience! Open to remote or in-person.
A reader (e-mail) seeks a role in Banking or Business Operations, Partners Relationship Management or Account Management. He has six years of experience in Retail Banking in the area of Wealth Management and Financial Products Development.
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
Plenty of funded companies this time.
🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff
🔝 The best of handpicked in June, supporters extra.
Top 100 employers in 2021 (by # of employees). I found it interesting that we do not really have BIG companies here. Yes, I am looking at you, Stuttgart.
😎 Here are seven lovely questions to impress your boss. (h/t Amir from )
😐 How fortunate do you feel that you can move freely? Several participants from the Special Olympics World Games, including athletes and delegation members from countries like Algeria, Guinea, Cameroon and Lebanon, have not returned home as scheduled. Authorities are investigating, prioritizing their well-being. There are suspicions of deliberate smuggling to stay in Germany without legal status.
💰19,500€ Kalt is currently the highest rent in Berlin (720sqm). I find it ugly.
📉 If you want to improve your German and are interested in inflation, watch this talk show from ZDF (maybrit illner), featuring — I am a fan.
🦾 Have you ever wondered what the monotonous job of packing online orders looks like? Here is an insight. I admire the skill.
⛪️ In 2022, a record 522k individuals left the German Catholic Church, surpassing the previous year's record of 359k, according to the German Bishops' Conference. This surge in departures comes amid a series of child abuse scandals. Despite this, the Church still counts 20.94M registered members, nearly a quarter of Germany's population. Are you a member?
🍷 Ironhack is inviting you to a Rooftop networking meetup in Selina on Wednesday, the 12th of July. Get your ticket for free! I plan to go; see you there!
🚙 We don’t do cars in Berlin much. Destatis reports that Berlin has the lowest car density among all German federal states with 337 cars per 1,000 residents. Compare this to Saarland (658) and Bayern (622). Since you asked, Slovenia (572), Chad (5.84) and finally, China (200).
💶 Up to 300k for working with AI? Handelsblatt is doing a bit of clickbait, but still worth checking (🇩🇪, €). I disagree with the prompt engineer idea, but the rest seems plausible (AI consultant; AI legal/ethics; AI security; AI devs)
😔 Bad news: Linus (Berlin) in trouble; Tubesolar insolvent; Gerry Weber 350; Varta up to 800; KPMG laying off 5% in the US.
r/berlin was still closed; here are “Street cleaning meet ups” instead.
🎉 And as always, the crowd favourite: What to do in July by Exberliner. On top, how about some of the best dancing bars? I was sad to see I only know two. Not much of a dancer, huh?
💬 Briefly:
E.ON took over insolvent Elvah;
Getir is preparing to exit Spain—when Berlin?;
You can also raise $133M Seed (Mistral, AI stuff with no product) with a memo—a big like!—but also clear you need to know the right people;
MVP Factory (Berlin) was sold to Ness Digital;
Intel and SAP are close to investing (🇩🇪) in Aleph Alpha;
Berlin-based football fan app One Football has replaced its CEO, founder Lucas von Cranach stepped back.
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💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
ToolTime | Berlin | SaaS solution for craftsmen to tackle administrative tasks | €30M | Careers.
McMakler | Berlin | Real-estate and proptech company | €20M at lowered valuation | Careers.
Bluu Seafood | Berlin | Creates cultivated cell-based fish product. | €16M Series A | Careers.
Service4Charger | Berlin | Comprehensive service provider for EV charging infrastructure planning, installation, operation, and maintenance. | €10M Series A | Careers.
Doctorflix | Berlin | Digital medical education provider. | €2M Seed | Careers.
Manti Manti | Berlin | Focused on children's glasses. | €1M | Careers.
hema.to | Munich | Developing a way to use blood data analysis to personalize treatments. | €3.6M Seed | Careers.
TURN2X | Munich | Expanding production of renewable natural gas across Europe. | €4.3M | Careers.
AIRMO | Munich | Building space satellites to measure greenhouse gas emissions. | €5.2M Pre-seed | Careers.
klarx | Munich | Rental platform for construction machinery. | €11.5M Series B | Careers.
Tradar | Munich | Offers sports enthusiasts access to a closed trading platform for sports investments via digital assets in the form of Player Token | €4M | Careers.
Cashlink | Frankfurt am Main | Infrastructure for tokenized assets, initially starting as a payment service. | €7M | Careers.
Findiq | Herford | Knowledge transfer in machine service, integrating knowledge management and assistance system in central software. | €1M | No careers.
Tenzir | Hamburg | Data-driven Security Operations platform enabling efficient identification, analysis, and neutralization of cyber-attacks. | €3M | No careers.
Notch | Hamburg | Buyer enablement solution aimed at streamlining B2B sales. | €1.1M Pre-seed | Careers.
Colonia | Cologne | Focuses on rental models in the commercial vehicle segment (tractors, trailers and trucks). | €6M | Careers.
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies | Essen | Aims to advance the carbon cycle economy. | €4.5M | No careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
I liked this unusual worldview of always thinking positively: You know, I’ve never been better. Something for me to try. And it is also true, I really never been better!
😅 Meanwhile
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This time an amazing fact about 👶🏼 & 🚗 seats. “Car seat laws saved 57 kids in 2017… but also reduced births by 8,000 that year (& 145,000 since 1980!) as families held off having more than two kids as their cars couldn’t hold more seats!”
✌️ Handpicked resources:
- The best questions to ask at a job interview
- Write it down now! Or why you should journal at work?
- Berlin Salary Trends survey
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