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Issue #23 (10 Oct) – If M. Jordan lived in Berlin, would he read this newsletter? Sure! 30 jobs and 16 snippets.
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🗞 Top inspiration snippets
Two weeks backlog means exclusively German section this time. Entschuldigung for repeating Berlin-based so many times, minus points for style, but plus points to everyone raising funds! Get them, tigers! 🐅
🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany
Grover, Berlin-based tech-stuff rental company, raised €270M. Careers.
Sanity Group, Berlin-based cannabis company, raised $37.6M. Careers.
Everstores, Berlin-based D2C consolidator, raised €18M seed. Careers.
Immerok, Berlin-based Apache Flink real-time data processor, raised €17M. Careers.
Frequenz, Berlin-based fixed-cost reduction by AI startup, raised €13M. No careers.
Workist, Berlin-based paper-processes digitisers, raised €9M. Careers.
Sympatient, Berlin-based VR health-tech startup, raised €7.5M. Careers.
35up, Berlin-based cross-selling supporters of SMEs, raised €5M. Careers.
K Line Europe, Düsseldorf-based remote braces company (yes, you read it right!), raised €3.5M. Careers.
In VC world, Point Nine Capital has raised a new seed fund with €180M. Ask for money or a job here. Deutsche Private Equity, on the other hand, has even bigger fund, €708M. Go for it. PropTech1 wants you to transform real-estate with €30M available.
Onomotion, cargo bikes producer, is opening a factory in Mitte. Careers and more from Berliner Zeitung. (🇩🇪)
Friend of the show, Maurice from 20Percent Berlin, has a good assessment of Berlin being placed at the top of the UN sponsored Local Online Services Index. “Everyone gets an appointment no later than in 2 months.” brings 12 points I guess.
An interesting report from u/Miclian who applied Mietpreisbremse with Conny, got over 5.5k back. Was it worth it?
layoffs.fyi reports: Solarisbank (less than 10%), Zenjob (35, unknown %) also has an alumni page.
r/berlin choice of the week: less cliché symbols of Berlin. My favorite: TOO DEE DOO.
If you are interested how much C-levels earn in startups, you can check this Sifted UK-focused article based on data from Erevena.
🤓 Timeless and useful
Reddit, what a place. (Sometimes dirty) trade secrets from the industry revealed by the insiders.
“Your straws aren't doing shit for the use of plastics.”
😅 Meanwhile
Lukashenko solved the inflation problem! Why did we not think about it before???
Footer 🍿 fact for you. If you are a member of certain libraries you can use filmfriend for free. Woah, a pity I do not read anymore, 🥲, because “The offer reaches from German classics, over to sophisticated documentaries, to international Arthouse-cinema and kids series.”
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