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Issue #17 (22 Aug) – usual package in the best handpicked to date.
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Handpicked is a weekly newsletter that fights the noise of the job market with a selection of mostly Berlin related job links, but also funding news from Germany and wider. Read more about the selection & reader feedback and subscribe for free 👇
We are +6 this week! Can you forward this to someone?
👀 Handpicked thirty
Programming note: Probably the best handpicked edition to date. Maybe Berlin air is helping me? In other news: I found a flat in 9 days, parts lucky as f* and parts a good application (3 offers on 4 visits). If you need help, let me know.
🎉 Submitted by readers returns…
Newcon - Founding Enginer, Founding Designer (>2% founder equity)
wefox - Engineering Manager-Data Platform*
(*work with me, I promise its fun, and this is no paid reference)
💸 Recently raised moneyz.
🧞♂️ Kinda outliers for this issue.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners - Junior Commercialisation Project Manager
ESMT Berlin - Program Manager - Institute for Deep Tech Innovation
International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance - Communication officer
👾 Heads or Tails?
💾 For Operators and Data types (but no for loops)
Hello Fresh - (Senior) Technical Project Manager Intralogistics
Nubank - Product Manager, Technical - Data Infrastructure and Streaming
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany
Solsten, Berlin-based AI supported customer experience startup, raised $21.8M. Careers.
LiSA, Berlin-based live social e-commerce startup, raised €2.7M. No real careers page yet.
Luminovo, Munich-based software suite for electronics industry, raised €11M seed. Careers.
Berlin’s job market is extremely tight; based on the article from Berliner Zeitung there is currently a shortage of 100k skilled workers, which could quadruple by 2035. Good luck finding someone for renovations in the flat you searched for months?
Good news for the flights from BER. Low-cost carrier Norse is expanding it’s long-haul portfolio (NYC, LA) to include Fort Lauderdale.
🇩🇪 Handelsblatt writes that bubble of instant delivery services is bursting (€). Similar on Tagesspiegel (€). Entry of Lieferando isn’t really helping. I mean, who could have known? On the other hand, Hello Fresh is doing well (€). Congrats!
🇪🇺 Rest of Europe & UK
Super, London-based payments company eliminating fees for merchants, raised £22.5M pre-seed. Careers.
Constructive Bio, Cambridge-based biotech startup, raised $15M. Careers.
Econic Technologies, London-based carbon-dioxide to plastic startup, raised €12.3M. Careers.
Microverse, Barcelona-based remote coding school, raised $12.5M. Careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
Another of those XX of rules in life. Sure, there are no recipes, but I like to browse through them to get inspired or reminded. This one (100) is from Dru Riley.
😅 Meanwhile
mit allem? (via r/ich_iel)
This is a footer Berlin fact of the weekend for you. We only made it to the 3rd club. My theory is you need to be honest in case you are asked a question.
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