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Issue #12 (18 Jul) – 30 jobs and 16 snippets plus an airport life hack for the bravest amongst us.
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👀 Handpicked 30 from Berlin+
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🗞 Top 16 inspiration snippets
Berlin, du bist so wunderbar! This time with a lot of good news for German startups.
wefox, Berlin-based insurtech, raised $400M at $4.5B valuation. Careers.
Element, Berlin-based white-label insurtech, raised €21.4M. Careers.
Kadmos, Berlin-based cross-border salary payments company, raised €29M Series A. Careers.
Ride Capital, Berlin-based investment platform, raised €3M. Careers.
Klarna, a former fintech darling with a strong presence in Berlin, raised 800M, but with significantly slashed valuation at $6.7B (formerly +45B!).
Everdrop, Munich-based environmental friendly cleaning products startup, raised €80M Series B. Careers.
Gnosis Safe, Gibraltar and Berlin-based Ethereum infrastructure provider, raised $100M. Careers.
Kontent, Brno-based headless CMS provider, raised $40M. Careers.
Nyobolt, Cambridge-based fast-battery charging systems producer, raised £50M. Careers.
Incident.io, London-based incident management platform, raised $34.2M Series A. Careers.
Morpho Labs, Paris-based crypto lending pool company, raised $18M. Careers.
Did you know about Clearview, selfie scraping startup, which is selling identity matching services? I did not, and I hope these fines will change something. But they probably won’t?
Deutsche Bank is working on a white-label BNPL solution, offering even more competition on the crowded market.
BMW has a brilliant idea to charge subscriptions for heated seats, steering wheel and camera recordings. Dear God, please don’t. What’s next, subscription for your mobile’s camera?
😢 It is not all fun and games in the startup world. Sifted is maintaining a list of recent tech layoffs in Europe. Meanwhile, Wolt is closing it’s grocery warehouses (🇩🇪) in Berlin.
🇩🇪 Handelsblatt has an interesting article about Revo Foods, Vienna-based plant-based salmon & co. startup. You can send them your CV.
🤓 Timeless and useful
Airports are full and many flights are getting cancelled, but these life hacks will still come handy. For example, always queue left, or board last with a poker face for a free upgrade? Brave.
😅 Meanwhile
Jerry Seinfeld kept photos from the Hubble telescope in his writer’s room for cosmic perspective: “It would calm me when I would start to think that what I was doing was important.”
So here is a James Webb ST photo of star-forming region in the Carina Nebula for you:
This is a footer slice of 🍕for you. Persistence and discipline are often a rare sight. But not for you. If you liked it, hit that ♡ button.