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Issue #35 (16 Jan) – plus 20 jobs, unit economics of Gorillas, sanitary inspections and Last generation vs. car drivers.

Jan 16, 2023

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🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany

Enpal, a Berlin-based solar darling of the investors, raised another €215M. Careers.
Mondu, a Berlin-based B2B buy-now-pay-later platform, raised $13M. Careers.
Project Eaden, a Berlin-based developer of vegan steaks, raised €10.1M. Careers.
Carbon One, a Berlin-based green CO2-saving methanol startup, reportedly got an undisclosed investment from Maersk. Careers.
Evergreen, a Leipzig-based asset management platform, raised €1.3M. Careers.
DeepL, a Cologne-based better Google Translate, raised over $100M at 1B+ valuation. Congrats! Head over to careers.
27pilots, a Munich-based corporate startup accelerator, was acquired by Deloitte. Careers.
🔥 If you are interested in the cash-burning unit economics of grocery delivery services like Gorillas & Co., here is a great article from Kevin LaBuz. Spoiler: unit economics are absolute shit.
Speaking of grocery delivery, Getir is asking their employees to return to the office five days a week. Of course, this is not related to wishful thinking that some employees with remote/hybrid contracts will quit by themselves. They already backtracked a bit.
😷 Masks won’t be mandatory anymore in long-distance trains from the 2nd of February, says Karl Lauterbach, the health minister with a top-level sense of humour.
🤢 Bezirksamt Neukölln tweeted pictures from a restaurant which very obviously failed the sanitary inspection. (🇩🇪) This reminded me of this great report from “Dienststelle Lebensmittelüberwachung, Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärwesen” in Stuttgart, where they publish monthly reports of their restaurant inspections. A great read and another argument to eat out less. “But what to cook? If only there were a blog with tested recipes without spam…” Actually, I made one. 😅
I tried to find a similar overview for Berlin. There is something from Bezirksamt Pankow. In fact, „Saubere-Küchen-Gesetz“has been in force since the beginning of the year, and restaurants should have “Lebensmittelüberwachungstransparenzbarometer” at the door. (🇩🇪) As usual with Berlin Behörden, many quick-wins are ignored. I have so many questions.
🌍 What is you opinion on the Last Generation activists vs. GTFO activists drivers? I like the fact that the first fact in the tweet is gendered. Here is another escalation video. I don’t know, but maybe pissing of the regular folks is not so productive? There was also an attempt to block the Autobahn, but police said no.
“You had one job, Berlin bureaucrats responsible for elections!” Still, for the repeat elections, they managed to mess up the list of candidates in Berlin-Neukölln (🇩🇪). A candidate moved away. So many low-hanging fruits!
🎬 She came to me by Rebecca Miller will open the 2023 Berlinale on the 16th of February. Does anyone already have must a see list? Please share 🙏
layoffs.fyi & other sources came up with nothing this week.

🇪🇺 Rest of Europe & UK (Top 4)

Amolyt, French biotech pharma company, raised €130M. Careers.
SoniVie, an Italy and Israel-baed MedTech hypertension , raised $60M Series C. Careers are the contact page?
Hystar, a Norwegian GreenTech company, raised €24M. Careers.
TONI Digital, a Zürich-based white-label insurance provider, raised $12.5M. Careers.

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😅 Meanwhile

this meme reminded me of my first time of trying to pay at a bakery in Stuttgart with a card a decade ago. Bäckereifachverkäuferin asked me with a TONE if I was joking. I remember being shocked, also because the guy in the line offered to buy bread for me.

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