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Issue #36 (23 Jan) – jobs & news, all cops are beautiful, consumer aesthetics and other amazing links from last week.
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Programming note: Shame on me: the poll from last week shows my last CV was way too long. Almost everyone would go for max 2 pages (more than half even for one page). In other news, I and Patron are still looking for my first Patron. 😅
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SLAY, a Berlin-based social media app (inspired by successful US-based Gas, which sold to Discord days ago), raised €2.5M. Careers.
Zasta, a Rostock-based Taxfix competitor, raised €60M in debt to be able to offer immediate 75% return to their customers. No careers page.
Flexcavo, a Berlin-based construction industry SaaS, was acquired by Trackunit. Careers.
Vialytics, a Stuttgart-based AI-based analytics for the road surface, raised €6.6M. Careers.
InPlanet, a DE/BRA-founded GreenTech carbon removal company, raised €1.2M pre-seed. Careers.
Sunmaxx, a Dresden-based solar panels play, raised €3.25M. Careers page missing.
Novak Djokovic, a famous tennis player and believer in the magic of the trampolines, invested in the fanciest water product I have ever seen, Vienna-based Waterdrop with a strong push in DACH. Careers.
Trade Republic, a Berlin-based stock broker app, tripled its revenues (🇩🇪) in 2021 (!) to almost €100M, but the aggressive growth had a price: a loss of €35M. Numbers for 2022 are still a secret. Trade Republic also recently started to offer 2% deposit interest, while N26 enabled cryptocurrency trading.
Valuation of Voi, a Swedish micromobility and scooter rental provider with a lot of flipped-over scooters in Berlin, dropped for 63% to $84M.
layoffs.fyi & other sources: Microsoft, Alphabet, Wayfair, Clue (1/4 out of 100). Tech is definitely in a recession. Meanwhile, in the UK, battery startup Britishvolt went belly-up. Solarisbank is under Bafin scrutiny (🇩🇪) and not allowed to onboard new corporate customers.
Personio on the other hand could be “profitable anytime” and is preparing for an IPO. (🇩🇪) Siemens Mobility is also doing well; they just received an order for 1200 locomotives from India.
r/berlin choice of the week: All cops are beautiful not getting much love and on why Berlin has no old city center.
Did you notice the fresh Wikipedia look? Not much different, but cool. Wikipedia turned 22 in January. Now imagine someone telling you: “Let’s make a website where users will write encyclopaedic articles for free! Trust me, it will work, they will to it.” What would you reply? “I am all in, let’s do it”? One of the top projects of humanity!
If you are interested in electricity prices in Berlin & Germany, here is a good overview (🇩🇪) from Morgenpost. I recently got smart plugs and realised that one plugged charger costs roughly a euro per year. Peanuts.
Until the 29th you can attend the Grüne Woche fair at Messe Berlin, one of the most famous fairs for food, agriculture and horticulture. It’s back after Corona hiatus.
The glory days of FREE GPT Chatbot are clearly over. Professional Plan is now available for $42/mo.
🇪🇺 Rest of Europe & UK (Top 5)
Aerones, a Riga-based wind turbine service company, raised $30M Series A. Careers.
Anyfin, Swedish personal finance optimisers, raised €30M Series C. Careers.
ClearSpace, a Swiss-based space trash removal company, raised roughly €27M Series A. Careers.
Photoneo, a Bratislava-based robotic vision company, raised a total of $40M in Series B. Careers.
Inbenta, a Spanish conversational AI startup, raised $40M. Careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
I never really heard of “consumer aesthetics” before. If you are ever looking for design inspirations or things that you like, here is the perfect website for you.
😅 Meanwhile
German Mud Wizard …khm… magicked? police to get stuck in the mud (footage here).
This is a footer 🧭 for you. Did you know that “the Northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the Southernmost part of Brazil?”
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