Recent articles by Lars-Thorben Niggehoff

News
Prominent business angels support Forget Finance
Berlin-based fintech Forget Finance has raised €700,000 from various business angels. This was reported exclusively by FinanceFWD. The app, which the company plans to launch soon, creates an individual financial plan...

Reports
The tanker is being refloated
Until now, the shipping industry has had a hard time with digitalization. But now both large shipowners and small start-ups have realized that something has to change. There are plenty of starting points.

News
Hellofresh reports doubled sales and profit in the millions
The cooking box mail order company Hellofresh has presented its business figures for the past year. Unsurprisingly, the company benefited from the Corona pandemic and presented a strong result.

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Crisp comes to Germany
The Dutch online supermarket Crisp is coming to Germany soon. This is reported by the Handelsblatt. Crisp has raised €30 million in capital for the new expansion. The round is led by Berlin-based venture capitalist...

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Daimler investment Blacklane launches new chauffeur service
The chauffeur start-up Blacklane is launching an attack on its big competitors Uber and Lyft. The Berlin-based company plans to launch its own service in 20 cities in eleven countries this month, according to reports...

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New investor for Think RE
The Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) invests in Think RE. With the money, the start-up based in Wurzen, near Leipzig, wants to use it to advance its own RE Wave platform, through which companies and providers of...

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Teamviewer buys AR start-up Upskill
Teamviewer, a software company based in Göppingen near Stuttgart, has announced another acquisition. After acquiring Bremen-based start-up Ubimax in the fall, the company is now also taking over US augmented reality...

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Management consultancy PwC joins Berlin-based data start-up
Berlin-based start-up Statice has a new shareholder. The German branch of management consultancy PwC is taking over 50 percent of the company, which specializes in anonymizing data records. Nothing was initially...

Interviews
"Investors lack expertise"
Invest a small sum in a start-up and perhaps profit from the next Google or Facebook: This is what users of crowdinvesting platforms dream of. 100 million euros have flowed into this form of financing in Germany alone...

Reports
Quite modern
More and more start-ups are competing with lawyers when it comes to simple legal services. Providers like Flightright are having great success with this. But some business models are also controversial.
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