Berlin-based Delivery Hero, which went public this June, has posted impressive financials for the first half of 2017–putting it well on track to break even ahead of schedule. The company, who food…
Khosrowshahi vs London: Uber’s CEO Faces Biggest Challenge Yet
“There is a high cost to a bad reputation”: that was new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s response to his employees, as British capital London became the highest profile city to refuse to…
Hackerbay is Harnessing the Dark Arts – And It’s Winning
If you press the buzzer at Hackerbay’s Berlin office, no-one comes to the door. Instead, its team have built a custom door-answering machine, with cantilevered arm and camera, that can check you…
Samsung NEXT Choses Berlin over London – But British Capital to Follow Soon, Says MD
When Samsung NEXT announced that it would be setting up its European shop in the German capital city of Berlin, headlines focused instead on where it had chosen not to be. That…
Can SoundCloud Suddenly Find a Revenue Stream? Probably Not
Alex Ljung, SoundCloud’s embattled CEO, has struck an odd chord in recent days. The empire he built from scratch in 2008 is collapsing around him: Last week the Berlin-headquartered streaming service fired…
Delivery Hero and Deliveroo to Win Big in a Foodie Week for Tech
Last week it was Delivery Hero’s successful IPO, which has valued the Berlin company at over $5 billion. This week it’s the turn of London’s Deliveroo, whose Uber-like platform has whetted the…
Yesss! How Axel and Boris Aren’t Your Average German Tech Investors
According to Axel and Boris’ LinkedIn account (they share one), they are based in Berlin, Copenhagen, Liechtenstein, Stockholm and Monterrey. Neither are they merely entrepreneurs, but ‘visionaries’, keen to inject their particular…
CodeCheck Founders: “Our Biggest Challenge was Language”
CodeCheck is a Zurich-based startup that aims to streamline the shopping process, and better inform consumers about the contents of items such as food, household goods and cosmetics through verification by third…
Austria’s Tech Scene is Moving from an Emperor to Entrepreneur Mentality
A little over a hundred years ago, Vienna was known as the ‘Golden Apple’, the beautiful heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today it is still a city rich in culture and economically…
Heili CEO Weissmann: “At Some Point the Founders Need to Get Off the Stage”
Before Israeli entrepreneur Naor Weissmann founded cloud AI startup Heili, in April 2015, he was consulting other startups on their storage issues. The data industry had gone through a dramatic transition: where…