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| 19.06.2025 | First-ever Entrepreneurship Advisor Appointed by UK Gov | UK entrepreneurs are to benefit from a ‘direct line’ to the UK Government following the appointment of Alex Depledge, MBE, as the Treasury’s first entrepreneurship adviser.
Over the coming months, Depledge will advise the Chancellor on the ... |
| 17.05.2025 | Austria's Startup Surge: A New Era of Innovation and Inclusion | Austria is emerging as a vibrant hub for startups. The country is not just a picturesque landscape; it’s a fertile ground for innovation. With a rich history of creativity and a commitment to fostering new ideas, Austria is becoming a beaco... |
| 13.05.2025 | Auf diese Startups setzt Ventech in Deutschland | Der französische Frühphasen-Investor Ventech, 1998 gegründet, investiert bereits seit über zehn Jahren in der DACH-Region in aufstrebende Startups. Zuletzt legte das deutsch-französische Team rund um Jean Bourcereau, Christian Claussen, Cla... |
| 27.03.2025 | How to get your home cleaned like a luxury hotel room | Listen
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| 25.10.2024 | The Rise of Sustainable Solutions: A New Era for Packaging and Technology | In a world increasingly aware of its environmental footprint, the packaging industry stands at a crossroads. New regulations are pushing companies to rethink their strategies. Enter Recyda, a startup that has just secured €6.3 million in Se... |
| 24.10.2024 | Recyda raises €6.3M Series A for packing management platform | Recyda has secured €6.3M in funding from Cusp Capital as lead investor, a prominent venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in European technology companies.
Pressured by new legislative mandates, the packaging industry face... |
| 04.09.2024 | The Threat of AI Bias Understanding the Implications and Mitigating the Risks | Share
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Over the last few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated extraordinary ability in assessing and forecasting data patterns across a wide range of modalities: Incredible power, but a hazardous one... |
| 03.08.2017 | Helpling Receives Investment from Unilever Ventures | Helpling, a Berlin, Germany-based marketplace for booking household services like home cleaning, secured an investment from Unilever Ventures.
The investment of Unilever Ventures follows multiple strategic partnerships between Unilever and ... |
| 02.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, Aug. 2 | ET CETERA
OUT: Irene Rosenfeld will step down as CEO of Mondelez International in March, Fortune’s Beth Kowitt reports. Dirk Van de Put, currently the president and CEO of Mondelez-owned McCain Foods will take over.
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| 01.08.2017 | Helpling, Rocket Internet’s home services company, picks up investment from Unilever Ventures | Helpling, the Rocket Internet-founded company that lets you book a range of home services online, has raised further funding. This time around, the undisclosed backing — which I understand to be “several million” Euros — comes from Unilever... |
| 16.03.2017 | Helpling, Rocket Internet’s home services company, raises further €10M as on-demand space cools | Helpling, the Rocket Internet-founded company that lets you book a range of home services online, is disclosing €10 million in new funding. The round was led by Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG), the joint venture between Rocket Internet... |
| 16.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 16 | THE CRAFT BEER BATTLE MOVES TO CHINA
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| 16.03.2017 | Rocket-backed Helpling raises $10.7m led by Singapore’s APACIG | Premium
On-demand cleaning services platform Helpling has raised nearly $10.7 million (S$15 million) from existing investors, led by Singapore-based Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG), a start-up incubator established jointly by Rocket In... |
| 16.03.2017 | Helpling Secures €10M in Additional Funding | Helpling, a Berlin, Germany-based marketplace for booking household services online, raised €10m in funding.
The round was led by APACIG, with participation from existing investors (which include Rocket Internet, Mangrove Capital, Lakestar,... |
| 16.03.2017 | Helpling secures additional funding of €10M to expand by offering additional household services | Helpling, a leading European marketplace for booking household services online, has today announced that it has secured €10 million additional investment from existing investors, led by APACIG. The fresh capital will be used to expand the H... |
| 17.01.2017 | Rocket Internet’s Helpling moves beyond cleaning to offer additional home services | “We are in this for decades; it’s just the beginning of home services coming online,” Helpling co-founder Benedikt Franke told me during an interview all the way back in March 2015.
At the time, the Rocket Internet-founded company operated ... |
| 08.12.2015 | Hassle Founder Alex Depledge Talks About Freeing The EU Market And Changing Parental Leave Policy | Alex Depledge is many things – startup founder, mentor to women in tech, an advocate for a free and open market across Europe, and a trailblazer in the U.K tech scene. Her home cleaning platform Hassle recently merged with Rocket Internet’s... |
| 01.10.2015 | Rocket Internet-backed Helpling lays off 20% of staff just three months after acquiring Hassle | Helpling, the on-demand cleaner marketplace backed by Rocket Internet and more than 60 million euros in venture capital, has laid off 20% of its workforce just three months after acquiring UK-based Hassle for €32 million, reports Gründersze... |
| 06.07.2015 | Helpling Acquires Hassle.com | Helpling, the Berlin-based online platform for on-demand home services, acquired Hassle.com, a London, UK-based online marketplace that connects people with local cleaners.
The transaction reportedly amounted to €32m in an all-stock deal.
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| 02.07.2015 | On-Demand Cleaning Startup Hassle Merges With Rocket Internet’s Helpling | The on-demand cleaning space in Europe just got a little less messy. According to multiple sources, the U.K.’s Hassle.com, which also operates in Ireland and France, has been acquired by Rocket Internet’s Helpling. Both companies declined t... |
| 12.05.2015 | Ben Nowlan – co-founder of Sherpa | website twitter facebook
Ben is an energetic, driven and methodical sales and marketing professional. A proven leader with entrepreneurial talent and a track record for getting results, Ben’s experience ranges from management consulting to ... |
| 27.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/27/15 | Accel Partners, Falcon Social, Augmented Pixels, Socratic, iAngels, Realm, Hedvig, ZipMatch, Skycure
(Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylo... |
| 26.03.2015 | Helpling Raises €43M in Series B Funding | Helpling, a Berlin, Germany-based global platform for on-demand home services, secured €43M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Lakestar, Kite Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, Lukasz Gadowski and Rocket Internet.
With the €13,5M S... |
| 25.03.2015 | Rocket Internet’s Helpling Mops Up Another $45M For Its On-Demand Home Cleaning Service | Just four months after raising a $17 million Series A, Helpling has mopped up further investment. The Rocket Internet on-demand home cleaning startup has closed a $45 million Series B round led by Lakestar, Kite Ventures, Lukasz Gadowski an... |
| 05.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/5/14 | Stripe, 4th Office, Eternal Sun, ad2games, Glide, Nestio, Lesson.ly, MarketInvoice, Weaveworks, QLL
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Real-time real estate platform Nestio raised a $1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital with participation from RiverP... |
| 03.12.2014 | Helpling Raises $17M in Funding | Helpling, a Berlin, Germany-based online platform for on-demand home services, secured USD17M in Series A funding.
Backers included Mangrove Capital Partners, Phenomen Ventures, as well as Point Nine Capital and Lukasz Gadowski.
The company... |
| 02.12.2014 | Rocket Internet’s marketplace for on-demand cleaning, Helpling, raises $17 million | I’ve barely published my interview with cleaner marketplace Hassle.com CEO Alex Depledge, and out comes Rocket Internet-backed Homejoy clone Helpling with a news announcement.
The Berlin-based venture, which like the two aforementioned comp... |
| 02.12.2014 | Rocket Internet’s Helpling Mops Up $17M For Its Cleaners-On-Demand Service | Helpling, the Rocket Internet-backed cleaners-on-demand service, has tidied in a nice little sum of its own after announcing $17 million in fresh funding. Investors in this Series A round include Mangrove Capital, Phenomen Ventures, Point N... |
| 03.11.2014 | Serial entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski invests in Helpling | Helpling, an online platform for booking local cleaners – basically a clone of Homejoy, today announced an investment from serial entrepreneur and investor Lukasz Gadowski. According to one of our Berlin-based sources, Lukasz Gadowski inves... |
