Berlin Startup News & Community Success

Berlin Startup News & Success Stories

Discover Berlin startup news, investment updates, product launches, and community successes. Read the latest from the heart of Berlin’s ecosystem.

Jut-so Highlighted in Tagesspiegel

Vyking Presents Their Magic Mirror

Community Member Launches Platform to Improve Remote Work

Accountable Releases Free AI Tool

The Hill App Selected for the 1000 Black Voices Accelerator

Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences Receives €9.3M in Funding

MotionLab Berlin Launches Funded Accelerator Program

Kave Bulambo Wins Digital Revolution Award

Sanni Est Receives Artist of the Year Award

Secfix Raises €3.6M Seed Round

Snuggs Raises $5M

Vikyng Powers the Try-On Shoe Experience with AR

Sdui Raises €25M in Series A Extension

Slay Raises $2.6M

Home Grown Community Startup Clay Is Acquired by Wyblo

Stealth Mode Alumni Sādu Participates in NYC's ERA Program

Tom Àdam New Collaboration with Monocle

Highest MBB Funding Amount for a Game Goes to Torpor Games

Popcore Gets Acquired by Take Two

Ostrom Featured on Sifted's ‘13 German Startups to Watch According to VCs’.

Torpor Games Releases Suzerain on Phones and Tablets

Active Giving Nominated for a Gründer des Jahres Awards

Fairy Tales Retold: Turning Old, Outdated Fairy Tales Into Empowering Stories

WAANDA Selected for Meet Africa 2

Buddywise Raises €1.2M Pre-Seed

Mietz Just Raised €1M Pre-Seed

Crocs Integrates Vyking's AR Try-On Tech On Their App.

Orderchamp Interview in Startup Valley

Lucidminds' Dataville is Netherlands RVO's Human-Centric Ai Program Winner

Stealth Mode Alumna Raises Funds for SageWealth

Women Authors of Achievement Launch Newsletter Spotlighting Women Changemakers

Startup Team Aivy Successfully Closes Funding Round

Footprint Technologies Secures Funding

Member Launches Online Store Dedicated to Ukrainian Fashion Brands

Entrepreneur First Has Raised $158M in a Series C Round

Community Member Films Now Available on Amazon Prime Video

TextCortex Raises $1.2 Million Pre-Seed

Cirplus Awarded in the Category Startup at Greentech Festival

Twelve x Twelve on Forbes DA for their work with rapper Haftbefehl to unlock web3 to musicians

Community Member Mina Saidze Featured in ZDF Documentary

Getquin announce $15M series A funding

Superjoi closes $2.5M pre-seed funding round to empower fans to fund creators

Bling secures investment from La Famiglia VC

Aivy present their app on "Die Höhle der Löwen"

Feather has received €3.8M in funding

Portrait XO featured on Arte.tv

Plan A wins 'Startup of the Year' award

Orderchamp opens its first own distribution centre

Bolt on Startup Insider podcast

Community startup Footprint Technologies in Stern Magazin

Deed closes Series A with $10M

EF Cohort Startups in the news

DropStar wins 'German Blockchain Startup of the year 2021'

Kağan Sümer [CEO & Co-Founder of Gorillas] on OMR Watchlist

ESMT #1 Business School in Germany, #7 in Europe

Member and Miami Ad School alum wins on Shark Tank Georgia with startup, TasteIt

Mindsurance partner with not less but better

Community startup Beams.FM closed $6M Seed Round

Founderland is funded by Google.org

Siemens Mobility partners with teech education

Kleiderly featured in manager magazin

Factory Berlin alumni Y42 raises 30 Million

Community startup Gorillas raises about $1BN to continue on its rapid growth path

Enapter win the ‘Fix Our Climate’ Earthshot prize

Greetech Startup Plan A wins „The Europas Awards 2021"

Stealth Mode startup Mentessa joins the 6th edition of Kickstart program

Flow Neuroscience secure $9m investment

Torpor Games wins an innovation prize

AiSight expands to Spain with Henkel

Community startup Gitti has completed a financing round of €6.9million

Gorillas listed as one of WIRED UK's hottest Berlin startups.

Next Big Thing closes €19million Series B.

Startup Bolt has raised $713 million in fresh funding.

Kleiderly featured in Vogue Italia

Community Startup Active Giving plants over 650k trees in first year

Audi Denkwerkstatt develops an app to help you track your Carbon Footprint.

Blair, founded by a Code student gets funding and joins Y Combinator.

Nota Inc joins NVIDIA Metropolis Partnership.

ROY Kombucha & Gorillas collaborate on a limited edition kombucha flavor

Gorillas ROY Kombucha limited edition can

New Balance partner with Vyking for online try-on experience

Cannovum is listed on the Stock Market.

6.1 Million for Community Member Vly

Kleiderly has been verified by Impact Forecast, commissioned by EU's Climate-KIC.

Founder Focus with Alina Bassi [Kleiderly]

Startsteps & SumUp launch ReSkill Germany program

First organic brand of medical cannabis in Germany joins the community

Quin's CRO, Pisco, featured in Business Punk

Not less but better launch their iOS app

Y42 secures 2.9 Million seed funding!!!

The new startup Mateo closes pre-seed round

Community member Martin Schmidt launches HomeMealDeal App

Plan A raises $3M

Community Startup Cathago in the news

The Good Run launch their sustainable running gear shop

Factory Berlin member Martin Schmidt launches HomeMealDeal App

Tony Cruise, and Ania Catherine + Dejha Ti featured on Telekom Electronic Beats podcast with Whitney Wei

Community Member launches delivery startup Rio Local

Community startup Gorillas raises $290M and surpasses $1B valuation

Halbestunde raises over 500.000 Euro

Vly Foods selected as Wirtschafts Woche's startup of the week

Community startup Fanzone featured in Gründerszene

Community startup Footprint Technologies joins xdeck Sailors Batch

Community startup Carbon Mobile revealed the world’s first carbon fibre smartphone

Bolt receives €20m funding from the World Bank’s IFC

CODE Student Fabrice successfully plants 20k trees

Community startup accountable fully automates tax registration for freelancers

Startup Team Fanzone announces DFB as first major customer

Plan A raises $3M from SoftBank, Demeter and coparion

Founders Plan A Lubomila Jordanova Nathan Bonnisseau

Imperium Drive joins Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator

Artist in Residence alumni AiR Tabitha Swanson collaborates on Princess Nokia livestream

Factory Berlin partner NBT is named one of Germany's top three venture builders

Tabitha Swanson & Cibelle Cavalli Bastos featured in HighSnobiety's 'Berlin, Augmented Berlin' exhibition

Factory Berlin members launch Eternal Hand Knitwear

Member launches a website that tracks COVI-19 regulations across Germany

Footprint Technologies closes its seed round

Startup Feather voted as one of the best German InsurTech companies

Member-built RemNote launches on Product Hunt

Community startup Tomorrow's Education raises €1.1 million.

CODE University-based startup Superchat secured a seed funding round totalling €2.8 million

Community startup ROY Kumbucha announce their 2.0 brewery

Artist in Residence Cora Novoa featured in Ableton's 'One Thing' series

SaaS startup Bird Eats Bug raises €1.5m

Aitme + Sdui featured in Business Insider's Startup Watchlist

Stealth Mode Alumni Wonderpath accepted joins the first batch of Vision Lab by Earlybird

BEUMER Group invests in community startup Codept

PlanA win 'FinTech For Good' Challenge by Société Générale + 50inTech

Community startup Codept raises a strategic 8-digit investment from BEUMER Group

Vyking AR sneaker try-on tool integrated into the adidas app

Member project Joy Space launched from the Factory Berlin community

Xibit on the Deutsche Startups Watchlist

Members launch mobile bike repair marketplace, Reparando

Medloop: A Model For Preventative Care

Members Bolt raise €150m in Series C funding round

Neufund secure €4m funding led by Factory Berlin founder, Udo Schloemer

Gorillas close €40m in Series A funding

Minespider: Redefining The Supply Chain

Blockchain startup Zksystems raises millions

AISight partners with Fraunhofer on a research project

Phantasma Labs secures 7-figure funding

Studio Above&Below launch an XR sculpture influenced by air pollution

Berlin-based HR & legaltech twinwin raises €285K

Kleiderly recognised as one of the Meaningful Business 100 for 2020

Sdui Raises €25M in Series A Extension +++

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