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Shell Ventures just invested a major amount into the Berlin-based startup InstaFreight. Shell Ventures is the venture capital provider of the petrol multinational Royal Dutch Shell. Beside capital Shell Ventures also provides support in expanding the digital offer to customers all around Europe. "We are insanly happy to have attracted such a renowned brand as Shell as investor and partner.…
We are happy to look back on a successful and inspiring fall semester 2019. We have met loads of new start-ups and inspiring people and were again able to put up many events in our regular event series and beyond to foster the start-up culture at the University of Mannheim and within the Rhine-Neckar-Region. As you can see a detailed…
Linearity, a Karlsruhe-based startup of Uni Mannheim student Vladimir Danila, just received a 5 Million Euro seed-funding. Venture capital provider involved was i.a. HV Holzbrinck Ventures, that is also a shareholder of Zalando and Flixmobility. Linearity is building the best next-generation graphic design tool for designers, artists and product managers. Their product Vectornator is a full-blown professional tool for designing…
Foodspring has a new owner: Just recently Mars Edge acquired shares to now hold a majority of the footbrand startup. Mars Edge is a subsidiary of the well-known multination Mars Inc. The price of the transaction was not made public but Foodspring already had some double digit funding in the past that only lead to minor shares. Foodspring will stay…
