Blacklane
Series G in 2024
Blacklane GmbH, established in 2011, specializes in professional ground transportation services. The company offers a range of classes, from economy to first class, including business vans/SUVs, catering to both individual and corporate clients. Services encompass airport transfers, limousine, and chauffeur services, bookable via their website and smartphone application. Blacklane operates in major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Paris, as well as internationally. Notably, the company emphasizes sustainability by providing carbon-neutral vehicles and offering hybrid or electric vehicle options. They ensure seamless travel experiences with real-time flight tracking, meet-and-greet services, and tailored solutions for business and event transportation.
Blacklane
Venture Round in 2021
Blacklane GmbH, established in 2011, specializes in professional ground transportation services. The company offers a range of classes, from economy to first class, including business vans/SUVs, catering to both individual and corporate clients. Services encompass airport transfers, limousine, and chauffeur services, bookable via their website and smartphone application. Blacklane operates in major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Paris, as well as internationally. Notably, the company emphasizes sustainability by providing carbon-neutral vehicles and offering hybrid or electric vehicle options. They ensure seamless travel experiences with real-time flight tracking, meet-and-greet services, and tailored solutions for business and event transportation.
Contentbird
Funding Round in 2018
Contentbird GmbH is a Berlin-based company that offers a cloud-based link management tool tailored for marketing teams, agencies, and online businesses in Germany and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2012 and originally named linkbird GmbH before rebranding in January 2018, Contentbird's platform integrates project management, customer relationship management, and search engine optimization functions. Its tools facilitate effective SEO link management, allowing users to analyze backlinks, monitor link building efforts, and manage budgets and employee performance. The platform supports project planning and provides real-time statistics and reporting, enabling companies to evaluate online marketing performance and return on investment. By enhancing digital visibility and streamlining content operations, Contentbird aids businesses in attracting and engaging customers through effective content strategies.
Mobile Event Guide
Seed Round in 2014
Mobile Event Guide GmbH, established in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, specializes in developing mobile applications tailored for event organizers in Germany. Their primary service involves creating custom apps that provide attendees with real-time information such as session schedules, speaker details, exhibitor listings, maps, and networking opportunities. The company enables organizers to update information dynamically, collect feedback, generate leads, and facilitate attendee engagement through interactive features like live voting. By digitizing event materials, Mobile Event Guide also helps reduce printing costs and environmental impact. As of June 15, 2016, the company operates as a subsidiary of esanum.
Barzahlen
Funding Round in 2014
Barzahlen is a bank-independent cash infrastructure that allows cash withdrawals and deposits at checkout via barcode. The company offers digital payment options with cash and revolutionizes traditional banking. They offer their customers the possibility of cash deposits and expanding their withdrawal network.
OrderBird
Series B in 2014
Orderbird AG is a Berlin-based company that specializes in providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the hospitality industry, particularly through its innovative iPad point of sale (POS) system. Established in 2011, Orderbird focuses on delivering an intuitive and customer-centric platform that enables service staff to wirelessly send orders to the kitchen or bar, enhancing operational efficiency. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of establishments, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, and ice cream shops across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Orderbird's POS system is designed to streamline business operations by tracking invoices, facilitating mobile ordering, enabling cashless payments, and providing real-time data analysis and accounting-ready reporting. This comprehensive approach helps independent restaurateurs and small to medium-sized businesses optimize their processes and increase sales, serving as a modern alternative to traditional, cumbersome legacy systems.
Crealytics
Series B in 2014
Crealytics is a performance marketing agency that specializes in the retail sector, focusing on digital advertising across platforms such as Google, Bing, Amazon, Pinterest, and Facebook. With a team of over 150 professionals, Crealytics challenges traditional assumptions in digital marketing by integrating marketing with merchandising and pricing strategies. This approach allows retailers to optimize their ad investments for maximum profitability and Customer Lifetime Value. The company's proprietary technology, supported by an in-house team of data scientists, automates the creation and optimization of customized advertisements, streamlining campaign management and enhancing strategic decision-making. Crealytics operates globally, delivering paid search campaigns in 150 markets and 20 languages, with offices located in London, New York, and Berlin.
Pflege.de
Series A in 2014
Pflege.de is a comprehensive provider of living and care solutions for the elderly, offering a range of options that include outpatient care, assisted living, senior flat shares, and inpatient care. The company operates a medical advisory platform that delivers guidance to individuals and families seeking elderly care services. In addition to its core offerings, Pflege.de provides valuable information and organizational support for caregivers, encompassing counseling, home modifications, lift system installations, maintenance services, and financial and legal advice. This multifaceted approach enables the company to address the diverse needs of elderly individuals, ensuring they receive quality care tailored to their physical, mental, and spiritual challenges.
Blacklane
Series B in 2013
Blacklane GmbH, established in 2011, specializes in professional ground transportation services. The company offers a range of classes, from economy to first class, including business vans/SUVs, catering to both individual and corporate clients. Services encompass airport transfers, limousine, and chauffeur services, bookable via their website and smartphone application. Blacklane operates in major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Paris, as well as internationally. Notably, the company emphasizes sustainability by providing carbon-neutral vehicles and offering hybrid or electric vehicle options. They ensure seamless travel experiences with real-time flight tracking, meet-and-greet services, and tailored solutions for business and event transportation.
Crossvertise
Funding Round in 2013
Crossvertise GmbH is a Munich-based company that operates a cross-media booking platform designed for agencies and advertisers. Founded in 2011, the platform provides comprehensive information about the advertising industry, allowing users to compare and book a wide range of advertising media directly online. Crossvertise offers services in various advertising formats, including direct marketing, billboards, outdoor, radio, print, online, movie theater, mobile, and television. Additionally, the company provides consultancy services to support advertising campaigns, enabling clients to manage their advertising operations conveniently and transparently.
Blacklane
Series A in 2013
Blacklane GmbH, established in 2011, specializes in professional ground transportation services. The company offers a range of classes, from economy to first class, including business vans/SUVs, catering to both individual and corporate clients. Services encompass airport transfers, limousine, and chauffeur services, bookable via their website and smartphone application. Blacklane operates in major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Paris, as well as internationally. Notably, the company emphasizes sustainability by providing carbon-neutral vehicles and offering hybrid or electric vehicle options. They ensure seamless travel experiences with real-time flight tracking, meet-and-greet services, and tailored solutions for business and event transportation.
Blacklane
Seed Round in 2012
Blacklane GmbH, established in 2011, specializes in professional ground transportation services. The company offers a range of classes, from economy to first class, including business vans/SUVs, catering to both individual and corporate clients. Services encompass airport transfers, limousine, and chauffeur services, bookable via their website and smartphone application. Blacklane operates in major cities like New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Paris, as well as internationally. Notably, the company emphasizes sustainability by providing carbon-neutral vehicles and offering hybrid or electric vehicle options. They ensure seamless travel experiences with real-time flight tracking, meet-and-greet services, and tailored solutions for business and event transportation.
88tc88
Venture Round in 2012
88 is a web-based service that enables music, games and apps to access the explosive Chinese marketplace. China is the biggest mobile phone market globally with more than 1 billion subscribers. Only 2% of revenues are generated by Western media given lack of content made available to the Chinese Market. 88 is uniquely situated to arrange official approval by Chinese authorities for the content to be released and monetized in the marketplace.88 established platform contracts with the biggest mobile operators (China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile). 88 offers access to the biggest Chinese Internet portals for promotion of the content as a value-added service. Intelligent automated IT solutions makes the 88 business model highly scalable. 88’s existing university translator network in China is scalable through social network approach. The 88 Management team assembles significant experience in the Music, Games and IT business.
OrderBird
Series A in 2012
Orderbird AG is a Berlin-based company that specializes in providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the hospitality industry, particularly through its innovative iPad point of sale (POS) system. Established in 2011, Orderbird focuses on delivering an intuitive and customer-centric platform that enables service staff to wirelessly send orders to the kitchen or bar, enhancing operational efficiency. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of establishments, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, and ice cream shops across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Orderbird's POS system is designed to streamline business operations by tracking invoices, facilitating mobile ordering, enabling cashless payments, and providing real-time data analysis and accounting-ready reporting. This comprehensive approach helps independent restaurateurs and small to medium-sized businesses optimize their processes and increase sales, serving as a modern alternative to traditional, cumbersome legacy systems.