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  CIUDADES BUENAS EN EUROPA: LONDRES  AMSTERDAM  PARÍS   BERLIN   ¿MADRID, BARCELONA?   Berlin is the fastest growing startup ecosystem globally, according to Compass who recently analyzed the global startup scene’s 20 most important startup locations   

Berlin’s Startup Success Stories Who are those founders and startups that make the news? Which products and                         

services developed in Berlin attract investment, grow globally, become the new                     

economy’s favourable brands, or create noticeable exits for their founders? 

Zalando: (@Zalando) Online distributor of fashion articles with 2.2 billion Euro annual                       

revenue and about 8.300 employees. Founded in 2008. Zealand has a range of                         

similar international businesses, including Dafiti in Brasil, Lamoda in Russia, Zando                     

in South Africa, and The Iconic in Australia. 

Rocket Internet: (@RocketBerlin) Startup incubator founded in 2007, focused on                   

building businesses based on internally successful business models. Active in more                     

than 100 countries predominantly in growth markets. Foodpanda, Lindico, eDarling,                   

Home24 and Zalando are some of their successful brands and businesses. IPO in                         

late 2014 

Soundcloud: (@SoundCloud) Online­music service to exchange and distribute audio                 

files with more than 10 million users. Founded 2007, Soundcloud named Technology                       

Pioneers 2013 by World Economic Forum and the founders won the Europioneer                       

Award from the European Commission. 

Sociomantic: (@sociomantic) Ad­tech company founded in 2009, bootstrapped               

without external funding to grow to 200 employees in over 20 locations globally.                         

Acquired by UK’s big data specialist Dunnhumby (owned by Tesco) for a few                         

hundred million Euro in 2014. 

6Wunderkinder: (@6Wunderkinder) Developed Wunderlist, a free tasks             

management SaaS tool. Founded in 2010. Recently acquired by Microsoft for an                       

undisclosed about between 100 and 200 million USD. 

Wooga: (@wooga) Developer of social games and mobile games played by 40                       

million users every month around the world on various platforms. Most popular                       

games include Jelly Splash, Pearl’s Peril, and Diamond Dash. Founded in 2009, now                         

250 employees from more than 40 countries. 

Team Europe: (@TeamEurope) Founded in 2008. Have created and operated                   

multiple successful internet companies including Lieferheld / Delivery Hero, Trivago,                   

and Amiando. The companies Team Europe has co­founded in the past four years                         

have created thousands of jobs. 

Babbel: (@babbel) Freemium language learning online platform, operated by Lesson                   

Nine founded in 2007. The app apparently is downloaded up to 120.000 times every                           

day and the business is profitable since 2011. Babel is growing 100% every year,                           

with now 350 employees in Berlin and New York. 

Onefootball: (@Onefootball) Founded 2008, with 20million downloads, Onefootball is                 

the world’s most popular online football platform. 60 employees located in Berlin.                       

They come from 25 countries. Watch this space, there are many hopeful candidates                         

positioning for the next big headline about large investment, product success or                       

successful exit. 

    

Who are the biggest and most important players in                 Berlin’s ecosystem? 9 out of Germany’s top 10 most important accelerators and incubators are located in                           

Berlin: 

● Axel Springer Plug & Play (@as–pnp) 

● hub:raum (@hubraumberlin) 

● Berlin Hardware Accelerator (@hardwaredotco) 

● You is Now (@YouIsNow) 

● Startupbootcamp (@Sbootcamp) 

● Microsoft Ventures (@MSFTVenturesDE) 

● ProSiebenSat.1 

● German Accelerator (@GAccelerator) 

● Seedcamp (@seedcamp) 

 

● Wilhelm Lappe Conferencias, cursos, eventos…  

● Misión comercial ICEX, adigital red.es a Berlin. Talk: Doing business in Berlin.                       

Madrid. speaker. Madrid. Noviembre 2015. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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