German kitchen buyers are probably not aware of it yet, but things are hotting up in the online kitchen market! Together with SevenVentures, i.e. ProSiebenSat.1, Küchen Quelle (English: “Kitchen Source”) (www.kuechen-quelle.de) is aiming to “safeguard and accelerate its growth trajectory”. The broadcaster recently obtained a 10% stake in Küchen Quelle. Kiveda (www.kiveda.de) is also currently penetrating the market. Read more »

Every day, here at deutsche-startups.com, we’re inundated with industry-related news of all kinds, including lots of investment reports. Unfortunately, we can’t share all the exciting investment and acquisition news with you in such great detail, but in this “New Deals” section, we aim to regularly give you the current cashflow news in brief. Today’s updates are about 7trends-Enamora, Numbrs, Shareifyoulike, Tanked and Namshi. Read more »

It sounds like a massive injection of millions: according to information obtained by deutsche-startups.com, Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) are investing in start-up Mister Spex (www.misterspex.de), which specializes in glasses. All of the existing shareholders – amongst them DN Capital and Xange – took part in the financing round, which was not annouced beforehand. Mister Spex most recently raised an impressive seven million euros in its second financing round. Read more »

Hamburg-based start-up RevenueMax (www.revenuemax.de), which was founded in the summer of 2010 by Kay Schneider and Thomas Promny, is on the verge of collapse. Back at the beginning of May, the Hamburg-based team had to take the difficult step of going to the local court and filing an application to open insolvency proceedings. Lawyer Jörn-H. Meyn has been named the preliminary insolvency administrator. Read more »

Countless new start-ups are created in Germany every day. Unfortunately, we are unable to present all of the new start-ups in depth. That’s why, every week, under the heading “5 new start-ups”, we give you a brief outline of new start-ups and Internet projects of all kinds. This time round, we introduce voivio.de, Yourfame, Cool Outlets, vintage-kids, and gooding.de Read more »

For In Their Own Words, deutsche-startups.com keeps its ear to the ground to bring you quotes from well-known people in the German and international start-up and Internet scene. This time, Nico Lumma, ex COO at Digital Pioneer and practically an institution in the internet scene due to his blog Lummaland, talks about copycats.

 “I can’t read about the debate any more. It’s part of the essence of markets that there are people who push ahead and develop new ideas, and there are people who take existing ideas and implement them in an optimized way. Read more »

Anyone who likes Andrea Berg, Helene Fischer or Beatrice Egli perhaps already knows of music site SchlagerPlanet (www.schlagerplanet.com). Six months after its launch, the subsidiary of Munich-based shobbits GmbH is now aiming to really take off thanks to a seven-digit investment sum. The millions come from Bayern Kapital, HR Alpha Venture Partners, Whitestone Communication Networks and several business angels. Read more »