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German HR and recruiting platform Personio raises $40M Series B led by Index 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 17, 2019
Personio, the German HR and recruiting platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding. Leading the round is London-based Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Northzone and Rocket Internet’s Global Founders. Founded in 2015, Munich-based Personio has set out to build a “HR operating system” for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) ranging…
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5 Ways to Thrive as an Entrepreneur in 2019 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 17, 2019
Here’s how to gain momentum and get your business rolling.
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More companies want to pay off your student loan debt 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 16, 2019
By Danielle Paquette | The Washington Post Mike Schabel remembers eating peanut butter and tortillas to save money while he and his wife paid off about $100,000 in student loan debt. So when the chief executive of Kiswe, a video-streaming start-up, found himself trying to compete for recruits against technology giants such as Amazon and…
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BeMyEye acquires Streetbee, a Russian crowdsourcing and image recognition provider 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 16, 2019
London-headquartered BeMyEye has made another acquisition, its third in a little over three years. This time the retail execution monitoring service is purchasing Russian crowdsourcing and image recognition provider Streetbee. The acquisition will see BeMyEye launch “Perfect Shelf,” which will use image recognition technology to lower the cost for consumer goods companies wanting to get…
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The Creator of the Kombucha Category Says the Term 'Serial Entrepreneur' Makes Him Sick to His Stomach 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 16, 2019
GT Dave, who first bottled the fermented tea in 1995, has a message for business owners who are obsessed with profits.
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GBatteries let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 16, 2019
A YC startup called GBatteries has come out of stealth with a bold claim: they can recharge an electric car as quickly as it takes to fill up a tank of gas. Created by aerospace engineer Kostya Khomutov, electrical engineers Alex Tkachenko and Nick Sherstyuk, and CCO Tim Sherstyuk, the company is funded by the…
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