– Ralf Wenzel Wenzel founded a delivery service with Foodpanda back in 2012. – (Photo: Softbank) – – – – New York Finding small warehouses in the heart of New York has never been easier. The city is badly hit after the pandemic, every third retailer and every third restaurant did not survive the crisis. … Read more
Düsseldorf It was last September when an almost gigantic collision occurred far overhead. The International Space Station (ISS) narrowly avoided a piece of space debris. As a precaution, the astronauts on board had already moved to the rear, Russian part of the station in order to avoid being hit directly in the event of an … Read more
Famedly founders Niklas Zender and Phillipp Kurtz (Photo: company) – – – Berlin When Famedly founder Phillipp Kurtz completed a practical year in a hospital while studying medicine, a thought occurred to him that continues to drive him to this day. He had to look for fax paper in the ward in order to receive … Read more
Electric car of the future Companies around the world are researching how to improve battery performance. – (Foto: Cultura/Getty Images) – – – – Düsseldorf Sila Nanotechnologies, Solid Power or Quantumscape – battery start-ups are currently experiencing a real hype. A small announcement is enough and the price skyrockets. Her specialty: the development of more powerful, … Read more
Retire calmly with your own house In the US, seniors can sell their house to a bank for a pension and stay in it. That is also possible here on land. However, the future of such models in Germany is uncertain Jeanne Luise Calment was 90 years old when she sold her house. Instead of … Read more
San Francisco, Düsseldorf The German start-up and venture capital scene (VC) moved into the clubhouse within a few hours at the weekend. The app of a startup from San Francisco offers a social audio platform on which people can discuss live in so-called rooms – a mixture of radio talk show and Twitter-Discussion. Investors like … Read more
Start-up Young tech companies fail less often in Europe than in the USA. – (Photo: plainpicture / Mascot) – – – – Düsseldorf International venture investors are increasingly interested in young European technology companies – for good reason: The start-ups are now more attractive to investors than US start-ups. This is shown by a data … Read more
The change in the WhatsApp terms of use is apparently not without consequences. Messenger competitors such as Signal or Threema are reporting a real rush of users. During these days, a pop-up on WhatsApp with an update of the terms of use and data protection guideline caused a lot of conversation: users must have approved … Read more
Katrin Alberding and Clemens Raemy The founders of Kenbi operate six outpatient care services with a total of 85 nurses and around 400 patients who are cared for using their own app. Foto: Kenbi – – – – – Berlin Kenbi founder Clemens Raemy was working on a project in South America when his grandmother … Read more
– Isar Aerospace The rocket manufacturer Isar Aerospace has collected a further 75 million euros from investors and sees it as “the first launch of a German launcher” secured. Photo: – / Isar Aerospace / dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – The company announced on Wednesday in Munich that there were already customer … Read more