Top 35 Local Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023

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• Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
• Tandem — Tandem is the app that connects language learners around the globe. Ten million members are currently using the platform, which enables individuals to connect and learn new languages via text, audio, and video chat. More than 300 languages are currently available, including fictional and sign languages. Tandem was founded by Arnd Aschentrup,Tobias Dickmeis, and Dr. Matthias Kleimann. The company is backed by prominent European investors such as Brighteye Ventures, GPS Ventures, Hannover Beteiligungsfonds, Rubylight Limited, Trind Ventures and Atlantic Labs.  Tandem is available for free on iOS, Android, and the Web. Find out more at www.tandem.net.Tandem was founded in 2015 by Arnd Aschentrup, Tobias Dickmeis, and Matthias Kleimann and was listed by Apple in their "App Store Best of 2015" and by Google in their "Play Store Best of 2017."
• Peerby — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.

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• nuwo — Workplace as-a-Service. nuwo is the #1 platform 
for financing, equipping 
and managing hybrid 
workspaces
• MERSOR — MERSOR is an online marketplace for stylish and pre-curated gifts with a unique and innovative customer experience. We aim to make gifting easy, fast and fun again by not only providing the perfect gift but also assisting the customers in their overall gift management.
• Wonnda — Wonnda is the digital infrastructure where buyers and suppliers collaboratively build the consumer products of tomorrow

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• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
• Vivacity Labs — VivaCity's AI solution provides detailed and anonymous data insights to help optimise transport networks, improve urban infrastructure efficiency & save lives.

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• EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
• Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
• Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
• NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

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• Cola — As the world’s first Messaging OS, Cola introduces interactive “Cola Bubbles” directly into the messaging stream, designed to make texting more convenient and give users access to the full functionality of their smartphone without ever leaving the conversation. Cola also serves as a platform for developers to create their own Cola Bubbles, bringingnew interactive experiences into text conversations and extending the functionality of existing products into Cola. You can do with one Cola Bubble what would usually take 10 or even 100 texts. Cola combines the ease and immediacy of texting, with the precision and interactivity of an app.Cola is led by a team of Silicon Valley veterans who have worked on some of the world’s most recognized tech products, such as the iMac, iPhone, Photoshop, and Nest, joining to advance texting beyond simple text, links, and pictures.
• Poshtel —
• Golf Post AG —

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• Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
• Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

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• GitStart — YC backed tech startup which helps teams scale engineering velocity through its unique Pull Requests as a Service platform and delivers world class code quality so customers can ship faster.
• Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
• Locket Labs — Locket Labs is a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens.

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• Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
• Morphais VC —

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• Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.
• HoloBuilder — HoloBuilder, Inc., a FARO Technologies company, is a US-based construction technology company that designs, develops, and sells enterprise SaaS software. Dubbed “Street View for Construction”, HoloBuilder™ is an enterprise-ready Construction Progress Management platform that allows construction teams to easily capture, communicate, and controlproject progress with 360° photos. Users can navigate their way through the entire construction project to view, annotate and collaborate. HoloBuilder is trusted by over 28,000 construction projects with customers in 35 countries, enabling general contractors, owners, and engineering firms to improve hundreds of processes, allowing them to stay on schedule and within budget.
• Orcan Energy — Orcan Energy is the leader in waste heat recovery technology.Orcan Energy GmbH was founded in 2008, as a spin-out from the Technical University of Munich (“TUM”). Orcan’s ePack offers a compact, service-reduced and cost- efficient “plug-and-play” waste heat power generator based on ORC-Technology. Spe- cific patented innovations enable Orcan topopularize the technology on the mass mar- ket. At the beginning of 2013, Orcan gained sponsorships from the Exist-Research- Transfer-Aid of the Federal Government of Germany and additional grants from the “Wissensfabrik” and various resources from the TUM.

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• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.

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• Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
• charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
• Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

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• Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

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• Roo — The premier veterinary relief services platform, Roo, pairs freelance veterinarians and technicians with animal hospitals in need of relief.
• StoryCo — Story DAO platform enlists Hollywood creators to engage, solve, build, create, and co-own IP universes using blockchain.
• Harmonic.ai — All in one platform with billions of datapoints on startups, talent, and trends updated daily. Start saving up to 10 hours a week per user with Harmonic today.

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• Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
• Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
• Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• LoanLink24 Mortgage — LoanLink24 is Germany's online mortgage broker that transforms the traditional process of getting home loans and helps expats get the best rate in buying property in Germany.

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• PROSION — PROSION Therapeutics is a drug development company that utilises cutting-edge technology to unlock so far undruggable targets and address highly unmet medical needs.
• EnduroSat — EnduroSat designs, builds and operates class-leading NanoSats for a range of commercial, exploration and science missions. We focus on inter-satellite connectivity and space data applications
• Leko Labs — LEKO LABS is accelerating the global transition to carbon negative construction with building materials powered by AI optimisation and robotic manufacturing.

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• Zealy — A simple, fun & creative way to join trendy communities, make an impact and earn rewards.
• Genialis — Genialis is a precision medicine data science company focused on new ways to treat disease. Blending computational biology and AI-based methods, Genialis merges and models data at the intersection of clinical and translational medicine and drug discovery. Genialis is trusted by biopharma and big pharma alike, to validate targets, predict biomarkersand optimally position novel drugs. Together, Genialis and its partners are bringing improved solutions to drug discovery to change people's lives.
• Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.

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• Resmio — Resmio brings the whole restaurant customer journey online, with one easy-to-use software. Resmio provides a free online reservation tool to directly acquire guests via their own website and empowers restaurants on everything that comes next in the customer journey - from acquiring new guests, managing dining experience and reputation todata-driven guest retention.
• WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

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• VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
• handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
• DoxyChain — End-to-end encrypted document management on blockchain. Store, share, sign or certify anything.

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• Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
• Luxodo — Luxodo GmbH operates luxury shopping platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.

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• Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
• LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
• ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.

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• Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick-and-pack automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
• Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
• Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

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• Impossible Cloud — Qubit9 is the future of the cloud. A future where cloud services are always available to everyone anywhere in the world, at a fraction of the cost.
• CarbonCloud — CarbonCloud, the Climate Intelligence Platform, enables the food industry to calculate & manage carbon footprints throughout the supply chain
• Impossible Cloud — Impossible Cloud is the first decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud platform that utilizes web3 technology to offer businesses faster, cheaper, and more secure multi-service cloud solutions at a fraction of the cost compared to hyperscalers and on-premises private clouds. Its comprehensive suite of services is backed by a fiat-based payment systemand business model catering to B2B customers, without the need to transact with tokens or cryptocurrency. ​​ ​Impossible Cloud’s decentralized architecture is designed for 100% durability and availability, and supports an almost unlimited capacity of storage with no hidden costs. Additionally, it can provide access to a global network of enterprise-grade storage hubs, enabling reliable performance and efficiency near the customer’s edge.

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• Protonet — Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform that integrates your communications, files, and project management tasks in a single place.
• smartQED — smartQED is a visual workspace for efficient collaborative investigations and root cause analysis. It has integrated learning and recommendations for higher productivity. Schedule a demo to see how smartQED can help you: email demo@smartqed.com.
• Rodos BioTarget — Rodos BioTarget (RBT) is a biopharmaceutical company developing a targeted drug delivery platform. RBT’s patented TargoSphere® technology enables carrying a broad range of active agents selectively into the center of the immune response - i.e., directly into antigen-presenting cells.RBT currently applies its TargoSphere® technology successfullyin various models of infectious diseases caused by viruses like HCV/ Hepatitis C and HIV/ AIDS and by bacteria like in Tuberculosis, Legionellosis, and MRSA. Yet, any disorder that goes along with either overshooting or insufficient immunity caused by antigen-presenting cells - like chronic inflammations, cancers, allergies, and autoimmune diseases - may be addressed by RBT’s TargoSphere® technology.

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• Hrmony — Hrmony introduces a highly innovative, digital and disruptive Platform to a traditional and antiquated yet global operating industry. The traditional tax-subsidized meal voucher market. Hrmony aims to replace the existing insufficient and technologically outdated solutions with a revolutionary and digital business model. With its Omni-Channelapproach, Hrmony enables employees to redeem vouchers for any food related item at any venue, giving them 100% acceptance across whole Europe. Hrmony is also the first to achieve a 100% tax and law compliant solution to ensure meal vouchers are only used in their originally intended way as a subsidization for food.
• Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

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• lingoking GmbH — lingoking was founded in 2008 in Munich and is the first universal online marketplace for language services. lingoking connects clients with a professional translator or interpreter in a matter of minutes – anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.When this new company arrived on the market, it hit the ground running. Each year lingokingtranslates more than 9 million words, interprets more than 6,000 hours on-site and more than 9,500 minutes on the telephone for more than 4,400 clients from around the globe. To achieve this, it relies on more than 5,100 registered translators and interpreters in more than 840 town and cities worldwide.lingoking offers a broad range of language services via all conceivable communication channels, both to business customers and private individuals alike: from the translation of apps, websites, contracts and novels, to spontaneous interpreting on phone calls, sworn interpreting in court, or interpreting at training courses, trade fairs and corporate events.

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• Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
• Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
• The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

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• Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
• Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
• Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.

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• SureIn — small business insurance manager
• Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.

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• Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
• kaufDA — kaufDA is a German site for local search and local promotion search. The company enables users to look for the best local sales online, search brochures of local retailers and find stores near them.
• Freshnails — Freshnails provides a concept for beauty lounges and offers its customers professional beauty treatments in an exclusive ambience.

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• Dataminr — Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
• Auctionata — Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvencyproceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• Scarosso — Scarosso breaks the traditional models of distribution and defines a new category of luxury. The uncompromising, high quality, Italian handcrafted shoes and accessories from Scarosso are offered at unrivalled low prices - ready to wear, bespoke and customized designs.
• Vimecon — Vimecon develops and produces laser catheters for the treatment of heart diseases with a focus on atrial fibrillation. It also manufactures products for the medical technology and biotechnology; and offers microscopically small catheters, as well as micro materials handling techniques for exact measurement and dosage. Moreover, Vimecon advisesvarious customers from the scholar and industrial research and development. Kai U. Markus founded it in 2005, with its headquarters in Herzogenrath in Germany.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
• OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
• Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.