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What Is This About? Berlin's startup ecosystem is usually told as a story about one family - the Samwers and Rocket Internet. It is only half the story. Alongside Rocket ran a second, parallel company-builder, Team Europe, and one of its quietest architec

July 2026 was the month Germanys VC market completed its structural rotation from software to hardware.

What Is This About? After a run of profiles on Berlin's speed-obsessed company-builders, this is the deliberate counterpoint: Ray Zinn, the American semiconductor founder who ran Micrel for 37 years, took no venture capital, stayed profitable for 36 of th

HappyRobot announced a $1.2B post-money valuation in August 2026. TUM calls it unicorn #23. It is a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Inside the four-address gap between where a company is formed and who ends up owning it.

GDPR rarely kills a German B2B deal - it stalls it. The three documents your buyer's data-protection function actually needs, why that function is under-resourced, and how to arrive already cleared.

TU Darmstadt-trained John Tu co-founded Kingston Technology, took zero venture capital, and shared $100M with staff after the SoftBank sale - Silicon Valley's most German company.

The German Mittelstand buys software through a risk-averse owner-manager who prizes continuity over speed. Here is how the process really works - and what foreign vendors must prepare to win the deal.

Celonis, Germany's process-mining decacorn, was last primary-priced at $13B (2022); a 2024 secondary implies $7.7B. Inside the category, the founders, full valuation history and the SAP antitrust fight.