This is an example newsletter, sent to subscribers on the 12th of December.
👀 Handpicked 22
📨 readers submitted
🧞♂️ Outliers.
- Alte Försterei – Head-Greenkeeper/-in im Stadion „An der Alten Försterei“
- 📨 Amplitude – Senior Solutions Consultant, DACH
- Bosque Foods – Lead Food Innovation Scientist
- Leaders for Climate Action – Junior Community & Operations Manager
- Netflix – Manager, Creative Production
- Riot Games – Senior Public Relations Strategist, Esports
- Vara – Head of Finance & Operations
🎬 Projects & Product.
- Adyen – Project Operations Manager
- Aignostics – Scientific Project Manager
- N26 – Program Manager
- PPD – Country Approval Specialist
- Spryker – Senior/Lead Product Manager
- Vanilla Steel – Technical Product Manager
💾 Data & Operations.
- eyeo – Senior Data Scientist, Ads Innovation
- FactoryPal – Head of Sales
- Fresenius Medical Care – (Senior) Expert Data Governance
- HelloFresh – Growth Data Analyst
- Raisin – Bank Onboarding Manager
- sennder – Lead Generation Program Manager
- Siemens – Performance Controller
- Snowflake – Leadership Technical Recruiter
- Volta Trucks – Senior Operations Strategy Analyst – Data
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
🇩🇪 Berlin & Germany
- Tapline, Berlin-based revenue-based financing platform, raised €31.7M pre-seed, out of which €30M is in debt. Careers.
- Ostrom, Berlin-based green electricity provider, raised €9.3M. Careers.
- Customcells, Itzehoe/Tübingen-based lithium-ion battery Frauenhofer spin-off, raised €60M Series A. Careers.
- Parkdepot, Munich-based parking specialist, raised €15M Series A. Careers.
- Circus, Hamburg-based sustainable delivery/kitchen-hub startup, raised €11M. Careers.
- Getir finally acquired Gorillas for €1.2B. Let’s see who acquires Getir in 2 years. In the meantime, Flink Austria is insolvent (🇩🇪), broke, no more, ceased to be.
- Why does Trivago pay €8M for the Chelsea training kit and Teamviewer €46M for the match kit of Manchester United? Apparently, this channel is especially effective on social media. More on sponsoring on Business Insider. (🇩🇪)
- Tesla is struggling to hire enough people at their factory at Grünheide: here is an interesting discussion on Reddit. Based on the rumors the pay is not really good. It will be interesting what happens after the expansion, which just got approved. (🇩🇪) They plan to build a service & logistics center.
- If you ever wondered how much big tech is prepared to pay for your traffic data, you have your answer: $2 monthly (Amazon, for their Ad program).
- Don’t cancel your €29 ticket yet. It’s ‘repeat election’ time, and maybe we still get a special deal for AB zones in Berlin from January onwards. (🇩🇪)
- What are typical Berlin dishes? tipBerlin made an overview. (🇩🇪) I still need to try Tote Oma and some of the spirits.
- We will be able to binge-watch stuff from Paramount in DACH. Paramount+ is coming to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Another subscription for your hard-earned euros.
- The top online shops (🇩🇪) in Germany are 5. Ikea, 4. Zalando, 3. Mediamarkt, 2. Otto and 1. Amazon. Otto’s revenues are over 5B, while Amazon’s are above 15.5B. Phew.
- Hard to believe, but there is a judge that has so far always ruled in favour of landlords. (🇩🇪) Someone copy-pasted an article from Berliner Zeitung to Reddit, and the whole situation is weird. Do you believe in karma? I do.
- layoffs this week: Grover (40/10%).
- r/berlin choice of the week are bars with unusual activities. Kürbiskern Bar, for example, has magicians.
🇪🇺 Rest of Europe & UK (Top 5)
- Oda, Norwegian grocery delivery with big plans in Berlin, raised $151M on lowered valuation. Careers.
- Einride, Swedish autonomous freight mobility company, raised $500M. Careers.
- Nornorm, Copenhagen-based office subscription furniture startup, raised €110M. Careers.
- Curve, UK-based lending fintech, raised €1B credit facility. Careers.
- Mapiq, Dutch leading workplace experience platform, €17M Series A extension. Careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
It is gift season. So, how to buy great presents? Collecting a running list during the year sounds like a great tip. Also, “Can I introduce someone to something they might not otherwise know about? Can I get them a nicer version of something than they would buy for themselves? Or can I make them feel seen?”
😅 Meanwhile
Ryanair was cheeky with this tweet. Comments are also fun. After England lost, they did this.
This is a footer 🚃 for you. In Berlin, U1/U3 drives through an apartment building. Imagine landlord saying: “It is €1000 kalt, but you will get used to it.”