Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round It’s the darling of “sharing economy” startups, Y Combinator and a good portion of Silicon Valley’s top investors, and a symbol of consumer web startups moving beyond entertainment to solve real life problems. Now we’re hearing short-term...

For the boot-strapping founders out there, the idea of paying nearly $500 to join a fancy-pants, exclusive club of entrepreneurs may sound a bit antithetical to customer-first, lean-startup ethics. Credit card benefits, miles, and Gilt will do just fine. For others, a membership program that...

The German online tutoring platform, Sofatutor.com, has raised a new round led by Acton Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors J.C.M.B. Beteiligungs GmbH and “VC Fonds Kreativwirtschaft Berlin” (managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft). The size of this new round...

a couple of swedish startups are active in Berlin (Soundcloud, Readmill eg) keep...

There seems to be an endless supply of startups in the social recruitment space right now. The premise being that friends of existing employees make the best potential job candidates. And so it is that another offering outs its social recruitment wares: Today sees the launch of...