Only months after their last financing round, the online gaming portal playnik from HHL-alumnus Malte Paul managed to secure additional funding. The new investors, Neuhaus Partners and T-Venture, provided fresh capital to foster the internationalization efforts of planik. Read more here and here and here.

Lecturio.de, the e-learning platform of HHL-alumni Tim Koschella and Martin Schlichte, has signed a new corporate partnership with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. By now, lecturio is offering lectures online from over 15 universities and institutions. Read more here. (German)

One of the panelists at this years IdeaLab! at WHU was HHL-alumnus Sven Schmidt. Find here a short video interview with Sven taken right after the panel (thanks Kolja). He mainly discusses the success factors behind the rise of pennergame.de, a platform that he and [...]

The travel plannnig portal verkehrsmittelvergleich, where HHL-alumnus Johannes Grassmann is a co-founder,closed a financing round with Seedfonds Aachen. The company intends to use the new inflow in the upper 6-digit area to foster its market penetration in Germany. Read more here and

Stephan Stubner was invited to attend the Junior Faculty Workshop of the Entrepreneurship division at the AOM meeting in Chicago. Hosted by De Paul university, he spent a full day with discussions and presentations from senior professors in the Entrepreneurship field and networked with fellow assistant professors [...]

Exciting Commerce, one of the leading websites on E-Commerce in Germany, recently published a feature on unister.de. The company, where HHL-alumnus Daniel Kirchof is in the core team and head of finance, has developed into one of the major Internet players in Germany. With over 500 employees and portals [...]