HHL-alumnus Martin Schlichte secured a financing round for his E-Learning portal lecturio (http://www.lecturio.de). With Holtzbrinck Ventures, he found an additional institutional investor besides Leipzig-based TechnologieGründerFonds Sachsen (TGFS) that already supported the startup phase of the company.

http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/10/18/lecturio-holtzbrinck/

HHL-alumni Dirk Graber and Björn Sykore and their company Mister Spex as well as Spreadshirt from HHL-alumnus Lukasz Gadowski were named “milestones in the German mail order business” at the Insight E-Commerce conference in Leipzig. The awards are given to people and companies that helped to shape the German mail order business with innovations and [...]

Shoppingclub MySportBrands (www.mysportbrands.de) from HHL-alumni Erik Pfannmöller and Albert Schwarzmeier closed another financing round. This time, investors XAnge (www.xange.fr), Astutia (www.astutia.de) and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (www.ibb-bet.de) with VC Fonds Kreativwirtschaft Berlin provided several million Euro for the further development of the company.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/mysportbrands-xange-frogster-gruender-gerlinger

HHL-alumnus, serial entrepreneur and investor Sven Schmidt provided a very insightful analysis on the recent acquisition of hotel.de through HRS. A very good introduction into Entrepreneurial Finance considerations when doing a due diligence.

http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2011/10/17/hrs-hotelde-analyse-sven-schmidt/

Lieferheld/ Deliveryhero which was founded with the help of Team Europe, the business builder from HHL-alumnus Lukasz Gadowski, announced that it has secured 15 Mio. € of funding within the first 12 months

http://www.lukaszgadowski.com/proud-on-eur-15-mio-for-lieferheld-deliveryhero-within-the-first-12-months-and-why-strong-capitalizations-win-in-the-current-start-up-environment

Social entrepreneurship company Coffee-Circle from HHL-alumnus Martin Elwert secured a substantial financing round from Tengelmann E-Commerce. Below please find a link to an interview with the founders on their new investor.

http://www.deutsche-startups.de/?p=51815

http://www.gruenderszene.de/interviews/coffee-circle-tengelmann-2?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coffee-circle-tengelmann-2

A graduate from the HHL-TUM Executive MBA in Innovation Management, Catharina von Delden (founder of UnserAller) was featured in a video interview on Gründerszene.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/interviews/found-her-catharina-van-delden?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=found-her-catharina-van-delden

HHL-alumnus Sandro Günther and his company Werbeboten Media developed a new revenue model for starlett Daniela Katzenberger aka “Katze”. The company, specialized on content management systems for corporate pages in Facebook, now offers a Facebook application taht enables users to link to affiliate websited from their own page.

http://www.wuv.de/nachrichten/digital/facebook_daniela_katzenberger_als_einkaufsberaterin

HHL-alumnus Tobias Zimmer reached the runner up position at the DurchSTARTER competition 2011 in Lower Saxony. This prize is awarded to founders who have realized their business idea with a great deal of dedication and extraordinary ambition, and who can therefore be considered a role model for future founders. Check the video on their business [...]

HHL-alumnus Chris Muhr was recently promoted to global head of sales for Groupon, the widely discussed company that made the Samwer brothers billionairs. Earlier Chris co-founded Citydeal UK and ecareer.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/groupon-christoph-muhr-christian-heitmeyer-allyouneed24.business

Here, you can find a short video of Chris how he communicates the merger between Citydeal and Groupon.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=119627881403089