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Templafy raises $25M Series C led by Insight partners to deal with enterprise documents

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 NewsEditorBerlin, business, business software, ceo, Co-founder, Dawn Capital, Insight Partners, Microsoft, microsoft-office, PandaDoc, seed capital, showpad, Software, TechCrunch, Vice President

Back in 2018 Templafy — which had come up with a way for enterprises to more easily make templates out of standard documents (yes, it’s a thing) — raised an additional $15 million from existing investors as an extension of its earlier Series B round taking it to $40.2 million raised. The company integrates with enterprise infrastructure to provide corporate content assets, document templates, and automatic validation of created documents for all kinds of clients. On this journey it has used its cash to acquire SlideProof in Berlin, then Veodin and iWRITER in 2019, and opened an office…

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The Schienenzeppelin in Berlin, 1931 (Colorized)

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 NewsEditorBerlin, colorized, Germany, history 3, Tech, top, trains, travel 2, vintage

Original Photograph by George Pahl | Colorized by Jecini In this colorized photo by Jecini, we see the Schienenzeppelin in Berlin in June of 1931. A train on the way to Hamburg passes the newly arrived ‘rail zeppelin’ at Spandau main station. The Schienenzeppelin or rail zeppelin was an experimental railcar which resembled a Zeppelin airship in appearance. It was designed and developed by the German aircraft engineer Franz Kruckenberg in 1929. Propulsion was by means of a pusher propeller located at the rear: it accelerated the railcar to 230.2…

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As the new year beckons European investors start moving into new roles

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 NewsEditoradvisor, Berlin, corporate finance, eastern europe, European Union, finance, jon bradford, London, Money, motive partners, partner, Qualcomm Ventures, SeedCamp, supply chain, TechStars, ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

As the Holiday Season approaches, new jobs for players in the tech ecosystem beckon. And this is no less true for investors. Two notable moves have recently happened that are worthy of note in the European scene. The first is that GR Capital, a pan-European VC, is opening an office in London and has lured Jason Ball, who, earlier this year, left Qualcomm Ventures where had been European Managing Director for over a decade. Ball spent ten years as a mentor at Seedcamp and individually invested in more than ten…