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Levin is a Partner at Heartcore Capital, Europes consumer technology VC. He joined Heartcore in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar Venture Capital arm of Rocket Internet. During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9 ...

Picus Capital to ramp up India investments, Asia exposure in 2021 Oliver Heinrich. Partner at Picus Capital Premium Unfazed by COVID-19 uncertainties, German early-stage technology investment firm Picus Capital is looking to increase its exposure in Asia, particularly in India. The Rocket Internet co-founder Alexander Samwer-led firm, which has backed about five startups in India and three in Singapore, is looking to expand its wings to other Southeast Asian ...

Duluth, MN, USA / Kat Country 98.9 | KTCO Dec 21, 2020 2:17 AM BERLIN (Reuters) - A fund backed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners has made a cash offer to buy Germanys Tele Columbus AG in an agreed deal that values the fibre network operator at over 400 million euros ($487.84 million), Tele Columbus said. The offer of 3.25 euros per share represents a 13% premium to Tele Columbus closing share price on Friday. Top shareholder United Internet AG on Monday said it will offer its 29% s...

This article is written by Oursky’s tech/project consultant, Ten Tang. As a project consultant in Oursky, I hear a lot of app ideas every day. Listening to passionate clients talking about specific problems they’re working to solve or learning about innovative and simple solutions to new market niches is one of my favorite things about my job (our specialty coffee club comes a close second). But as I reflect on the potential clients I’ve met, some of the ones I learned most from were the ...

Better Dairy picks up £1.6M seed funding to produce animal-free dairy Better Dairy, a U.K. startup developing animal-free dairy that was founded out of Entrepreneur First (EF), has picked up £1.6 million in seed funding. The London-based company is currently in the R&D stages of developing products that are “molecularly identical” to traditional dairy without using animals as part of the production process. This seed round was led by Happiness Capital, alongside a number of other investor...

Performance In the six months to 31 October 2020 your Companys net asset value per share and share price rose by 15.0% and 8.8% respectively on a total return basis, ending the period at 352.66p (NAV per share) and 268.00p (share price). The FTSE All-Share Index fell by 2.0% over the same period.   Since 31 October 2020, the portfolio has continued to perform strongly. At 9 December 2020 the NAV per share was 430.44p and the share price was 384p, representing a discount...