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Hamburg is home to an enormous startup scene. It is one of the main reasons why Startups are moving to Hamburg as they find a ton of investors and mentors, while being located in a great location between Berlin and Amsterdam.
The 10 Best Startups in Hamburg
1. ABOUT YOU
ABOUT YOU is an eCommerce platform for clothing, shoes and accessories. As a fashion and technology corporation, along with their strong team, their ambition is to digitalize the classic shopping stroll by creating an inspiring and personalized shopping experience on the smartphone. This is why they created ABOUT YOU, a shopping destination wherepeople can discover fashion that really fits their personality from a range of more than 1.200 brands. With its consistent focus on personalization, inspiration and mobile shopping, ABOUT YOU has created sales in excess of €461 million in the fifth fiscal year 2018/19 and is now one of the largest fashion e-tailers in Germany.
Website: https://corporate.aboutyou.de/
Founded: 2014
Total Funding: $300M
Last Funding Type: Seed
2. 1Komma5°
KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
Website: https://www.1komma5grad.com/
Founded: 2021
Total Funding: €200M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
3. Deposit Solutions
Deposit Solutions is a developer of an open banking platform designed to connect banks and depositors across Europe. The company's platform help banks to offer attractive third party deposit products to their own customers through their existing accounts so that the depositors can access best-in-class deposit offers without having to open anew account at another bank, enabling banks looking for funding to gather deposits from new markets and client groups without having to set up and operate their own retail infrastructure.
Website: http://www.deposit-solutions.com/
Founded: 2011
Total Funding: $198.9M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
4. FREE NOW
FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app.FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture betweenBMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.
Website: https://free-now.com/
Founded: 2009
Total Funding: $131.2M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
5. AppLike
AppLike develops apps for all mobile devices and provides mobile advertising, app recommendation, and innovative B2B solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.
Website: https://applike-group.com/
Founded: 2015
Total Funding: €100M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
6. Taxdoo
Taxdoo is a startup that bills itself as a compliance platform for the digital economy. Its platform collects relevant data from marketplaces, online shops, and ERP systems on a daily basis and processes it in line with international VAT regulations, respective of financial authorities through an international network of VAT experts, which can thenbe transferred into financial accounting systems.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.
Website: http://www.taxdoo.com/
Founded: 2016
Total Funding: €74.6M
Last Funding Type: Series B
7. Exporo
Exporo offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge.The idea begins in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance, as banks no longer finance entire projects as usual due to stricter regulation,and that private investors only have a lot of money, with good conditions and easy to invest in real estate. The result of this observation is the firm decision to develop its own online marketplace to offer real estate projects as an investment opportunity and to provide capital directly between private investors and real estate companies.Simon Brunke, Björn Maronde, Tim Bütecke and Julian Oertzen founded the online platform in 2014, they are constantly evolving and they are board members of Exporo AG. The company now employs more than 120 people and is based in Hamburg's HafenCity.
Website: https://exporo.de/
Founded: 2014
Total Funding: €75.2M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
8. Wunder Mobility
Wunder Mobility is the leading software and hardware provider for vehicle sharing. Our highly customizable and deeply integrated software solution is complemented by a sharing-ready vehicle program built in partnership with leading manufacturers.Operators of bike-, scooter-, and car-sharing systems in >200 cities on five continents are relyingon Wunder technology to complete millions of trips per month.Wunder Mobility was founded in 2014 by Gunnar Froh and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany
Website: https://www.wundermobility.com/
Founded: 2014
Total Funding: $81.9M
Last Funding Type: Series B
9. Localyze
Localyze offers a software solution for relocation management. Localyze supports international employees throughout the whole relocation process with an all-in-one software solution covering everything from visa to social integration. Localyze provides an overview of the current relocation process status of all international employees within therelevant categories (visa, insurance, banking) for the recruiting department. Localyze guides internationals through the whole relocation process with a personalized dashboard showcasing next to do's, deadlines and other relevant information. Localyze covers a wide range of topics - ranging from visa and mobile phone contracts to cultural integration. In each category, only relevant information tailored to the individual personality profile is displayed.
Website: https://www.localyzeapp.com/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: $48.4M
Last Funding Type: Series B
10. ExpressSteuer
ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.
Website: https://www.expresssteuer.com/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: €29.3M
Last Funding Type: Series A
