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While other German VCs wilt, the Samwer brothers invest and clone like mad

[Germany] The Samwer brothers, Germany’s most prolific startup investors, are on an e-commerce investment spree. While TechCrunch mourns the end of the funding party and 340,000 layoffs in Silicon...

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You've heard of Zynga – now meet Plinga, the latest clone from the Samwers

[Germany] It must be great to be in the social games business. Apparently anyone can jump on the bandwagon, even latecomers and copycats. Following Electronic Arts’ $300 million acquisition of...

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Samwer brothers pump millions from France and Sweden into their German startups

[Germany] While others hunted for presents, Germany’s most prolific startup founders used the holiday season to collect even more investor money and to start another company. Shortly after Christmas...

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Is Groupon buying CityDeal actually a disaster for German innovators?

The Groupon acquisition of CityDeal is being hailed by many across Europe as a good exit for the German-based clone (yes, there is no point in saying it is anything else but a Groupon clone). But...

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After cashing in on Citydeal, Samwer brothers invest in online gaming world...

The Samwer brothers are at it again. Shortly after cashing in on Citydeal, Germany’s most prolific startup investors have put millions into Panfu. Their incubator Rocket Internet joined by Holtzbrinck...

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They're at it again – Samwer brothers launch BirchBox-clone GlossyBox

The rumors are true. The Samwer brothers, who are famous for executing the perfect copycat startup, have now jumped onto the BirchBox train, creating GlossyBox, their own European clone of the beauty...

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Airbnb Freaks Out Over Samwer Clones

You know what they say about imitation being the most sincere form of flattery? Well sometimes, like in the case of Groupon and its many imitators competitors, this type of flattery is also a huge...

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Rocket Misfires — Samwers lose key people ahead of huge fund raising to clone...

The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Germany and possibly Europe. After...

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Guest Post: Can we stop talking about European clone startups now?

This is a part II in a series of guest posts by Erik Bovee, a founder and partner in SpeedInvest, an early stage venture fund focusing on Central Europe. He’s previously written about why “Things...

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Fashion For Home Scores New Funding As Samwer Brothers’ Rocket Internet Exits

Fashion For Home, the online designer furniture store, has scored a new funding round led by the Munich-based VC Acton Capital Partners, while Holtzbrinck Ventures has also participated. And with it we...

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Zalando, The Samwer Zappos Clone, Closes Another Round, Adds JP Morgan,...

Zalando, the shoe and fashion e-commerce site originally started as a clone of Zappos by the Samwer brothers, is gearing up for another phase of growth. The company today announced that it has closed...

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Rocket Internet’s ‘Blitzkrieg’: JP Morgan Invests In Russian Fashion Site...

Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-backed fashion sites modelled on Zappos — an undisclosed investment in Zalando and $45 million in Brazil’s Dafiti, the bank is...

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JP Morgan Invests ‘Significant Double Digit Millions’ In Another Rocket...

Less than a month after reportedly sinking $40-80 million into Lamoda, Rocket Internet’s “Russian Zappos”, JP Morgan is investing once again in the Samwer brothers and their vision for a global...

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Samwers’ Online Shopping Mall Lazada Gets $40M From Shareholder Kinnevik To...

Amazon’s global march has yet to take it into emerging markets like Vietnam and Malaysia, so the Samwer brothers have smelled an opportunity to build out their own version in the absence of Amazon...

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Paymill, The Samwer Stripe Clone, Raises $13M From Serial Rocket Internet...

Paymill, the Rocket-Internet incubated online payments company that works like developer-friendly Stripe by offering users an API to quickly integrate card transactions, is today announcing that it has...

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FoodPanda, Rocket Internet’s Answer To GrubHub And Delivery Hero, Now...

FoodPanda, a Rocket Internet-backed online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, is today announcing that it has expanded to 12 more emerging markets, taking the total...

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Payleven, The Samwer Square Clone, Surmounts Visa Hurdle With Chip And PIN...

Payleven, the mobile payment company from the Samwer bothers’ Rocket Internet incubator, is now taking orders for its chip-and-PIN readers, which makes it one of the first of the Square-style...

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As Payment Pioneer Stripe Gears Up For Euro Rollout, Rocket Rival Paymill...

The race for leadership in easy e-commerce in Europe is on. Stripe, the U.S. startup that has developed a simple payments API for developers to use in apps and on the web, is preparing to make its...

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Samwer Brothers' Zappos Clone Namshi Gets $13M More From Summit To Build Out...

Rocket Internet, the German-based e-commerce startup incubator from the Samwer brothers, is today announcing another round of funding for its strategy to build out its footprint into emerging markets....

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Lamoda, The Samwer Brothers' Russian Online Fashion Store, Snags $130M Led By...

Lamoda, the Russian online fashion site incubated by the Samwer Brothers’ Rocket Internet, is upgrading its wardrobe. On Tuesday, the company is announcing a new injection of $130 million — understood...

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