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Madvertise: Series A Round with Early Bird and Team Europe Ventures

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

I am happy that Madvertise today announced a Series A Round with Early Bird and Team Europe Ventures invested a medium 7-figures amount in Madvertise Series A round.

Madvertise is a quickly-growing Mobile Advertising Start-up that I co-founded as Venture Partner with Team Europe in September 2008.

Since then the strong operational founder team around Carsten Frien has reached good initial traction in the young but very fast growing mobile advertising market in Europe.

Recent US-based Mobile Advertising acquisitions of Admob (750million $ from Google) and Quattro Wireless (300million $ from Apple) give a good direction for the exit :)

More info:

Techcrunch: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/30/mobile-ad-network-madvertise-secures-series-a-round/

Handelsblatt: http://blog.handelsblatt.com/webwatcher/2010/03/30/madvertise-sichert-fianzierungsrunde/

Gründerszene: http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/earlybird-und-team-europe-ventures-investieren-siebenstelligen-betrag-in-madvertise/

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Personal Brands4Friends Exit – Tengelmann buys 10% from existing investors

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Large (offline)-merchant Tengelmann bought 10% of Brands4Friends from existing investors around Team Europe Ventures and including me.

Thanks to the invitation from non-executive co-founder Lukasz Gadowski I had invested a small amount during the seed round in summer 2007.

Even though no transaction details are public it is no secret that all seed-investors made a fantastic multiple ;-)

The private shopping club made already 80m € revenue in 2009 – just 2 years after the company had been founded.

Congratulation and thank you to the founders and management and I wish you all the best for the future and further growth of Brands4Friends!

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