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NOVEMBER 2013
DATAWATCH (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF PANOPTICON - ONE OF THE PORTFOLIO COMPANIES OF VENTUREPRENEUR MAGNUS EMILSON Acquisition Provides Datawatch Customers Real-time Visual Data Discovery Against the Largest Variety of Data Sources. Panopticon Software AB, a privately held company based in Stockholm, Sweden and an industry leader in real-time visual data discovery solutions was acquried by Datawatch this August. “The Datawatch/Panopticon combination is a great fit strategically and culturally,” said Michael A. Morrison, president and chief executive officer of Datawatch. "Bringing together the leaders in information optimization and real-time visual data discovery will empower our customers to optimize the value of virtually any data, and now do it at the speed their businesses operate – even if that means in real-time." Panopticon extends the Datawatch solution to address business users’ ubiquitous needs to understand and extract value from their data through a rich, visual data discovery experience. With Panopticon, customers get a strong, self-service solution to explore, discover and visualize any variety of data, in real-time. (Source: Datawatch press release) |
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OCTOBER 2013
RUNTASTIC - BACKED BY VENTUREPRENEUR JOHANN HANSMANN WAS ACQUIRED BY GERMAN MEDIA GIANT AXEL SPRINGER
Axel Springer - one of the leading media enterprises in Europe is now the majority shareholder of Runtastic - one of the world's leading providers of mobile apps for the measurement of sport and fitness data. The four founders and the Austrian business angel and Venturepreneur Dr. Johann Hansmann remain on board as a shareholders.
Runtastic was founded in 2009 by Florian Gschwandtner, Alfred Luger, René Giretzlehner and Christian Kaar. It offers sports apps and a web portal for storing and managing training data. According to the company, it has over 90 employees, more than 19 million registered users and more than 46 million Runtastic apps have been downloaded. More than 100,000 are currently being downloaded every day. No financial details were disclosed.
To read more about the transaction, click here.
If you want to learn more about Johann Hansmann who was interviewed by Internetszene.at - Austrian online magazine with the scoop on the hottest startups, reviews of the recent Internet products, and breaking tech news, click here.
(Source: Axel Springer press release)
RUNTASTIC - BACKED BY VENTUREPRENEUR JOHANN HANSMANN WAS ACQUIRED BY GERMAN MEDIA GIANT AXEL SPRINGER
Axel Springer - one of the leading media enterprises in Europe is now the majority shareholder of Runtastic - one of the world's leading providers of mobile apps for the measurement of sport and fitness data. The four founders and the Austrian business angel and Venturepreneur Dr. Johann Hansmann remain on board as a shareholders.
Runtastic was founded in 2009 by Florian Gschwandtner, Alfred Luger, René Giretzlehner and Christian Kaar. It offers sports apps and a web portal for storing and managing training data. According to the company, it has over 90 employees, more than 19 million registered users and more than 46 million Runtastic apps have been downloaded. More than 100,000 are currently being downloaded every day. No financial details were disclosed.
To read more about the transaction, click here.
If you want to learn more about Johann Hansmann who was interviewed by Internetszene.at - Austrian online magazine with the scoop on the hottest startups, reviews of the recent Internet products, and breaking tech news, click here.
(Source: Axel Springer press release)
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SEPTEMBER 2013
AFTER HAVING RECEIVED 6-FIGURE SEED FUNDING FROM THE VENTUREPRENEURS, COUCHCOMMERCE RECEIVES 7-FIGURE INVESTMENT IN FIRST FINANCING ROUND
Hanover-based start-up CouchCommerce has raised a seven-figure sum in its initial quest for funding. In addition to Hannover Beteiligungsfonds (HBF), which belongs to hannoverimpuls, the Venturepreneurs Organisation (including founders of Zanox, Autoscout24, blau.de) were also involved in the first round of financing.
CouchCommerce excels with its focus, unique to the market, on advanced web-app technology for online shops. As a result, without prior installation app quality for online shops is achieved directly in the browser for the first time and on all operating systems. Compatibility with all smartphones and tablets is also guaranteed. One of the company’s goals is to expand the CouchCommerce.com SaaS platform which has already steered 500 merchants towards mobile commerce and is growing rapidly. It also wants to use the financing to create an open source development standard for e-commerce web apps. The standard will be published on CouchCommerce.org and based on AngularJS, Google’s web-app technology.
Alexander Ringsdorff, founder and director of CouchCommerce GmbH explains the company’s vision: “This first round of financing allows us to take a key step towards an e-commerce platform for web-app technology. Only about two per cent of all online shops worldwide are adapted to embrace the PC’s successors such as smartphones, tablets or smart TVs. Consequently, the demand for technologies that support the new gesture technology is enormous. Because 20 to 30 per cent of surfers use these new devices – the majority of them at home on their couches. In this case, mouse and keyboard are outdated and no longer used to fill shopping baskets”.
(Source: press release)
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AFTER HAVING RECEIVED 6-FIGURE SEED FUNDING FROM THE VENTUREPRENEURS, COUCHCOMMERCE RECEIVES 7-FIGURE INVESTMENT IN FIRST FINANCING ROUND
Hanover-based start-up CouchCommerce has raised a seven-figure sum in its initial quest for funding. In addition to Hannover Beteiligungsfonds (HBF), which belongs to hannoverimpuls, the Venturepreneurs Organisation (including founders of Zanox, Autoscout24, blau.de) were also involved in the first round of financing.
CouchCommerce excels with its focus, unique to the market, on advanced web-app technology for online shops. As a result, without prior installation app quality for online shops is achieved directly in the browser for the first time and on all operating systems. Compatibility with all smartphones and tablets is also guaranteed. One of the company’s goals is to expand the CouchCommerce.com SaaS platform which has already steered 500 merchants towards mobile commerce and is growing rapidly. It also wants to use the financing to create an open source development standard for e-commerce web apps. The standard will be published on CouchCommerce.org and based on AngularJS, Google’s web-app technology.
Alexander Ringsdorff, founder and director of CouchCommerce GmbH explains the company’s vision: “This first round of financing allows us to take a key step towards an e-commerce platform for web-app technology. Only about two per cent of all online shops worldwide are adapted to embrace the PC’s successors such as smartphones, tablets or smart TVs. Consequently, the demand for technologies that support the new gesture technology is enormous. Because 20 to 30 per cent of surfers use these new devices – the majority of them at home on their couches. In this case, mouse and keyboard are outdated and no longer used to fill shopping baskets”.
(Source: press release)
For more information click here
