Ashton Kutcher And Madonna’s Manager Invest In Tiny Berlin Startup. What Gives?

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Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Not a lot is known about Amen, a stealth-mode startup out of Berlin.

What we do know is that it’s pretty hot and the talk of Berlin. A slect few have been been given access to its Beta and are coming up with statements like “strangely addictive”, at least according to the startups itself.

Whatever it is, sources tell us it’s caught the eye of investors in the shape of celebrity tech investor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, who just happens to be Madonna’s manager. This is quite some quota of fame right there, so clearly Amen is onto something that could be pretty mainstream.

And the amount?

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