It was all supposed to be so different. When Rocket Internet IPO’d in 2014 it was the largest tech company floatation in Europe for seven years. A year later it had lost $46 million and its valuatio
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If you thought the problems Rocket Internet has had bringing its portfolio of startups and its business overall into the black would have spelled setbacks for future investing, think again. This wee
Fresh from pulling in $83 million from European insurance giant AXA last month, Africa Internet Group (AIG) -- the Rocket Internet-backed company behind e-commerce site Jumia -- has announced that it
What's it like to be the billionaire co-founder of a sprawling digital business empire that wasn't born in Silicon Valley? Oliver Samwer, co-founder of Rocket Internet, gave a glimpse during an on sta
We have some incredible speakers coming to the TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8. We’re not just talking global sporting superstar Thierry Henry, by the way. We’re talki
More news this morning from Rocket Internet as the Berlin-based startup incubator continues to clean house ahead of a planned public listing. Today the company, alongside one of its biggest co-investo
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.rocket-internet.de">Rocket Internet</a>, the Berlin-based e-commerce incubator that has been behind dozens of startups around the world, is preparing to spin out a