Rocket Internet

For years you’ve been able to find a room to rent online via classified sites such as Craigslist or more vertical offerings. But once you’ve found your prospective rental, the…

Rocket Internet has its fingers in pretty much every part of the online food ordering and delivery pie. Heck, it even has a special division, the unimaginatively-named Global Online Takeaway…

Fresh meals delivered to your home weekly on a subscription basis have become a big business in recent years. Today that trend is confirmed as Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford…

London’s Quiqup, an on-demand delivery service that competes with Ingite alumni Jinn and U.S. Postmates (if and when it launches in the U.K.), has raised a “multi-million pound” Series A…

Rocket Internet is increasing its focus on Asia after it announced that it would launch one new venture in the region per quarter.

The European premium restaurant delivery space appears to show no signs of cooling. As recently as July, London’s Deliveroo raised a $70 million Series C for further international expansion. And…

Fueled by apps and the web, ‘on-demand’ is a big business right now. Uber is on-demand transport and (eventually) logistics. PostMates is on-demand delivery. TaskRabbit is on-demand you name it.…

According to multiple sources, the U.K. on-demand home cleaning startup Hassle.com, which also operates in Ireland and France, has been acquired by Rocket Internet’s Helpling. Both companies declined to comment.…

Rocket Internet’s Global Fashion Group (GFG), an umbrella group that houses the German company’s fashion-focused e-commerce services, is making a double announcement today after it secured €150 million ($167 million)…

Rocket Internet, the German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, is de-cloaking its latest venture today. Founded by two ex-McKinsey management consultants, Peter Baumgart and Maximilian Vollenbroich, Carspring is a marketplace…

Less than two months after raising $110 million, Foodpanda — the Rocket Internet-backed food delivery service — has gobbled an additional $100 million serving from investors.

The on-demand delivery market has now raised more money in the first four months of 2015 than it did in all of 2014, and the latest beneficiary is the Brazilian…

Well, what do we have here. Just a couple of days after participating in European restaurant delivery service Take Eat Easy’s €6 million Series A funding round, ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce…

Similar to Deliveroo in the U.K., and DoorDash in the U.S., Take Eat Easy lets you order food online from restaurants that don’t traditionally offer a take-out and delivery service.…

Rocket Internet — the Berlin-based startup incubator that went public in October 2014 — is today adding more muscle to the Global Fashion Group, a cluster of five of its emerging market fashion…

Just four months after raising a $17 million Series A, Helpling has mopped up further investment. The Rocket Internet on-demand home cleaning startup has closed a $45 million Series B…

Rocket Internet, the publicly-listed German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, has increased its stake in Foodpanda, and rival Delivery Hero, as part of a strategy to build out its Global…

Berlin-based Rocket Internet is broadening its already wide portfolio of companies with Everjobs, a career-listings platform. Like other Rocket Internet companies, Everjobs, which is already live in Sri Lanka, will…

Carmudi, a car classifieds site that focuses on emerging markets, announced today that it has raised $25 million to gear up its operations in Mexico and several Asian countries.

Once you take a bite, you just gotta have more… That’s seemingly the modus operandi for ‘Global Online Takeaway Group,’ the business unit created by Rocket Internet last week. Fresh…

Lamudi, the Rocket Internet-backed online property listings company for emerging markets, has closed a $18 million round of funding aimed at developing its marketshare and revenues worldwide.

HelloFresh, the European startup that delivers perfectly portioned groceries and recipes for you to cook at home, has just announced the close of a $126 million Series E funding round…

Rocket Internet is making the second major consolidation of its global businesses after the German accelerator announced a new food-on-demand group with business in four companies worldwide, including its portfolio…

On the heels of Amazon becoming the latest e-commerce company to move into the takeaway and restaurant delivery business, some more consolidation for one of the bigger competitors out of Europe. Foodpanda,…

Helpling, the Rocket Internet-backed cleaner-on-demand service, has tidied in a nice little sum of its own after announcing $17 million in fresh funding. Investors in this Series A round include…

We don’t often see companies announcing funding rounds on the weekend, but that’s not stopping Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, from announcing it has pulled in…

Competing food delivery apps Foodpanda, which is backed by Rocket Internet, and Delivery Hero have made a series of deals, acquiring companies owned by each other in India, Mexico, and…

After much speculation, German super-incubator and clone factory Rocket Internet has confirmed that it plans to launch an initial public offering later this year on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Rocket…

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…

Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based global e-commerce incubator, is widely believed to be preparing to go public, but in the meantime, Zalando, a Zappos-style European fashion portal with 13.5 million active…