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Die Samwer-Brüder sind große Meister im Geldeinsammeln. In vertraulichen Investorenpapieren, die das Manager Magazin enthüllte (siehe auch “Samwer-Brüder wollen laut vertraulichen Unterlagen H&M ‘in die zweite Reihe drängen’ und Ikea ‘abhängen’), gibt es nun eine Übersicht der größten Rocket Internet-Geldgeber. Rund 1,5 Milliarden US-Dollar flossen demnach in den vergangenen drei Jahren in das Samwer-Imperium.

An der Spitze der samwerschen Geldcharts steht – wie erwartet – das schwedische Unternehmen Kinnevik, welches nicht nur in Rocket Internet-Projekte investiert, sondern auch direkt an Rocket Internet beteiligt ist. Über eine Milliarde US-Dollar investierte Kinnevik laut Investorenpräsentation (Stand: Januar 2013) in das Samwer-Imperium. Eine weitere Riesensumme investierte Kinnevik zudem über seine Mobilfunktochter Millicom – siehe auch “Details zum 340 Millionen-Millicom-Deal in Südamerika und Afrika“.

Die größten Geldgeber von Rocket Internet
1. Kinnevik (>1 Milliarde Dollar)
2. Millicom - Mobilfunktochter von Kinnevik (340 Millionen Dollar)
3. DST (315 Millionen Dollar)
4. Access Industries (300 Millionen Dollar)
5. JP Morgan (150 Millionen Dollar)
6. Summit Partners (140 Millionen Dollar)
7. Holtzbrinck Ventures (120 Millionen Dollar)
8. Blakeney Management (70 Millionen Dollar)
9. N.N. (70 Millionen Dollar)
10. Tengelmann Ventures (50 Millionen Dollar)
11. Marshall Wace (45 Millionen Dollar)
12. NEA (30 Millionen Dollar)
13. Victor Pinchuk (30 Millionen Dollar)
14. PPR (25 Millionen Dollar)
15. N.N. (10 Millionen Dollar)

Top-Geldgeber aus Deutschland ist Holtzbrinck Ventures, gefolgt von Tengelmann Ventures. Der Kapitalableger des Handelsriesen investierte zuletzt in Rocket-Projekte wie Jumia, Lazada, Linio, The Iconic, Zalora und Zando. Sowie in FabFurnish, Mebelrama und Zanui.

Zwei Namen in der Präsentation (von uns mit N.N. gekennzeichnet) sind nur schwer zu entziffern. Ansonsten berichtet das Wirtschaftsblatt, dass der indische Stahlmagnat Lakshmi Mittal fünf Millionen Euro in die Zalando-Ableger in Lateinamerika, Indien, Russland und Nahost investierte. Kurt-Rudolf Schwarz, der Erbe der deutschen Pharmadynastie Schwarz, investierte zudem 10 Millionen Euro in die Start-ups. Der kolumbianische Finanzmanager und Biermagnat Alejandro Santo Domingo investierte zu guter letzt 25 Millionen Euro in Dafiti. Und auch der Clan des italienischen Unternehmers, Politikers und Bunga Bunga-Experten Silvio Berlusconi pumpte kürzlich bekanntlich Geld in ein Rocket-Start-up, nämlich payleven – siehe “Silvio Berlusconi bzw. seine Kinder sind der bisher geheime payleven-Investor”

Artikel zum Thema
* Samwer-Brüder wollen H&M “in die zweite Reihe drängen” und Ikea “abhängen”
* Oliver Samwer startet Global Founders Capital – und stellt 150 Millionen Euro bereit
* Oliver Samwer: Interviews, Vorträge, Nicht-Interviews. Alles, was das Internet hergibt!
* Oliver Samwer über die Lage der Weltwirtschaft und gute Unternehmer
* Horst Albach, der WHU-Prof, der Oliver Samwer “ziemlich viel Geld” in die Hand gab

[shared via Google Reader from The Official Netflix Blog : US & Canada]

Movies and TV shows are better with friends.

We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show.

Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share their favorite shows and movies on Netflix with friends by connecting to Facebook and agreeing to share.

By default, sharing will only happen on Netflix. You’ll see what titles your friends have watched in a new “Watched by your friends” row and what they have rated four or five stars in a new “Friends’ Favorites” row. Your friends will also be able to see what you watch and rate highly.

Watch this video for a full demonstration.



You are in control of what gets shared. You can choose not to share a specific title by clicking the “Don’t Share This” button in the player. You can also visit your “Social Settings” in “Your Account” on Netflix.com to turn on additional sharing to Facebook or stop sharing altogether.

We will be adding the ability to turn on these features for our US members over the coming days, so keep an eye out for them. All U.S. Netflix members will have access to the social features by the end of this week.

Sharing movies and TV with friends online is still a new experience and we will continue to experiment and improve our social features over the coming months and years.

Cameron

Cameron Johnson is director of product innovation at Netflix

[shared via Google Reader from FlowingData]

When we build models of the world, we often think of it broken down into pieces, such as cities, counties, and countries. In their newly funded project The City of 7 Billion, architects Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis aim to model the world as one city, to study the impact of population growth on the environment and natural resources on a larger scale.

Every corner of the planet, they argue, is “urban” in some sense, touched by farming that feeds cities, pollution that comes out of them, industrialization that has made urban centers what they are today. So why not think of the world as a single urban entity?

Hsiang and Mendis don’t yet know exactly what this will look like (that is the question, Mendis says). But they are planning to seed their geo-spatial model with worldwide data on population growth, economic and social indicators, topography, ecology and more. Ultimately, they hope, other researchers will be able to use the open-source platform for research on development patterns or air quality; the public will be able to use it to grasp the implications of building in a flood plain or implementing an energy policy; and architects will be able to use it to view the world as if it were a single project site.

Along with a slew of other challenges I am sure, one of the big ones is finding comparable data at high granularity. Large cities tend to track (and hopefully release) data about what’s going, but once you step out of the major areas, data grows scarce.

They started with population, which was transformed into the physical installation above.

[shared via Google Reader from Freshome.com - Interior Design & Architecture Magazine]

Printing 3D designs is not a first, yet Dutch studio DUS Architects is planning on developing the first 3D-printed house which is meant to become a full-size canal house in Amsterdam, alongside the Buiksloter-canal. The process will be made possible by employing a special printer called the KamerMaker (the following two photos of the post). “This year we want to print the entire facade and the first room bit by bit. Then in the following months and years we will print other rooms.”-architect Hedwig Heinsman explained.

According to the project developers, the first floors and facades of the house will be printed from polypropylene, but the architects hope to eventually use bioplastics and plastic recycled on-site. The KamerMaker ( Dutch for “room maker”), is 3.5 metres high and constantly sits inside a shipping container. Each building part will be printed and tested at a scale of 1:20 before being printed at a 1:1 scale with the KamerMaker. The resulting 3D printed Canal House will serve as a hub for further 3D architecture research- and more surprising projects!

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[shared via Google Reader from designboom]

the courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of five to ten days.

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