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BookitNow!
BookitNow! represents and markets a curated selection of more than 135 hotels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Czech Republic and United Kingdom. Founded by Anas Salem, Oleksandr Ivanov and Mirzad Zaric, BookitNow! has developed a solution to increase revenue and occupancy in all partner hotels.
BookitNow! recently started a long term partnership - for the new loyalty program - with Molton Brown and Moët Hennessy. This is the first independent and cross-category / cross-hotel loyalty program.
After 5 unique bookings an e-mail will be sent to the client allowing him to choose 1 of 7 products such as a bottle of champagne or a Frequent Traveler Beauty Set.
After analyzing the travel market, the BookitNow! team developed a new feature that allows smartphone users to book a hotelroom up to 3 days in advance. Furthermore, all rooms can be booked from 6 am until 3 am.
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MAS Angel Fund partners with the European Pirate Summit and we're giving away free office space and the chance to get 150.000 EUR in funding. Stay tuned for more! |
BonaYou
Since its official launch in March 2012 Bonayou has sold more than 5.000 customized gift cards to customers all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Now, the gift card can be used globally!
Bonayou will be available on iOS in September. At the same time, the website will be relaunched. This involves slightly rebranding Bonayou, which will be cleaner, straightforward and more mature.
In the last weeks, the group gifting process and the Facebook integration have been improved, which will also be the mobile app's main feature: making gifting with friends or colleagues simple and easy.
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Texas Ask'Em Poker (OteetO)
Texas Ask'Em Poker is doing great - here are some interesting insights:
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Over 15,000 Facebook fans
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Over 250,000 invites have been sent from the game!
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Over 750,000 answers have been chosen!
People are getting addicted to it --- our top fan has played a total combined time of 589 hours (equals 24 days!) since May!
The average time spent in the game is 12 minutes which is more than double the reported average play time on Zynga poker of 5 minutes! In fact for returning players the average time played is over 30 minutes!
In the coming months we will improve the experience for new players. This will be part of our focus. Look out for:
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New fun videos to help understand the twist!
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A Tutorial to help new players settle into the game
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50:50 Lifelines - just like you have with Who Want's to be a Millionaire
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and many more!
In addition, look out for a very slick iPhone version of the game coming very soon!!
Finally, we are very excited that next week Texas Ask'Em Poker will be available for on a new social games network linked to land based casinos in the US!
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Redalpine Venture Partners AG and Berlin based accelerator MAS Angel Fund sign wide ranging joint venture agreement.
Berlin, August 2012 – The Zurich based early & seed-stage investor Redalpine Venture Partners AG (www.redalpine.com) has signed a wide ranging joint venture agreement with Berlin based accelerator Make a Startup (MAS) Angel Fund GmbH & Co. KG (www.angelfund.vc). The partnership pays tribute to Redalpine’s ambitions for Berlin as an investment location and strengthens the market position in the pre-seed and seed investment stage for both companies. Together, MAS Angel Fund and Redalpine will continue to invest in the heart of Europe's Startup-capital.
Redalpine is participating in the existing shareholdings of MAS Angel Fund as part of the agreement, and Benjamin Rohé, CEO of MAS Angel Fund will join as a new Partner at Redalpine. The exclusive joint venture agreement between Redalpine and MAS Angel Fund ensures not only significant investment funds over the years to come, but also complements and extends the excellent network and expertise of Redalpine’s partners to Berlin.
“Berlin attracts talents, not only from Europe but also from Asia, North and South America, and provides ideal conditions for young startups to realize their ideas” says Benjamin Rohé. “We’re passionate about supporting entrepreneurs actively. In addition to financial investment we provide our time, network and office space in our Berlin loft as part of this deal. We work in two huge, open space office floors side-by-side with the ambitious startups we invest in. We at MAS Angel Fund are very happy about the partnership with Redalpine. This brings our activities to a new level." Rohé adds: "The funding opportunities for technology companies in Europe is still behind countries like the U.S. or Israel. Berlin, with its attractive cost structure, high level of startup activity and its international charm has evolved into a "Silicon Valley"-like cluster. "
Peter Niederhauser General Partner at Redalpine commented on the partnership and the work of MAS Angel Fund: "We are excited about the way MAS Angel Fund supports entrepreneurs in the early phase and creates real value. In only one year Benjamin and his team positioned MAS Angel Fund as the leading accelerator in Berlin. "
MAS Angel Fund was founded one year ago, in Summer 2012, by Benjamin Rohé. The board consists of Ludwig Preller, Maks Giordano and Paul Jozefak. Based on the founders and board experience as Business Angels, VCs and Entrepreneurs the MAS Angel Fund invests every year in up to five hand-picked companies. Since the beginning of the investment phase in October 2011, MAS Angel Fund invested in and supports the Startups OteetO, BonaYou and BookitNow!.
In June 2012 Redalpine reported the successful first closing of its second VC seed fund. With a total target volume of CHF 80 million (approx. EUR 67 million), Redalpine invests in technology and life science companies across Europe
Our team:
Benjamin Rohé, Founder and Managing Partner
Internet Entrepreneur since 1998 – launched first business at age of 17, Lecturer at various European Universities about Entrepreneurship, Former Advisor to various Corporations Management, including Deutsche Telekom AG
Sebastian Feldmann B.A., Associate
Operations support at the Founder Institute, Worked for the Entrepreneurs Program by Deutsche Telekom AG, Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Management & Economics
Our board:
Paul Jozefak, B.S. Finance - Fundraising & Business Development
15+ years experience in VC, M&A and as an entrepreneur, US National with international experience and network, Andersen Consulting, Davis Polk & Wardwell, SAP AG and Neuhaus Partners
Maks Giordano, MBA - Media- and Strategic Partnerships
Serial agency entrepreneur (currently NUNATAK Group), Founder of IconMobile (exit to WPP), Managing Director Europe at KYTE (exit to KTI Digital), Member of the Management Board at PRO7SAT1
Ludwig Preller, Technology Management hons. - B2B & Sales
Entrepreneur since 1999 - launched first business at age of 18, Sales, Business Development, Process Geek, Management, Fundraising, Lecturer at German universities about Entrepreneurship and Business Models, Founding Partner at GLOTEC Ventures and CLEVIS, Advisor to several Start-Ups |
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