
Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Skype founder Niklas Zennström, has invested 350,000 euros in Denmark-based Ge.tt, which offers an eponymous Web-based file sharing service.
Ge.tt is simple, clean, and useful. Like many file-sharing services, Ge.tt makes it easy for people to shoot files to the cloud so they can be shared with others, all from a browser-based application.
Airbnb has been battling Wimdu, it’s arch nemesis clone, in Europe and particular in Germany and surrounding German-speaking countries. However, it looks like it might have over-extended itself. A message from it’s Vienna office has been passed to us saying by the end of the year they will have to close the Vienna office and everything will be handled from Germany from January onwards. Admittedly Austria is a much smaller market, but it is indicative of the fierce competition going on. We’ve reached out to Airbnb for further comment.

Starting in early 2012, when Netflix is set to make its debut in the UK and Ireland, registered members will be able to instantly stream available content on their television sets, tablets, game consoles, computers and mobile phones.
In the beginning of November, the video streaming giant signed up MGM as its first content provider for the regions, and this morning Netflix announced a new digital licensing agreement that will add a host of BBC series.
Eeve is an iPhone app [iTunes link] that allows people to create location-based photo albums that sort of clump together to document events. There are hits and misses in this space. Gowalla tried to get people to tell stories with check-ins and photos. Color, and largely failed, to group location with photos. The EyeEm app introduces a location-based element. Few apps have really captured the imagination, other than maybe Instagram, but that won’t let you ‘join’ a location-based group. Eeve does.
Last week we broke the exclusive story that Rocket Internet, the incubator in Berlin best known as the epicenter of Germany’s clone/copycat startup culture had hit the rocks. It recently lost at least 20 of its key staff – including at least two CTOs. The timing is bad for Rocket’s founders, the three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) who are understood to be raising at least a billion dollar financing round, possibly from DST, designed to clone every successful US startup. It’s been confirmed that even Rocket’s MD and key founder Christian Weiss has left.
Now local tech blog Deutsche Startups has confirmed that long time member of the Samwer’s ‘praetorian guard’ Florian Heinemann looks likely to leave “within the next three months”.

I’m late to this news, but it is worth logging that one of Europe’s better VCs, Paul Jozefak (@pjozefak) last month parted ways with his firm Neuhaus Partners in Hamburg. I’ve known Paul for a few years now, but I’ve always found him to be one of the best European VCs: a straight talker, quick to respond and combative – in a good way. Consider his most recent guest post about the prospects for European venture capital.

Eventasaurus, a startup still in private beta, has raised an undisclosed angel round to create a dashboard for event managers. You know all those separate events you have to create on Eventbrite, Meetup, Facebook, Plancast, Lanyrd etc? With Eventasaurus you create and manage the event on one place under one single interface. Launched in private beta earlier this year, it’s winning plaudits amongst event managers in London.
Pan-european 13-week accelerator startup accelerator Springboard has delayed applications for its next programme to 29 January which will now be in London from April. The move means the programme will be the first to join long-time player Seedcamp in the UK capital. Springboard has previously only operated from Cambridge.
Springboard has also assembled a “goodie bag” of products from Microsoft, SendGrid, Twilio, Google, FreeAgent, TechSmith, Pivotal Tracker and Edicy, worh, they say, over £350. Yes, I know, be still your fluttering hearts. But there’s also £40,000 of free cloud hosting over two years offered to each Springboard team from Microsoft. Read the small print…
Struq, a retargeting ad platform is currently in negotiations to close an $8 million financing round, according to CEO Sam Barnett as quoted by the Financial Times over the weekend.
IdeaPlane is a new “enterprise social network” platform set up by James Fabricant, one of the founding team behind MySpace International. But this is no flaky platform for young bands as MySpace was. Aiming at highly regulated industries it’s launching with two top-ten global investment banks as founding clients, though these remain unnamed, so there’s no way of confirming that.