Berlin gets its $14.8B exit
Uber just paid $14.8B for a Berlin company. 🇩🇪 Delivery Hero: from the Rocket Internet years to the biggest European tech acquisition of 2026. An era of Berlin tech gets its exit. So what does Berlin do next? We mapped it. 180 venture-backed companies, pinned at their exact HQ, live: - 60 Scaleups ($100M+ raised), including n8n, Trade Republic, Parloa - 60 Breakouts ($15-100M), including Reflex Aerospace, Mercanis, Cloover pushing toward that tier - 60 Startups ($1-15M), including Rulemapping Group, Jobufo GmbH or Cariqa... names you haven't heard yet. You will. And the map shows why exits compound here: these companies sit within a few km of each other, packed inside the S-Bahn Ring. When $14.8B of liquidity, talent and proof starts recirculating, it doesn't have far to travel. …
Kept this for the map of what Berlin does next.