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The Hearing-Aid Company That Put the Internet in the Waiting Room
audibene did not try to squeeze an audiology clinic into a browser. It built a digital front door, then kept the local expert in the room.
Parloa
Parloa is a Berlin-born enterprise software company building an AI Agent Management Platform that lets large organizations design, test, deploy, and optimize autonomous AI agents for customer service across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams. Founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald, it serves Global 2000 brands like Allianz, Booking.com, SAP, and Swiss Life, operating in 100+ countries and 140+ languages. In January 2026 it raised a $350M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $3B valuation.
BigchainDB
BigchainDB is a blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets.
Adsquare
Adsquare is a Berlin-based location intelligence company that turns real-world movement and behaviour into audience data marketers can use to plan, target, optimize and measure advertising campaigns. Founded in 2012, its mobile-first data exchange connects location, app-usage, demographic and offline signals to leading DSPs, SSPs and CDPs, powering geocontextual, proximity and audience targeting across mobile, online and digital out-of-home (DOOH). The platform is built privacy-first around consent-based signals and serves thousands of advertisers and dozens of platform partners across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Peec AI
Peec AI is a Berlin-based software company that helps marketing teams measure and improve how their brand shows up in AI-generated answers. Its platform tracks a brand's visibility, ranking, sentiment and cited sources across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and other generative engines, then recommends prompts and strategies to close gaps. Founded in early 2025 by Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia and Daniel Drabo, the company reached roughly $10M ARR within its first year and raised a $21M Series A led by Singular in November 2025.
Babbel
Babbel is a Berlin-based language learning company that teaches 14 languages through short, expert-designed lessons built for real-life conversation. Founded in 2007 and operated under the legal name Lesson Nine GmbH, it pioneered the paid subscription model for language apps and has sold tens of millions of subscriptions worldwide. Its lessons - typically 10 to 15 minutes - are written by linguists rather than crowdsourced or generated, and the company has layered in speech recognition and AI speaking practice while keeping human-designed pedagogy at the center.