German technology incubator Rocket Internet is most commonly associated with being a ‘clone factory’ that creates imitations of successful businesses, but its ambitious strategy in emerging markets is ...

The Samwer brothers, their Rocket Internet investment vehicle and their portfolio of e-commerce companies have been some of the harder-to-penetrate parts of the European startup ecosystem. They often ...

Rocket Internet is one of the most successful — and controversial — startup incubators in the world. Since its founding in 2007 by Oliver Samwer, and his two younger brothers, Marc and Alex, Rocket ...

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In an entirely unsurprising move, Rocket Internet’s Airbnb clone for China, Airizu, has closed. The Airizu URL now redirects to Wimdu.cn, another vacation home rental site run by Rocket that operates ...

The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Germany and possibly Europe. After ...

Airizu, Rocket Internet’s Airbnb-inspired service that helps Chinese travelers connect to hosts with a room to spare, has apparently shut its doors. Rocket Internet first launched Airizu in 2011, ...

German cloning giant Rocket Internet has officially launched Kasuwa, its Nigerian Amazon-style ecommerce site. The company made its first big forays onto the continent with a number of properties in ...

BERLIN — Huddled around nondescript IKEA desks and a sea of flat-screen monitors, Benedikt Franke and his team hammer away at a two-month-old start-up called Helpling, which allows consumers to book ...

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In November 2015, Oliver Samwer had a new investment to pitch. The charismatic founder of Rocket Internet, a Berlin-based incubator famous for churning out copycat startups based on successful U.S.