Company

Blinkist

Berlin

Investor	Rounds	Invested
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Who bought Blinkist

The transaction that ended Blinkist's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.

Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Go1	Acquisition	19 Dec 2023	~$100m	Ten13, Our Innovation Fund, Startup Daily, SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia

What Blinkist bought

Companies Blinkist acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Blinkist is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
Holger Seim	CEO · Founder	SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia

Coverage

Stories naming Blinkist. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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2023 in Review 💫

Ten13's year-end post recaps nine new portfolio additions, follow-on support for existing holdings, the Mr Yum and Me&U merger, Go1's Blinkist acquisition, Smileyscope's FDA clearance, and community events.

Also OIF Ventures portfolio·Ten13 portfolio·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·Forbes Australia·TechCrunch Venture

8 deals

Blast OIF | 23 things from 2023

OIF Ventures' year in review: full Eftsure exit, Opportunity Fund close, Visory, DataMasque and Nullify backed, follow-ons at Inspace and Dataweavers, new team members and portfolio milestones.

3 deals

Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

Australian learning platform Go1 is buying Berlin's Blinkist to grow its corporate training offering; deal terms are undisclosed, though Blinkist backer Insight Partners is taking $30 million of Go1 equity alongside the purchase.

TechCrunch Venture Mon 8 May 2023 Blinkist Go1 Delta Air Lines EDF Greycroft Headline IBB Microsoft Salesforce SoftBank Westpac Insight Partners Andrew Barnes Holger Seim

Also SmartCompany·Techboard

2 deals

Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

Also Crunchbase News·TechCrunch Venture·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Tech Funding News - Australia·Techboard·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·edtechchronicle.com·go1.com·Crunchbase News·TechCrunch Venture

8 deals

Go1 becomes latest Aussie unicorn, cracking $1 billion valuation

Republished AFR report recalls Go1's earlier backing and Series C investors, including OIF, while its reported Series D at a billion-dollar valuation remains in progress and a listing is flagged.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup News (WA)·TechCrunch Venture·TechCrunch Venture

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