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In the last 3+ years, Handpicked exploded. The newsletter became too long and therefore lost focus. That’s why I decided to split it. Thursday issue you are reading will be dedicated to careers and our community, which will give it more space to grow and develop further.

This is issue #1, but the content isn’t new. If you've been reading Handpicked Berlin, you already know what's here. But since this is now a more dedicated space, I will be able to add more events, community voices and career tips.

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As always, I again fell victim to planning fallacy and underestimated the time that things would take, so it will take some time until the newsletter gets the form that I envisioned.

Happy reading, and of course, I am always happy to get feedback.

👀 Jobs

This section will be back as soon as the workload normalises. Thank you for your patience. You are the best! In the meantime, you can still:

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💸 Funded in Germany

We have a lot of backlog here (since the 16th of Feb!), but we will be back on track next Thursday.

There will be a change in the careers link. I am not linking directly to the ATS pages anymore, for example, company.ats.com, so some links will lead to About pages.

  1. Flink | Berlin | Quick commerce delivery service | $100M | Careers.

  2. Kombo | Berlin | HR and payroll infrastructure platform | $25M Series A | Careers.

  3. Plato | Berlin | AI operating system for wholesalers | €12.2M Seed | Careers.

  4. 🚨 Cognee | Berlin | AI context retention infrastructure | $7.5M | Careers.

  5. The Delta | Berlin | Venture infrastructure and campus platform | €4.5M | Careers.

  6. Diligent AI | Berlin | AI anti-money laundering compliance | €2.1M Seed | Careers.

  7. Neptune | Berlin | Education technology solutions | $1.5M Seed | Careers.

  8. Just 4 Noise | Berlin | AI noise management solutions | $1M Seed | Careers.

  9. Gropyus | Berlin/Vienna | Industrialised timber housing construction | €100M | Careers.

  10. Foodforecast | Cologne | AI food waste reduction software | €8M Series A | Careers.

  11. Einklang | Cologne | Battery-optimised electricity tariffs | €2.2M | Careers.

  12. Oska Health | Frankfurt | AI chronic disease coaching | €11M Seed | Careers.

  13. Green Banana | Frankfurt | BNPL orchestrator platform | €2M | No careers.

  14. Flexoo | Heidelberg | Physical-AI flexible sensor technology | €11M Series A | Careers.

  15. Umlaut | Heidelberg | Cancer treatment biotech | €3M Pre-seed | Careers.

  16. IspTech | Ludwigsburg | Non-toxic spacecraft propulsion systems | €5.5M Seed | Careers.

  17. happyhotel | Offenburg | AI revenue management for hotels | €6.5M Series A | Careers.

  18. YOU(th) | Munich | AI smartphone health screening | $4.5M | Careers.

  19. Secfix | Munich | Security compliance automation | $12M Series A | Careers.

  20. Sitegeist | Munich | Construction robotics technology | €4M Pre-seed | Careers.

  21. Tytan Technologies | Munich | Drone defence systems | €30M | Careers.

  22. Hypersonica | Wessling | Advanced aerospace flight technology | €23.3M Series A | Careers.

📅 Events

From our partners:

  • Our friends at {Tech: Europe} are organising one day Applied AI conference in Berlin on the 28th of May. It’s for builders and teams running AI systems in production. They will sponsor three tickets for selected Handpicked readers. You can apply here. We will pick three candidates by mid-March. You don’t wanna miss this.

  • Let’s be honest: if there was ever a moment to sharpen your skills, it is now! Join ESMT Berlin’s sample lecture "Dealing with uncertainty", meet students over a drink, and get your questions answered about Germany’s top business school. | Sat, 28/03 10:00 | ESMT Berlin

  • Nebius is bringing Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA GTC keynote to Berlin. A real cinema broadcasting for AI and ML leaders, engineers, researchers, and product teams who care about the announcements shaping the year ahead. | Mon, 16/03 18:00 | AchtBerlin

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☕️ Coffee Talk

Plamen Pasliev is the man behind the charts (if you are on Instagram, you probably have seen some) and a 3x weekly newsletter called Berlin News Daily. It’s a curated collection of news in English with events of the week. Check it out. Here is what he prepared for you:

  • Bar Bobu - One of my favourite bars in Berlin. It's cosy, the staff and crowd there are nice. They have different live music shows multiple times per week. If you like jazz, soul or blues, you should check them out.

  • Lex Fridman Podcast - I'm a big fan of podcasts, and this is one of my favourites. Lex is a former ML researcher at MIT who now interviews some of the most successful people out there. If you're wondering where to start, some recent episodes I liked were with Pavel Durov (Telegram's CEO) and Demis Hassabis (DeepMind).

  • Language Reactor - I recently found this free Chrome extension and I love it. Works great for improving your German vocabulary. It makes any YouTube or Netflix video into a language lesson. You get both English and German subtitles and can look up and save unknown words. It also tells you which words are not common, so you can focus on the ones that actually matter!

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🌍 From the Community

  • Our friends at Deep Work Club are sponsoring one founder fully (€6,900 value) for their 12-month Deep Work for Founder Fellowship, a transformation journey for Seed-to-Series A founders starting mid-April. More info here.

  • Help Matthew with 10 min of your time! His doctoral study explores what influences organizational decisions to adopt AI in recruitment. If you're involved in hiring or talent strategy, your insights will help strengthen evidence-based practice in the field.

  • Melissa’s FoundFactory connects serious academic founders across universities with the co-founder they actually need - complementary in skill, equal in ambition, aligned in risk appetite. Built for those who refuse to leave team formation to chance.

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🧭 Career compass

  1. Don't forget to participate in the 2026 Salary Trends survey. It includes a couple of new questions on benefits, remote work, and AI. It takes about 4 minutes and is 100% anonymous. Ravio, our benchmarking partner, and Factofly, our independent work partner, support this year's survey. Already participated? Share it with your team and friends.

  2. Signals from the Monday newsletter: defence startups Helsing [careers] and Stark [careers] received big government contracts. JP Morgan [careers] is soon launching their consumer bank in Germany. Auto1 Group reported good results [careers].

  3. Who is hiring March thread is up at Hacker News: filtered for Berlin (6 companies at the time of this writing).

  4. Reddit discussions on: Zalando (internal rumours) and JetBrains (AI risk).

  5. Good tips from Jan Tezge for job seekers on how to make sure your settings on LinkedIn aren’t blocking your discovery potential.

  6. Not a problem I have as a solopreneur, but here is a short note on the problem of using AI notetakers in companies. It’s true: imagine gossiping at the end of a meeting and then the gossip summary getting posted to a Slack channel or sent to everyone invited to the meeting.

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