Burda Principal Investments

– WaitWhat from NYC is a media invention company.
– The company raised $12m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Raga Partners with participation from Emerson Collective, Lupa Systems, Capital One Ventures, Maywic Select Investments, GingerBread Capital, Burda Principal Investments, Cue Ball Capital and Reid Hoffman.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate development of the company’s technology products, membership programs and partnerships that extend the core IP into multi-format media experiences.

– French startup Matera has announced that it has raised a new $43m funding round.
– The round was led by Mubadala Capital and joined by Bpifrance, Burda Principal Investments as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Samaipata.
– The company is building a vertical SaaS for residential property management.
– In France, co-owners of the common space of a building can decide to ditch the company that handles residential building management for them and do it themselves.
– It could work particularly well for small buildings with 10 or 15 apartments.
– When co-owners vote to switch to Matera, they get a web-based platform and a mobile app to view information and see all the contracts with various partners — think about elevator maintenance, heating maintenance, water, electricity, etc.