Companies based in Berlin

SoundCloud is a German audio streaming service owned and operated by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG. The service allows its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming services in the world and is available in 190 countries and territories. The service has upwards of 76 million active monthly users and over 200 million audio tracks as of November 2021. SoundCloud offers both free and paid memberships on the platform, available for mobile, desktop and Xbox devices. SoundCloud has evolved f

German logistics company

former German airline

ResearchGate is a commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although other services have more registered users, and a 2015–2016 survey suggests that almost as many academics have Google Scholar profiles.

Ecosia (derived from "eco" and "utopia") is a non-profit tech organisation based in Berlin, Germany. It runs its namesake internet search engine, which launched on 7 December 2009 to coincide with UN climate talks in Copenhagen. More recently the organisation has launched additional products such as a namesake web browser.

German classical music record label

large multimedia company in Europe

Zalando SE is a publicly traded international online retailer based in Berlin which is active across Europe and specializes in shoes, fashion and beauty products. The company was founded in 2008 by David Schneider and Robert Gentz and has more than 51 million active users in 25 European markets.

railway rolling stock manufacturer

N26 Bank SE, doing business as N26, and formerly named Papayer GmbH, and Number26 GmbH, is a multinational German fintech and neobank company based in Berlin that offers a variety of financial services to individuals and businesses. N26 was founded in 2013 by Rocket Internet, an incubator, and operates in various European Union member states that are members of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Their services include transaction accounts and debit cards, as well as overdraft and investment products under a subscription business model.

German publishing house

European professional esports organisation

German software company

German Internet company

Internet-based TV platform

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German hip-hop independent record label

Stock exchange located in Berlin, Germany

Jamba (formerly Jamba!) is a German company that created and marketed ringtones for mobile phones. It operated under the name Jamster in Australia, New Zealand, China, Armenia, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, France, Kuwait, Turkey, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Austria, Brazil, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Sweden, Iraq, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia and Russia. They are very well known for their many ringtone characters including Crazy Frog, Gummibär, Holly Dolly, René la Taupe, Schnuffel Bunny, and Psycho Teddy.

German video game developer

t-online.de is a German news portal, owned and published by digital multi-channel media company Ströer. It reaches over 179 million visits per month coming from 29 million unique visitors. The editorial team is located in Berlin.

continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub

OneFootball is a Berlin-based football media and technology company. Its platform combines live scores, statistics, and news from over 200 leagues in multiple languages through its newsroom in Berlin. In 2019, OneFootball partnered up with Eleven Sports to have the rights to live stream football matches from Spanish first league La Liga in the UK and with Sky to transmit 2. Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal matches in Germany directly through its app. In 2020, OneFootball acquired club-founded video forum Dugout.

Zattoo is a TV platform which states that it can be used for IP-based transmission of television channels and video on demand content to different devices. The company headquarters are located in Zurich and it has an additional office in Berlin.

Blacklane GmbH is a provider of premium global chauffeur services, which provides a chauffeur portal connecting people to professional chauffeurs via their mobile app, website and hotline. The company offers a prebooking service at a fixed rate and doesn't own its own fleet, but works with local chauffeur companies in each of its cities. Airport pickups include one hour of free waiting time, while all non-airport pickups include 15 minutes. Guests can also edit or cancel their bookings for free up to one hour before a one-way transfer.

former subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn; now merged into DB InfraGO AG

German publisher

1919-1926 airline in Germany

The Disconto-Gesellschaft (, full name Direktion der Disconto-Gesellschaft) was a significant German bank, founded in Berlin in 1851. It was one of the largest German banking organizations until its 1929 merger into Deutsche Bank.

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German video game publisher

thumb|Headquarters in Berlin GetYourGuide is a German online marketplace for tour guides, excursions, travel-related activities, and tickets to tourist attractions. It has more than 150,000 offerings worldwide from more than 20,000 supply partners, some of which use the GetYourGuide branding. In the third quarter of 2025, the company sold over 10 million tickets.

German ballet company

Plantix is a mobile crop advisory app for farmers, extension workers and gardeners. Plantix was developed by PEAT GmbH, a Berlin-based AI startup. The app is capable of diagnosing plant damages (caused by pests, diseases or nutrient deficiencies) based on digital images of symptoms. It then suggests pesticides and herbicides and connects users with local sellers of these inputs, taking a commission on app-generated pesticide sales. Since its inception, the start-up's founders and employees have claimed that Plantix reduces the use of environmentally harmful pesticides—a claim that is increasin

Omio (legally: GoEuro Travel GmbH), formerly known as GoEuro, is a German online travel comparison and booking website based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2013 as GoEuro by Naren Shaam.

Ableton AG is a German music software company that produces and distributes the production and performance program Ableton Live and a collection of related instruments and sample libraries, as well as their own hardware controller Ableton Push. Ableton's office is located in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, Germany, with a second office in Pasadena, California.

Private bank based in Berlin, Germany, Aryanized by Nazi regime in 1938

Posteo is an email service provider based in Berlin, Germany, offering paid email accounts for individuals and businesses. The service gained prominence during the aftermath of the post-2013 global surveillance disclosures, especially for its high standard security features and relative anonymity as it does not require any private information in the registration process.

bank from Berlin, Germany

German bank "Aryanized" under the Nazis

transit district serving Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany

German chain of hostels, headquartered in Berlin

German online broker

German pornographic film studio based in Berlin. producing gay pornographic films since 1996

housing association in Germany

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Transport Company in Germany

HomeToGo is a Berlin-based company that combines a B2B Software & tech-enabled Service segment, HomeToGo_PRO, with an AI-powered B2C marketplace. HomeToGo operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and the Asia-Pacific region.

ersguterjunge is an independent German hip hop label distributed by Sony BMG. It was founded by rappers D-Bo and Bushido in 2004, after he left the indie label Aggro Berlin. Bushido is the managing director. ersguterjunge is a reflexion on some of Germany's immigrant population's slang for standard German "er ist ein guter Junge" ("he is a good boy").

German company

German natural gas utility company

German scientific and academic publishing company

record label

German film production company based in Berlin

German publishing house

German video game developer

ColorsxStudios GmbH (formerly Colors Media UG), commonly known as Colors (stylized in all caps), is a German music performance platform that aims at introducing and showcasing emerging artist talent in the form of videos with minimalist aesthetics. Since its inception in February 2016, their eponymous YouTube channel has amassed over eight million subscribers and over three billion cumulative views. The recognizable peculiarity of their videos is that each band or artist is filmed alone on stage with a neutral background of a particular color.

German hosting provider

Auticon (stylised as auticon) is an international information technology consulting company and social enterprise that employs autistic adults as consultants. Founded in Berlin in 2011, the company has expanded internationally through organic growth and the acquisitions of American company MindSpark and Canadian company Meticulon. In 2023, Auticon and the Nordic consultancy Unicus announced an agreement under which the two companies would unite. The company operated in 15 countries as of 2024.