![]() “That’s very much something that we are thinking about right now.” Considering that the company has as its CTO Chad Fowler, who it hired away from LivingSocial, you can see where integrating interesting commercial content is not far outside of the company’s abilities or sensibilities. “We want to make lists more intelligent,” Reber says. You might even be able to buy tickets to those showings, or to link to them for streaming. If Wunderlist integrates with IMDb, it could provide you with information about those films or it can integrate with Moviefone or TimeOut to alert you to where it is playing on a big screen - an even cooler feature when you consider non-blockbuster films that may be appearing for short runs in art house cinemas, where you might miss them playing otherwise. Second, partnerships will mean that Wunderlist will be able to give users a much more dynamic experience. Say you are making a list of movies that you would like to see on the app. First, the API will mean that developers will be able to incorporate Wunderlist functionality into their own services - for example, if you read about an interesting event, you can then “Wunderlist” it by clicking on a button, similar to how you pin on Pinterest or post to Facebook and Twitter today. And soon after that, the company will launch an API and develop partnerships with other companies. ![]() The app - which will go live across all the existing platforms of iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle and web, with Windows Phone still in the works - will include more real-time sharing and collaboration features to build out its premium Pro product. The next focus product-wise for Wunderlist will be to complete and release Wunderlist 3, Reber says, likely in January/early February. Until now, the city has seen investment and startup activity concentrated among early-stage startups, specifically you venture outside the walls of the Samwer Brothers’ Rocket Internet e-commerce empire. The city has been hailed by many as the new hotbed for tech startups in Europe, fuelled by a low cost of living, a young and educated population, and a burst of creativity converging on the city from around the rest of the continent. It represents Sequoia’s first investment in a German startup, and it comes at a key time for Berlin. This is a significant investment on another level, too. This takes the total invested in the startup to $30 million. and to turbo-charge Wunderlist - or, as co-founder and CEO Christian Reber told me earlier, “To turn our product into a platform.” Now, we have the official details of that news: it’s a $19 million round, and Wunderlist, which now has 6 million people and 50,000 businesses making to-do lists, will be using it to fuel big ambitions: to build out its presence in the U.S. A couple of weeks ago when TechCrunch was in Berlin, we sniffed out and eventually published the details of an interesting investment for a local startup: 6Wunderkinder, maker of the task-management app Wunderlist, had closed a Series B investment led by California’s Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investors Earlybird and Atomico.
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