Sort of interesting just to hear about the ups and downs of companies like dubsmash. They were often cited as an example of Berlin's future as a startup city [1]. They went from 35+ employees to 27 [2] to now 12 as they've stated in this post. They also moved from Berlin to New York, which seems to imply they felt like the city couldn't offer what they currently need. It looks like in the process of moving they didn't take that many of the employees with them (maybe this was also a way out of strict German employment rules?) Seems like a bit of an attempt at a restart (co-founder Roland Grenke seems to be gone, etc).

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/european-startups-2016-berlin [2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/dubsmash-9m/