GigsGuide releases virtual tours – Operation Paradise City
At this time with Corona rampaging the world, a lot of concerts are being canceled. GigsGuide, a startup within the travel and music industry, has launched a unique product to focus on this: virtual tours with artists. They call this “Operation Paradise City”. “Just because we can’t travel to see great gigs right now, it […]
Upcoming event: Conversionboost
Conversionboost is the annual conference on conversion optimization and growth hacking in Copenhagen. In 2020 the conference is about fighting bad conversionrates and less-than-great performing websites by “Putting Sales Back in Marketing”. Join fellow marketers and 7 great international speakers in the hunt for optimal online performance. Pick up new ideas, hacks and knowledge at […]
9 Copenhagen startups to look out for!
Ten danish startups have been selected as to watch out for by Tracxn, which amongst other has Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital as backers. These startups include nine from the Copenhagen region: Symphogen Trustpilot Pleo Vivino Peakon Planday SNIPR Biome Simple Feast Blackwood Seven These startup have together raised over € 1 billion in funding […]
Mapillary reaches 1 billion images
Malmö based startup Mapillary announced that they have now officially reached 1 billion images taking by people all over the world. I huge milestone, and something to compare with when they in 2014 reached 1 million images – which was a big mile-stone back then. “We just reached 1 billion images on Mapillary. People and […]
New investment fund Mist Ventures launched in Lund
Mistbase founders Michal Stala and Magnus Midholt, who sold their startup to ARM in 2017, announced they have started Mist Ventures. There are already two startups in the portfolio. One is AligND Systems, which is a new startup but that focuses on taking Sol Voltaic’s technology further, after it’s bankruptcy earlier this year. The other […]
Contractbook Raises €3.5M from Google and byFounders
Contractbook, a legaltech startup that has a platform for end-to-end contract lifecycle management, has announced they raised € 3.5 million from a syndicate led by Gradient Ventures, which is Google’s AI Fund, the Nordic VC-fund byFounders and a group of key angel investors. This is the first time a Danish startup received funding from a […]
StickerApp in €24M deal
Stickerapp.com, a service for ordering the all too famous sticker for laptops, widely used amongst startups, has recently been in a big deal. The startup has over the last years grown a lot – from € 6 million to reportedly over € 12 million in revenue, with a margin of 40%. Now it has been […]
Top tech women celebrated by Inspiring Fifty
During Slush last week the 2019 Inspiring Fifty for the Nordics where announced. The prize is about highlighting 50 technology “trailblazers, innovators and executives that are smashing perceptions of what women can and do”. Inspiring Fifty Nordic is a global initiative, initiated in the Netherlands by Janneke Niessen, and done together with Antler. The awards […]
3 representatives from the region at the Startup World Cup
There are definitely a bunch of startup competitions around. Besides the Global Startup Awards (where the Nordic Startup Awards regional winners where just announced), VentureCup (which is held both in Denmark and Sweden), there is also the Startup World Cup, organized by the Silicon Vikings in the Nordics. This week the Swedish session was held, […]
Friend-app Panion raises investment round from prominent angels
Melanie Aronson moved from New York to Malmö a few years ago, and has since then started Panion, an app for finding friends. The app has so far attracted close to 100.000 users. Now it is reported they closed an angel round of over € 230.000 (SEK 2.5 million). “We are almost at 100.000 users. […]