Gaming startup FSport raises € 1.1 M investment
Helsingborg-based FSport continues its focus on online sports content and has received over € 1 million (12 million SEK) in recent funding, reports Rapidus. The startup operates in the genre of Daily Fantasy Sports, originally an American phenomenon in which the user acts sports director and chooses his fictional dream team, whose results are determined […]
AI startup Forecast secures € 2.4 M investment
The AI-engined Project Management tool, Forecast, announced that during the summer they raised an investment from SEED Capital and Sunstone Capital. The round, the second investment in the startup, is valued at € 2.4 million. SEED Capital was already active in the first round, when they in 2016 together with PreSeed Ventures invested over € […]
Queue-it’s Virtual Waiting Room Surpasses 3 Billion End-Users
Startup Queue-it announces a historic milestone: over 3 billion end-users have passed through the company’s virtual waiting room platform. That means 3 billion concertgoers, streetwear enthusiasts, university applicants, and taxpayers have gone through one of the online queues set up by Queue-it’s customers in the ticketing, ecommerce, education, and public sectors. In 2010, co-founders Niels […]
Danish startup wins exclusive €1M EU grant
Airtame, the Danish startup that makes a wireless HDMI solution for both business and education sectors, was recently awarded a € 1.15 m grant by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 programe. Airtame started out as a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in 2014 during which they raised over € 1 million. Since then, […]
Fintech startup Pleo raises €13M Series A round
Fintech startup Pleo, that offers smart company payment cards to automate expense reports, today announced a €13 million ($16 million) Series A financing round led by Kinnevik, with participation from existing investors Creandum, Founders and Seedcamp. At over €13 million this round is one of the biggest Series A rounds ever raised by a startup […]
New regional VC makes first deal
AZ Growth Capital, based in Helsingborg, has formed an investment company, Hortus Group. Rapidus reports that they have recently become a shareholder in Linköping-based Senzum Group, a company focusing on providing customer service within e-commerce. “We are looking for well-managed and prosperous companies with growth potential and plan to have five-seven companies in the portfolio, […]
Tame emerges from under the radar
One of the most talked about “stealth” startups that have been around in the region is Tame, a startup focsusing on making event planning smart and easier. Being founded by Jasenko Hadzic, former head of CPHFTW, is has been in the works the last years building it’s first versions and onboarding customers. Now they have […]
Top angel investor becomes minister
The Danish cabinet was reshuffled today, with three new ministers appointed. One of the new ministers announced was an unusaual name in the political scene: prominent angel investor and serial entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers. He was appointed as minister for Higher Education and Science. Tommy has been one of the most active tech angels in the […]
Substainable fashion-startup raises € 30 000 in eight hours
Danish fashion brand Organic Basics have launched their new Kickstarter and in just eight hours they reached their goal at € 25 000, and not just that, already surpassed it to over € 30 000. Organic Basics clothes are two things: clothes with silver fibres which kills 99.9 % of all bacteria and makes it […]
Pleo partners with Storebox to create a world-first fully automated expense reporting solution
Copenhagen-based fintech startup Pleo, which offers smart company payment cards that eliminate expense reports, is announcing a partnership with the Scandinavia’s biggest provider of e-receipts, Storebox. Fully automated ‘end-to-end’ expense reporting The partnership makes it possible that purchases made on Pleo cards will automatically be matched with an electronic receipt when used. With over 5 […]