Mofibo acquired by Storytel for € 13.5 million
Mofibo, the online book streaming service, announced last week that they have been acquired by Storytel. The deal is worth 100 million DKK, € 13.5 million. Mofibo was founded in 2013 by Morten Strunge, who previously in 2011 sold his company Onfone to Danish mobile operator TDC, and also just was in the news for […]
Falcon Social becomes Falcon.io
Recently Falcon Social unveiled a new brand identity and a name change that signals focus on complete handling of company interaction across all digital channels, not just social media. The startup, now grown to more than 230 employees, has announced they changed name to Falcon.io. “Imagine having visibility over an individual’s entire digital storyline – […]
Here are the winners of Nordic Startup Awards Danish Edition 2016
The Danish 2016 finale in Nordic Startup Awards were held on Tuesday evening at the HQ of DI in collaboration with Danish Industry (DI) and WeLoveStartups. The evening’s Grand Prize, Startup of the Year, went to Realm.io, and was presented by the Danish Minister of Business and Growth, Troels Lund Poulsen. Realm.io is a database […]
Fintech Lunar Way gears up for Danish launch
As it prepares to launch later this Spring, neobank Lunar Way has added a couple of financial services heavyweights to its board of directors. Former Nykredit managing director Henning Kruse Petersen will become chairman of the board, joined by Swedish Nordnet chief technology officer Tuva Palm. The board already contains Sebastian Vestergaard, CFO at Joe […]
Unity reports 4.2 billion installs, on 1.7 billion devices
Unity is surging ahead. The startups has released the second edition of the “Games by the Numbers” report, which employs data to reveal game install trends across different platforms, devices and regions. Having become one of the strongest technologies within mobile, Unity’s usage says a lot. The company reports that in the first quarter, there […]
Queue-it Wins Prestigious Supplier of the Year Award
For the first annual Ticketing Technology Awards, held at Ireland’s number one visitor attraction: the Guinness Storehouse, Queue-it was nominated by judges in the category “Industry Supplier”. The category that recognizes suppliers for consistent service, innovation and support for the ticketing sector. However, it was the votes from the 450 delegates that determined Queue-it as […]
Billion euro deal rumoured around Qlik
Even if no longer a startup, Qlik is one of the tech giants in the region. So talks about it maybe being acquired are of large interest. Bloomberg news reports that three private equity firms, Thoma Bravo, Bain Capital and Permira, have shown interest in Qlik. Qlik currently has a market cap of almost € […]
IoT startup Minut one of two remaining finalists in European innovation awards
The IoT startup Minut, with the connected sensor Point, is evolving after launching and delivering on it’s very successful Kickstarter campaign. Minut has been invited to join the EDF Pulse awards in France for innovative tech projects together with over 250 other companies in Europe. As the first stages of EDF Pusle are now done, […]
Updated startup listing on our site
As many of you have noticed, the list of startups from the Greater Copenhagen region that we have on this site (which has over the years grown to 236 different startups) has lately not been very up to date. The problem has been that CrunchBase changed their API a (long) while ago, and our custom […]
Students solved problems in 24 hours at Drivhuset24
When Drivhuset for the 10th year opened the registration for the big competition Drivhuset24 the spots were filled quickly! 60 students from Malmö University, Lund University and SLU Alnarp will participate in the competition and each team has 24 hours to solve a specific challenge for a company. The first prize, a trip to New […]