Egmont invests in marketsplace everclassic.com
Everclassic.com was launched last summer and proved quickly a good growth in both getting users as well as site-visits. Now Egmont Publishing has announced they invest in the business. Together, the parties challenge the leading online marketplace for classic furniture, art and design. “We are proud and very happy to have Egmont onboard as partners. […]
Realm raises € 18 M Series B from Khosla Ventures & Scale VP to bring Databases to Mobile
Realm just closed a € 18 M ($ 20 M) Series B led by Khosla Ventures, along with new investor Scale Venture Partners. Less than 9 months after its public launch, Realm is already the 2nd-most deployed database in the world, running on well over 100 million devices! Realm was founded by Alexander Stigsen and […]
Falcon Social Raises € 15 M from Prime Ventures, Northcap and Target Partners
Falcon Social, with its SaaS social media management platform, announced today the closing of € 15 M ($ 16 M) in new funding. The Series B financing round was led by Prime Ventures and joined by existing Falcon Social investors Northcap and Target Partners, bringing the company’s total financing to date to $ 23 M. […]
How does funding work – Business angels, VCs and investments in Nordic startups by numbers
Inspired by an article from Founders and Founders back in 2013, I wanted to give an example of how startup funding rounds really work in the Nordics. There are plenty of examples from the U.S., but I want to give a reference to how it is in the Nordic startup environments. So this post is […]
Startup Compass – help improve knowledge about startups in the region
Compass is a Californian initiative that aims to get a detailed overview of startups in different countries and fields. Currently, they are doing an in-depth survey about the Danish startup environment, but also the Nordics in general. Their aim is to provide better data about how startups are doing, what troubles do they have, and […]
Klaus Nyengaard joins Creandum as investor in Planday
Planday, the software startup that helps companies with an efficient employees scheduling, has announced a new investor. Drawing on experience from Just-Eat When Creandum in 2014 invested in Planday, they kept the part of the investment open to the right co-investor. Now it has been announced that Klaus Nyengaard takes that role. Klaus past with […]
Sharing groups: Learn from other CMO, CTOs, CFOs and CEOs
One of the biggest challenges with building a startup is that no-one really knows what they are doing. Especially as the startup grows, everyone who is managing stuff quickly realises that you are doing stuff you probably have never done before. This is a big problem, that hinders startups from growing as efficient as possible. […]
AngelNext – connecting promising startups with good business angels
The second AngelNext has been held, this time at the newly opened Rainmaking Loft, with 13 startups and 15 veteran business angels participating. It is an event that will be held continuously, and is an initiative of both #malmostartups and #cphftw – the first event was held in Malmö in february. The concept had been […]
Colego gets € 2 million investment to help connect small businesses
Colego is an online marketplace connecting service-providers. Here both citizen and businesses can obtain quotes on jobs and services. The startup has experienced strong growth, and has just announced an investment funding of € 2 million from Northcap Partners. “Our main task is to create contact between two sides, and that is what we have […]
Scandinavia’s biggest tech startup house opens in Copenhagen
This week Rainmaking Loft welcomes 300 entrepreneurs at their 3000 square meter former naval facility by the harbor in Copenhagen – a cultural landmark building renovated at the cost of 1.3 million euros. The place is huge, and will bring different startups in the tech scene close to each-other. “We want to create a full […]