Bloggers delight acquires Looklab
Denmark’s largest blogging platform, Blogger’s Delight, has just acquired Looklab who manages a number of fashion and lifestyle blogs. The acquisition of its largest competitor is just the first in a strategy designed to make Blogger’s Delight to the largest online media house. Bloggers Delight serves already over 10 million page views per month to […]
New media to unite game entrepreneurs in the Nordics
A new initiative has been launched to unite entrepreneurs active in the gaming scene. Games for mobile, tablet, console and computer, which may be just as fun as verbal games ideas by babamail, is one of the fastest growing industries in the entertainment industry. Already by 2017, it is estimated that the industry will generate […]
#Cphftw Town Hall #3 – packed with people and announcements
The third #cphftw Town Hall meet-up was held earlier this week. There were big news about the initiative itself as well as a lot of announcement of very interesting new initiatives. The venue was the Kph Volume hall – a very rough environment, that reinforced the ambition of the whole initiative – do it simple […]
Conferize ends beta, launches full on redesigned service
This week startup Conferize announced that they will launch a new version of their popular conference service, called V1 – short for version 1. This marks an end as a beta for the service, that has been around since 2011 when Martin Ferro Thomsen, former co-founder at Issuu, started the service. What’s the fuzz about? […]
Join and help shape #CPHFTW
The next Town hall meet-up for the #cphftw initiative is approaching. This time it is a little different: after the announcement in august this meet-up will be used to present plans and amongst all give opportunity to feedback and input on what should happen in the future. Over 600 participants are expected at this meet-up, […]
What VCs think about startups & business angels – insights from Nordic Next
A couple of month ago the Nordic Next conference was held. Being an intimate invite-only conference aimed at VCs and business angels active in Europe, some very interesting topics where discussed. However, some of the sessions and panels where filmed, and now everyone has the chance to know what was talked about. You can find […]
Shipbeat raises €1.2 M seed round, launches “Logistics as a Service” API
Startup Shipbeat today announces a $ 1.6 M (€ 1.2 M) investment led by Sunstone, SEED Capital and Klaus Nyengaard. The investment will be used to further expand product capabilities, hiring and complete key ecommerce software integrations. Shipbeat was founded in early 2014 to develop an API which aggregates the services of leading parcel delivery […]
Hardware, art & tech – 2 big maker events coming up!
End of august seems to be maker-heaven: to large maker events are happening in the region. One is the Orange Makers Made Festival, that is held in Roskilde. Orange Makers is a makerspace that is part of Orange Innovation, which could be called ‘R&D department’ of the famous Roskilde Festival. The other one is Framtidsrummet, […]
Digital door-lock solution Zaplox raises € 3 million funding
This week Zaplox announced that it has closed a € 3 million funding round. The startup, founded in 2010, has developed and patented a system to handle door locking using mobile phones. Zaplox system gives companies worldwide the opportunity to improve the efficiency of key management and to create new services and processes through the […]
#cphftw goes live – becomes more than just meet-ups
Today #cphftw evolved. It not just got a more functional website, www.cphftw.dk, but also important basic details sorted out, as well as further commitments at creating a world-class startup ecosystem. It all came from a meeting that was held yesterday evening, where some of the most influential entrepreneurs, VCs and business angels in Copenhagen were […]