Winners from the Nordic Startup Awards
This week the Nordic Startup Awards where concluded. After a series of local events in each country (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland), the finals where held yesterday, this year in Oslo. From the Øresund region winners where: Airhelp won the Startup of the year Award for the Danish part of the competition. Airtame, who […]
Copenhagen Startup Village revealed!
There really is something brewing in Copenhagen! Founders House, an invite only co-working space, has for long been the most known startup palces in Copenhagen. This week it was announced they will move to a new location. But this location will not just be a much larger and grander Founders House – it will also […]
What happens in the EdTech scene – EDUdisrupt
Today Innovation Centre Denmark organised the EDUdisrupt conference. It was a day packed with both academia, corporates and VCs as well as a lot of startups and tech. An interesting mix, and a collection of people that not meet regularly. The day consisted of many short keynotes, raging from the more historical perspective on where […]
PinMeTo gets investment by Lars Wingefors
The location based startup PinMeTo, that offers B2B solution for getting location based data, has announced an investment by seriel-entrepreneur Lars Wingefors. The investment is said to be around € 160 000. PinMeTo has so far been bootstrapped, having had a clear revenue stream since the start. The investment will give besides money some interesting […]
Invisible bi-cycle helmet Hövding secures investment of over € 3 million
Rapidus reports that the VC Indigo Capital Partners together with others investors have invested a little over € 3.3 million in the hardware startup Hövding. Hövdings solution, to create an invisible helmet that acts like an airbag, has had a long way from idea to reality. It is however now ready to scale up, and […]
VIP over VoIP with Eric Ries and Clarity Live
The next VIP over VoIP event in the series will be with none other then Eric Ries, the author of The Lean Startup. An event that surely will draw big crowds, Eric and the Lean Startup movement being highly regarding by many both seasoned and new entrepreneurs. Great guest – but also on new ways […]
Crazy about hacks – high season for hackathons!
This spring seems to be a crazy period for hacks and hackathons! As we have noted earlier, this region might definitely be the event hotspot of the Nordic startup scene – and that blog-post was only focusing on big events. The same seems to be true with hackathons! Lot’s of hacks in 2014 We don’t […]
Zendesks IPO sets tone for startups in the Øresund region
This weeks big news it Zendesks IPO, which will be listed on the New York stock exchange. Also, Zendesk announced that it will acquire Zopim, a Singapore-based startup that has a popular live-chat product. The IPO aims to raise $150 Millions, and the company will trade with the signature “ZEN”. The story of Zendesk Zendesks […]
Nikolaj Astrup on why he left Ateo
Yesterday Nikolaj Astrup made a powerful and open blogpost announcing his decision to leave the startup Ateo. Ateo, a marketplace for commercial real-estate and conferences, was started in September 2013, and was a spin-off by Martin Thorborgs Amino. The new company, owned in part by Amino, was run by Nikolaj and his companion Mads Bjerring […]
Sweden’s 33 hottest tech companies 2014 announced – 6 winners from the Øresund region
For the 7th year NyTeknik and Affärsvärlden made the list of Swedens 33 hottest tech companies. Last year we had 5 startups from the region on the list, this year those have increased to 6! The six startups that made the list are: Anolytech Avidicare Mapillary Simris Alg Sol Voltaics TrialBee Last years winners were […]