Øresund – the Nordics event capital?
That the Copenhagen-Malmö region is more or less exploding right now there is little doubt of. Recently we had Tradeshifts major funding round, Airtame managed to have biggest crowdfunding in the nordics and we have the first #CPHFTW meetup approaching, with no less then 300+ guests and a long waitlist. Of course, building startups takes […]
Incentive announces new round of funding – and hints at IPO plans this summer!
The social intranet startup Incentive announced that they will open for a new round of funding, to a total of no more then € 1.1M (10M SEK). A third of the amount is already signed, the rest is just made available, at a € 6.7M pre-money valuation. “In November we got Semmy Rülf as the […]
#CPHFTW Town Hall meeting announced
An event with an ambition like this simply cannot be missed! Copenhagen rocks – we all know that: The capital of the happiest country in the world. The most liveable city in the world. A hotbed for culture and the freedom of speech. We’ve built world-leading companies within wind turbines, pumps, enzymes, hearing aids, optical […]
Football platform Tonsser gets angel investment
The online football platform Tonsser has just announced that they have received angel investment from Podio co-founder Kasper Hulthin and Phil Chambers. For the startup, which in short is a real-life version of the classical manager game for amateur football, this is the first investment. Kasper Hulthin is co-founder of the collaborative work platform Podio […]
Tradeshift gets massive €55 million investment!
Biggest news today and for a while – startup Tradeshift announced that they secured an investment of $75 million (€55 million)! The company has raised the money from Scentan Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Singapore. Tradeshift, which offers software for business-to-business sales and collaboration, announced that the aim is to move ahead with […]
Lean startup incubator announced
THINK, the startup incubator, last week announced they are official positioning as the first public lean startup incubator in Sweden. “For some years now lean startup has been a steadily rising movement, and it has been accepted that it is not just a new buzzword, but rather a systematic approach to building scalable companies. A […]
Flextown secures € 135k angel funding for digital business cards
Trendsonline reports that Flextown gets a million DKK investment (€ 135K) from former Ernst & Young CEO, Per Møller through the firm Birch Stream . U.S. venture Flextown was started two years ago, and the aim with the funding is to get go bigger then just the scandinavian market, and enter the US. They have […]
Fallen heroes – an important part of the startups eco-system
We have covered some of the failures of startups in the region before, and with the recent article about Admazely’s failure we have decided to make a separate section devoted to these stories, which we have chosen to call Fallen Heroes (inspired by this thread in the community group). Unlike the success stories section, which […]
Startup post-mortem – Admazely and why it failed
A while ago Peter V. Therkildsen Schlegel wrote an emotional blogpost about the closing of his startup Admazely. A little later Trendsonline did an article about it as well. We missed that story when it came, but we feel that the openness and lessons from post-mortems, especially this one, are always worth highlighting. We have […]
Startup gets € 550K funding to send pastry abroad
Startup Pastry Sweden, which is behind the popular site skickatårta.se, that allows home-delivery of cakes and pastry, has secured 5 Msek (€ 550 K) from Industrifonden, a state-owned investment fond. Pastry Sweden was started by Magnus Noord and Magnus Äng, who had previously been senior management at EuroFlorist and helped build the brands online presence […]