Investment Lab 2013 – what was said about funding?
This is a guest-post by Hampus Waldemarson, CEO at SHIP, who attended the Investment Lab Copenhagen 2013 event, organized by Startupbootcamp with help from amongst other Bird&bird and Accelerace. About 200 persons showed up to listen to Jakob Ekkelund from SEED Capital, Tommy Andersen from Libratone, Nicolaj Hoejer Nielsen from Sepior and a interesting role […]
Passioneur launched at Startup Weekend Borgen
Startup Weekend Borgen is still under way, and a first product is announced already: Passioneur. Passioneur is about one simple but ambitious thing: making more corporate employees quit their job to start a business. “We hope to enable people to find and connect with others who share their passion in order to start something together, […]
Building a startup community, part 2
This post is my own personal reflections and will elaborate on some of the things that where lifted during the Brad Feld event earlier this week, as well as my thoughts from running the startup Contentor, being involved in the co-working space Mindpark – and most notable after having started this site over a year […]
Major League Wizardry selected top ten for Global Game Stars!
Copenhagen gaming startup Game Made Studios, with their first game, Major League Wizardry has announced that they, even before the launch of the game, have been selected for the top ten in the ‘Global Game Stars’ on the GMIC, the largest mobile conference in Silicon Valley in late October . The luxury of being selected […]
How to build a startup community, with Brad Feld
Today I was at the small but intimate startup event organized by Neil Murray. He had mailed Brad Feld, famous for his thoughts and books about building a startup community, and had gotten him to do a 30 minutes talk over Skype. The talk first went into his four main points about how to grow […]
Serial Entrepreneur Kasper Mejlgaard – about funding, hardware and Sensorist
We had a Q&A with Kasper Mejlgaard, serial-entrepreneur who now runs the startup Sensorist, which aims at revolutionizing the way measurements are done. Kasper has had some very interesting past ventures, and it was great to have him share his experience from the IT sector, lessons learned and his point of views on running startups. […]
Investment Lab Copenhagen 2013
Investment Lab Copenhagen 2013 is an event that sounds a perfect match for entrepreneurs who want to learn more about how to run a funded startup or to succeed with future rounds of funding after their seed round. At the event a collection including VCs, business angels and entrepreneurs will talk. Events where VCs talk […]
Startup Grind Copenhagen launches – the successful concept now here as well!
A new thing is born in Copenhagen today. The Silicon Valley organization Startup Grind opens a chapter in Copenhagen with the first event scheduled for October 24, and first guest: Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. Is this yet another silo you wonder? The answer is no. The guys behind Startup Grind Copenhagen, Michael Reibel Boesen and Sebastian Schwemer […]
Startup Sepior recieves investment from SEED Capital
Sepior, a startup focusing on safe cloud data storage, announced an investment from SEED Capital and DTU Symbion Innovation. SEED capital was last quarters the most active VC in the region, and the one that invested the most during that time period. A trend it looks like they are continuing. Sepior is developing technology that […]
Issuu moves to Silicon Valley and scales up – new CEO and Google VP Horowitz join
Issuu announced earlier this week that they have appointed a new CEO and that they will move their HQ to Silicon Valley. With 65 million current users and 14 million publications since 2007, Issuu claims itself to be “the fastest-growing digital publishing and discovery platform”. Joe Hyrkin, the new American CEO, says that Issuu has […]