Minc opens for more entrepreneurs with Startup-labs
Minc, the Malmö based incubator, announced that they plan on opening up more work spaces for entrepreneurs. “There is currently no stage for early entrepreneurs in Malmö. We get 200 applications per year to our incubator, but we only manage to accept about ten each year. What happens to the rest? We do not know.” […]
Conferize recieves € 1M seed investment
Trendsonline reports that Danish startup Conferize today announced that they had closed a new investment round with with a multitude of business angels at a total of almost dkk 7.5 million (€ 1 million) “We have been very fortunate to close this investment round with experienced entrepreneurs and investors who believe in our team, the […]
Jesper Buch invests in Hungry.dk
Today Morten Larsen announced that Hungry.dk has received an investment by none other then Jesper Buch, previously at JustEat. Hungry.dk was launched in March 2013 and has since taken a great position in the Danish takeaway market, started collaboration with international brands as well as other startups in the European take-away market. Morten reports that […]
Northcap invests in Nordic Consumer Portals
Danish based Nordic Consumer Portals, also known as NoCoPo, has launched the insurance aggregation platform Comparo, which collects car insurance prices from more than 20 companies instantly. The company has recently received a seed round investment from the venture capital firm Northcap and it’s founders. This is Northcap’s 6th investment in the past 4 month. […]
Ateo – new real estate service backed by Martin Thorborg
Ateo is the new name of a commercial real estate service that started out as Amino’s lokalebørs – the real estate services from the danish webgiant Amino. You can often learn more about agents and brokers from https://www.williampitt.com/search/real-estate-sales/bridgeport-ct/. We had a word with Mads Bjerring Ellegård, who together with multi-entrepreneur Nikolaj Astrup Madsen, is one […]
Investing in Startups in the region revealed an yearly ROI of over 20%
Recently a study from LTH was released that analyzed investments in startups in Skåne, the Swedish part of the Øresund Region. This is one of the few scientific studies done in startup investments in Scandinavia. The study, called “Equity financing of early stage growth firms in Skåne” focused on investments by business angels connected to […]
Care2Share and apple Keynote event @ SHIP
Event and co-working space SHIP starts this autumn with a lot of new events. One of them is the “Care2Share” event, which are collaborative afternoons spent in the event area where everyone is invited. Just bring a laptop and join in working on your own projects or starting new projects with other participants. The first […]
Karsten Deppert – investments in this region and the startup journey
This article is part of our columns, and are personal expression regarding the eco-system and related topics. Recently we published the data of investments in the web and tech scene in this region for the first half of 2013. I thought that the data would be interesting to have collected in one place, even if […]
Updated! Report: investments in web and tech startups in the region – spring 2013
Updated 24-07-2013! After the publication of this we got feedback of more investments that we hadn’t tracked! We have now updated the stats with those numbers. If more information comes to us, we will update them again! One of the things we want to focus on with Øresund Startups is tracking funding in startups in […]
Interview with Martin Walfisz – serial entrepreneur with an eye for games
When it comes to entrepreneurs in this region Martin Walfisz is one with the most gaming focus. His past as founder of Massive Entertainment (best known for games like Ground Control, World in Conflict, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Far Cry 3), which was acquired by Activision Blizzard and later sold to Ubisoft, has given him […]