First Betapitch in the Nordics on June 20th – and it has a great lineup!
Once upon a time a morning pitch session was started at the famous Betahaus in Berlin during breakfast. The concept was simple; 5 minutes pitch by a promising team with an idea followed by 3 minutes questions by the audience. A couple of years later “Betapitch” were spread all across Europe from Barcelona to Sofia, […]
ArcticStartup’s lessons from “Term Sheet Battle” Nordic tour
Term Sheet Battle is a concept that is active in a lot of different location, and it was held last year in Copenhagen, from where there is an video available as well. The aim of the events is spreading knowledge about term sheet negotiations when talking to investors, there where held Term Sheet Battles in […]
123hjemmeside continues it’s global scaling – and shares interesting numbers from the growth
The startup 123hjemmeside, which operates in 24 countries so far under brands such as simplesite.com (US) or 123webseite.de (DE), has shared with them their yearly earnings numbers for 2012, and together with that their ambitious plans to grow even more international. The company has said that they have started to perfect their user acquisition costs […]
Interview with Jenny Bengtsson from Photago
Photago is about collecting photos from many different photographers during one specific private event such as a wedding, a birthday party or a trip together with friends, and then being able to share it easily but still privately and secure. Unlike many other services Photago focuses on collecting photos from many user in one collaborative […]
23 announces collaboration with Roskilde Festival
Startup 23, the enterprise video platform announced that is has teamed up with the famous Roskilde Festival to make it the “TED.com of music festivals”. “With 23 Video and the content a festival and cultural institution like Roskilde has, the collaboration aims at becoming a best practice case on how cultural events can be communicated […]
New Startups in our listing
This week we have added a bunch of startups we had previously not listed. None of them are completly new and we have covered two of them before, but not had them in our listing until now! These are: Crowdser, a platform for crowdsourcing sales, which just recently won “Best in Show” the at the […]
Graduateland receives investment by Accelerace
Graduateland, the startup focusing on job listings at Universities all over Europe, just announced an invest by Accelerace. Trendsonline breaks the news, and the investment is in “the millions” (DKK) according to their sources. Update: ArticStartup reports that the investment is “in the millions in Danish Kroner, but in the [hundred-]thousands in Euros”. Trendsonline reports […]
Qubulus files for bankruptcy – founder accuses investors for the failure
Qubulus, a startup working with advancing technology in indoor positioning, has filed for bankruptcy. The company has been working on using radio frequencies for positioning indoors, where GPS does not work. It had a patented solution that gave them one of the best accuracies and cost-efficient technologies. The space might not be in the public […]
Crunchfish receives €2.4M investment
Crunchfish, the touchless mobile interface company, announced today that they have secured a new round of investment, totaling €2.4M. The investment comes in part from the current investors, who put an additional €1.6M into the startup. The rest comes from two new owners, Stephan Carlquist who invests €600K and Anders Williamson, who invests €100K. “We […]
GetSalesDone recieves $1.2M in seed investment
Dexplora, the company behind the GetSalesDone app, just announced that they have recieved an investment of $1.2M (€0.9M) as their seed round. The investment is from the very active Nordic VC firm Creandum, the British VC DN capital and 14 angel investors. The list of angels is impressive and includes know-how from alot of successfull […]