CodeSealer recieves €2.2M in capital
Before christmas CodeSealer announced that they had taken in €2.2M additional finacing from SEED capital, Vaekstfonden Ventures and the owners. CodeSealers specializes in securing online-banking services and e-crime prevention. They already provide services to some of Scandinavia’s biggest banks, and are now aiming for an European expansion. CodeSealer also got nominated at the 2011 Red […]
Snabboteket takes in €230k from angel investors
Snabboteket, a startup focusing on offering small-sized pharmacuticals at convenient places, has just announced that they have taken in 2M sek (€230k) in capital from multiple angels. Among the investors are Carl-Mikael Bergendahl and Anders Haskel as well as the LMG-industri, one of the major owners of Axis Communication, one of the giants from this […]
The Eye Tribe granted part in major eye-tracking project
The Eye Tribe, which developes a technology for eye-control of smartphones and tablets, secured a large project together with amongst other LEGO, DTU and Serious Games Interactive. The €3,4M projects called “Eye Tracking for mobile devices”, will span over a 3 years period and is financed in part by the Danish National Advanced Foundation, a […]
Denmark abolishes it’s “entreprenuership tax”
Denmark has for the past 2 years had an tax that has been nicknamed the “entreprenuership tax”. It was originaly implemented in order to tax portfolio investments, but the effect was that it made equity sharing for startups alot harder. Last week the social-liberal party Radikale Venstre finally abolished the tax. A more in depth […]
Copenhagen startups reap great awards at European Venture Contest
Excellently summarized over at Dare, Do!, there where a lot of Danish companies doing very well at the European Venture Contest 2012 in Berlin. 2 out of the top 10 companies (Conferize and Falcon Social) where from Copenhagen and another 3 of the Top 25. Conferize Falcon Social Graduateland The Eye Tribe Biosyntia It’s great […]
Creandum invests €760K in Vivino
Creandum, an investment fund active in Scandinavia and especially Sweden, has announced an investment of €760K ($1M) in Vivino, an wine app. Vivino lets you find and get recomendations of wines with your smartphones camera, and is creating a global database over user generated wine reviews. The company has reported good growth in it’s userbase […]
Follow the Viking StartupBus
TrendsOnline has nice blog articles about how it goes for the StartupBus that left Copenhagen on friday for LeWeb, following their trip through Demmark and Germany, reporting on the pitchtraining and competions on the road and their encounters with the other startup buses. Here is day 1 Here is day 2 The summary after the […]
Meetup: Predict the future with QlikView @ MINC
On friday at MINC there will be an interesting event, where you can talk about the future of digitalization over a beer and a pizza. Topics will be: business intelligence, text analytics and predictive analytics. Present and contributing will be amongst others: Seth Grimes, world famous expert in the field of BI and text analytics; […]
Do you want to be present at the Mobile World Congress?
Cluster55, Invest in Skåne, Mobile Heights Business Center and Sweden Mobile Association are helping startups that would benefit from going to the Mobile World Congress (MWB) in Barcelona, 25-28th february. If you are a startup in the mobile industry and would like to get to the MWA, contact them. As Petronella Warg from Mobile Heights […]
7 øresund startups in the finalists for the Nordic Grand Final
The Nordic Startup Awards are nearing the Grand Final. From the Øresund region there are no less then 7 startups among the finalists! These include: Best Student Startup: Drinkster Best Newcomer: The Eye Tribe & Applika Bootstrapper: Brugertest.nu International: Zendesk Funded: Click a Taxi Startup of the year: PODIO The Grand Finals will be held […]