Pitch & Afterwork at Mindpark
THINK Open Space jointly with THINK Accelerate organize Pitch & Afterwork at Mindpark in Helsingborg on November 3, 2017. Everyone will have the opportunity to pitch a startup idea for ca. 3 minutes and take the chance to ask for help from the audience. After pitching, there will be an afterwork. There are many who work with ideas […]
How is it going with LU Holding’s startups?
Lund University founded its own holding company with different portfolios. However, it didn’t make any quick success, according to Rapidus mapping carried out in this regard on LU Holding. Lund University has been operating its holding company since 1997. Twenty years later, there are still previous and current portfolio companies with no revenues. Accounts of every third company […]
Four Business Angels invest in Fieldly
The Helsingborg-based Fieldly extends its investments and receives SEK 2.8 million (ca. €290,000). Four business angels play now an essential role at the company: Roland Zeller, Dan Nilsson, Jan Karlander and Mårten Öbrink, reported Rapidus. “They are very talented individuals with extensive knowledge and experience. This will be important for the company’s continuous growth,” Fieldly’s CEO Daniel Krusenstråhle told Rapidus. Fieldly […]
Donkey Republic lands in Helsingborg
The bike rental company Donkey Republic recently extended their service to Helsingborg. The idea of renting bikes appeared in 2012 in Copenhagen as a smart solution for people who need to use a bike for a while. The Danish company allocates 13 bikes to be stationed mainly at the Stortorget in Helsingborg, in collaboration with Travelshop. The bikes […]
Jon Hauksson from Storytel invests in Elobina
Jon Hauksson, co-founder of Storytel, decides to step down from operational work in Storytel and now focuses on a career as an angel investor in different startups. Besides, he works on founding a new Malmö-based company in the field of artificial intelligence. Jon Hauksson founded Storytel 2005, jointly with the current CEO Jonas Tellander. The business then moved to Stockholm and […]
Eight Companies to level up at Think Accelerator
Eight companies take part in the Helsingborg Accelerator this fall. Entrepreneurs from Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm and from the region have sought to develop their product and business ideas in an intensive accelerator program. Over 160 companies from around the world applied to the program. “We have an exciting startup field with startups from various industries […]
Örjan Johansson backs Earin with € 260,000
The Malmö-based company Earin, which develops and produces cordless headphones, has quietly been backed by SEK 25 million (ca. € 2 600, 000) in 2015 by Örjan Johansson‘s investment company Bluewise Fund. Last January, media wrote about Earin, which received SEK 30 million (ca. € 3 150 000) as venture capital from other companies, like LMK Forward and […]
Sensefarm: The Second Generation of Temperature Sensors
Skåne startup Sensefarm is the second generation of temperature sensors, which are connected to GSM devices to measure, for instance, temperature and humidity levels in different substances. “We use sensors connected to our own GSM device that transfers the signals up from the field, data is then stored in the cloud and you can view it on […]
SingularityU Summit at the Royal Danish Opera
On October 23 and 24, 2017, more than thousand Scandinavian thinkers, leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, students and executives will come together at the Royal Danish Opera for an intensive SingularityU Summit. For two days, minds in the fields of technology, global impact, and futurism will meet to deeply dive into accelerating techniques and to make it […]
Øresund Startups: Part of Startup Europe News
Startup Europe news is a collaborative media alliance, which works on realizing the objective of the European Commission to develop strong local entrepreneurial leadership, cultivate adequate resources and strengthen connections and partnerships among European Startups, business, artists and community leaders. Since the launch of startupeuropenews.eu, Øresund Startups has been a part of the media alliance: “Øresund Startups […]