Serial entrepreneurs from Denmark get an investment to boos Danish media landscape
Serial entrepreneurs Anders Elley and Jacob Knobel receive funding from SEED Capital to develop their newest venture Densou Trading Desk. With the financing and a good team in place, the new startup sets off to give a boost to Danish media landscape and help companies with smaller advertising budgets to reach out further than Google […]
Copenhagen’s largest tech startup hub will host an open day
Founder’s House and Startup Village will allow a unique behind-the-scenes look at Copenhagen’s first and largest tech startup hub. Normally accessible only to resident startups and investors, on September 1st the area will open its doors to anyone interested while hosting 25+ talks, demos and tours around some fast-growing Danish startups. Since its creation 5 […]
Flygstolen from Helsingborg is acquired by Dutch traveling company
Based in Helsingborg, Flygstolen is an online platform for traveling services that has been around since 2004. The company is also known under name Tripmonster in Denmark and Norway. The latest 5 years Flygstolen has gone through a rapid growth, increasing its revenue from 182 mln SEK (1 9mln euro) in 2011 to 1 572 […]
Social network for football players Tonsser receives an investment
Tonsser, a quite popular vertical social network from Denmar that allows youth football players to showcase their performances on the pitch and get a better chance of being discovered by scouts recieves an investment. The funding in the amount of 1,8€ million (over 13 mln DKK) is coming from SEED Capital, English Wellington Partners, and […]
Tradeshift raises investment in series D round
Tradeshift, a startup that helps companies simplify and improve their expensing systems with external contract partners, simply put a “social network” that connects suppliers and companies, has raised 75$ million (over 620 million SEK) in series D round, according to TechCrunch. Founded in Copenhagen in 2010 and currently based in San-Francisco, Tradeshift has in total […]
Save the dates: Skane Innovation Week and Top 50 Startups in the Oresund region
Skåne Innovation Week kicks off next Monday, and it promises to be very eventful. It is going to be a week filled with activities, innovation and ideas, all aimed at creation of the most innovative region not only in Sweden but in the entire world. Activities during the Skåne Innovation week are spread across the […]
Solar energy company from Lund raises 17$ mln
Sol Voltaics, Lund-based company that works with nanomaterials to improve the efficiency of capture and generation of solar energy, raised 17$ mln (over 140 mln SEK) in grant funding. Series C was led by Riyadh Valley Company, the venture capital investment arm of King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, revealed in the official press […]
Ebay acquires artificial intelligence software developer from Malmo
Expertmaker is a Malmo-based company that works with artificial intelligence since 2006. Among company’s customers are Vodafone and Ebay itself, that has been Expertmaker’s partner company since 2010. The detais of the deal are not disclosed. But as a result of it, Ebay will take over Expertmaker’s employees and the founder and CEO Lars Hård […]
Flatfrog takes in a new investment
Lund-based Flatfrog, that develops alternative multi-touch monitors and tablets, has taken in an investment of 42 mln SEK. The money comes from the owners Sunstone Capital, Finvus and the founder Christer Fåhraeus, according to Rapidus and Di Digital. Flatfrog has previously taken another 42 mln SEK last fall, and according to Christer Fåhraeus the plan […]
Simpliday takes in an investment to launch in the US
Simpliday is a Malmo-based company that has developed a service that combines a calendar and reminders in one app. Since the time of launch about two years ago, Simpliday has built a good ecosystem around the service and even launched the service in Canada about a year ago, where the service started to grow a […]