Autoparts24 wins best startup award during Accelerace Investor Day
Autoparts24 won the award for best startup during the Accelerace Investor Day (held on June 13th). Autoparts24 is Europe’s largest online vendor of used car parts. They have built a network of 100 professional car dealers of which the inventories are connected to the web shop of Autoparts24. Denmark and Germany are their main markets, […]
Swestartups: mapping out the Swedish startup scene
Swestartups is a website which lists and gathers all Swedish startups, incubators, investors, consultants and other things that are related to startups. Founder Usman Rajab says that the idea came forth when he noticed that most people only know Stockholm for its startup scene. Startups are however not only to be found in Stockholm, but […]
The digitalization of business cards with Bitcard
Piere Orsander (who is also involved in Applika) just launched a beta version of Bitcard™; a digital version of business cards. The free service Bitcard, competes with other start-ups which try to revolutionize the business card field such as Feathr, and Infoduce. Pierre says to Swedish Startup Space that he started the service because he […]
Geek Girl Denmark: Event with a focus on female entrepreneurship
Geek Girl Denmark hosts an event on entrepeneurship on the 11th of June. Best advices on getting started and do’s and don’t will be discussed. There will be presentations by female entrepreneurs such as Henriette Weber. Other guests include Sine Larsen (Young enterprise), Grith Mandrup-Poulsen (Mandrup-Poulsen), Camilla Ley Valentin (Queue-it) amongst others. When: 11th of […]
Serstech receives €1.4M in investments
Today Serstech announced that it has received €1.4M (SEK 12M) in an oversubscribed new issue of shares. Serstech has developed a technology that helps customs, police, rescue and military forces to quickly and easily identify chemical powders, pills and liquids. “Current solutions are impractical and expensive because of the size and handling. Our spectrometer can […]
Conferize steams on
Update: the embedded player above is from conferize’s covering of the, currently ongoing, Le Web conference! The conference start-up space is crowded with many start-ups claiming to have the platform to launch, market and cover conferences. Conferize, founded by Martin Ferro-Thomson, have managed to make a name for themselves in this space, with an aim […]
Winners venture cup South Sweden
On the 16th of May, the regional finals of the Venture Cup South Sweden have been held. Eight businesses were nominated in four categories of which the following teams won 3.000 Euro each and a chance to participate in the national final. – Web, software and media: Photago – Environment and energy: Peer to volunteer […]
Interview with Dan Nilsson who recently sold Roliga Prylar
Sydsvenskan published an interview with Dan Nisson, famous for his earlier blogging at dan.se and now ehandel.se, and who recently sold a majority stake of his webshop Roliga Prylar to Net Departo Ventures. Selling one of his webshops has been one of his goals for ten to eleven years and the webshop will now start […]
Crunchfish makes a deal on new touchless technology worth at least a million
A Chinese mobile manufacturer will use Crunchfish’s technology allowing users to control their phone with gestures rather than with their touch. Which mobile manufacturer is involved is secret, but according to CEO Joakim Nydemark, it is one of China’s major domestic players. The deal is initially worth a million dollars followed by ongoing royalties. “[The deal […]
Django hackathon #1 – 14 May @ Founders House Copenhagen
Django hackers – network, sharing and learning place: For those of you in Copenhagen, this group is organising regular meetings with topics including of course Django, but also others, such as Fabric, Celery, Flask, SQLAlchemy etc. etc. Additionally, more operational topics such as using Redis, Memcached, Gunicorn, static file compression, etc. are likely also interesting […]