What’s on Week 3, 2014
And we’re back for 2014! Lots of events on after a quiet few weeks. Here’s a weekly summary of what’s coming up near you. In Copenhagen: Medico Bazar Tuesday January 14, 10:00 – 14:00 @ Oticonsalen, DTU 2800 Lyngby Annual exhibition by Medico Innovation with a ‘show and tell’ for pre-commercial medtech projects, 65+ stands […]
What’s on Week 51
Activities, breakfasts, conferences, coffees, conversations, celebrations and more. Here’s our weekly summary of events coming up near you. In Copenhagen: Copenhagen goes Lean Startup Conference 2013! Monday December 16, 16:00 – 21:00 @ location undisclosed The biggest names in the Lean Startup world, plus dozens of terrific speakers you don’t know yet, with must-hear advice, […]
Apsis teaming up with ProspectEye to become the leading force across Scandinavia
The market leading email marketers and marketing automation ProspectEye and Apsis have signed an agreement to consolidate their positions to become the leading provider in Scandinavia. Together they expect yearly revenues to reach 250M SEK, or around €28M, in 2014. The business strategy is marketing automation, which involved software or web based platforms designed for […]
Jan Erik Solem launches Mapillary – putting images on the map
Lack of capital tends to be a problem for young companies. Mapillary, has no such worries, writes Sydsvenskan. The founder is Jan Erik Solem who sold his former company Polar Rose and the face-recognition technology (that can tell who is in a photo) to Apple for an undisclosed amount (rumored to be in the ballpark […]
What’s on Week 50
Something of a Christmas theme emerging. But not only that, a weekly summary of events coming up near you. In Copenhagen: Growing Games – Pitch Competition Tuesday December 10, 10:00 – 16:00 @ location tbd Cleanweb DK: Lets talk about mobility and sharing Tuesday December 10, 18:00 – 20:30 @ Dansk Design Centre, C Andersens […]
Northzone VII announced: biggest investment fund to date for Nordic Startups
Northzone technology investment partnership have announced the first close of their latest fund at €150 million, it’s their biggest fund so far, and the target size of Northzone VII is €250 million. It’s being talked about over at the Swedish Startup Space (check out their news too!), because this fund presents a good opportunity for […]
Danish Entrepreneurs get better access to loans
In a press release today the Danish Ministry of Business Affairs and Growth (Erhvervs- og vækstministeriet) announced an agreement between the partners behind Growth Plan DK (Vækstplan DK), to launch a new first-time home buyer loans and system for entrepreneurs, ahead of schedule. We heard about Vækstplan DK back in April, and the news now […]
FENA Challenge 2013 Finale
The FENA Challenge 2013 Final will present the innovative solutions from Lund’s international students on ‘How should Lund’s stakeholders within entrepreneurship and innovation progress to create possibilities for international students to start businesses and work in Sweden?’ The problem behind this challenge is that Sweden loses many successful foreign entrepreneurs with proven skills, because they […]
What’s on Week 49
Yes, it’s getting dark and cold and coming up to the end of the year, but these are great reasons to get out, socialise and get inspired! There’s still lots going on. Here’s our weekly summary of events coming up near you. In Copenhagen: AppGarage Demo Day Monday December 2, 17:30 – 18:30 @ DTU […]
An invite-only voyage of discovery!
A wild networking trip! Refuga enables executives, entrepreneurs, project managers, artists and other creative and proactive people to go out into the wilderness together and achieve a common goal: to climb Kilimanjaro. It’s an opportunity to live and think differently and a unique chance for networking and friendship building with some incredibly interesting people. The […]