Malmö Music Hack Weekend 1-3 November @ Minc
Join Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud, The Echo Nest, Neo4j and Tunaspot on the weekend of November 1st-3rd for a music hackathon at Minc Malmö. For musicians, developers, artists, designers, composers, hardware tinkerers, and anyone else interested (in participating or observing), in projects exploring music. There’s also a grand prize on offer – 5000 sek! More info […]
What’s on Week 41
A weekly summary of events coming up near you In Copenhagen: Investment Lab Tuesday October 8, 15:30 – 20:00 @ City Hall, Rådhuspladsen More info Rising Tides Networking Event Tuesday October 8, 16:30 – 19:30 @ AAU Copenhagen, 15 A. C. Meyers Vænge The Danish Internet Forum (DIFO) annual conference: Internetdagen Thursday October 10, 8:00 […]
Denmark’s first free supermarket
Freemarket is a new online supermarket where users pay – not with money – but with their opinion about products. It’s a product-testing site, where companies make new products available to users, who then “buy” the items with a review. Trendsonline spoke with Creative Director and Founder Simon Taylor about his business, which he started […]
Formpipe acquires Lemoon – win for game developers
Stockholm company Formpipe has purchased Lemoon, a software startup from Skåne. This translates into good news for emerging game developers, because proceeds from the sale will be used to invest in developers trying to enter the market, reports Sydsvenskan. Malmö-based CEO Rickard Hansson (who has been mentioned here before in his activities as Incentive founder […]
What’s on Week 40
A weekly summary of events coming up near you In Copenhagen: WordPress: Security and Wordcamp plans Monday September 30, 17:00 – 19:00 @ Surftown A/S Per Henrik Lings Allé 4 CleanWeb Copenhagen Wednesday October 2, 2013 19:00 @ ITU, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, An audience with Brad Feld Thursday October 3, 2013 20:00 @ Creative […]
Toke Grøfte leaves Wantr for a new path
Danish startup Wantr‘s co-founder Toke Grøfte is leaving the company in search of a new project, reports Trendsonline. “I look back at the last year and a half with pride and joy. We’ve had investment of 3 million, coverage in the biggest international tech media, strong growth in users and also a recent viral campaign […]
Nordic Venture Forum 5 November Copenhagen
There’s still time to apply for the 2013 Nordic Venture Forum, taking place in November. Apply before 7 October, for one of the 50 pitching slots at the event showcasing the highest potential companies from the following sectors: • Online & Mobile (Media, Gaming, Mobile Apps, Online Retail, Payment) • Technology (Hardware and Software) • […]
Foap launches on Android!
As anticipated with the news of an investment of €1.13M for expansion and Android app development, Foap from Malmö, has just launched on Android, writes TheNextWeb. The social photo app launched last year for iOS is now also available for android users to sell their images and contribute to crowdsourced photo missions. In the same […]
Startup Weekend Borgen 4-6 October @ Christiansborg Castle Copenhagen
Startup Weekend is an international entrepreneurs event, which will be held for the first time in Christiansborg 4-6 October 2013. In addition to entrepreneurs, politicians, opinion leaders, public servants, students and citizens are invited. The vision is to inspire Denmark to cooperate across walks of life, professions and experience so that together we can create […]
Sol Voltaics completes €11.6M in fundraising round
Lund company, Sol Voltaics has received a capital injection from the Norwegian investment group Umoe, reports Sydsvenskan, making Umoe the new major shareholder. Along with an investment from the Swedish Energy Agency last summer, in total Sol Voltaics has brought in around €11.6M (just over 100 million SEK) completing the company’s equity round this year. […]