A NEST-ing place: Co-living for entrepreneurs in Copenhagen
It’s being called co-living for the creators of tomorrow, NEST is set to be Denmark’s first co-living space. Similar to Hus24 in Stockholm and The Glint in San Francisco, the co-living space is somewhere for entrepreneurs to live – not work – with other entrepreneurs. It’s going to be a home and social space, for […]
Interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen: Providing Structure with Conferize
Watch this interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen, founder and CEO of Conferize where Martina Buchal has interviewed him on his One Big Year, about his inspiration, a ‘big year’ in his life and creating value. Conferize is about making content available online, from conferences and events, in real time and later on. His inspiration? (00:46) Seeing, […]
Opbeat success: over €2 Million in Series A investment
Trendsonline broke the news that Danish startup Opbeat has raised over €2 Million (15 million DKK) in Series A investment, primarily from Balderton Capital. Opbeat is a collaborative web operations platform, helping developers by giving them their own hosted Control Centre for managing day-to-day web operations. Techcrunch report that Opbeat co-founders and serial entrepreneurs Rasmus […]
Neo Technology: lessons learned event @ Creative Destruction Copenhagen, 23 July
Peter Neubauer, founder of the company behind Neo4j graph database, Neo Technology, will be presenting an “Øresund Talks” event at Creative Destruction Copenhagen on Tuesday 23 July. The talk will highlight some of the lessons they’ve learned while developing the product, raising money, flipping the company to the US, and building for growth in both […]
New €76M fund from Dawn Capital to invest in Europe
Techcrunch reports that UK VC Dawn Capital has closed on its Dawn Capital II Venture Capital Fund, and is now “hunting for early stage deals” in the UK and rest of Europe. The fund will be focused on Series A investments in the Cloud, Software, Consumer Internet & Platform Infrastructure and Financial Services Technology sectors. […]
Speculation around Unity: ‘No thanks’ to €575 million offer
Unity, the Danish game-engine company has received a lot of attention lately, and have even turned down an acquisition offer of €575 million (4.3 billion DKK), according to industry rumours, Version2.dk IT news and Pocketgamer.biz saying that the ‘modest’ company democratising game development isn’t heading in that direction. The official word from Unity didn’t give […]
Funding goal reached in a day: Get ready for Heml.is private messaging service
Yesterday Arctic Startups announced that folks from Flattr are working on Heml.is – a completely private and secure messaging platform. Payments through Paypal and Bitcoin have reached $114,103, or 114% of their goal, funded by 7561 backers in less than two days. The fund will be used for development of the apps, plus setup and […]
Lean Startup Circle 1st Anniversary Event 11 July @ Fortunen, Copenhagen
Find out what happens when you apply Lean Startup methodology and principles to summer and the Danish concept of hygge. With everyone in summer break mood, this meetup group feel it’s the right time to get together this Thursday 11 July, for a ‘pure hygge and networking event‘. Discuss with enthusiastic Lean Startup peers whether […]
Bikway takes Prize at Betapitch Global
Betapitch Copenhagen 1st prize winners Bikway went on to the Betapitch Global event in Berlin on July 6 to compete against other ‘local’ winners – and walked away with a prize! Peter Bihr – from the jury has written a wrap up and thoughts on the event , and congratulations to all the winners. 15 […]
5 steps to get your pitch email read – guaranteed
Want someone like Max Neiderhoefer, from Sunstone Capital to consider your proposal for Series A funding? Cold emailing can go nowhere. Getting the email right, folliowing Max‘s tips, and writing in something like this format, will get it opened and considered. This is his guarantee. Sounds like a good start if you’re trying to get […]