Join some great events this week!
Want to join a startup community, meet interesting and like-minded people? Here’s some selected events for upcoming week in the Greater Copenhagen Area. Skåne Malmö Demo Day The biggest matchmaking event between tech startups and investors in Southern Sweden. We’re excited to invite you to the Malmo Demo Day, showcasing the best tech startups in the region. Attendees will get a […]
Conferize aims for an IPO at Nasdaq’s First North
The Board of Directors at Conferize announced in a press release that they intend to list on Nasdaq’s alternative market First North in Copenhagen. Conferize is a Danish software company, founded in 2012, which develop a digital infrastructure for the event industry. According to the press release, event organisers from more than 120 countries have used Conferize, and […]
IKEA and Rainmaking join forces to launch program for startups: IKEA Bootcamp
There are accelerators and incubators popping up all over the region, like :agile Nordic, SoPact, Think Accelerate, Minc Game, Fast Track Malmö and Go Grow at CSE. If you are a startup you are able to find the incubator or accelerator that fit your specific needs. Now IKEA is catching up and invites entrepreneurs all over […]
Unity gets € 358 million investment
Unity, one of the biggest start-ups in the region, just raised one of the biggest rounds ever by a Nordic startup. The round is a massive $ 400 million (€ 357 million), which values the startup at € 2.3 billion, according to Bloomberg News. An important milestone for the startup, which might give some interesting side […]
See Think Accelerate’s spring batch at Demo Day
Think Accelerate’s spring batch is doing their final presentation at Demo Day 31st of May at Magasin 405 in Helsingborg. During 12 weeks the start-ups been working on their ideas to further accelerate. Now it is time for the last challenge, Demo Day. The start-ups in the program will now pitch their projects in front of […]
Happy Ears from Malmö in agreement with Boots
The agreement between Malmö founded Happy Ears and the globally known pharmacy Boots is worth 500 000 SEK (51303.84 Euro) every year. “This agreement is a possibility for us to reach out on an entirely new level” says Karl Berglund, one of Happy Ears founders to 8till5.se. Happy Ears will start to sell their patent […]
Traede gets investment from SEED Capital, to streamline the B2B fashion industry
Christopher Heilmann and Esben Petersen, founders of Traede, wants to enable smaller brands within the danish fashion industry to compete against the larger players. The largest early stage venture fund in Denmark, SEED Capital recently invested millions in Traede, who are experiencing a monthly growth of 30%. “The B2C fashion industry has been online for a […]
:agile Nordic looks for startups within the energy sector
:agile Nordic is an accelerator program for startups run by the energy company E.ON in Sweden. The corporate accelerator takes both internal and external teams and is intended for startups aimed to develop solutions for the future of energy and sustainability. Startups interested in joining could have a focus on areas such as clean tech, […]
Crunchfish signs an agreement with Chinese AR-company
Nasdaq First North listed Crunchfish signs an agreement with Chinese AR-company Beijing LLVision Technology to bring touchless gesture interaction to smart AR glasses for industrial use, stated in a pressrelease from Crunchfish. The agreement enables LLVision to implement Crunchfish’s software for gesture control in their AR glasses for industrial use. The Touchless A3D® software from […]
Id-checks between Denmark and Sweden ends
In a press conference this afternoon, May 2nd, Anders Ygeman, Sweden’s Minister of Home Affairs and Anna Johansson, Minister of Infrastructure, revealed that the Id-checks between Denmark and Sweden will end 4th of May 2017. The Id-checks begun January 1st 2016 on train-, bus- and ferry passengers before traveling into Sweden. The purpose was to reduce […]