Easier to start businesses in Denmark
Neil Murray has done a great write-up over at TrendsOnline (in English) about changes in requirements for starting business in Denmark, as well as other thoughts about the governments approach to entrepreneurship. Both highlighting the change of capital needed to start a limited corporation has been lowered to 1 kr (from 80 000 kr), as […]
2.5 million € and a new Chairman back up adQuota’s internationalization ambitions
Northcap invests € 2.5m in Copenhagen-based mobile advertisement platform adQuota as reported in Northcap press release. Ulrich Schmidt, founder and former CEO of ad pepper media, also joins company’s board as its Chairman. Founded in in 2010 by Entrepreneur Torben Majgaard, adQuoate provides high advertising value for brands and agencies on mobile through relevant, targeted […]
Airtame wins big at CES in Las Vegas
Airtame, the wireless HDMI startup, struck gold in Las Vegas. Last week at the 2014 Consumer Electronic Show, Airtame was selected as the winner in the ‘best startup’ category! With over 200 other startups that exhibits in a special area of innovation, called Eureka Park TechZone, this was no small feat! “The Airtame is a […]
The Skåne innovation support system’s maze
The 2013 review by Sydsvenskan of the Skåne innovation support system lead to disappointing conclusions. Two articles (Innovationsgalaxen har fler svarta hål än stjärnor and Rörigt system möter skånska innovatörer ) as well as a longer in print only article, have been published in December. Both come to the following results: There is too little […]
Deskwolf gets €1.5 M investment
Deskwolf, a startup that helps small and medium sized enterprises using Facebook as a marketing-tool have just received additional funding of DKK 7.5 million (euro 1.5 million) from existing investor SEED Capital, Vækstfonden and two business angels: Rasmus Helmich and Peter Elbek. Deskwolf will use the additional funding for product development and international expansion. Impressive […]
Trustpilot raises 18 million euro in series C funding
Trustpilot, Danish consumer review platform, has just closed an 18 million euro funding deal, reports TrendsOnline. The series C investment round was led DFJ Esprit in London and DFJ in Menlo Park, Calif. with participation from all existing investors: Seed Capital, Index Ventures and Northzone, making this investment the largest in Denmark so far. “Trustpilot’s […]
Flatfrog picks up 7.3 million euro investment for further development of its touchscreen technology
FlatFrog, Lund-based display technology company, has received a €7.35 million investment from Invus, Sunstone Capital, and Intel Capital at the Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES) reports Arctic Startup. The money will be used to commercialize company’s new touchscreen that uses zero air gap technology that together with a single cover screen glass allows to […]
No bull**** – Fashimodo relaunched as Stylebark
There seems to be a dog theme going strong right now… FashiModo recently announced are relaunching their service, under the brand Stylebark. Stylebark has been in beta for a while, and now it has been opened to the public. The concept is still similar, but the style is different and definitely more edgy. The business-idea […]
No More Woof aims to read dogs minds – and surpassed crowdfunding goal already
Earlier this month No More Woof was announced as a IndieGoGo project. The idea is simple – use modern EEG sensors to read the emotions from the dogs brain, and translate that to something which can be communicated thru speakers! ‘Among the patterns we have found are “I’m Tired”, “I’m excited” and possibly “I’m Hungry” […]
Hungry.dk to partner with danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet
Hungry.dk has signed a new partnership with Ekstra Bladet reports TrendsOnline. The goal behind the new deal is to escalate growth of Hungry.dk even more. “We contacted Hungry.dk as it is a very exciting startup with experienced people at it’s core. The industry is also interesting and has great potential. The target group of ekstrabladet.dk […]