Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship grows – from 0 to 100 startups a year!
CSE, the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, has since the start grown dramatically. It recently moved to bigger offices and this week Martin B. Justesen, founder of the incubator, announced that they had had over 100 startups going thru them. A milestone indeed! “We [at CSE] are very proud to have business number 100 assigned per […]
Danish IVÆKST prize: awards to Billetto and Zerved
On December 5th, 2013 the annual IVÆKSTprisen was awarded in Copenhagen. The IVÆKSTprisen is given out annually to Danish entrepreneurs and start-ups. This prize is not only an honor for the winner, but it also helps their startups to further networks and funds to make the enterprises grow. Among the 7 winners of the IVÆKSTprisen, […]
Hello World Mobile wins European Venture Contest 2013!
Last week, the Copenhagen based startup Hello World Mobile was picked as ICT winner in Europe’s biggest venture competition; European Venture Contest 2013. The competition jury consists of investors from all over Europe, and more than 800 early stage startups from more than 20 countries participates every year. Hello World Mobile is a startup still […]
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 […]
New Social Innovation Accelerator program at Ideon kicks off in February
Ideon Science Park has got a new accelerator with focus on social entrepreneurship. To implement the project Lusic (Lund University Social Innovation Center) and LU Open were awarded SEK 300 000 (about 33 000 euro) from Tillväxtverket reports Sydsvenskan. “The Social Innovation Accelerator program” is a pilot version so far and will be launched in […]
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 […]
NEST Copenhagen co-living is ready to launch
NEST Copenhagen, the rumored co-living space for entrepreneurs in Copenhagen, did officially announced yesterday that it will launch in April! It is currently accepting applications, which are open until 20th December. The plans for NEST have been around for a while, but it has been problematic with getting the lease for a great enough space. […]
Casper Blom invests in Drinkster
Serial-entrepreneur Casper Blom reports that he has invested in the startup Drinkster. This makes Casper the second investor in Drinkster, after previous investment by Jesper Buch. How much he invests in the startup has not been disclosed publicly. Drinkster, who specialize in making it easy to order drinks and services for bars, have had a […]
More media attention and more users! Pinstriped gets more recognition
Ever since I learned about Pinstriped, custom interface that sits over the top of computer desktop to hide personal content, I got really critical of presentations I see. Whenever a professor or presenter makes a hassle during the presentation switching back and forth between slides and different folders, I always think, “man, they could make […]
Trialbee to raise € 2.5M in further financing
The e-health startup Trialbee announced that it will raise € 2.5M (21.4M SEK) in a new round of financing. Trialbee, which was founded in 2010 by Jonas Billing and Tobias Folkesson, has developed a web-based technology platform for patient recruitment for pharmaceutical companies’ clinical studies. It has since start gained a lot of traction, with […]