Issuu moves to Silicon Valley and scales up – new CEO and Google VP Horowitz join
Issuu announced earlier this week that they have appointed a new CEO and that they will move their HQ to Silicon Valley. With 65 million current users and 14 million publications since 2007, Issuu claims itself to be “the fastest-growing digital publishing and discovery platform”. Joe Hyrkin, the new American CEO, says that Issuu has […]
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 […]
Codeable gets million investment from CAT Science
Codeable, Danish platform that addresses WordPress related issues, received an investment of about one million Danish kronor from Cat Science, reports TrendsOnline. The money will be used by Codeable for further development of WordsPress installations. Per Esbensen, company’s co-founder and CEO, has had a long dialogue with a few investors over time. Since its launch […]
Minc opens for more entrepreneurs with Startup-labs
Minc, the Malmö based incubator, announced that they plan on opening up more work spaces for entrepreneurs. “There is currently no stage for early entrepreneurs in Malmö. We get 200 applications per year to our incubator, but we only manage to accept about ten each year. What happens to the rest? We do not know.” […]
Conferize recieves € 1M seed investment
Trendsonline reports that Danish startup Conferize today announced that they had closed a new investment round with with a multitude of business angels at a total of almost dkk 7.5 million (€ 1 million) “We have been very fortunate to close this investment round with experienced entrepreneurs and investors who believe in our team, the […]
Jesper Buch invests in Hungry.dk
Today Morten Larsen announced that Hungry.dk has received an investment by none other then Jesper Buch, previously at JustEat. Hungry.dk was launched in March 2013 and has since taken a great position in the Danish takeaway market, started collaboration with international brands as well as other startups in the European take-away market. Morten reports that […]
Northcap invests in Nordic Consumer Portals
Danish based Nordic Consumer Portals, also known as NoCoPo, has launched the insurance aggregation platform Comparo, which collects car insurance prices from more than 20 companies instantly. The company has recently received a seed round investment from the venture capital firm Northcap and it’s founders. This is Northcap’s 6th investment in the past 4 month. […]
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. […]
CEO of Precise Biometrics sells out
Thomas Marschall, CEO of Precise Biometrics has sold his entire shareholding in the company reports Sydsvenskan, drawing speculation and criticism. In this brief press release Precise Biometrics confirms Precise Biometrics’ CEO Thomas Marschall has, for private economic reasons, sold 1,885,501 shares in Precise Biometrics. After the transaction Thomas Marschall retains 1,600,000 share warrants in the […]
Ateo – new real estate service backed by Martin Thorborg
Ateo is the new name of a commercial real estate service that started out as Amino’s lokalebørs – the real estate services from the danish webgiant Amino. You can often learn more about agents and brokers from https://www.williampitt.com/search/real-estate-sales/bridgeport-ct/. We had a word with Mads Bjerring Ellegård, who together with multi-entrepreneur Nikolaj Astrup Madsen, is one […]