Add this to your wish-list: Addwish – gift registry for web shops and shoppers
Addwish is an online service to coordinate the gifts for celebrations, using a universal gift registry. The Copenhagen startup, formerly known as GiftManager, was founded by Brian Petersen and Kasper Refskou Jensen and has recently relaunched as Addwish, reports Trendsonline. Trendsonline.dk interviewed Kasper about the beginnings of Addwish, challenges, successes, and plans for the future. […]
Last chance to register for #NHGEM13 Copenhagen 20 August
The Nordic High Growth Entrepreneurship Matchmaking Event: August 20 @ Eigtveds Pakhus is coming up – this is your last chance to register. The unconference is for networking, planning and collaboration to get joint funding applications together, for projects by Nordic Entrepreneurs. Check out the details about funding proposals here. Expressions of interest are open […]
Foap receives 1.13 million euro investment
Foap, Malmö-based photo stock website, has received 1.13 million euro investment from Swedish VC Industrifonden and Maxwell Ventures, reports ArcticStartup. The money will be used for further expansion of sales team, opening a new office in New York and launch of Android app in September. On top of this comes new design for the website […]
Billetto: fast growth and internationalization to revolutionize the culture
Billetto, a Danish start up that offers online sales of tickets, has shown explosive growth both national and internationally. In 2012 company’s turnover was 40 million Danish kronor while in 2013 it is expected to surpass 100 million, according to the company’s press release. Rapid internationalization that took place as a result of 16 million […]
Next Step Challenge: win Europe’s biggest prize!
The Next Step Challenge is an accelerator program offering the biggest prize in Europe, including intensive 5 months of business development, €30,000 in seed financing, free housing & office space, digital infrastructure, and the opportunity to win €250,000. If you are a startup focusing on next-generation, energy or digital products and services this might be […]
Smart Content for Smart People: Incentive nominated for WSA 2013!
Swedish social business software company Incentive has been nominated for the 2013 World Summit Awards, a biennial award for e-Content. The WSA acknowledges contributions to a true knowledge society and promotes it at a global congress. It’s a great compliment and honour to be nominated, and Incentive will be competing on the world stage in […]
Riidr launches subscription called Riidr one
Recently Riidr launched its subscription offer which they believe fits better with the customer’s reading habits. Riidr One is a combined subscription to both e-books and audio books. For only 69 kr per month, they offer their subscribers to read the beginning of more than 6,500 e-books and audiobooks, and each month to choose one […]
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 […]
Updated! Report: investments in web and tech startups in the region – spring 2013
Updated 24-07-2013! After the publication of this we got feedback of more investments that we hadn’t tracked! We have now updated the stats with those numbers. If more information comes to us, we will update them again! One of the things we want to focus on with Øresund Startups is tracking funding in startups in […]
Vivino receives the largest Series A investment in Denmark
Vivino, a Danish startup that offers a wine app with world’s largest wine database, has received 60 million Danish kronor (over 8 million euro) in Series A investment from Skype co-founder Janus Friis, SEED Capital, Creandum and Balderton Venture Capital, reports Trendsonline.dk. “I am very happy and proud for the team that we were able […]