Interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen: Providing Structure with Conferize
Watch this interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen, founder and CEO of Conferize where Martina Buchal has interviewed him on his One Big Year, about his inspiration, a ‘big year’ in his life and creating value. Conferize is about making content available online, from conferences and events, in real time and later on. His inspiration? (00:46) Seeing, […]
Opbeat success: over €2 Million in Series A investment
Trendsonline broke the news that Danish startup Opbeat has raised over €2 Million (15 million DKK) in Series A investment, primarily from Balderton Capital. Opbeat is a collaborative web operations platform, helping developers by giving them their own hosted Control Centre for managing day-to-day web operations. Techcrunch report that Opbeat co-founders and serial entrepreneurs Rasmus […]
New €76M fund from Dawn Capital to invest in Europe
Techcrunch reports that UK VC Dawn Capital has closed on its Dawn Capital II Venture Capital Fund, and is now “hunting for early stage deals” in the UK and rest of Europe. The fund will be focused on Series A investments in the Cloud, Software, Consumer Internet & Platform Infrastructure and Financial Services Technology sectors. […]
Speculation around Unity: ‘No thanks’ to €575 million offer
Unity, the Danish game-engine company has received a lot of attention lately, and have even turned down an acquisition offer of €575 million (4.3 billion DKK), according to industry rumours, Version2.dk IT news and Pocketgamer.biz saying that the ‘modest’ company democratising game development isn’t heading in that direction. The official word from Unity didn’t give […]
Be My Eyes receives 1.7 million funding from Velux Foundation
Be my eyes, an app that aims to connect blind people with a group of normal sighted volunteers, has received a funding of 1.7 million Danish kronor from Velux Foundation reports TrendsOnline. Be my eyes project took off during the Startup Weekend in Aarhus in 2012 when Hans Jørgen Wiberg shared his idea and managed […]
The success continues – Unity now used by over 2 million developers!
Unity Technologies, the startup that has developed the multi-platform Unity engine used in games and apps, announced that its community has now exceeded two million! This is great for a service that is used by developers and that by many is seen as making it a lot easier and better to make great games. Of […]
Malmo and Copenhagen are in the list of 15 Most inventive cities
Malmö (4th) and Copenhagen (15th) are listed in the annual index with the 15 most inventive cities. The OECD tracks patent applications for cities around the world and and consequently calculates how many patents are applied for per 10.000 residents to calculate their inventiveness. For several years the Dutch town Eindhoven has been ranked as […]
Funding goal reached in a day: Get ready for Heml.is private messaging service
Yesterday Arctic Startups announced that folks from Flattr are working on Heml.is – a completely private and secure messaging platform. Payments through Paypal and Bitcoin have reached $114,103, or 114% of their goal, funded by 7561 backers in less than two days. The fund will be used for development of the apps, plus setup and […]
Bikway takes Prize at Betapitch Global
Betapitch Copenhagen 1st prize winners Bikway went on to the Betapitch Global event in Berlin on July 6 to compete against other ‘local’ winners – and walked away with a prize! Peter Bihr – from the jury has written a wrap up and thoughts on the event , and congratulations to all the winners. 15 […]
5 steps to get your pitch email read – guaranteed
Want someone like Max Neiderhoefer, from Sunstone Capital to consider your proposal for Series A funding? Cold emailing can go nowhere. Getting the email right, folliowing Max‘s tips, and writing in something like this format, will get it opened and considered. This is his guarantee. Sounds like a good start if you’re trying to get […]