SEED Capital – Active European Investor
Trendsonline reports that Denmark’s SEED Capital fund is the second most active investor in Europe. Drawing on the Dow Jones Venture Source Quarterly Report SEED Capital’s 13 investments since the last quarter of 2012, makes them Europe’s second most active investor, only surpassed by the German High-Tech Gründerfonds. It is something that SEED Captial partner […]
Crunchfish makes a deal on new touchless technology worth at least a million
A Chinese mobile manufacturer will use Crunchfish’s technology allowing users to control their phone with gestures rather than with their touch. Which mobile manufacturer is involved is secret, but according to CEO Joakim Nydemark, it is one of China’s major domestic players. The deal is initially worth a million dollars followed by ongoing royalties. “[The deal […]
YooDo.se. Free.
Today, Tuesday 14 May 2013, is a historic day, as the Entreprenor 24 blog reports, becuase YooDo.se becomes completely free. In a revolutionary movement against expensive skills agencies, YooDo lets you search their database of over 1500 creatively talented programmers and web designers for the right price. Totally free. And they’re asking everyone to spread […]
Veridu for online identity check
Veridu is a company that provides global identity services based on digital footprints. Its main focus is making strong authentication friendly and useful for such businesses as couchsurfing, online dating, youth communities, social games etc. It is often the case that in order to complete online transactions, customers are required to upload an image of […]
Queue-it spreading globally
Danish Business news reports that Queue-it is quickly spreading out in Europe, Africa and North America, and the cloud computing-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product actually makes money from people waiting. At the beginning of March, Danes trying to do their annual tax reporting on the tax administration’s website might have experienced a message “You are now […]
Win an astronaut-suit with the Foap photo mission
Recently Foap introduced a new concept called ‘Foap missions‘. The idea behind this concept is that companies can use this tool as a way of engagement marketing. Firms can post a mission to build specific marketing content. It’s up to the customers how to translate this into meaningful pictures. A few days ago Foap launched […]
A new blog about startup boards is coming this May
A new blog with focus on board work in startups will be launched this May. The initiators of the project are Stefan K. Madsen, co-founder CEO of Echo.it, Kristian Holte, a startup lawyer, and Lars Torpe Christoffersen, co-founder of Echo.it and a board member of many projects. “The idea came half a year to a […]
Tunaspot won the Danish Music Innovation Award 2013
Musikparlamentet arranged their music innovation competition for the fourth consecutive year. This year the theme for the competition was ”From composer to consumer in new ways”. The final took place at the Spot Festival in Aarhus earlier this week – and Malmö based Tunaspot won! ”To tell you the truth, I was happy just that […]
Creandum Closes €135 Million Technology Venture Fund
Arctic Startups and the Creandum newsroom report that the Stockholm-based VC firm has closed their Creandum III fund at €135 million. Creandum has been making recent investments into companies including JustBook, Non Stop Games, 13th Lab, Vivino, and Xeneta. Now that the technology fund has been officially closed, they say Creandum III will be used […]
Firmafon receives a €1.3M investment
Founder of Job-index and multi millionaire Kaare Danielsen has invested €1.3M in the company Firmafon – a startup that aims to bring telephone services for businesses to a new era. Firmafons director says that it is not only the €1.3M investment that will bring the telecom company to new heights, but rather investment coupled with […]