Incentive office in LA!
From the Incentive Newsroom comes the latest announcement that the Social Business Software company from Malmö will open an office in LA this summer. Their US presence will make it easy for Incentive to meet with their US-based customers personally and establish physical presence, after last year’s success in securing funds to take on the […]
A new epicenter for Copenhagen tech startup scene
Entrepreneurs from Silicon Vikings CPH and Copenhagen Lean Startup Circle have initiated a new project called CphQ as reported by Trendsonline. The goal of this endeavor is to explore the needs of startups in Copenhagen, create an effective working environment for them and build an epicenter of startup activities in the city. Currently, there are […]
The Sten K Johnson foundation awards scholarships for innovative projects
The Sten K Johnson Foundation awards scholarships for concrete, carefully defined projects with a clear and detailed project plan, well defined goals, a schedule and budget. The foundation mentions that the applications will also be judged on factors such as innovation and social benefit. Scholarships from about 3.000 euro to 35.000 euro will be awarded. […]
Nominations Venture Cup South-Sweden
Venture Cup nominated eight business ideas from South Sweden for the idea competition. The eight teams are categorized in the following four categories: Web, software and media: Photago & Dig-Indie Environment and energy: Freshpack & Peer to volunteer People and society: Sleepcarrier & Axi, not quite a taxi Life science and technique: Shore & RS […]
Next-generation video: update from 23
23 annouce today a Player Builder, the latest update to 23Video, to make building of video players as easy as building video websites. Copenhagen based 23 works with ‘visual sharing’, photo and video, with tools for organizational use. The flagship product, 23Video, is used to build video web sites by more than 300 organizations worldwide. […]
A Social Gifting Community
Higomo has been launched today! The platform enables users to post requests or offers to the, public feed, or send private gifts to friends. Free private individuals, higomo lets people create an account, get involved in a sharing and giving community, and share gifts. Founded by Steve Jennings and Mattias Ask, the team in Malmo […]
Co-founder of JUST EAT invests in Hungry.dk
Henrik Østergaard, co-founder of JUST EAT an online takeaway service, has become an investor of another successful Danish startup Hungry.dk. The CEO of Hungry, Rune Risom, believes that expertise and knowledge of the new board member will help to build more partnerships with a variety of restaurants and strengthen company’s position in the market. Østergaard […]
Jonas Bonde leaves Prisjakt
Jonas Bonde, founder of Scandinavias biggest price-comparison site prisjakt, has left his position as CEO of the company. The company, founded in 2002 and aquired in 2006 by norwegian media giant Schibstedt, had been run by Jonas until now. During that time the company has grown substantially, expanded to Norway, New Zeeland and the UK, […]
Wine equivalent of the movie database IMDb is heading towards the U.S
Vivino can be seen as the wine equivalent of the movie database IMDb; you take a picture of the label and see what others think about the wine. This collective shopping experience greatly enhances the ease of purchasing a bottle of wine. This shows through the one million users the wine-app acquired so far. They […]
Klaus Nyengaard: back to Denmark to assist local startups
This week Klaus Nyengaard, once a CEO of JUST EAT, has moved into his new office in the center of Copenhagen as reported by Berlingske Business. Having stepped down from the occupied post, he now wants to focus his attention and resources on startups in the region. JUST EAT is the world’s largest online takeaway […]