Survey: Help Artic Start-Up to gain an insight in the Nordic Funding Environment
Artic Start-up initiated a survey to gain an insight into the Nordic/Baltic funding environment. Some prefer large investments and might loose considerable control whilst other prefer to have a little investment from the start. Or is a large network more important than funding in the initial stage? Many of those questions are contingent upon the […]
Vaavud wind meter is getting closer to its goal on kickstarter
Vaavud, a device for measuring wind using a cell phone, has recently been introduced on Kickstarters. Launched just 10 days ago, on March 18th, its getting closer to its final goal – raising £20,000 in funding. The device is especially appealing to surfers, sailors, paragliders, model aircraft pilots, and basically anyone who wants to know […]
Verizon’s large order of Tactivo mobile shells from Precise Biometrics raises the question of financing
Verizon, the largest mobile operator in the US, has ordered 5000 Tactivo mobile shells from Lund-based company Precise Biometrics. While the order came at the beginning of March, the company has revealed buyer’s name only last week. In order to finance the order and to market Tactivo smart cases all over the world the company’s board […]
Ideon Innovation’s 14 startups of 2012
The Ideon Innovation Business Incubator, one of the incubators of the Ideon Science Park, held on friday it’s ceremony for the 14 startups that exited the program in 2012. The incubator specializes in early stage startups with connections to the Technical University of Lund, and the main areas of ICT, lifesciences, nanotechnology. But their is […]
Accel Partners: A €367M fund for early stage tech start-ups with a focus on the Nordics
Yesterday Accel Partners announced a new €367M fund for early stage tech companies. According to Accel Partners this newly founded fund will be used for start-ups in Europe dealing with consumer internet, big data, cloud, SaaS, and mobile. “Innovation and entrepreneurship are thriving in Europe, and with technology hubs developing across the region, the next […]
Accelerace and Startupbootcamp start international initiative in Copenhagen to attract more startups: MobilityXL
New collaboration between Symbion Accelerace and Startupbootcamp in the form of MobilityXL program promises to increase the number of internationally funded startups in Copenhagen. The project is expected to attract up to 30 different startups within IT, communication, gaming, mobile and sound industries. The program will be launched in August of 2013 and will run […]
Zerved aims for expansion with angel investment
Zerved, an app that plans to revolutionize the way we order at bars, announced that they have secured and initial angelinvestment of dkk 350K (€47K). The app was just recently launched at the popular FUGU bar. The investment, made by english angels, is meant to fund the startup throu it’s first year, under which it […]
Flattr releases new and improved “add money to your likes” concept
Flattr, an service co-founded by Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay fame, has just released an updated version of it’s site and service. Flattr is still about being able to make micropayments to bloggs and sites, but it has now expanded to a concept it calls “add money to your likes”. The idea is simple […]
Wantr recieves €460K investment
Wantr, the service that lets users collect new products from stores in an convenient (and good looking) way, announced earlier this week that they had secured an $600K (€460K) investment. The money was invested by SEED Capital and Bo Eriksen and Martin Falslev Andersen, founders of Trendsales who where rumoured to have made quite alot of money in […]
15 Øresund startups on the Red Herring Europe Top 100!
The 2013 Red Herring Europe 100 finalists have been released. On the list are a large selection of different startups, and no less then 15 from our region. As usual the startups are in different categories: internet, mobile and software being the most frequent ones. The following startups from the Copenhagen region made it: Big Bite […]