Swedens “Best Newcomer” Applika recieves funding
Applika, a startup specializing in web-app solutions (and who recently won the Nordic Startup Awards “Swedish Best Newcomer”), just announced that they recieved funding. The amount is unknown, but is said to be in the six-digits euros. The money will be used for expansion and further offices in the region (with new ones in Copenhagen as […]
Danish start-up Opeepl receives investment
The Danish start-up from Founders House, Opeepl insights received a million-investment from private investors. Opeepl developed a revolutionary SaaS-based market analysis concept for SME’s who often don’t do much market research because they lack resources. With Opeepl SME’s can receive market data in just an hour. The investment will be used to further stimulate their […]
Preview Networks Acquired by Rightster for EU expansion
Preview Networks, the leading international provider of digital distribution services for the movie industry, just announced that it has been acquired by Rightster. Preview Networks is found in Copenhagen, 2004, and has since been expanding across Europe and won several important prices, like a Silver Stevie during the International Business Awards in 2012. This acquisition […]
Elisabeth Brevenson from Beepsend won “Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the year”
Last week the Swedish national finals of “Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the year” where held, and Elisabeth Brevenson won the “Emerging Female Entrepreneur” award. Elisabeth is a co-founder and CEO of Beepsend, a startup active in the mobile Application-to-Person (A2P) and SMS businesses. The company has seen good growth since it’s start in 2006, reaching a revenue of €10M […]
Kasper Hulthin’s blogpost at Forbes: how to sell without being a salesperson
Kasper Hulthin from Podio, explains in his, by now, monthly Forbes blogpost about how he managed to get Podio to become an international success in the B2B marked, without being a salesperson in the traditional way. A great read and good input – so don’t miss it!
Optimalbits releases beta of Castmill – changing the digital screen advertising business
Optimalbits has recently announced that it’s first product, Castmill, has entered beta and is tested live. Optimalbits works in the digital advertising field, enabling owners of digital screens to selects what they want to advertise on them. – Monitors no longer cost a fortune and cloud-based technology has come a long way. It has become […]
Private sharing App ‘Cupple’ acquired by Tenthbit
One of the upcoming trends in 2012 was private sharing, a social network for just two people. Many Apps for private sharing compete on the market these days. Cupple, one of FoundersHouse’s (CPH) companies, is one of those Apps which keeps ‘just the two of you’ connected. A short commercial video about Cupple/private sharing can […]
Rapid growth in sales for online fashion store Miinto
In the spring of 2011 the online department store Miinto entered the Swedish online fashion market and quickly reported a turnover of 6M SEK in the first quarter of 2012 with over 200.000 unique visitors a month. During the financial year they continued to show impressive growth figures. In 2012, their revenues grew by an astonishing […]
Deskwolf receives €1.2M investment from Seed Capital
Many firms recognize the potential of Facebook as a marketing tool, but how firms can leverage this potential remains somewhat unclear. Desk Wolf is a Copenhagen based start-up which offers tailored solutions for this particular customer problem; their platform enables SME’s to use Facebook as a marketing tool in an accessible way. After being on […]
Leikr reaches funding goal with kickstarter
Leikr, a Copenhagen based tech firm, set out a 250.000 USD funding goal on Kickstarter which they have successfully raised on the 1st of February. Traditionally startups use kickstarter to raise funding. However Christiano Cairo, from Leikr, reports to Trendsonline that Kickstarter has been beneficial to get publicity and media attention as well and shows […]