The Economist reports on the Nordic Startup scene
No doubt something we will hear repeated in the next couple of days – The Economist has a special report on the Nordics in the upcoming issue, and one of the articles focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation. Even if it is very Stockholm and Helsinki centric, it none-the-less gives a good reflection of how the […]
QuickInspect wins Venture Cup in Mobile&Web category
During the Danish Venture Cup five teams in various categories have been rewarded with 25.000DKK to launch their idea. The team from DTU/ITU (Copenhagen) with their idea QuickInspect won this years’ Venture Cup in the mobile&web category. QuickInspect is a professional site inspection tool on the iPad. The team from DTU/ITU says that much time […]
Hungry.dk – possibilities and emotions in the take-away sector
There are things brewing in the online food delivery business. In 2011 Morten Larsen, Managing Director at the successfull danish startup JustEat, left the company and announced recently that he is involved in a new project: hungry.dk, together with atleast two other former JustEat employees. The announcement itself stirred a sligt upheaval, as others who […]
Tradeshift partners with Intuit in multi-million dollar deal
Tradeshift, a startup that offers a plattform for business interactions, has announced a deal in the “multi-million dollar” size with the american accounting giant Intuit. This will enable Tradeshifts social invoice and payment systems to be aviable to millions of Intuits costumers. CEO Christian Lanng hopes that this will enable the company to reach the […]
Everplaces finishes as “Highly Commended” on the Europas Tech Award
The Europas Tech Award was held in Berlin, and as we reported earlier there where seven nominations from the Øresund Region. Unfornutalty none of the nominations won in their respective category, but Everplaces managed to get “highly commended” (2nd place) in their category: Best Social, Mobile or Apps Startup. The winner in that category was […]
Interview with new batch of Accelerace participants
Over at trendsonline you can read an interview (in danish) with two of the newly accepted companies at Accelerace – Wantr and LoveMyHome. Wantr is a pinterest inspired shoping experience, and LoveMyHome is a 3D room furniture simulator. The interview gives an insight into what to expect from the Accelerace program, as well as why […]
Take your startup to the next level with Rockstart accelerator
There is just one day left to apply for the program that takes your startup to new heights. The Amsterdam based Rockstart Accelerator. Rockstart have for a while now been active in the Copenhagen region, and James Digby who is a partner at Rockstart is the CEO for the Nordic Startup Awards. The Rockstart program […]
Everplace, Startupbootcamp and 5 other on the Europas shortlist
As we mentioned earlier, the Europas award is soon, and they have now presented their shortlit. The shortlist are the final 200 candidates for the awards, chosen from the more then 1000 nominated. The finalist will now be chosen by the jury, and presented at the award in Berlin the 22nd of january. From the […]
Zendesk crosses 25 000 customers limit
TechCrunch reports on Zendesk ending 2012 with signing its 25 000 customer – none other then Evernote. Even if the timing seems a little bit suspicious, it is a really great milestone for the company, that was started in Copenhagen (but with HQ in San Fransisco now) and is by us considered one of the […]
Help startups show their power against the rest of Europe
The Europas Tech Startup Awards is a prestigious award competition for forward thinking, progressive and innovative tech startups. Startups like Spotify and Podio are winners and succes stories from earlier years. The Europas is a place where tech startups have the opportunity to meet investors and get media attention. Besides that, regional awards are hosted this […]