AppHarbor rumours: closing the danish subsidiary – not bankruptcy
On thursday Version2 and Trendsonline reported conflicting stories about AppHarbor, a company with offices at Founders House and that develops an .net apps platform service. The rumours where about AppHarbors alleged bankruptcy. AppHarbor themselves released later an statement where they explained the situation – they where forced due to funding problems to cut costs, and […]
Joakim Nydemark new CEO at Crunchfish AB
The Malmö based company Crunchfish announced today the appointment of Joakim Nydemark as their new CEO. This is a big announcement for the small technology company that was founded in 2010 and is a part of the new direction taken since the SEK 17 Million investment made in August by Sheik Mohammed Al-Amoudi and serial entreprenuer […]
IconFinder in 500 start-ups
IconFinder becomes the first Danish participant in the accelerator program called 500 start-ups. The company provides a search engine focused merely on icons. When it was launched in 2007 it was the first search engine of its kind. Now they have over one million unique visitors, and the tool is commonly used amongst many web […]
Accelerace invests in Conferize
TrendsOnline reports that Conferize, the online plattform for conferences, has just recieved and investment by Accelerace Invest. How much is not dislosed, but it’s rumoured to be a “decent six digits” euro sum. Conferize has been getting alot of attention lately, and they seem to be going strong and getting more paying costumers onboard. In […]
New danish startups database at startuponline.dk
TrendsOnline have started their own online database over danish startups over at startupsonline.dk. They have created their own backend and frontend solutions, which looks good. Right now it seems to have a total of almost 150 startups listed, which is a good overview and alot of companies that we haven’t listed are there. Not all companies […]
Schibsted invest in Riidr
TrendsOnline reports that Schibsted Media Group, one of the largest media-companies in Scandinavia invest in Riidr and their e-book business. Riidr was one of the first companies to focus on e-books in Denmark, and they have developed their own app for both the iOS and Android platforms. No sum for the investment has been mentioned, […]
Saplo and Qlikview predict the US election
Saplo, a startup that works with text-analysis, has teamed up with one of the regions success-stories, Qlikview, to create an interactive website analysing the presidential election campaigns. An easy to use application that lets you see what is being said in news articles and tweets on the web about both candidates. It also gives an […]
Incentive secures SEK 3 million to take on the American market
The Malmö based company Incentive has recently taken it’s first round of funding of SEK 3 million. The funds will be used to market their corporate collaboration software towards the American market. Says founder and CEO Rickard Hansson: “Primarily, what we want to do, is to convert the close to a thousand downloads per month to […]
Crunchfish and Parkster nominated for Guldmobilen
Both Crunchfish and Parkster have been nominated for Guldmobilen. Crunchfish for best innovative product, with their gesture and eye-tracking based UI for phones, and Parkster in the most useful category, for their smart idea and good approach to making parking easier. Being nominated together with companies such as iZettle and previous winners such as Toca […]
Everplace wins QPrize competition and €100K
Everplace won the European QPrize competition. Arranged by Qualcomm Ventures, the first price is €100 000 in convertible note funding and also the opportunity to participate in the Grand Finals competition. The Grand Finals offers an additional chance for $150 000 in prize funding. Winning the European competition will certainly help Everplace forward, both with […]