Founders of Gorm’s invest in a green matchmaking platform
It is no secret that sustainability is on the agenda all over the world, and the UN World Goals are currently considered to be the biggest business opportunity. Christian Madsen and Jakob Heiberg, founders of the Danish pizza restaurant chain Gorm’s, have decided to follow the trend and invest millions in a new sustainability initiative, which […]
eHealth startup Engaging Care sign new customers
Engaging Care, Malmö-based healthtech startup, is reported to have gotten its first paying customers. Among them are three major Swedish university hospital: Sahlgrenska in Gothenburg, Karolinska in Stockholm and Lund University hospitals. It goes as they planned so far. “We released the first version of the product last year. We are still in the early […]
Ethereum based game startup MarbleCards prepares for launch
A new type of gaming startup has emerged. MarbleCards, founded by Johan Unger, co-founder of Strossle, and Mattias Tyrberg, founder of Saplo that was later acquired by Strossle. The game, that transforms URLs on the internet into collectible cards, has already been tested by 300 players in a beta version. A block-chain based game is […]
Smart waste startup Bintel receives further funding
The digital waste management startup from Helsingborg called Bintel announced they have raised funding, their first round with institutional investors. The round is a total of € 750.000, from Almi Invest and from private investors Erik Urnes and Philip Abdon. “We are very pleased to have received Almi Invest as a new investor. With their […]
Brandox is set to shake up the brand asset management industry
Malmö-based startup Brandox is a fresh internal company of the communications agency Odd One Out. Brandox operates within SaaS marketing tech and has recently launched their platform. The startup was founded in late 2017 after a marketer and his team repeatedly faced the same issue. “Clients sometimes struggled to organize and share files for marketing […]
Realm acquired by MongoDB for € 35 million
Realm, an open-source database geared for mobile applications, has announced they have been acquired by MongoDB. We have previously reported on Realm raising there Series B from Khosla Ventures, and on them reaching 1 billion users already a couple of years back. Now it has been announced they have been acquired by MongoDB, reportedly for […]
eHealth startup PainDrainer secures funding from angels
Lund-based eHealth startup PainDrainer is getting much attention from various investors. One of them is the former KappAhl-top . PrainDrainer has developed cloud-based applications for self-management of chronic pain, using multilevel Artificial Intelligent Systems being worked on in White Sands rehab Orlando FL. According to themselves, the product is the first drug free, self-management tool […]
Notified acquired by West Corporation
Notified, Malmo-based social media listening and management startup, announced that they have been acquired by West Corporation, a private telecommunications services provider based in Omaha, the U.S. Notified was founded in 2010 by Marcus Norrving and Kristopher Stenkula as a platform for comprehensive solution within PR and communication, aimed at helping companies making better decisions […]
EdTech startup StudyBee raises second investment round
Malmo-based EdTech startup StudyBee has raised a € 500.000 (4.5M SEK) in investment, their second investment round. Among the investors are two Swedish national football team stars, Pontus Jansson and Robin Olsen, who have previously invested through their joint company PJ and PL Invest AB. In addition to them, ALMI Invest, Djäkne and Fast Track […]
Techfestival is back!
Techfestival, the annual big tech event since 2017, will return in September, the 5th to 9th, 2019. The goal of the festival is “to find human answers to tech progress”. It is literally “where humans and technology meet”. Over the last two years, Techfestival has been highly successful. More than 16,000 people gathered during the […]