Einride unveiled their full-scale prototype of the T-pod
During Almedalen, Einride unveiled their full-scale prototype of the T-pod, the world’s first completely emission-free, road-based transportation system. Video from the launch, 4th of July in Visby, Sweden. One of the co-founders and COO of Einride, Filip Lilja, is from Malmö, but the company is located in Gothenburg. He tells us that they worked on the […]
Danish Planday partners up with METRO GROUP
The employee scheduling and workforce management solution provider Planday partners with The METRO GROUP, Wholesale & Food Specialist Company (W&FS Co.) which is a leading international player in wholesale and foodservice distribution. In 2014, Planday received investment from Creandum, and in 2015, they received another investment from former global Just-Eat CEO, Klaus Nyengaard. In 2016, […]
The new CEO for Minc in Malmö has been presented
Breakit break the news who will be the new CEO of the startup house Minc in Malmö. It is Charlotta Alegria Ursing who will take over the CEO chair. Charlotta Alegria Ursing is currently responsible for Innovation Skåne’s business consultancy and has in recent years been working to create new startups after Sony Mobiles cuts in the region. For the […]
Great start for Conferize’s IPO
Conferize, the conference community startup that has been in the news lately for trying to invigorate the Danish small cap stock market, made their own IPO yesterday. The stock had a great first day – rising over 40% percent. Opening at 8 and closing at 11.3. Raising money on the public market instead of further […]
Danish Opbeat acquired by Elastic
Opbeat and Elastic released a joint blog post about the acquisition. The 15 employees at Opbeat already joined forces with the Elastic team. “We’ve been happy users of the Elastic Stack for monitoring our infrastructure metrics and logs, and are excited about being a part of the team that extends the Elastic Stack to application-level […]
Proposales wins a prestigious award
Helsingborg based company – the Proposales has received an “Innovation and Design for All” award, which is awarded by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). In addition to the honor, Proposale has also received 100,000 kronor ( € 10,000) for developing its digital tools of online quoting. As Joakim Green, the founder of Proposales, […]
Queue-it expands to the US and hires new VP
The technology company Queue-it is expanding fast. They recently revealed that they will open a new office in the US, and they also employed Dagrofa’s former IT Operations Manager, Michael Rasmussen, as the new Vice President of Technical Engagement. Queue-it opens the US office in June, where the start-up phase focuses on hiring talent in technical […]
Skåne Developed self-driving Convenience Store Premiers in Shanghai
At the end of 2016, the Swedish startup, Näraffär, was acquired by Wheelys, an alumn from both VentureLab in Lund and Ycombinator. Näraffär is the world’s first system for staffless stores and it is today one of the critical components in Wheelys new autonomous, staffless and mobile store. The project launched June 13 under the […]
Mad Lady´s pop up shop became a success
The fashion e-commerce company Mad Lady opened up a physical shop at Emporia in Malmö 3-4 of June. “It was a bit crazy! We hadn´t organised the pop-up shop for long. It was a spontanious thing we got together in a few weeks. But we got really good feedback”, says Madelene Fisch to E-handel.se. Already when […]
Clearhaus buys 33% of a Danish Bank while proposing a new business model for banking
The Danish startup Clearhaus has recently purchased 33% (about 10 million EUR) of the Copenhagen Cooperative Bank. Clearhaus is a fintech startup from Aarhus, Denmark. Its main goal is to make online payments faster, easier, and more secure for online businesses. Therefore, to make this idea real, the company with the help of modern technologies, creates […]