Moet Hennessey’s CEO leads $23M round in Vivino
Big news for the region: wine-app Vivino announced they raised a large € 23 million round, led by SCP Neptune International, the investment arm of Moet Hennessy’s global CEO Christophe Navarre. The investment will be focusing on taking Vivino to the world’s top wine consumption regions: the U.S., Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, and Germany. The […]
Tradono launches digital flea markets abroad in 2016
Denmark’s digital flea market, Tradono has set out to expand their service to foreign markets, according to Trendsonline. Tradono provides a platform where people can easily buy and sell all sorts of secondhand stuff such as clothes, musical instruments and sports equipment via their smartphone. The startup was launched in the beginning of 2015 and […]
Queue-it reaches over 1 billion users!
Queue-it continues their success by reaching more then one billion users who have accessed their online queue system. The startup, building on an online queueing system for managing website overload during extreme user peaks, has grown rapidly, having surpassed 500 millions users a little over a year ago. “I am very proud of the success […]
Entrepreneurs concerned about ID-control
The night to Monday the 4’th, a new id-control was instated between Denmark and Sweden. This means that travelers now will have to show valid id every time they cross the border. The changed circumstances have led to prolonged travelling times, which have notably affected the people who work on the other side of the […]
Swiftcourt continues revolutionizing legal industry with a new service
Swiftcourt is a Swedish startup that secures private transactions between individuals by means of creating purchase agreements. Just recently Swiftcourt added a new feature to its service. From now on the company offers its customers fully mobile-adapted purchase agreements for buyers and sellers that are completely customized. The service stands out distinctly in the realm of legal supplies, […]
Menmo becomes the startup studio Djäkne
To better represent the identity of the business and activities they run, Menmo becomes Djäkne Startup Studio as they continue to grow early-stage companies. “We get involved in an early stage in products and companies we believe in, as hands-on co-founders. We work together with the entrepreneurs to solve common startup challenges,” says Lars Widmark, CEO of […]
Danish Siteimprove receives a large investment for further growth
Siteimprove is a web governance software that helps its users to better manage and maintain their websites through quality assurance, accessibility, web analytics, SEO, and response. Established in 2003, Siteimprove has over 3,500 customers and 260 employees across eleven worldwide offices. Because of the high demand for the service, in 2015 Siteimprove established new operations […]
INDEX launches new VC to further life-improving design
The 29th of January the Danish nonprofit organization INDEX: Design to Improve Life will launch a new Venture Capital with a dedicated focus on life-improving design. The fund is created in cooperation with Dansk OTC and goes under the name Danish Ventures – Investing in Design to improve Life. Over the coming months, the fund […]
Orbital Systems end year with a large order and a new head of production from Tesla
Orbital Systems closes 2015 with the largest commercial order in its history from Frederiksberg’s swimming pool in Copenhagen and welcoming a new head of production Peter Carlsson, previously of Tesla. Orbital Systems is Malmo-based startup behind innovative showers that help to save up to 90% of water and 80% of electricity. Launched in 2012, Nasa-inspired […]
Sofia Franzén becomes new CEO of Drivhuset Malmö
Sofia Franzén, founder of Owegoo, a travel startup now resigns as CEO to work on helping other startups reaching their potential. She becomes CEO of Drivhuset of Malmö University. Franzén founded Owegoo in 2013. The travel site stands out from the regular booking sites by focusing on what people want to do on a vacation […]