TopVisible Founder Jacob Lönroth hailed ‘Young Entrepreneur of the South’
Our congratulations to Jacob Lönroth, co-founder of TopVisible – the online marketing startup behind RankTrail, for being awarded with Southern Sweden’s Young Entrepreneur at this year’s Entrepreneur Gala. The prize was presented to him this Wednesday, the 5th March, in Malmö’s town hall, amongst approximately 80 other innovative minds. Celebrating entrepreneurship The Entrepreneur Gala is the yearly initiative of […]
Sony’s SmartBand and Future of Lifelogging Developed in Lund
Not strictly startup news but a sign of the shift big companies in the region are going through, Sony’s SmartBand is set to release this month. In less than five months, the smart wristband was developed from concept to finished product by developers in Lund. It’s been crazy fast. We are very proud to have done […]
Incentive announces new round of funding – and hints at IPO plans this summer!
The social intranet startup Incentive announced that they will open for a new round of funding, to a total of no more then € 1.1M (10M SEK). A third of the amount is already signed, the rest is just made available, at a € 6.7M pre-money valuation. “In November we got Semmy Rülf as the […]
ActionPlanner Receives Angel Investment
This January, Christian Seidelin, former CFO of Norwegian pharmaceutical company Nycomed, signed to invest 3 million Danish kroner (€400 thousand) into ActionPlanner. After exiting Nycomed, Seidelin had expressed his interest in investing capital into a startup, which led to his investment in Veloso’s ActionPlanner earlier this year. ActionPlanner is an application designed for executive management with […]
New growth initiative to provide more jobs in Helsingborg
What is the most important about entrepreneurship? That depends, of course, but thinking in terms of a big picture, entrepreneurship is essential for economi growth. It creates jobs, jobs strengthen growth and optimism – and consequently reduce segregation and isolation so that everyone benefits in the end. This exact idea has given a start to […]
Capidea Becomes Majority Shareholder in Xstream
Capidea recently announced they had invested in video management software company, Xstream – the premium provider of OTT and TV service everywhere. The sum of the investment remains disclosed, but was large enough to establish Capidea as the firm’s majority shareholder, and subsequently new owner. The Danish private equity fund now owns slightly more than 50% […]
Football platform Tonsser gets angel investment
The online football platform Tonsser has just announced that they have received angel investment from Podio co-founder Kasper Hulthin and Phil Chambers. For the startup, which in short is a real-life version of the classical manager game for amateur football, this is the first investment. Kasper Hulthin is co-founder of the collaborative work platform Podio […]
Tradeshift gets massive €55 million investment!
Biggest news today and for a while – startup Tradeshift announced that they secured an investment of $75 million (€55 million)! The company has raised the money from Scentan Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Singapore. Tradeshift, which offers software for business-to-business sales and collaboration, announced that the aim is to move ahead with […]
Tasspass gets going – online dog daycare for over 500 pets so far
Startup Tasspass, that offers a web service for dog owners to book dog grooming and dog watching is quickly becoming popular in Sweden. The startup, launched during 2013 and receiving a seed investment earlier, announced that they now offer dog daycare, shelter and boarding at over 500 places all over Sweden. Their idea was to […]
Lean startup incubator announced
THINK, the startup incubator, last week announced they are official positioning as the first public lean startup incubator in Sweden. “For some years now lean startup has been a steadily rising movement, and it has been accepted that it is not just a new buzzword, but rather a systematic approach to building scalable companies. A […]