Northzone VII announced: biggest investment fund to date for Nordic Startups
Northzone technology investment partnership have announced the first close of their latest fund at €150 million, it’s their biggest fund so far, and the target size of Northzone VII is €250 million. It’s being talked about over at the Swedish Startup Space (check out their news too!), because this fund presents a good opportunity for […]
Win an astronaut-suit with the Foap photo mission
Recently Foap introduced a new concept called ‘Foap missions‘. The idea behind this concept is that companies can use this tool as a way of engagement marketing. Firms can post a mission to build specific marketing content. It’s up to the customers how to translate this into meaningful pictures. A few days ago Foap launched […]
Leikr reaches funding goal with kickstarter
Leikr, a Copenhagen based tech firm, set out a 250.000 USD funding goal on Kickstarter which they have successfully raised on the 1st of February. Traditionally startups use kickstarter to raise funding. However Christiano Cairo, from Leikr, reports to Trendsonline that Kickstarter has been beneficial to get publicity and media attention as well and shows […]
Likemind – Copenhagen
Likemind is a monthly coffee talk with random young professionals with no particular agenda. The initiative started off in New York by two individuals of which one shared a blog invitation for the meet up. 20 people showed up and the initiative grew from that day onwards. Likemind now hosts events in Europe, South America, […]
Danish Entrepreneurship Award 2012
On the 14th of November, the Danish entrepreneurship awards will be held in Fredericia. The entrepreneurial spirit of Denmark will be celebrated by an estimated number of 5000 visitors from all educational systems. The event will have a focus on innovation and creativity, a competence which seems to give start-ups a competitive edge in today‘s […]
Welcome to Øresund Startups!
Dear visitor – this site is not yet completely finished, but I hope you feel welcomed anyway! Our aim here is to give startups, entrepreneurs and VCs in the Øresund region a chance to know about everything that happens in the whole region – from Copenhagen, Malmö, Lund to Helsingborg. We will be reporting and […]