Incentive receives € 1.5 M investments and aims for the US
In 2008, Rickard Hansson founded Incentive; a social collaboration platform. 8till5 describes the company as developing a social intranet, a kind of work- related Facebook for individual companies. Recently, Incentive announced at a conference in Las Vegas that they are receiving investments of approximately € 1,5 millions. ”The majority of the money comes from the US. […]
Incentive announces € 2M investment round
Incentive, with their intranet solution for enterprises, will raise a € 2M investment round, reports Sydsvenskan on their new 8till5 business news site. This is Incentives third round, and will be aimed at further expansion in the U.S. Private cloud solution Incentives solution is a social collaboration platform for enterprises, payed for by a subscription […]
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 […]
Rickard Hansson from Incentive at Startup Dojo about US expansion
The first StartupDojo of 2014 was held yesterday. It was crowded, more then usual, and as always concepts and ideas where pitched and feedback was given by the participants. Apart from that a somewhat unusual presentation was held as well: Rickard Hansson was invited over Skype to talk about their current US expansion. Rickard is […]
Semmy Rülf new chairman at Incentive – talks about further investments
Sydsvenskan reported last week that Semmy Rülf will become the chairman of the board at Incentive. Semmy is a respected business man with a past at both Qliktech, Axis Communications and Dignitana. And he sees a lot of similarities between especially Qliktech and Incentive: “Incentive, similar to Qliktech, is about software, getting investors to understand […]
Formpipe acquires Lemoon – win for game developers
Stockholm company Formpipe has purchased Lemoon, a software startup from Skåne. This translates into good news for emerging game developers, because proceeds from the sale will be used to invest in developers trying to enter the market, reports Sydsvenskan. Malmö-based CEO Rickard Hansson (who has been mentioned here before in his activities as Incentive founder […]
Smart Content for Smart People: Incentive nominated for WSA 2013!
Swedish social business software company Incentive has been nominated for the 2013 World Summit Awards, a biennial award for e-Content. The WSA acknowledges contributions to a true knowledge society and promotes it at a global congress. It’s a great compliment and honour to be nominated, and Incentive will be competing on the world stage in […]
Incentive office in LA!
From the Incentive Newsroom comes the latest announcement that the Social Business Software company from Malmö will open an office in LA this summer. Their US presence will make it easy for Incentive to meet with their US-based customers personally and establish physical presence, after last year’s success in securing funds to take on the […]
Rickard Hansson presents Incentive for Microsoft TV
Rickard Hansson, CEO of Incentive talked to Microsoft Channel 9 last week in the US while visiting HQ in Washington all the way from Sweden, says MyNewsDesk. Watch the episode of Web Camps TV, where host Brady Gaster and Hansson walk through Incentive. Hansson presents the latest version Incentive 2.7 features in Windows Azure, including […]
Incentive secures SEK 3 million to take on the American market
The Malmö based company Incentive has recently taken it’s first round of funding of SEK 3 million. The funds will be used to market their corporate collaboration software towards the American market. Says founder and CEO Rickard Hansson: “Primarily, what we want to do, is to convert the close to a thousand downloads per month to […]