Realm acquired by MongoDB for € 35 million
Realm, an open-source database geared for mobile applications, has announced they have been acquired by MongoDB. We have previously reported on Realm raising there Series B from Khosla Ventures, and on them reaching 1 billion users already a couple of years back. Now it has been announced they have been acquired by MongoDB, reportedly for […]
Three winners from this region at the Nordic Startup Awards grand finale
Three startup from the Oresund region were among the winners as the Nordic region’s biggest award show for startups was held in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, yesterday. The Grand Finale of Nordic Startup Awards was held Tuesday evening in the beautiful, Danish designed Harpa Concert Hall in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik. The winners The evening’s […]
Realm reaches 1 billion users
Realm has reached a major milestone: more than 1 billion end-users use the iOS & Android apps that it powers. Realm has become a key component of the global mobile infrastructure: if you order a latte on the Starbucks app, post a video on Vine — or use mobile apps from Amazon, Google, eBay, Alibaba, […]
Here are the winners of Nordic Startup Awards Danish Edition 2016
The Danish 2016 finale in Nordic Startup Awards were held on Tuesday evening at the HQ of DI in collaboration with Danish Industry (DI) and WeLoveStartups. The evening’s Grand Prize, Startup of the Year, went to Realm.io, and was presented by the Danish Minister of Business and Growth, Troels Lund Poulsen. Realm.io is a database […]
Realm raises € 18 M Series B from Khosla Ventures & Scale VP to bring Databases to Mobile
Realm just closed a € 18 M ($ 20 M) Series B led by Khosla Ventures, along with new investor Scale Venture Partners. Less than 9 months after its public launch, Realm is already the 2nd-most deployed database in the world, running on well over 100 million devices! Realm was founded by Alexander Stigsen and […]
Startup Village officially opened – #svlaunch
On Friday, the official opening of the Startup Village Copenhagen took place. Startup Village has been in the talks since before the summer, and most startups have actually already moved in, with the aid of companies like moving and storage nyc, during the summer. But last week was the official opening. So these top-rated professional […]
#Cphftw Town Hall #3 – packed with people and announcements
The third #cphftw Town Hall meet-up was held earlier this week. There were big news about the initiative itself as well as a lot of announcement of very interesting new initiatives. The venue was the Kph Volume hall – a very rough environment, that reinforced the ambition of the whole initiative – do it simple […]
Copenhagen Startup Village revealed!
There really is something brewing in Copenhagen! Founders House, an invite only co-working space, has for long been the most known startup palces in Copenhagen. This week it was announced they will move to a new location. But this location will not just be a much larger and grander Founders House – it will also […]