Football app uses data to create a world-class team
Danish startup Tonsser, has created an app where football players have their own player identity, showcasing statistics and metrics to determine success on the field. Now they have taken the data generated there to a new level. To show that way too often great achievements go unnoticed, and that the fate of football players shouldn’t […]
Tonsser in collaboration with Nike
Tonsser, from Copenhagen, is a social app for youth soccer players. The app started a collaboration with Nike, which got to be the first brand to get access to the platform. Tonsser has now 380.000 youth players, a change from 100.000 for a year ago. “Since the internet, you no longer need to go to Harvard […]
Social network for football players Tonsser receives an investment
Tonsser, a quite popular vertical social network from Denmar that allows youth football players to showcase their performances on the pitch and get a better chance of being discovered by scouts recieves an investment. The funding in the amount of 1,8€ million (over 13 mln DKK) is coming from SEED Capital, English Wellington Partners, and […]
The fifth #cphftw town hall – Zendesk, football & electric motorcycles
The fifth Town Hall meet up has been organised by the #cphftw initiative. This time it was held at the KPH Volume hall, with over 600 people attending. The Town Halls – a grassroots movement As with all other things #chpftw does, it is a ‘by startups, for startups’ initiative, made possible by the foundation […]
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 […]
The Lean Startup – thoughts from 3 Danish Entrepreneurs
Implementing the ideas from Eric Ries’ book Lean Startup in daily business life? With a sample of opinions from the Danish startup scene, Guestblogger Rune Hugo. N. Pedersen has written a piece published on Trendsonline to illustrate what Lean Startup is, how it can be used in practice and factors to take into account. Simon […]