The latest figures from the Danish Business Authority reveal that the distribution between men and women engaging in entrepreneurship has remained constant since 2001, with 1 out of every 3 entrepreneurs being female. An entrepreneur is statistically defined as a person who creates new business in non-agricultural industries, meaning re-launches, acquisitions and the like are not counted. In Denmark, there …

Last summer the Danish startup Templafy received 20 million in venture capital to strengthen product integration within their enterprise segment and attract the best talent in the industry. Now, they have opened their North American headquarters in New York, and solve a niche problem in a global market. Templafy is behind a cloud based service which ensures that organizations can …

The new Danish platform Praice received an investment of one million from four private investors, including former Endomondo co-founder Christian Birk. The platform Praice caters to companies and job seekers. In addition to a normal CV and letter of motivation, job-seekers can have a social profile based on their network. The Danish-developed platform has landed four private investors, who will …

Establish a solid, sustainable business in the United States in just 30 days! This is the challenge the Danish startup Planday have given themselves –  look over their shoulders and experience their 30-day voyage ‘over there’.   Each year, many Danish companies try to put down roots in the US market, but only a few succeed in this mission. What is …

From Guatemala to Holland to Singapore: this year’s winners of the “Oscars” for designers come from all over the world to receive the prize in Helsingor. The Index Award: Design to Improve Life is widely recognized as the most important and prestigious design award in the world.  For the past ten years, an international jury has awarded the prize for the …

Thomas Helms, CEO and co-founder of Vaavud, is building a crowdsourced weather platform…a Waze for weather Everyone has experienced a weather forecast that did not quite hold true and experienced how it can ruin everything from picnics to a wedding party. The wind meters developed by Danish startup Vaavud aim to fix that problem. Vaavud is a crowdsourced weather service …

Gulnaz Khusainova, founder of EasySize, uses big data to know your body size better than you do. Originally written in #NordicMade Magazine, August 25th, 2015. The Nordic countries are booming with fashion technology startups like Son of A Tailor, Miinto, Fits. me, The Cloakroom, Heelosophy or EasySize. EasySize is the Copenhagen-based, data-driven technology startup that digs into online-retailers databases to …

Last year, the Finnish startup conference SLUSH was at NASDAQ in New York to ring the bell. This year, Nordic startup friends got an idea during a visit to Founders House in Copenhagen. After two months of countless emails and Skype conversations, a group of passionate people from the Nordic startup community created a grassroots initiative and a common hashtag. …

Nordic angel investor Hampus Jakobsson presents some clear go-to advice for how to strategize your business process. The advice was originally posted as an answer to the question: “This is my first startup company and I read conflicting ways of strategizing the business process online. Can someone help provide clarity in what I should be doing?” Find the original here. I think you should …

This guest blogpost is written by Rasmus Bjerngaard, venture investor in Northcap Partners. Since 2014 Northcap has been investor in the Copenhagen based startup in the local search market Colego. In this blogpost Rasmus Bjerngaard explains what made them believe in Cologo. You’ve probably been there: How do I know if that lawyer is good? Can anyone recommend a carpenter? …

Serial entrepreneur, investor and Managing Partner at Prehype, Henrik Werdelin believes that making the same mistakes as others have is a waste of time. Therefore, he is passing on some of his best learnings here in this article. “It suddenly hit me; I had been working for 15 years and according to the data I will live to be 100. …

MotilityCount is ready to go to market with their sperm quality home test called SwimCount. Last Monday the launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indegogo. By Torben Kloster Having to make a sperm quality test on cue at a clinic can be a bit of an uncomfortable experience for men. Therefore, the company MotilityCount is now trying to make the sperm …

In the following very inspirational blog post CEO of Swipes Kasper Phil brutally honest tells about how his experience with prison helped him become the CEO he is today. Find the original post here When you meet me today talking about my startup Swipes, an inspiring productivity company, you’ll see a very smart and passionate guy that makes it all look …

On June 4 the Danish startup Aporta Digital will compete at this year’s Tech World Championship. You now have the opportunity to vote them to the top. On June 4 World Cup Tech Challenge 2015 is launched at Microsoft in Silicon Valley, San Francisco. 200 startups from 53 different countries have been cut down to a final group consisting of …

During the weekend 15th-17th of May Startupbootcamp Mobile 2015 had their ‘Selection Days’ and the final eight participants for the program is now found. By Torben Kloster Startupbootcamp is an accelerator that helps startups from across Europe to kick start their business. The accelerator is founded in Denmark, but has since then evolved to become a European accelerator program also …

The Danish final took place at TechBBQ in the Opera House in Copenhagen this Wednesday. By Torben Kloster The award winners in the Danish Nordic Startup Awards final were: Startup Journalist of the Year: Neil Murray, The Nordic Web The prize for Startup Journalist of the Year went to a communicator who has great influence and is very important for the startup ecosystem. …

The tattoo site tattoodo.com is only two years old. Nonetheless, it already has over 10 million visitors a month and is constantly growing. By Torben Kloster “Why aren’t there actually any design portals for tattoos? Just like 99designs.com, but just for people who wants a tattoo?” Johan Plenge, co-founder and owner of Tattoodo.com, wondered as he was getting a tattoo a …

There are generally few women on the stages at entrepreneurial conferences, and this year TechBBQ line up has provoked many inquiries – and with good reason. But it should not lead to women being favoured simply because of their gender. As co-organiser of the entrepreneurial conference TechBBQ I am part of the group (of men), who originally initiated the non-profit …

To get business angel Klaus Nyengaard’s attention you need to mix the characteristics of being entrepreneurial with professionalism Entreprofessionals = a person who is mixing the best of entrepreneurship and professionalism. The Nordics lack experienced entrepreneurs. As one of the most active business angels in the Nordic countries, Klaus Nyengaard takes an active part in shaping the entrepreneurial tech environment. …

On Indiakaj in Copenhagen sits a small group of people rethinking entrepreneurship as we know it – they’re going to make an entrepreneurship formula. Identifying patterns and utilizing standardized processes The company factory Founders has used the first three years to identify the processes that are important for the success of a business. So far, Founders has co-founded five companies, …