Nicolaj Højer Nielsen has an impressive track record as both a serial entrepreneur and an investor in Denmark.  He has co-founded, among other businesses, CodeSealer and Sepior, and invested in many Danish startups, such as Penneo.  Read his crash course on how to get financing for your business in Denmark. I am often asked by both the Danish entrepreneurs and …

The German investment company Paua Ventures has just announced a new fund of €40 million which will be invested, among other things, in Nordic startups. Paua Ventures, established in 2010, is an investment company based in Berlin. The fund has now collected about €40 million in its new fund to support promising European companies in the Seed or Series A …

With over 1.6 million apps available on the Android platform and over 1.5 million apps available on Apple, the growing proliferation of apps has amazed many. Consider this from the second most popular app store in the world: So what is driving the App frenzy among users? Quoting A New Domian’s Sandy Beger, and research by Indiana University, effective branding …

Welcome to the fourth chapter in the story of  Planday’s establishment in the United States – a true expansion adventure, controlled with a heavy hand by Danish-owned Lemonsqueeze, whose specialty is helping European companies gain a foothold and scale their business in the US market. Success The challenge is finally coming to the end. 30 days are over, and with …

Welcome to the third chapter of Planday’s establishment in the United States – a true expansion adventure, controlled with a heavy hand by Danish-owned Lemonsqueeze,  whose specialty is helping European companies gain a foothold and scale their business in the US market. This week, the team focused solely on preparing a pitch, getting a deeper knowledge of the product, and …

Welcome to the second chapter in the story of Danish company Planday and their attempt to gain a foothold in the United States – a true adventure,  controlled with a heavy hand by Danish-owned Lemonsqueeze, whose specialty is helping European companies to gain traction and scale their business in the US market. Last week, the company underwent an onboarding process …

Welcome to the first week of Planday’s adventure in the United States. This week really brought the heat in the Lemonsqueeze office, where Planday is housed.  Onboarding was on the agenda, and Lemonsqueeze had divided it into two phases:  Company Onboarding and Employee Onboarding. Company Onboarding focuses on getting Planday’s DNA into ‘Plandayers’ – new employees.  The top priority is …

When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund realized that along with such …

The Stockholm-based e-commerce platform Tictail raised close to 190 million SEK last week from a clutch of existing and new investors. In what can be dubbed as the one of the largest venture deals this year for the Nordic Startup community, Swedish e-commerce major Tictail has just closed a financing round of $ 22 million, which is about 190 million …

What it was doing on traffic information, Google has now gone on to provide similar data w to provide information on the busiest times for a local business near you.  According to Google, the idea is to provide consumers with information that would help them avoid long queues and plan out the best time to go grocery shopping, pick up …

The Nordic Startup Media project is still in its infancy, but holds immense potential in branding and promoting the Nordic startup community as a whole. Oddly enough, this project started as an idea between natural competitors covering the Nordic region. Various media projects across the Nordics are every day trying to help promote and thus grow that Nordic startup scene. …

A Nordic partnership of key players in the Nordic crowdfunding scene is committed to developing an ever more crowdfunding-friendly Nordic region. The cross Nordic alliance was officially established in March 2014 by the founding members from Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland with the University of Agder’s Center for Entrepreneurship in Norway as the project coordinator. Has raised almost €5 million …

If you planning on going to an event – e.g. the two-day tech conference Startup Extreme taking place in Voss, Norway, from June 17 to 19 or the STHLM TECH Meetup in Stockholm June 23 – then prepare your self with these tips for event-goers presented by Laila Pawlak. Laila Pawlak is the founder of DARE2, including the professional playground DARE2mansion …

Over the past couple of years, there has been a boom in the number of Nordic startups looking to set up camp in the US. This boom has led Nordic Innovation to establish the Nordic Innovation House in startup mecca, Silicon Valley. 93 companies in eight months Nordic Innovation House is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and …

The Nordic region is experiencing an entrepreneurial blossoming. Nordic Innovation wishes to brace the progress and is therefore currently running ten different projects to help strengthen the Nordic startup ecosystem. In the individual Nordic states there are several initiatives working to support the flourishing environment, both public such as the ‘Væksthus’-initiative in Denmark or private such as the grassroot organization #sthlmtech in …

The Danish user review platform Trustpilot raises 500 million Danish kroner in a new investment round, and is getting ready for a major US venture, and to redeem the global potential. Trustpilot started in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008 and has since proven to be spot on with current trends of user generated content and user reviews. The global journey began …

Denmark’s first platform for peer-to-peer car rental, MinbilDinbil, has been acquired by the largest car sharing platform in the Netherlands, SnappCar. MinbilDinbil takes a serious step back into the race for the Danish car sharing market as the Dutch counterpart SnappCar has bought the company. The merger makes SnappCar the second largest car sharing solution in Europe with a total …

“TV commercials are expensive but strengthen the company’s brand.” So says the man behind the Danish online-based accounting program Billy, Toke Kruse, whom in recent times has had great success with a nationwide TV add on TV2. Toke Kruse talks about how Billy will improve its brand, how their product is being improved and how a nationwide TV commercial pave …

Last fall the startup Noisli was part of the Startupbootcamp Mobile accelerator program in Copenhagen. Now, Apple and Starbucks have chosen them as Starbuck’s Pick of the Week and therefore it will be available as a free download in all Starbucks shops in USA and Canada for the entire week. This is revealed by CEO and founder of Noisli, Stefano …

UBER breaks their own record week by week – new investment and a very high valuation have been a part of UBERs short history. The total raised capital since the birth of UBER is insanely 2.7 billion dollars. But how can a six-year-old company be worth more than the iconic Harley Davidson, the cereal brand Kellogg’s or Mattel, one of …