The world’s first smoothie vending machine company sees phenomenal response on crowd funding platform. In 2007, when cancer researcher Astrid Friborg attended a lecture on entrepreneurship for a course that she took in parallel with her doctoral research, she was struck by a brainwave. A juice bar had won a competition, and she wondered if she could do something with …
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Daniel Döderlein’s mCash enables you to pay & get paid using a mobile phone
With his background in developing SMS services, Daniel Döderlein was annoyed by the fact that money could not change hands as easily and quickly as sending a text message. Döderlein decided to figure out why. The idea of sending and receiving money instantly using your mobile phone came to Döderlein in the summer of 2006, about a year prior to …
Read More »Danish Churchdesk raises 13 million kroner
Church communication platform Churchdesk announced on August 20th that they have raised an investment round of almost 14 million. The round was led by venture capital company Mangrove Capital Partners. By Tina Søndergaard Thorsen The Danish startup Churchdesk, established in 2012, has raised $2 million dollars from venture capital company Mangrove Capital Partners, which is located in the UK. …
Read More »5 Rules for Female Entrepreneurs
There are not enough female tech entrepreneurs, says Camilla Ley Valentin, former winner of Ivækst’s Female Entrepreneur of the Year award. And she has a few ideas about why that is. Read her top 5 pieces of advice for women who dream of taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. By Josephine Maria Hansen According to Camilla Ley Valentin, CCO and co-founder of …
Read More »Entrepreneurs take over Camp Ven #2015
By Tina Søndergaard Thorsen and Sisse Melsen On the 14-16 of August, Camp Ven #2015 was held for the first time. Entrepreneurs and startup players from the Øresund region were invited to spend the weekend on the island of Ven, located between Sweden and Denmark. The concept was simple: to gather 50 people for an ‘unconference’ in idyllic surroundings. The …
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