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Sharingear is a peer-to-peer platform for musicians to lease or rent backline equipment and instruments. With the increased rate of piracy in recent years, touring has become a popular means of financial support for musicians. However touring is an expensive exercise due to the high costs of transporting heavy equipment. Sharingear aims to solve this problem by offering users a …

The Danish startup Swipes went all the way and secured the gold medal in the Evernote startup competition in San Francisco. “We fucking did it” That was the Facebook Message that hit our phone 2 AM the morning between Friday and Saturday from the CEO of Swipes. Later that morning Nordic Startup Bits got a change to talk with Kasper …

Coinify wants to take the digital currency Bitcoin to the mainstream market, and with more than 6,000 users they are moving fast towards their mission. Last week the Danish capital firm SEED Capital invested a “multi million” amount in the Danish startup Coinify. Hungry.dk among the first The fast-food delivery platform Hungry.dk recently joined 6,000 other Coinify merchants by accepting …

Cromian is a Danish company aiming to revamp the shopping experience through two apps: Chaser and mealChaser. “Supermarkets are scared… because they know technology which allows customers to compare products, prices and convenience is coming.” The Chaser app, which has been out on iOS since February 2014, is a comprehensive shopping list application. The app mimics the grocery sections of …

Photo credit: Lukas Snioka Match My Thesis is an online platform that matches thesis-writing students together with sharp-eyed companies. Companies invest huge sums of money in attracting top quality talent to their workforce. Recruitment is a vigorous process of applications, testing and interviews. Despite this filtration process it is difficult to ascertain accurately the work ethic of a potential employee. …

The Danish task management app Swipes has just been announced one of the top 3 winners in “Best New Startup of 2014” at the Evernote Platform Awards, the annual celebration of the best apps that connect to the powerful note-taking software of Evernote. The Danish startup was founded in May 2013 and the Swipes team located in Denmark, Bulgaria and …

More than 600 people gathered to celebrate the Copenhagen and danish startup ecosystem when the third town hall meeting were held last week. Nordic Startup Bits were there and we were met with a vibe that was was felt all through the nordic region. You could feel there are something really interesting happening in the happiest country in the world. …

Børsen, Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, was bursting last Tuesday with 350 dedicated individuals interested in gathering, building, and improving Copenhagen’s startup scene to make it the European hub for entrepreneurship. Trendsonline reports. Lærke Ullerup, the event’s moderator, beautifully led the evening with creative networking exercises and group discussions about the future of Denmark’s startup ecosystem, focusing on  identifying mutual projects that …

Copenhagen Entrepreneurship Tour (CET) continues to inspire and motivate future entrepreneurs with what the Danish startup community has to offer, through visits to thriving startups around Copenhagen. Eggs need the appropriate temperature, environment and care for them to survive incubation and become whatever they want to be. Coincidentally, startups can be seen in a similar light, as they need the …