Digital Platforms

Working in the air force, two officers have developed a platform that delivers professional drone solutions within photo and video shoots in one overall solution. It has only been a couple of months since Christian Clemmensen Møller and Klaus Wolfsberg Kastrup launched their business: Dronops.dk. With advanced drones as a platform, Dronops delivers professional drone solutions for photo and video …

It’s not about eating. It’s not even about cooking. It’s about socializing. Students from University of Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts have created Cook With a Local to enable people all over the world to connect with each other by cooking and eating a meal together. It all started out in 2013, as a part of …

The popular secondhand marketplace Reshopper, an app for the purchase and sale of used children’s things, has won an award for best “Børneapp”, or children’s app. The award was given on Sunday, October 25th at a major awards show in Copenhagen with over 500 invited guests. The app is popular among families with children, and as of this writing has …

Pricelizer has been making waves across Europe, and has built some tremendous momentum in the e-commerce industry since their founding in 2013. After participating in the #Pitchdeck at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg and presenting at the invite-only Next Conference in Hamburg, founder Karl Lillrud is quickly becoming a sought-after expert in e-commerce customer satisfaction. They found success in the …

Netflix has become one of the biggest online movie and TV show platforms – but what about a platform for readers? Norwegian startup Vio Media is creating a “Netflix” for Magazines. Articles from your favorite magazines gathered in one place. That is the basic idea behind VIO – a digital magazine platform. Vio Media wants to offer readers unlimited digital …

Tourboks  an online portal that provides tourist attraction activities to the Asian market, is a “Chinese friendly” platform, despite it’s Danish origins. Originally reported in Øresund Startups. It is the sister company of a Danish company, Uniko Holding, which was established in 2009. The firm is now international and has 5 different companies: Uniko ApS, Eurotime ApS, Cafe Apothek Hellerup …

Camilla Hessellund Lastein, Founder & CEO of Lix Technology, is not one to back down and take no for an answer. Having started Lix from a deep need of her own, she has captivated the textbook publishing industry in Denmark, with sights already set on expanding to markets outside of Scandinavia by mid 2016. Originally having started the company in …

As exciting and interesting it is to live abroad,  the experience comes with many challenges. For example, communication, contact, and building of relationships can be quite a pickle when you move to a new place. Plane is an icebreaker app for expats in Scandinavia built to solve exactly those challenges. “We built Plane to address an itch I had when …

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 …

Inspired by SXSW, Reeperbahn Festival is Germany’s largest club festival and since its debut in 2006 it has grown to become one of the most important meeting places for the music industry worldwide. In 2009, the organizers introduced a business and startup space at the conference and has partnered with Hamburg Startups to highlight the local and international startup scene …

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 …

We interviewed Swedish Innovation Compass, an innovative app aimed at connecting startups with the right funding. Stephen Batley, CEO of Swedish Innovation Compass, and Sasa Farkas, technical lead, aim to make the startup ecosystem in Nordic countries even better than it is now.  The innovative app gathers information on all available and soon-to-be available  financial resources from the government  and …

Mobile payment is going to be free. This is the hypothesis of serial entrepreneur Erik Hougaard, founder of Zalr,which he aims to make the Mobile payment. 2.0. Not a day goes by without  media coverage of a new store introducing mobile payment. Which is kind of funny, because you have been able to pay with your mobile for several years …

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 …

Today’s article is about WeLovestartups board of directors, concerns our media-guru and communication expert, Nicolai Danmark Johannesen, founder of Singleplus.dk and Reshopper. What are your biggest entrepreneurial successes? Creating a team. One of the most important things I have discovered through my entrepreneurial career, is the importance of hooking up with the right co-founders to ensure success. I have started …

Almost a month ago, one of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers, Zalando SE, opened their new Tech Hub in Helsinki. At Nordic Startup Bits, we have asked them how the adventure is going so far. On August 27th, Zalando proudly announced that they expanded their European Tech operations to Helsinki.  Nordic Startup Bits caught up with them a month later …

Sending a package can be a difficult task, especially for webshops. Two entrepreneurs from Aarhus have developed a new, easy, and time saving way to do shipments. Webshops must deal with the daily process of labelling and tracking their orders – and slip-ups can mean unhappy customers and missed sales. Now, two entrepreneurs from Aarhus, Thomas Andersen and Mathias Salomonsson, …

Online laundry and dry-cleaning service Washa get investment to scale big. Christian Stadil, Tommy Ahlers and Jesper Buch invested 1,5 million crowns (over 200,000 euro) in Danish startup Washa, an online laundry and dry-cleaning service that picks up your clothes and drops them off clean at your address within 48 hours. The investment took place in connection with the Danish …

A new app is ready to conquer Aarhus. With YourLocal you get the opportunity to buy products to reduced prices, if you can do it with short notice. The reason for this app is that there is way too much food, which gets thrown into the trash. YourLocal can be mistaken for a deal site, but it isn’t. The significant …

When living in an apartment block, doing your laundry can be very frustrating, time-wasting activity. Now, three female entrepreneurs have developed an application,Book N Wash, which makes the entire booking process easier. People who live in an apartment block knows how frustrating it is to walk down to the laundry room with all your laundry, only to find there is …