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5 February

New Danish app wants to disrupt the transport industry

GoMore, which is one of the largest co-driving websites in Denmark, has launched a new disruptive app. The app has a design that should make it even more fun and convenient to find a co-driver on your trips. GoMore expects that they with the introduction of this new app will facilitate more than 300,000 trips in Denmark in 2015. The …

5 February

#1 Confession of a Nordic angel investor – Hampus Jakobsson

Nordic Startup Bits have met the prominent Nordic angel investor, Hampus Jakobsson, to a talk about the Nordic startup scene and his thoughts about Nordic entrepreneurs. He has invested in 32 startups, with an average investment of 50-100,000 dollars pr. startup. Hampus is located in Malmö, Sweden, from where he has a very close connection to the Nordic startups. “Generally …

4 February

Danish sports application Endomondo has been acquired by Under Armour

The popular digital health application Endomondo has been sold to the fitness brand Under Armour. The fitness app has been downloaded over 24 million times from users around the world since they started back in 2007. Access to the data of these millions of users is the likely motivation of Under Armour’s acquisition of Endomondo. Endomondo contains user profiles and …

4 February

Looking for the best deal on used car? There is an algorithm for that.

Algorithms surround us in our everyday life. They help us find information, and make informed decisions. Take Autouncle.com for example, the Danish company based in Aarhus helps people buy or sell used cars based on a specific market, car model, brand, amount of kilometers, and other variables, all through an algorithm they named AutoScore. There are a lot of areas, …

4 February

#2 The Nordic app entrepreneurs – Vivino

Back in 2009 Heini Zachariassen walked around in the Danish supermarkets and considered which wine that he should buy. When he wanted to watch a film he used IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to get the crowds’ opinion, but there were no tool where you as a wine consumer could rate the wine that you drink. Therefore Heini Zachariassen and Theis …

4 February

Interview with Capsule.fm

Norwegian startup Capsule.fm is the team behind the app “Capsule.fm” that mixes your music, news and social media into a live, interactive and personal audio-stream, making it easier to stay informed and entertained on the go. The startup has developed an artificial persona that does all this and more, while maintaining a simple User Interface. The Berlin-based startup is moving …

3 February

4 tips from 3 hours with an Angel investor

This is a post by danish entrepreneur Dan Nielsen. Dan is one of the founders of NEST Copenhagen, the first co-living space in Denmark, and here is his notes from a visit from one of Denmark’s most active entrepreneur turned angel investor. Recently I had the fortune of joining about 15-20 other people in an intimate fireside chat with Entrepreneur …

3 February

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 – we have a lift off

The Nordic rocketship “United Nordics#1” ignites and takes off with a clear mission and goal. The astronauts of United Nordics # 1 are from all parts of the Nordic region, they want help brand the Nordics as super stars to build technology startups To take a man to the mon required a lot of resources and not to compare with …

3 February

#1 The Nordic app entrepreneurs: FishBrain

The Stockholm-based startup FishBrain is the leading social sport fishing app with more than 650,000 users. The team is founded in 2012 by the two Swedish guys, Jens Person and Marcus Fransson. Johan Attby the current CEO came into the picture a year later after selling his previous company, which was located in Silicon Valley. After selling my company I …

2 February

Accelerace’s investor day was a major succes

It’s a tradition that after the selected teams have been a part of the Danish accelerator program Accelerace – they have the opportunity to pitch in front of hundreds of investors on ‘Investor Day’. Accelerace have chosen teams from the categories Life Science, Technology and Industry. The Investor day began 4.30 pm and lasted until 8 pm. Unlike the other …