February, 2015

• 1 February

  Interview with the CEO of the startup Mapillary after the investment

  

  The American venture capital firm Sequoia invest $1,500,000 in Mapillary; together with other great CVs. Mapillary is a Swedish street view startup that challenges Google Street View with the goal of mapping the whole world through crowdsourcing. The app makes it possible to share your favorite places with the rest of the world. To date the startup has close to …

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• 1 February

  Trustpilot join Bing and Yahoo!

  

  Trustpilot, the leading review community for online shoppers, were happy to announce their partnership with Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo! In late December 2014, Trustpilot announced that their reviews would be displayed through the search engines Bing and Yahoo!, through Bing Merchant Ratings. That means that Trustpilot reviews are now visible through Yahoo!, Bing and Google networks, covering more than 96% …

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January, 2015

• 27 January

  Comundu wins Danish edition of 33entrepreneurs

  

  After a mechanical issue with their flight and a delayed transit in Amsterdam, the French team behind 33entrepreneurs Startup Contest finally made it to Copenhagen. 33entrepreneurs is a French Startup Accelerator touring around Europe in search of candidates for their program in Bordeaux. By Tina Søndergaard While the snow was pouring down, entrepreneurs, the audience, judges and the team behind …

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• 25 January

  The 13th Accelerace batch is released

  

  The Danish accelerator program Accelerace has released its 13th batch of startups. Each team receive a small loan and get a close contact with one of the very experienced Accelerace mentors. The new Accelerace team consists of 16 startups and is the following: – www.huuraygroup.com – www.skillpocket.com – www.mediathand.com – www.washa.dk – www.sitpack.dk – www.ingeniumgolf.com – www.miiego.dk – www.leanlinking.com – www.wakeupdata.com – www.dallenergy.com – Neurescue Aps – Northopedica – PETITE …

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• 22 January

  Thinkubator offers accelerator program for early stage startups

  

  The new, Copenhagen based accelerator program Thinkubator (http://thinkubator.dk/) is a new 10 week growth opportunity for ambitious, early stage startups. It is created by DARE2mansion along with high profile corporate partners. Accepted startups receive free office space at DARE2mansion (www.DARE2mansion.com), a grant of 2000 euro to kick-start their dreams, access to world class knowledge partners like Singularity University, and the …

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• 21 January

  Candy Crush Saga Creator Tommy Palm Leaves King.com

  

  Tommy Palm, the man credited with creating one of the biggest mobile hits ever, Candy Crush Saga, leaves King.com to found new game studio Resolution Games together with other Swedish veterans. At King, Palm’s title was ‘Game Guru’, and he was responsible for adapting the web version of Candy Crush into the worldwide mobile megahit, Candy Crush Saga, that beyond …

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• 16 January

  German photo-sharing app focus on geography and privacy

  

  We will at Nordic Startup Bits write about new upcoming startups located around in Europe. The first article will about the photo-sharing app, Shotnote, which is located in Munich (Germany). The company was initiated by the two founders Julian von Eckartsberg (CEO) as well as Nils Ziehn (CTO). Shotnote received funding from promenade German angel investors back in October 2014 …

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• 15 January

  Sortedam Ventures signs up Comundu as new portfolio company

  

  Echo.it, Opeepl, Voiceboxer. The list of startups which Sortedam Ventures has signed up, counts several succesessuccessful companies. They have now turned to the travel platform, Comundu, and starting from January the two companies will continue their journey together. By Tina Søndergaard You have a great idea for a digital product. You know the market and have a good idea on …

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• 15 January

  The week on Twitter #1

  

  On Nordic Startup Bits we try to filter the startup scene and we will give our reader the best from the week on the social media, Twitter. Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, gives advice about how Spotify got to a 50/50 male/female ratio Martin LeBlanc, CEO of Iconfinder, gives his version of why Danes are productive. It might be easier …

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• 9 January

  Bit by bit – Apple could be the giant acquiring Endomondo this month

  

  Disclaimer: This post is Daniel G.F. Laursen personal thought and comments about Nordic startups bit by bit. Nest, Waze and now Endomondo. Every big technology company in the world is competing in a war zone about user data and companies are acquiring startups that have proven success and millions of users. When Google bought the Israily startup Waze they had 50 …

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