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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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Footballer Philip Haglund wants Veckopengen to teach kids about money

When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund realized that along with such …

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Swedish Tictail picked up a record SEK 190 million in Series B

The Stockholm-based e-commerce platform Tictail raised close to 190 million SEK last week from a clutch of existing and new investors. In what can be dubbed as the one of the largest venture deals this year for the Nordic Startup community, Swedish e-commerce major Tictail has just closed a financing round of $ 22 million, which is about 190 million …

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