As the Western world faces longer life spans and lower birth rates, the demand for innovating welfare technologies is increasing. By Sisse Melsen Today there are four workers per pensioner in Europe. In 2025 there will be three. And in 2050 there will be two. In other words, we will experience a halving of the …
One of Denmark’s most spectacular scenes provide the framework for TechBBQ 2015 – a festival for the country’s startup environment. By Torben Kloster The event frames investors, the national Nordic Startup Awards final, barbeque, big business, entrepreneurs and a lot of brave speakers on stage. Wednesday May 20 the Opera House in Copenhagen hosts TechBBQ 2015. …
Becoming a successful game developer in Denmark is not easy. Yet Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning, the CEO of the Copenhagen game developing company BetaDwarf, has managed to stand out. By Jesper K. Kristiansen In 2011, Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning and his BetaDwarf cofounder, Kenneth Harder, were both medialogy students at Aalborg University, Ballerup dreaming of becoming …
Now in its 5th year accelerating startups in Copenhagen, Startupbootcamp Mobile wants to repeat the success of their 2014 cohort, where more than half of the teams accepted into the program were founded or co-founded by female founders. Startupbootcamp Mobile accelerator focuses on scaling mobile technologies, and solution-based startups, in which up to 10 selected …
This April it is exactly three years since the acquisition of Danish startup, Podio, was celebrated. Since then we have been hoping to see new angels in the Nordic startup scene – but we also see the Podio team continuously improve Podio. The latest news is of a launch of a new app, the Podio Chat app. …
“Donkeys” is the name of a new type of bicycle sharing system, which the Danish company Donkey Republic launches in late July this year. The concept is inspired by the car sharing service Car2Go, and the team behind have already received their first million-investment. By Josefine Maria Hansen The idea for Donkey Republic emerged as …
The Danish startup Refurb focuses on recycling of IT equipment in large companies. They buy up for example used computers, optimise them and sell them with full warranty. By Tobias Ehlig The concept is actually quite simple. Out in the big companies around Europe are a lot of IT equipment that is no longer being …
Entrepreneurs who want to develop mobile technologies, can now apply for a participation in Startupbootcamp Mobile 2015 in Copenhagen. By Torben Kloster They call themselves the world’s leading accelerator program within mobile technologies, devices and solutions. Startupbootcamp has existed since 2010, and now there is only 10 days until deadline for applications to the mobile version in 2015. Startupbootcamp …
For the first time in Scandinavia, EasySize, a data-driven service for predicting the correct clothing size, together with the Decoded Fashion organised a meetup to investigate the ethical consumerism and the role of technology in the sustainable fashion. The event took place in the center of Copenhagen on 26th of March. Fashion technology companies are …
Danish Audiocase is joining our Nordic Startup booth at the SxSW tech & music festival in Austin Texas. We had a chat with Søren Larsen the CEO and founder of Audiocase about being a startup and the progress of their current Kickstarter campaign. Audiocase is attending the SxSW tech & music festival, which is the …
