PHI Blades is a Hamburg-based startup working to improve wind turbines by redesigning the rotor blades. Rotor blades can be expensive, and don’t necessarily last a long time as they are constantly exposed to the elements. PHI Blades solution is remarkably simple: they have developed a rotor blade made entirely of wood. The founders recently …
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 …
Subway Surfers have been downloaded 1 billion times. Now the Danish creators want to go in a new direction and are working on both merchandise and a TV series about the game. This article was originally posted on Finans.dk. The game Subway Surfers has been a giant economic success for the two Danish game companies Kiloo …
Subway Surfers, an “endless running” mobile game co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, has gone from being the one of the biggest Nordic-developed mobile games, to being one of the biggest mobile games of all time. Subway Surfers reached 1 billion downloads last week, a milestone only a few games have ever reached. The billion …
Programming of living organisms, super intelligent algorithms and sensors in human bodies. Although this sounds like the distant future, it can soon become a reality. Jakob Svagin, Project Manager at the hardware accelerator of the Danish Tech Challenge, identifies 3 rapidly developing technologies to keep on eye on. According to Jacob Svagin, what is common …
SBT Aqua‘s stated goal is to “radically improve the standards of water quality control” to prevent the spread of water-born illnesses, and they are not far from making this a reality. As DTU students, founder and CEO Gustav Erik Skands, along with his team, Frederik Peter Aalund (CIO) and Christian Vinther Bertelsen (CTO), discovered that …
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, …
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 …
This analysis of Q3 investments in the Nordics is based on a combination of publicly available and proprietary data gathered by Index. In Q3, tech startups based in the Nordic countries collectively raised $296.5 million in 73 rounds. This falls short of Q1 for the region by 21.9 percent. Compared to Q2, it comes 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 …
