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 …
No matter where in the world you are, Bownty promises to find you the best value for money experiences. The deal aggregator site Bownty helps clean the clutter created by hundreds of providers of discounted experiences. Bownty makes it possible to only receive preferred deals, in a frequency that suits you, on the medium you’re …
There is room for improvement in the pulsing Nordic startup and business angel environment. The Nordic startup and business angel environment is pulsing. Still more highly remarkable Nordic startups are emerging, and there has never been more venture capital available. But just as startups and entrepreneurs have to mature and grow, great business angels must …
Earlier this March a Coinify’s Account Manager tried to survive an entire month just using Bitcoin in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. Differently from last year attempter, whom managed to last 10 days, he made it. His company, Coinify works to spread the use of Bitcoin especially in Denmark. Coinify states that it “takes …
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. …
Denmark’s first platform for peer-to-peer car rental, MinbilDinbil, has been acquired by the largest car sharing platform in the Netherlands, SnappCar. MinbilDinbil takes a serious step back into the race for the Danish car sharing market as the Dutch counterpart SnappCar has bought the company. The merger makes SnappCar the second largest car sharing solution …
“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 …
Snapchat is becoming more and more relevant in companies’ branding process. Are you using Snapchat for business purposes and would like to have insight about it? A Danish startup has proposed a new product on the market for a social media channel that marketers still find difficult to figure out. How do my company’s snapchat perform? Which …
