Denmark
Planday took in a strategic investment from German company METRO
Cleaning platform Happy Helper has raised 3.5MDKK
Digital Revisor has raised 3.5MDKK
Valuer has raised a round from business angels
Opbeat was acquired by U.S.-based Elastic Search
Conferize went public today on First North
Queue-it expands to the US and hires new VP
Founders launched a playbook for those moving to Copenhagen
Faraday Motion is a 3D-printed skateboard you control with your smartphone
Finland
Iceland
NSA Ventures is changing: Highlights from the annual meeting
NSA as a fund of funds, pros and cons & the big picture
Norway
Attensi received investment (53.5MNOK) from Viking Ventures
Norway’s Startup Extreme highlights the best of an ecosystem coming into maturity
Skandiabanken are to open an “entrepreneur bank” in 2018
Trondheim rises as Norway’s sleeping tech giant awakens
Sweden
Swedish inhaler startup Iconovo fetches 2.3MEUR in funding
Lendify raises a further 21MSEK
Innspire has raised 20MSEK
FinTech startup Primepilot has raised 5MSEK more
Music startup Elias has taken in 4MSEK from existing investors
VR startup Fastout raises 1.5MSEK
Energy startup Sally R has raised 1MSEK
Avito’s founders invest in Matsmart
Doctrin has raised more investment from Add Health Media
Edtech startup Ping Pong has been acquired
Klarna obtains full banking licence from Swedish authorities
MINC has a new CEO as does SUP46
Interesting Reads
Startups meets politicians on Bornholm – an interview with Martin Ferro-Thomsen
Proposales wins a prestigious award
Skåne developed self-driving convenience store premiers in Shanghai
CEO of Feedbackly: Mexican companies more open to the cutting edge
Recognising the value of local events for the European technology sector
Former Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell joins EQT Ventures as partner
Kahoot! released an EdTech trends report
Business guide for companies looking to establish in Finland
Business Insider went to Nasdaq Stockholm to witness a record-shattering IPO fest – here’s what it was like
Overview of the Nordic SportsTech landscape
A report on the Stockholm-Uppsala Health Tech landscape
The graveyard of European startup blogs
Ikea and Apple are launching an app that lets you virtually try out furniture in your home – and then buy it
‘Sweden is heaven for cloud computing’: Amazon Nordic chief |
And just like that, the grocery market is hot once more. Despite it being one of the first industries to be disrupted by digital, Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has sparked a revived interest in the space, as people begin to consider the state of the landscape and what the further consequences of Amazon entering this space could be.The Nordics already has a fairly competitive online grocery market, in this post we take a deeper look at the current leading players.
The announcement of Point Nine Capital’s newest fund last week brought the number of new European funds publicly announced in 2017 to 35.In this analysis we look at how many of these are headquartered in the Nordics, how many actively invest in the Nordics as well as comparing this to 2016.
One way of measuring which are the ‘hottest’ verticals for investors right now is to compare the number of investments year on year. When doing this, it’s clear that some of these verticals are seeing more of an increase in interest in 2017 than they were last year.In fact, three verticals in particular appear to be doing so, as they’ve already surpassed the total number of investments they saw in 2016 before we are even halfway through this year, setting them up for a significantly stronger 2017.
Yesterday we revealed that real estate and accomodation had the biggest increase per vertical in the Nordics so far in 2017 compared to last year, already recording 7 more investments than they did in the whole of 2016. But what’s driving this increase?In order to get a better understanding of this we looked at each Nordic PropTech company that has raised money in 2017 and discovered three common themes.