Top News
- Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas will visit Matrikel1 next week to discuss the success and future plans of Estonia’s startup ecosystem.
- Climate fintechs are attracting investment attention. Denmark ranks 2nd for funding in the EU due to the Agreena €45 million investment, the largest so far in the EU. (link)
- Anders Jespen, a former Ikea manager and founder of NORNORM, a furniture subscription business, explains to Børsen why he chose to create a fully circular business model. (link)
- Malte Werner believes we need to change our economic thinking and question the private equity model in order to invest more in green industries and companies. (link)
- Johann Svane, Head of Policy at Danish Entrepreneurs, fears the proposed EU law restricting access to the internet could harm startups and innovative potential. (link)
- Sara Rywe shares summaries of byFounders’ Impact Awareness Report. Follow her to stay up-to-date. (link)
- Construction Center Denmark believes that startups play a pivotal role in the future of construction. Here’s a recap of their latest conference in Aarhus. (link)
- Børsen released their list of 50 sustainable projects to inspire Danish business to join the green transition. (link)
- MATR, the meat replacement startup, is seeking 150 million DKK to scale the company. (link)
- CPH Townhall is back on June 13th with Christoph Janz, early stage investor at Point Nine and Zendesk co-founder and founding CTO Morten Primdahl. (link)
Latest on Funding
🔬 Lenus, healthtech startup raised 200 million DKK from Denmark’s Export and Investment Fund and the two 3Shape billionaires Tais Clausen and Nikolaj Deichmann. (link)
💸 Blackwood Ventures has raised 70 million DKK in its first closing. Their main investment focus area is European startups in cleantech, fintech and Web. 3.0. (link)
🐦 Sparrow Quantum, the Danish quantum technology company, has raised a 31 million DKK seed round led by 2xN and joined by LIFTT and the European Innovation Council. (link)
🧠 Morph Capital, invested an undisclosed amount in Graymatter.ai, to continue their efforts to focus on building with AI. (link)
📱 PreSeed Ventures and Inventure invest in Toddle (link), the no-code platform, which has released its first beta product. (link)
🏦 Grandhood, the pension company has been acquired. (link) A new board will come in and two senior employees will share the position of MD. (link)
🎁 Angel investors and brothers, Morten and Karsten Mathiesen are the new majority owners in Goodiebox. (link)
Latest on Talent
🏆 Matrikel1 made it to the finalist list for Nordic Startup Awards! We’d really appreciate your vote, so please help us become the “Best co-working space in Copenhagen”. (link)
🌟 Verdane’s CFO, Ellen Katharina Köhler, made it to Private Equity Internal’s Future 40 under 40 Operators list. (link)
📷 Profile feature piece on Yngvi Karlson. An open and honest look on his journey as a founder and investor. (link)
⛵️ Sail for 48 hours from Oslo to Copenhagen with entrepreneurs, investors, community builders and more on the full-rigged ship Christian Radich. Don’t miss it! (link)
💵 Copenhagen based fintech Crediwire is on the lookout for people to join their team. Find their 11 open position here. (link)
🔋 EV charging platform Monta has 10 open positions. Want to join the electric transition? Apply here. (link)
🖥️ Whistleblower, creating whistleblower software for companies, is looking for 13 people to join their team. All positions can be found here. (link)
🌽 Seasony, offering automation solutions for vertical farming, has 7 open positions. Join the exciting agritech company and find their open positions here. (link)
📈 DeckAutomation, the SaaS startup, is searching a technical co-founder. Interested? Apply through the link.. (link)
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