mondayfriday #62: €28m series-A to biotech company, norwegian startup wins at SXSW, GPT-4 powers virtual assistant app for people with visual impairments 🏆
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🇩🇰 Denmark
Seedtable’s list of “20 Robotics Startups in Denmark to Watch in 2023”.
Teitur Trophics, a Biotech company developing new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, raises €28m in a series-A round led by Sunstone Life Science Ventures and Sound Bioventures.
CAPSULE, a digital wardrobe app, raises €600k backed by UNICO CAPITAL, Martin Lykke Suhr, and The Aventures.
Entrepreneur and investor, Tommy Ahlers has been appointed Honorary Professor at DTU.
Karina Rothoff Brix, the Country Manager of Firi, joins the board of The Aventures.
Biotech startup, CELLUGY, raises a DKK 13m (~€1.7m) pre-seed round by PreSeed Ventures, The Footprint Firm, North-East Family Office, & the EIFO.
Landfolk announces a DKK 28m (~€3.8m) round led by Seed Capital Denmark.
QuadSAT, company supplying airborne antenna testing solutions raises €9m led by IQ Capital.
North Ventures and Crowberry Capital join the Diversity Commitment, an initiative that works to increase diversity in investments and management teams.
Tryp.com closed an undisclosed seed-round (~ north of €500,000) bringing it’s valuation to €8.3m.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Maria Lindholm, Head of Expansion at NICKS becomes Chairwoman of Lucy Global Fund.
Klimato, the Greentech startup helping companies calculate the carbon footprint of the food they serve raises €4.2m led by Global Cleantech Capital.
From 0 to €2m euros without venture capital, Alex&Phil have now welcomed angel investor, Gunilla von Platen to the table.
🇫🇮 Finland
ConstructionTech startup, Asumma secures a total funding of €945,000, of which includes their pre-seed financing round of €720,000 led by Kiilto Ventures.
CollectiveCrunch, startup enabling large-scale sustainable reforestation raises €1.4m led by Nidoco AB.
SemiQon, startup aiming to make quantum computing more scalable, affordable, and sustainable receives investment from Voima Ventures.
🇳🇴 Norway
Auk, the startup making fully automatic plant growers raises NOK 19.8m (€1.7m) in over-subscribed crowdfunding round on FolkeInvest. They were fully-subscribed at NOK 9m in just 10 minutes.
Out of 50 nominees, Nomono, the startup simplifying podcasting, wins the SXSW Innovation Award.
// vc + funds:
📊 Tesi, a Finnish venture capital and private equity company, releases their 4th Diversity Review assessing diversity in the investment teams of all Finnish VC & PE fund management companies.
🧾 Read the Maria 01 Impact Report 2022: an annual publication and a comprehensive report on Maria 01’s activities throughout the preceding years. In 2022 the Maria 01 startups collected a record €219m in funding.
// startup feature:
🤖 Two out of six projects selected for GPT-4 beta testing by OpenAI were Nordic companies; Be My Eyes (DK) and Miðeind ehf (Iceland).
💸 All Gravy are looking for a Sales Development Representative (Nordic market).
🧠 Fintech 💰 $4.5m 📍 Remote, hybrid.
💸 Too Good To Go are looking for a Key Partner Growth Manager.
🧠 Marketplace, food waste 💰 $45.7m 📍 Copenhagen
Networking & Fundraising | EIFO x InTech Founders x Contractbook, April 25th, 2:15 - 5pm CEST, @ Denmark’s Export and Investment Fund.
Sting Startup Academy launches: a free, online course, designed to inspire future entrepreneurs to take the step into the startup world.
TalkBBQ on Tour kicks off in Odense. Tuesday, March 28th, 16:30 - 20:00 @ Anarkist beer & Food lab.