mondayfriday #68: ev charging platform raises €85m + a better future for bees 🐝
TGI(M)F. edition 68, week 19. i’m kay, and this is your weekly round-up of curated startup news from the nordics, delivered to your screen for easy reading every sunday 📚
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🇩🇰 Denmark
Worthmore, the eco-friendly telecommunications services startup, announces the closure of their second round with a Syndicate of business angels from Keystones.
InTech Founders and Plug and Play Tech Center are joining forces to launch the growth accelerator Plug and Play FoundHER in the Nordics.
Sparrow Quantum, the startup bringing foundational quantum photonic components to the market, raises a €4.1m led by 2xN and including co-investment from LIFTT and the European Innovation Council.
Graymatter.ai, the startup developing AI products for companies raises €332k led by Morph Capital.
Onomondo announce a collaboration with Nordic Semiconductor that brings Onomondo’s ‘SoftSIM’ - the ‘world’s first’ software SIM - to low power cellular IoT.
Synthetic biology company Octarine and US synbio giant, Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. have entered a multi-stage partnership to accelerate Octarine’s natural colour program.
🇳🇴 Norway
Appear XR, the company building next-gen design tools for augmented reality secures €880k in pre-seed funding from international and Norwegian investors.
Robotics company developing bionic arms for people who have suffered a stroke, Vilje Bionics, raises €600k in an oversubscribed round.
beefutures, the startup on a mission to create positive impact on the beekeeping and pollination industry, raises €1.5m led by Norselab.
🇫🇮 Finland
Game development studio, Phantom Gamelabs, announces an undisclosed amount of funding in a seed round investment from global game company, Supercell.
The startup building interactions for next-generation interfaces, Doublepoint, announces a €3m round from a mix of angel investors and VCs from across Finland and Europe.
Ōura, the startup known for it’s wearable ring acquires US-based identification technology startup Proxy, in an all equity deal.
Milla Westerling, previously the sole founder of Green Planet Astronauts has appointed Ulrika Kotimäki to join the team as her co-founder.
Deeptech EV charging platform, Virta, raises €85m of mixed funding largely led by existing investors and with an injection of €20m from Business Finland.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Self-service music licensing platform Freshsound, secures an investment of €2m in its seed round of funding led by Zenith Venture Capital and Aligned.
Improvin’, the startup building a performance platform to make food production more sustainable raises a €3.5m led by Pale blue dot and Dynamo Ventures.
Blankt, the startup building a next-generation design engine partners with ifolor, a leading e-commerce player in the printing industry.
ClimateTech focused VC, Pale blue dot, closes their oversubscribed second fund at €93m.
// vc + funds
byFounders’ share their Impact Awareness Report 2022 which works to showcase how the venture capital fund and their portfolio companies are engaging in responsible sustainability practices.
🩺 Health Tech Hub Copenhagen are hiring a Global Relationship Lead
🍃 Skyfall Ventures shares a list of hiring portfolio companies
👨💻 Woba.io are hiring a Customer Support Specialist
Human Hotel are hosting their Spring Party in Nørrebro on May 26th, 5pm onwards.
Thanks for tuning in! i’m always on the hunt for newsworthy content to bring to the mondayfriday audience. and, if you ask me, the best place is from the sources themselves! so, feel free to reach out and fill me in on any startup related news in the nordics ✨
yours weekly,
kay
