mondayfriday: anyday.io raises €40m, osito ventures launches and a climatetech playbook 📚
TGI(M)F. edition99, week11. 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
LMS365, the only AI-powered workplace learning, engagement, and performance platform announces it’s acquisition of Platypus / Valuebeat an HR platform that allows leaders to track and manage cultural drivers in their teams.
“Danish healthtech disruptors: 10 game-changing startups transforming healthcare and wellness in 2024” - Silicon Canals.
Aarhus-based fintech scaleup, Anyday, raises €40m in debt-financing from a debt funding from a Nordic credit institution.
Denmark to build one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers, accelerating solutions to societal challenges in collaboration with NVIDIA.
🇸🇪 Sweden
CemVision, the startup producing innovative, low-carbon cement secures a €10M seed round - the largest seed round to date in the cement industry- to scale their production. The round was led by BackingMinds and Polar Structure AB.
Ingrid, a startup helping retailers manage the delivery experience raises €21m in a round led by Verdane, and alongside Schibsted Ventures.
Southern Lights, the SaaS-startup offering a tool to design, simulate and assess project feasibility for green hydrogen projects raises €1.6m led by Greencode Ventures.
Crypto Rogue Games, a game development studio specialising in the creation of web3 gaming, raises a €1.5m round led by Merit Circle and Avalanche.
BL!XT, a startup working to revolutionise electrical infrastructure secures €5m in funding led by Union Square Ventures (USV) and Energy Revolution Venture.
Osito Ventures launches, a Nordic-focused fund investing $50k tickets in Pre-Seed / Seed rounds and syndicate investments with their network in Series A rounds and beyond.
🇫🇮 Finland
Perfat Technologies, a deeptech company that produces value added fat solutions for the food industry, secures a €1m seed-funding round led by Nordic Science Investments.
Steady Energy, the startup specialising in providing carbon-neutral heat to homes, offices, and industrial applications raises a €10m investment round led by Lifeline Ventures and Yes VC.
🇳🇴 Norway
Wattif EV, the end-to-end provider of charging solutions acquires Laddel, a ChargePoint operator in Kristiansand to simplify EV charging accessibility.
MOVU Mobility, the startup building a micro-mobility device for people that need support walking, wins a Doga award for it’s inclusive design.
// Digital Hub Denmark release their annual report for 2023
Their report (in Danish) focuses on two core themes that are foundational to their overall strategic direction: 1) the export of Denmark's Digital Solutions, particularly within GovTech and 2) the availability of international, specialised workforce. Swipe through the report here.
// A 25,000-word playbook for building climate-tech hardware
Norrsken VC partners up with Planet A Ventures and Speedinvest to create a much-needed, comprehensive guide for building climate-tech hardware in Europe. The guide unpacks finding investment, hiring the right talent, how to market, spinning-out and much, much more. Read the guide here.
🌿 Klimate.co are hiring a Founders Associate
📸 CoHo are hiring a Head of Content (Paternity leave)
👾 Heka VR are hiring a Chief Commercial Officer
GIVEAWAY: A chance to win 1 ticket to the Proptech Symposium 2024 on May 13th in Copenhagen. Fill out the form here (the lucky winner will be contacted on April 12th 🎉)
Ada Ventures launch their Angel programme in Denmark that will see up to 10 Angels given access to a pot of DKK 7m to invest in exciting new startups, diversifying the angel investing community in Denmark (and the founders getting funded). APPLY here.
Register for the Venture Cup National Startup Competition 2024 - Award Show → Thursday, the 6th of June from 16.00-20.30 @ Ingeniørforeningen, IDA
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