mondayfriday: denmark is a (positive) outlier for vc growth and t.loop raises €3.8m for climate friendly data centers.
TGI(M)F. edition 89, week 01. 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
Tech Nordic Advocates names Angela Namere, CEO and Founder of MyBelly ApS, the startup of the month (December).
Kim Balle, founder of Global Startup Awards (GSA) announces their 2024 roll-out of GSA Ventures which will offer investment opportunities for founders across all 12 regions that GSA operates in.
Barma, the learning management system specially designed bar and nightclub owners receives investment from Søren Fuhr, Hans Kristoffer and Emil Skjold.
🇸🇪 Sweden
T.Loop, the startup making the building of data (energy) centers more climate friendly raises €3.2m in an oversubscribed round.
Coffydoor, a subscription services for coffee capsules, raises €500k from list of angel investors including Per Alm from Hiroy and Omid Ghanbari from Matspar.
Cling Systems, the circular startup promoting sustainability and resilience in the battery supply chain raises €1.3m from investors including Trucks Venture Capital, First Venture, and VOYAGERS.io.
🇫🇮 Finland
Stayify, the company establishing a Booking Engine designed to consolidate diverse travel services has raised €500k in pre-seed funding from direct co-founder investments, grants and startup programs.
🇳🇴 Norway
Fauna, the social platform that rewards you for making environmentally friendly choices, raises €1.4m from the Norwegian Council of Research as part of a larger €44m funding allocation initiative geared towards 39 research-based innovation projects.
CardioMech, a medical device company, raises an oversubscribed €11.8m round from new, existing and undisclosed investors.
Ducky, the Climate-SaaS platform for easily tracking climate efforts raises funding from strategic investor, Visma.
🇮🇸 Iceland
Leviosa, a healthtech startup streamlining administration and documentation processes for the healthcare system, raises €1m in pre-seed funding from existing angel investors and over 60 healthcare professionals.
// Denmark: the European outlier for VC growth in 2023
According to a Dealroom insight, Denmark stands out in 2023 as one of the very few mature startup ecosystems that experienced VC growth - largely as a result of significant Healthtech investment totalling €762m last year. Read the article here.
📈 2021.ai are looking for a new Finance Manager to join the team.
⚽️ Veo Technologies are hiring a new People and Culture Business Partner.
☔️ Dripdrop are hiring a new Growth & operations associate.
Institut for Ecoscience at Aarhus Universitet is hosting BIOMATCH, a speed-dating event for any stakeholders (NGOs, startups, corporates, politicians, etc) in the green transition field → 24th of January @ Stakladen Fredrik Nielsens Vej 2, Aarhus.
PWN Copenhagen: Self-Leadership Summit - Empowering Lives, Enriching Communities → 20 January 2024, 10:00 - 15:00 @ Hub Learn
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
