mondayfriday: eif injects €18m into norwegian fund, enerpoly acquires battery production facilities + building the worlds thinnest prescription eyeglass lenses 👀
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🇩🇰 Denmark
ABH Optics, a startup in the eyewear sector building the worlds thinnest prescription eyeglass lenses, has secured €1m in pre-seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
2021.AI, a company that helps enterprises realise their AI potential efficiently and responsibly with the GRACE platform, has successfully raised €3.6m in a bridge round including DNV Ventures and existing investors.
Female Invest, a platform that provides resources on financial and investment education primarily for women, closes a series-A funding round €10.3m led by Educapital and Rubio Impact Ventures.
Agrobiomics, the startup developing natural solutions to encourage climate resilient agriculture, raises €4m from NOON Ventures.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Moon Rover Studio, a game development studio built by ex-EA DICE developers, raises €3.2m from NCSOFT - a premiere digital entertainment company and global publisher.
Enerpoly, the company developing and manufacturing zinc-ion batteries to deliver breakthrough affordability in stationary energy storage, acquires Nilar’s own production line and manufacturing equipment.
Melt&Marble is one of 68 European deeptech startups to receive a €2.5m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator and secures an additional €260k grant from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.
Impactpool, a career platform connecting impact talent to impact jobs has raised €3.6m in series A funding led by Mediahuis and Fort Knox.
🇫🇮 Finland
Corrsy, the Finnish-Iraqi startup building a gamified mobile platform for academic content, has raised €456m from EQIQ and series of angel investors.
ReceiptHero, the B2B company offering digital alternatives to paper receipts, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a mix of angel and venture capital investors.
🇳🇴 Norway
Proptech companies, Propcloud and Placepoint, have merged to become just Placepoint and aim to be the market-leading analysis tool for property developers and supplier of property data.
The European Investment Fund (EIF) continues to support Norway’s startup ecosystem by making its third and largest investment into SINTEF’s seed fund at €18m.
🧠 Lenus are hiring a new Head of Business Intelligence.
🌱 Shape A/S are hiring an ESG Manager.
🤝 Go Autonomous are hiring an Engagement Manager.
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