mondayfriday: ex-Oatly CEO's new venture, Kvanted Ventures' €70m fund + winners of the NWITA.
TGI(M)F. edition 85, week 45. 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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🇮🇸 Iceland
Winners for the the Nordic Women in Tech Awards (NWITA) were announced at the finale in Reykavik this week.
🇩🇰 Denmark
FashionTech startup adopting new channels for creating engagement with new tech-savvy customer generations, virtuall, raises a €829k pre-seed funding round led by EIFO, Styleit and Antler.
British magazine, TechRound, lists the “10 Danish Startups to Watch in 2024” including Cogo, All Gravy, Landfolk and Monta.
Marianne Dahl (BCG) announces the judges and 12 startups to compete in the Green Startup Cup 2023 including: Gaiup, Again, FarmDroid, Responsibly, Spectro Inlets and more.
Annemarie Meisling, Chair of Sustainability Committee at Dansk Industri, founds Koral, a new strategic sustainability & communications consultancy dedicated to helping clients drive business value from sustainability.
Octarine, a leading synthetic biology platform company, announces the completion of its oversubscribed €4.35m funding round led by Óskare Capital, Unconventional Ventures, and The Footprint Firm.
🇸🇪 Sweden
The esports startup building a social performance tracker for gamers, Leetify, has raised a €2.3m seed funding round led by Alpine Ventures and Antler.
Fidesmo, the company bringing security to contactless transactions, appoints Anders Malmström as their new Chief Executive Officer (prev. CEO at Forseeti).
Neogap Therapeutics, the biotech startup working with a focus on immuno-oncology, raises €7.1m in a mix of EU innovation funding and the issuing of new shares.
Toni Petersson, previous CEO of Oatly, joins as partner and investor in the company Stratazon which works to help companies better understand their customers for more actionable insights.
🇫🇮 Finland
Jason Oberfest, prev. on the Health team at Apple now joins Ōura as their next VP of Healthcare to establish partnerships with payers, providers, and other leaders in the healthcare space.
The cleantech startup, SpinDrive, specialising in active magnetic bearings secures €3.8m in series-A funding led by Rhapsody Ventures and existing investors.
Kvanted Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm, announces launch of its first fund of €70m with a focus on industrial technology startups in Northern Europe
Telecom industry player, Moflix Group, has raised €2.9 in seed funding from The Hashgraph Association (THA) and other strategic investors.
🇳🇴 Norway
Jeremy Gerst - previously the CFO of unicorn company reMarkable - joins startup working to revolutionise compliance technology through AI, ComplAi.
Nanopower Semiconductor, the semiconductor company redefining low power for microelectronics, receives €2.5m in funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator.
Ignite raises a further €4.2m to strengthen their position (paywall!) amidst the new sustainability regulations in Europe.
// “We cannot solely rely on regulations and cross our fingers for major technological breakthroughs to save us.”
Katrine Thamdrup, Senior Strategic Planner at & Co, shares her thoughts on rewriting the current narrative around the green transition and what our futures can (and will) look like. She talks about the necessity for a cultural revolution to take place, and that our understanding of what constitutes the “the good life” (with respect to consumption) needs to change. Read more here.
💄 BeautyBoosters are hiring a new Chief Technology Officer
💚 Look Up Ventures are hiring an Associate to join the team
🧠 Neurons are hiring a new Talent Acquisition Specialist
Venture Happy Hour: a relaxed and intimate (pre-Slush) gathering hosted by PlugNPlay, Ørsted Ventures and the Link: Soho House, Copenhagen on November 23rd at 17:00 - 19:30 CET (capacity is limited!).
Female Invest launches a podcast called, “Kvinde, kend din kurs” with Pernille Enggaard and Lærke Engelbrekt Pedersen co-hosting.
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
