mondayfriday: flatpay secures €45m series b round, edible coating to replace plastic, nico roseberg launches €70m fund of funds.
TGI(M)F. edition102, week16. 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
Underground Ventures makes their first investment in GA Drilling, a Bratislava-based, ultra-deep geothermal tech platform in a round totaling €15m.
Flatpay, the Fintech company streamlining card payments for SMB’s, announces a €45m Series B round and welcomes Dawn Capital in as their latest investor.
Digital wait list solution, Waitly, raises €850k in a new round from both new and current investors to expand into the German market.
Strategic communications agency, Copus, fuses with Twentyten, the design agency to become PONDER.
Tenity and Copenhagen Fintech launch 'New Nordic Challengers', a VC-backed pre-seed programme to accelerate Nordic and Baltic Fintech Startups.
🇳🇴 Norway
Leading Cryptocurrency exchange, Firi, sees Q1 revenues of €4.7m with 5% of all adults in Norway owning an account on the platform.
HoloCare, the company providing surgeons with interactive 3D holograms of organs, is awarded an €8.9m Europe grant for HoloSurge, their new Europe-wide surgical hologram research collaboration.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Saveggy, the company creating an edible coating to replace the plastic wrap around vegetables and fruits raises €1.76m from Uncoventional Ventures amongst others.
Mimo, the financial management platform targeted towards SMB’s, raises €18m led by Northzone to strengthen their solution and expand the team.
AI enabled crop development startup, OlsAro, raises a €2.5m seed round
led by Future Food Fund and PINC.Blykalla, a climate-tech company specialising in the production of advanced small modular reactors (SMRs), raises €6.8m led by Norrsken Launcher and Nucleation Capital.
🇫🇮 Finland
Nico Rosberg, the former F1 World Champion, announces Rosberg Ventures a €70m+ Fund of Funds aimed at increasing German and European participation in leading global venture capital (VC) efforts.
Aalto University spin-off company, NPHarvest which enables efficient and profitable nutrient recycling from waste flows to the (fertilizer) market has raised €2.2M in funding led by Nordic Foodtech VC and including a grant from the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.
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yours weekly,
kay