mondayfriday: iceye raises €87m, international workforce contributes to 11.6% of danish bnp, viss.ai wins startup pitching.
TGI(M)F. edition103, week17. 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
A new analysis from Dansk Erhverv (Danish Chamber of Commerce) highlights that the international workforce in Denmark contributed to 11,6% of the Danish BNP.
World’s most advanced legal visualising tool, Juristic, raises an €800k round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures.
Rodinia Generation, the startup transforming clothing production and combatting overproduction in the fashion industry raises €3m from the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) and Climentum Capital.
🇳🇴 Norway
Daxap AS, the SaaS service creating digital solutions to societal challenges raises €334k, exceeding the financing goal by over €80k, led by Limex Ventures from the U.S.
Pickatale, a multi-language digital reading platform for children raises €2.5m from Arne Blystad, MP Pensjon og Investinor.
🇮🇸 Iceland
Canadian-Icelandic Prescriby, the company revolutionizing treatment management of addictive medication, raises $1.8m in a funding round led by Crowberry Capital.
🇸🇪 Sweden
VISS.AI wins #1 in the starting pitching competition at World Summit AI in Canada and announces investment from Spintop Ventures and Starbright Ventures.
Content operations platform, Gridly, raises €2.4m from Subvenio Invest, US-based digital media specialist Rendered VC and existing investors.
🇫🇮 Finland
Kaisa Hietala, Founder and Chair of Greencode Ventures ranked #2 in Finland’s most influential woman in business list by Talouselämä.
ICEYE, the SAR satellite company, has secured an oversubscribed €87m growth funding round led by Solidium Oy.
Following One Click LCA’s €40m fundraise, the company specialising in life-cycle assessment software for the construction industries, has now acquired Buildrz, a generative AI platform for real estate development.
Innovestor’s Angel CoFund (a fund which collaborates with angel syndicates to invest in Finnish seed-stage companies) announces first investments in Hytrade and Coiniverse amounting to a total of €480K.
// The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Anne-Laure Fayard Martina Mendola for Harvard Business Review discuss how universities are ideally positioned in startup + technology ecosystems to create the kind of innovation required to solve complex societal issues using the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) as a use-case. Read more here.
🌱 EIVEE are hiring a new People & Culture Lead.
🪁 Ørsted are hiring a Head of Innovation.
💰 Maj Invest are hiring an Investment Analyst.
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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