mondayfriday: light emerges from stealth mode, moleculent raises €23m + crypto vc closes first round of new fund.
TGI(M)F. edition108, week24. 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
Light, the company developing “a fully automated general ledger for multinational corporations” comes out of stealth-mode with €12m in seed-funding, led by Atomico, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Seedcamp and more.
Rokoko Care, the company building a digital physiotherapy platform, enters a strategic partnership with Trifork.
Casper Rasmussen, CEO + CTO of Monta, passes on the Chief Technology Officer torch to Jesper Terkelsen, prev. their VP of Engineering and ex-Tradeshift engineer.
🇸🇪 Sweden
RemotiveLabs, the company developing modern, lightweight & flexible tooling is for automotive software development raises €900k in a round led by Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Almi Invest, and Truckdoktorn AB amongst others.
Moleculent, the biotech company building tools that map the communication between cells in human tissue to provide meaningful data in disease pathways, raises a €24.3m series-A round led by ARCH Venture Partners (ARCH).
Amiko & Friends, an equestrian brand helping riders save money on new clothes and equipment, raises €1.2m from Samir El-Sabini and Jörgen Andersson.
🇫🇮 Finland
Equilibrium Ventures (EQV), the crypto-focused, seed-stage VC closes the first round of its €30m fund, securing €6 million from limited partners (LPs).
Profilence, the startup ameliorating the stability, performance, and energy consumption of Android-based devices raises an undisclosed amount of funding from Nordic Option.
Flow Computing Oy, the company promising “a 100-fold increase in CPU performance” raises a €4M pre-seed funding round led by Butterfly Ventures.
🧬 Nordic BioVentures is hiring an Entrepreneurial Project Manager.
🤑 Mybanker is hiring a Partner Manager.
🌱 SproutWorld is hiring a new CFO/COO
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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