mondayfriday: soundboks to sue electronics giant, gilion closes €10m round + the startup disrupting the drivers license process.
TGI(M)F. edition101, week14. 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
Sebastian Aristotelis, Co-Founder of 3DCP GROUP and SAGA Space Architects makes the Forbes #30Under30 list of 2024.
Soundboks, the world’s first bluetooth performance speaker, sues electronics giant, Sharp, for plagiarism of their speaker design.
Aya Fabricius, the prev. Head of Communications for PropTech Denmark, joins Mesh Community to head their new partnerships efforts in DK.
Reshape Biotech, the company building the next generation of lab automation robots, raises €18.7m in a Series A round led by Astanor Ventures.
The Footprint Firm invests €900k in FoodOp to accelerate their efforts in Denmark and launch in Sweden.
🇳🇴 Norway
Kör, the startup digitising and democratising the learning-to-drive process raises funding from Unconventional Ventures.
Photoncycle, the company developing technology that enables storing surplus electricity from rooftop solar installations, raises a €5m round led by Lifeline Ventures.
Sonair, the company at the forefront of enhancing robotic spatial awareness raises €2.6m from a list of investors including ProVenture, SINTEF, Startuplab, Stratel AS.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Growth and funding platform Gilion (formerly Ark Kapital) closes a €10m equity funding round from a mix of new and existing investors.
Oden Technologies, a leading AI-powered analytics provider for manufacturing companies raises a €26m round led by Nordstjernan Growth.
Plant, the startup offering a cloud-based platform that visualises a property's climate impact based on various construction and material choices, raises investment from Latour.
Mat4Green Tech AB, a deeptech research company specialising in products and recycling within indium-tin-oxide, raises €775k from Chalmers Ventures, Jovitech Invest, and the Swedish Energy Agency.
🇫🇮 Finland
Pet food brand, Alvar Pet, acquires Verkkokauppa Kivuton, an online store focusing on pet health, whilst also partnering with Juuri Partners, a Finnish growth investor.
Basemark, the company improving driver experiences with augmented reality solutions, raises a €22m Series B round through a combination of equity, grants, and loans, ultimately led by ETF Partners.
// DTU allocates DKK 60m to support and invest in climate technology inventions
PreSeed Ventures, a venture fund embedded in the DTU ecosystem, allocates DKK 60m worth of profits into new climate catalyst program, DTU Earthbound. The program works to identify groundbreaking tech solutions from the university, screen them for their potential impact and provide resources and knowledge to help get them to market. Read more.
🏋️♂️ Beefit are hiring an Executive Assistant to the CEO.
🦿 Self is hiring a Head of Robotics.
⚡️ Monta are hiring a Go-To-Market Chief-of-Staff.
Listen to Milla Westerling (Founder of Green Planet Astronauts) speak with the Climate Business Cast podcast on her journey building the company and her thoughts on climate and nutrition.
Thursday Bar hosted by The Kitchen AU x Proemial → April 18th, 15.30-17.00 @ The Kitchen, Aarhus.
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