Sweden’s Creandum Invest $3.75m in Danish Planday
Danish startup Playday are behind a successful SaaS workforce management program which is the leading software of its type in the Nordics. Now as they look to ...
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Fonecta's First Minor Investment: Vuole/Savalanche
Last month we announced that Fonecta, one of the most active startup acquirers in Finland is going to start making minor investments. Today, they have announce...
Finnish Angels and VC's Release Their 2013 Stats
Editor's Note: The last paragraph has been changed to reflect that the €994 million is not in fact the value of exits. It is the total number of investments tha...
Largest Startup Acquirer in Finland, Fonecta, Starts Investing
Fonecta, the Finnish directories business that was founded in 2002, is known to be the largest acquierer in Finland. With a turnover of around 190 million euro...
SonarWorks take €600,000 investment
The Imprimatur Capital Technology Venture Fund located in Latvia has recently announced an investment in headphones software start-up Sonarworks. The investmen...
Checking Out The Prague Startup Scene With Wayra CEE
Editor's note: The trip to Prague was paid for by Wayra CEE, but the information and thoughts herein are my own. Seeing how the startup culture works in other...
Infogr.am Pulls the Largest Investment in Latvia And Reports 8 Million Monthly Uniques
When we were doing our Baltic investment overview last year, it was actually quite difficult to find investments into Latvian startups. Recently, however thin...
Legal Fees Can Destroy Investment Rounds: DealCircle Raises $750k To Slash Them
One thing that many startup founders do not think about are the legal costs of closing a seed round. Why is this significant? Because it can end-up being a mu...
Invesdor Goes For Secondary Markets
One of the key issues with equity crowdfunding is the unpredictability of an exit. Sure, you can probably ten fold your money once in a while, but how long wi...
Mojn Raised $4 Million Series A from NorthZone, Notion Capital & Zoar Invest
Mojn is a Copenhagen based startup that is focusing on sending out e-commerce and business e-mails that are highly personalized. So it is kinda like Mailchimp...
Investment Scene is Boiling: New EUR 5 Million Fund With 43 Angels
If you have been keeping up to date, then you might be guessing that this upcoming year is going to be big for the region. Look at it this way, a while back i...
Sayduck raises €350,000 Seed as Augmented Reality reaches Critical Mass
Helsinki-based Sayduck announces it has raised a €350,000 seed investment from IncubAsia Ventures, Arteel Ventures, as well as angel investors from the Nordic ...
Health Startups Grow In Popularity: Mendor Raises €4.7M To Manage Diabetes
Looking at 2013, it is probably fair to say that the two hottest areas in Northern Europe at the moment are Gaming and Health. Perhaps the two are almost oppo...
Finland's Jakamo Raises €700 000 to Create Cross-Business Communications
Seinäjoki based startup Jakamo has successfully closed a recent investment round today, with €700 000 in raised funds. Major contributions came from Prohoc, a...
One More Gaming Success From Finland: Lola Panda Hits Millions of Downloads
The Finnish gaming success is not just about the casual games from the likes of Rovio and Supercell. There are other gaming companies that deserve the attentio...
Visedo charge with fresh €4m investment
Finland’s Visedo Oy have raised €4 million in new investment from Finnish Industry Investment and the company’s existing owners Power Fund II and Sinituote to ...
Estonia to Invest €60 Million Into Startups
As reported by E24 news, the Estonian government plans to create a fund of funds with a total size of EUR 80 million with an aim to invest into startups. The ...
DoReMIR secure new $1m funding round
Swedish outfit DoReMIR seem to like keeping the description of what they do quite vague by saying they develop “music intelligence technology”, now intelligent...
Smarp Rounds up €225k in Seed Round
Helsinki based startup, Smarp, is on the rise. With major client companies in Finland and the UK, Smarp's social business tools and services, and especially the...
Norwegian Government launch two new Seed Funds
Last week came the announcement that Innovation Norway had appointed Alliance Venture Spring in Oslo and ProVenture Management in Trondheim to manage two new n...