The funding marks the next stage for a company founded to solve a long-standing problem that stayed unsolved for decades because of the limits of technology. Since then, Plinto has built a platform that reviews and acts on thousands of transactions every day, with a clear vision: finance should happen in real time, just like the business itself. The new funding will help the company develop its product faster and expand into new markets, helping more companies realise the potential of AI and make the shift into a future of real-time finance.

“On the market side, it was very much down to my own background. I’ve tried to fix this problem myself. The essence is that they understand that to change how finance works, you have to go all the way out to where a transaction starts, and give the company the platform to build controls that fit its reality,”

said Magnus Stagsted, Partner at People Ventures.

People Ventures is a Nordic operational early-stage fund whose team works closely with founders on finance, go-to-market, and sales, with previous investments including Pandektes, Hosted.ai, and After Technologies.

The other investor, Emblem, is a European early-stage venture capital firm with a strong network, track record, and on-the-ground presence in Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and London. Its portfolio includes Lovable, Pillar, Pivot, and The Mobile-First Company.

“The founders of Plinto all played key roles in building Peakon, my first investment in Denmark and a personal success story, which was ultimately acquired by Workday for over $700 million. They know firsthand how to turn complex, fragmented information into a continuous flow of insights that helps companies improve their efficiency and performance. I’m very happy to back them again on this new journey,”

said Guillaume Durao, Founder and GP at Emblem.

Read the entire post here: Plinto Raises €2.9M Pre-Seed to Bring Real-Time Finance to More Businesses

For the Øresund region, the fund is more than a Stockholm story. The Øresund region is a key market for BackingMinds, with around 20 percent of its dealflow coming from the country, and the firm has already backed several Øresund startups, including Uniqkey, NitroVolt, and Hybird Energy and Mylla in the region.

“The Øresund region is one of the Nordics’ most exciting entrepreneurial regions, with strong research and many driven founders. We believe that tomorrow’s most successful companies are not necessarily found where venture capital traditionally looks. Talent is everywhere, but capital is not. With our third fund, we want to reach even more entrepreneurs outside the established networks, not least in the Øresund region,”

said Susanne Najafi, Founding Partner of BackingMinds.

Europe faces a defining moment, with technological sovereignty, energy security, and industrial competitiveness as strategic priorities. BackingMinds believes many of the solutions Europe needs are already being built by founders across the Nordics. But finding the companies that will lead these industries requires a different approach to venture capital. Most funds still find companies the way the industry did in the seventies: through warm introductions, the same schools, and the same cities.

“The biggest challenges of our time need new solutions. But great minds think alike. That’s the problem. Venture capital still finds its companies through networks, and networks filter out what they don’t recognise. Europe needs unfiltered and pattern-breaking ideas. We have built our own way to find them,”

said Sara Wimmercranz, Founding Partner of BackingMinds.

Founded in 2016 by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi as Europe’s first female-founded venture capital firm, BackingMinds set out to change that. Over the past decade, the firm has built a model combining a broad audience with data-driven sourcing, identifying opportunities at a scale that personal networks alone cannot match. Before BackingMinds, the two founders built some of the Nordics’ largest e-commerce companies, and they bring that operator experience to every company they back.

“Talent is everywhere, but capital still isn’t. That gap is an opportunity, and investors from the EIF to some of Europe’s most successful tech entrepreneurs see it too. Our first close is already larger than our entire previous fund, and it lets us back more of the founders building the answers Europe needs,”

said Susanne Najafi.

The fund invests in Climate & Resilience, AI & Digital Sovereignty, and Human Potential, with initial tickets of €1 to €3 million and reserves for follow-on investments.

Read the entire post here: VC BackingMinds Raises €50 Million in First Close of Fund III, With the Øresund Region Squarely in Sight

It is the second time this year that Innoscentia is recognized internationally. In May, the company was named one of three winners of the SAVE FOOD Design Award 2026 at the international packaging fair Interpack in Düsseldorf, out of more than 100 entries judged by a jury with representatives from the UN organizations FAO and UNIDO as well as the World Packaging Organisation.

Good to Eat is a sensor placed in the packaging that measures the biomarkers formed when meat or fish starts to go bad, regardless of the best-before date. The colour shows the result: blue means the product is good to eat, red means it has spoiled. The goal is to extend durability beyond the best-before date and reduce food waste.

The jury describes the solution as a strong innovation with great potential to reduce food waste, one of our biggest sustainability challenges. According to the jury’s citation, the real-time information, which is easy to understand, creates value for consumers, producers, retailers, and the climate. The entry is judged as well-founded, credible, and clearly communicated.

“We are overwhelmed and very proud. Receiving both the category prize and the Grand Prize after tough development work is a clear confirmation that Good to Eat can make a real difference to food waste,”

said Henrik Nilsson, CEO of Innoscentia.

“The Grand Prize is a confirmation that Innoscentia’s sensor is a strong innovation with great potential, both for the climate and commercially. What makes Good to Eat so strong is that it is simple for the consumer. Years of development lie behind it, but the sensor is easy to understand, to use, and to sell in,”

said Petter Berg, business development manager.

In November, Good to Eat will be launched together with a producer of vacuum-packed salmon and a grocery store in Skåne.

Read the entire post here: Innoscentia’s Food Waste Sensor Wins Big at Packnorth Award 2026

The acquisition is the company’s seventh in three years, and it comes at a strategically opportune time. According to Omnidocs, up to 30 percent of its existing customers are looking for European alternatives to the predominantly American technology they currently use, while advances in AI increase the need to use knowledge and documents efficiently.

“The acquisition of WoodWing gives us access to new technologies, strong AI expertise and brings additional talent to our team. It also strengthens our foothold in the US. This takes Omnidocs to a new scale and brings us closer to our ambition of becoming Europe’s largest provider of solutions for automating and managing business documents and digital content. It also enables us to meet the strong demand from businesses seeking greater control over the quality and reliability of the data and content in their documents,”

said Jeppe Schytte-Hansen, founder and CEO of Omnidocs.

Although Omnidocs may not be widely known in the broader business community, it has built a substantial international business around an often overlooked but business-critical task: managing large companies’ documents and data. AI only makes this more important, as errors and outdated information can more easily be reused and spread through contracts, reports, and customer letters.

“AI enables businesses to produce documents at an unprecedented pace. But as the volume of content explodes, ensuring quality becomes harder. Errors can spread rapidly across business documents that are critical to operations, and when people cannot trust their own content, the consequences can be significant. That is exactly the challenge we are addressing through the acquisition of WoodWing. Together, we have five million users, and we are now bringing our solutions together to manage the entire document lifecycle, from the initial template to final archiving. Our goal is to create a reliable foundation of accurate, consistent information that both employees and AI can confidently build on,”

said Jeppe Schytte-Hansen.

Stronger Position in the US

WoodWing, headquartered in the Netherlands, develops software for organizing and storing knowledge and producing and publishing digital content, with more than 1,500 customers in over 60 countries. The company also has a substantial business in the US, one of Omnidocs’ most important markets, which currently accounts for approximately 20 percent of its revenue.

Following the acquisition, Omnidocs has more than 8,000 customers and offices in Denmark, the Netherlands, England, Germany, Switzerland, the US, Malaysia, Belgium, and Portugal. Its customers include Novo, Arla, Heineken, GN, Demant, Bang & Olufsen, ATP, BDO, Coloplast, SEB, Ramboll, Warner Music Group, and the Capital Region of Denmark.

The deal brings together two companies in which Main Capital Partners had already invested. The Dutch private equity firm acquired a stake in WoodWing in 2020 and in Omnidocs Group in 2024.

“Denmark is an important market for Main Capital Partners because it consistently produces strong software companies with the ambition and ability to grow internationally. Omnidocs is a great example of that. Since our investment in early 2024, the company has more than tripled in size and built a strong international position. The combination with WoodWing marks another significant step in that journey, bringing together two highly complementary businesses and further strengthening Omnidocs’ global market position,”

said Wessel Ploegmakers, Partner and Head of Nordics at Main Capital Partners

Read the entire post here: Omnidocs Acquires WoodWing and Becomes One of Europe’s Largest Players in Document Management

Founded in 2022 by Casper Laursen and Søren Brokær, Pandektes aims to challenge the traditional legal research market, where established providers have long dominated access to legislation, court decisions and other legal information.

Rethinking How Legal Information Is Accessed

While much legal information is publicly available, collecting, organising and keeping it updated across different jurisdictions remains a complex and resource-intensive process. Pandektes uses AI to collect, structure and connect legal sources, allowing legal professionals to research legislation and case law through a single platform. The system is designed to make legal research faster while keeping information traceable to its original sources.

“Building a serious challenger was always deemed impossible. Today, we can collect and make sense of legal information at a scale that was not feasible before. That fundamentally changes what legal research can be.”

As Casper Laursen, co-founder and CEO of Pandektes, told EU-Startups

Growing Across Europe

Pandektes currently serves more than 500 law firms, businesses and public institutions, with operations in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. The company reports sixfold revenue growth over the past year, with approximately two-thirds of organisations that trial its platform becoming paying customers.

The new funding will support further expansion across Europe and North America, alongside team growth and continued development of its technology.

Pandektes’ ambitions extend beyond replacing traditional legal research platforms. The company is developing an infrastructure layer that will allow other legaltech developers to access structured, continuously updated legal information through an API. Rather than requiring every new AI-powered legal application to build its own legal database, Pandektes wants to provide a shared foundation of reliable legal data.

Read the entire post here: Pandektes Raised €13.5M to Build the Future of Legal Research

The winners were announced on earlier this month at Ideon Science Park in Lund and will represent Skåne in the national competition in Stockholm on November 12, where they have the chance to win € 45.000 (500,000 SEK).

“We have received many exciting applications of high quality from our Skåne companies. The choice fell on four entrepreneurs who have unique solutions in their fields and will be worthy representatives of Skåne innovation power in the national final,”

said Alice Larsson Witzell, business advisor, jury member for the SKAPA Prize in Skåne.

The 2026 Winners from the region

Nélida Leiva Eriksson of Ironic wins the county prize for BioHeme, a solution addressing one of the world’s largest global health challenges, iron deficiency. Using a patented, plant-based heme protein produced through precision fermentation, BioHeme enables significantly higher iron absorption while avoiding the side effects of traditional supplements. The jury highlighted the company’s strong scientific foundation, clear commercialization strategy, and secured financing as creating good conditions for global launch in both supplements and food products.

Vahid Sohrabpour of Saveggy wins for an innovative, plant-based edible coating that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables while replacing plastic packaging. The solution addresses global food waste and, with verified sales in retail, clear scalability, and upcoming EU directives banning plastic food packaging, the jury sees major international market potential.
SKAPA Talent for Young Innovators

Annika John of Salt & Fiber is recognized for developing innovative, biodegradable textile fibers from seaweed that replace synthetic materials and reduce microplastic emissions. The solution tackles the textile industry’s major environmental challenges while benefiting the marine environment by making use of seaweed waste from beaches.

Rohon Kundu of NodeXCloud wins for an innovative solution for secure, decentralized cloud storage, where data is encrypted, fragmented, and distributed to eliminate vulnerabilities associated with centralized systems. With a strong research foundation, patented technology, and ongoing pilot projects with international customers, the jury sees significant global market potential and ambitions to establish a European standard for secure cloud storage.

Read the entire post here: Four Innovators Named Winners of the SKAPA Innovation Prize

TODAY has built an AI sales operating system for financial and insurance advisors that transcribes client meetings, handles routine backoffice tasks, coaches advisors on their sales success, and answers incoming calls.

Founded in 2024 by Michael Gackstatter, CEO, and Artem Demchenkov, CTO, who previously held roles at fintechs and insurtechs including CLARK, Funding Circle, and Billie, the company already counts more than 3,500 advisors at insurers, distributors, and brokers among its users. Advisors using the platform see up to 10 percent more revenue, save on average 5 hours per week on administrative work, and capture on average 50 times more insights from each client conversation than before.

“While AI reshuffles financial advice, we scale the human touch. Our agents take over the admin, so advisors can spend their time with clients. With our strong investors on board, we will bring this to every advisory team in DACH,”

said Michael Gackstatter, CEO of TODAY.

The round comes as pension reforms, market consolidation, and increasing regulatory load push advisors to serve more clients with the same resources, while consumers rapidly adopt AI. Existing technology has not kept pace, and compliant solutions are lacking. TODAY fills that gap with compliant AI agents that take real work off the advisor’s desk.

“Michael and Artem combine rare experience in scaling financial services businesses with an exceptional ability to execute at speed. As technological and demographic shifts make financial services sales increasingly complex and cumbersome, we are convinced that they are building the vertical AI layer that will remove this friction from sales professionals’ day-to-day work,”

said Tizian Hoppen, Senior Investment Manager at HTGF.

The new funding will accelerate the development and commercialisation of TODAY’s AI platform, enabling the company to expand within DACH and solve the entire advisor front and backoffice, with the stated mission of peace of mind at scale.

“TODAY is addressing a clear need for greater efficiency, stronger compliance and better customer outcomes across the advisory value chain. By helping firms acquire, retain and serve customers more effectively, while giving advisers more time to focus on clients, the team has built a highly compelling proposition. We’re delighted to support them on the next stage of their growth journey.”

said Robert Lumley, Co-Founder at Insurtech Gateway

Read the entire post here: TODAY Raises €2.8M to Bring Compliant AI Agents to Financial Advisors Across DACH

The weekend is all about building things and learning AI tools or other devices. With access to a makerspace you can also construct, print or modify things. Participants are free to explore any idea, but projects are encouraged to focus on sustainability, equality, impact, and peace and conflict. Participants can bring an idea they are already working on, or team up with others to develop new ideas at the event.

The event’s most distinctive feature is saved for the end: it starts on land, at Mindparks Helsingborg facility, but the presentation of what people have built during the weekend takes place on the ferries between Sweden and Denmark. Participants pitch their ideas onboard, going between two countries, making the finale of the event a literal journey across the Øresund.

Alongside the building, the weekend also offers a series of workshops on subjects such as using AI tools to create apps or websites, as well as business mindsets and communication.

The event welcomes a mix of backgrounds, skill sets, and levels of experience. Aimed mainly at students at Lunds University, it is also open to an extend to aspiring entrepreneurs to seasoned founders and curious professionals. No prior experience is required.

The program runs Saturday, October 24 from 11:00 to 17:30 and Sunday, October 25 from 10:00 to 18:30.

Registration: Luma event page

The event is part of the Helsingborg Tech Week, and is its final event.

Transparency: Karsten Deppert, the author of this post and this website, is also involved in this event.

Read the entire post here: Pitch on a Boat Between Sweden and Denmark – Make it! Tech Weekend Brings AI Building and Learning to the Water

Read the entire post here: Insights into fearless marketing – growing Oatly from €20 to €400 million

Founded in 2021 by Christian Olson, SmallClaims has developed a platform that uses AI agents to manage the entire litigation process, from legal assessment and settlement to filing, judgment, and enforcement. The platform has reduced manual case handling time from more than 15 hours to around 1.5 hours per case. The company’s legal team currently reviews the agents’ work and appears in court when cases remain unresolved before a hearing.

“Every year, European businesses write off more than €930 billion in claims – not because they’re not owed the money, but because a court case over a €2,000 invoice takes 15+ hours of legal work and often more than a year. So they let it go,”

said Christian Olson, Founder and CEO, SmallClaims

SmallClaims serves more than 500 customers, including debt collection agencies, law firms, and businesses handling large volumes of outstanding invoices. In 2025, the company processed more than 3,200 cases, with case intake growing by over 370 percent between 2023 and 2025, and reports a win rate of more than 90 percent.

“The court system was built for an era in which a lawyer sat with every single case. That makes sense for a €1 million dispute, but not for a €2,000 invoice. The consequence is that European businesses give up hundreds of billions of euros they are legally owed every year. We have built a machine that can run those cases at a fraction of the cost – and with this round we will prove that it works country after country, not just in Denmark.”

said Christian Olson

With the fresh capital, the company plans to further develop its AI platform, expand into additional European markets, and grow its team in Copenhagen. The goal is to make litigation over smaller claims more cost-effective by automating legal work that would otherwise require significant time and resources.

Read the entire post here: SmallClaims Raises €2 Million to Expand AI-Powered Litigation Platform Across Europe